skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Julian Assange hosted a show on RT, he was literally on the payroll of the Russian governmen

Assange made a show and sold broadcast rights to RT. Small but distinct difference in that he was never under pressure to follow what Russia wanted, they just wanted to broadcast his point of biew.

>There’s one leak of critical of Russia, but it has basically nothing of substance in it.

Why would anyone with information damaging to Russia choose to leak data to a primarily English organization, with no Russian speaking employees, and mainly Western readers?
There's no need to speculate. The FAA should be proving these statements. "Unusual" is an empty phrase when you're talking about millions of flight hours. Is it 1/100 flights unusual? 1/10 million flights unusual?

The FAA can and should have obtained data on the activations of MCAS from the world wide fleet, and also compare on other similar aircraft (other 737s) how often MCAS activation conditions would have been met.
From the context immediately following his statement, it seems fairly clear that he meant we didn't have slavery...to the extent that it happened in the Americas. His statements imply knowledge that slavery actually existed in some form in England:

> When I was studying law, there were three key dates. There was a legal case in which it was established, I think in the seventeen-hundreds, that slavery was wrong in the U.K. Then there was the slave trade, which I’m proud to say William Wilberforce and the Quakers did a great deal to stop. And then there was the final thing about actually using slaves in the Caribbean territories, which stopped quite some time before [the United States]. So the idea of slavery is not as carved into our conscious and unconscious as it is into an American’s.
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A prospective employer could buy the information about your alcohol use and decide not to hire you. An opponent in a lawsuit could use it to show you have a pattern of heavy alcohol use that caused you to be negligent. When you run for office in 10 years the other party will run attack ads against you using the information. Need I go on?
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There are no juries in Guantanamo bay. Assange will likely receive treatment as an enemy combatant. We'll hold him indefinitely with no due process.
You seem really self-centered and immature in this comment.

Sure, you owe no obligation to other people... so why bother giving to charity or helping strangers out of bad situations?

If we take your position to its logical conclusion, we end up in a very nihilistic and sociopathic society. Is that what you really want to advocate for? I sincerely doubt any furries could survive for very long in such a world.
Sure, but that's still just jQuery (not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not Vue/React/Angular/whatever).
Traditionally two of the issues with federation have been sharing namespaces and sharing logins. Once you need a single source of truth, the federation breaks and you need to rely on a central authority. There are some new decentralized protocols (Handshake's decentralized naming system is one) that provide a solution to these problems so I'm bullish on federation in general — I think a federated system could break into the mainstream given the recent geopolitical issues affecting centralized services.
I feel the biggest problem is most of this happened before there was awareness. This isn't something an individual can stop anymore, it needs an collective massive effort to stop, blocking ads or trackers is only fighting the symptoms not the cause. So we need these practices to not happen, somehow. Legalisation is the obvious answer and there lies the problem, this is one thing where technological advancements fast outpaced legislation, and it doesn't help that big tech generally goes the way of practicing questionable or even illegal methods simply waiting to be called upon, then get away with empty promises, operating internationally they've gotten too powerful for a single government to deal with. So we need intenternational governmental cooperation in an field where those same governments benefit from this data, good luck with that. (is love to have a purely technical solution like blocking ads to work, but the problem isn't a technical one)
BNW == brave new world?
If you're browsing the site on a mobile phone like I was, you probably won't see the image of the mascot on the right-hand-side. Even if you click the "mascot" link, you'll just go to a text description of it.

The image is here: https://rubenerd.com/rubi@1x.jpg
There is a tutorial in-game!

After placing a track, click the end of the track and hold shift to use the "placement planner". Helps work out the curves and things.
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6+ years of your life building followership. I'd say that cost a bit- but you've more than earned it. I, for one, enjoy all your stuff Pieter.
Just curious, do you speak English with an accent that has the words Lent and lint pronounced the same, or nearly the same? For example, do you pronounce "pen" and "pin" identically? The sounds are close, but in some accents the words are pronounced exactly the same.
Not an expert in any way, research what you can do to offset your own carbon footprint. Go carbon neutral / negative for yourself and your whole family. There are projects like effective altruism where you can donate your money efficiently. Maybe switch to a bank that invests mostly in carbon neutral energies / Research (don’t know if there is something like this in the US).

Try to convince other people in your peer group to do the same.

But I assume the best thing one can do, get involved and spend time. Whether in local politics, companies trying to move things forward, NGOs, I don’t know.
> 98% of programming these days is scripting

LOL. What a silly comment.
Ad blockers don’t work by inspecting the source code of YouTube’s JS and modifying it. Instead they inspect the network requests being sent, cookies being stored, elements being created and with which styles, and so on.

WebAssembly changes none of those things.
Yeah that is really annoying.

You can install https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl with uses Display Data Channel (DDC) to let you adjust volume and brightness on external monitors. It works for my monitor at least.
"so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured"
Just my luck...

I created my extension and started monetizing it March of this year...
I think they should do prorated refunds.
> Late night comedians don't worry about not having Rush Limbaugh listeners in their demographic and vice versa.

I mean, the lefty late-nights may not be hitting that market right now, but that doesn't mean that a competent one couldn't hit it without compromising the model.
Man, this is rough.

What you describe is totally plausible, and it's insanely frustrating that there are likely smart people who've done this instead of contributing to advancing science, medicine, or at least doing something that doesn't actively hurt society
Revenue model is culture and vice versa. The way you make money is your culture. For example capitalism vs socialism.
Yup. In the Netherlands just last Friday our PM implored peopled to work from home as much as possible.
Restore it in a VM.
Honestly Halo started to go off the rails at Halo 2 and that silly cliffhanger ending. And I'm still not sure I understand the plot of Halo 3.

So I don't know if you can pin the blame for what happened to the Halo franchise on MSFT.
Okay, I'll bite. This is an interesting idea, but "Why?"

The hypothetical use case "Made to measure suits for women" is one that a human with scissors does just fine. I suspect a single person with scissors can do this in less than an hour. The tailoring and sewing is FAR more time consuming.

The point of CNC is either to 1) enable repeatable volume or 2) enable something that couldn't be done before. This falls into neither category.
Personal property/human remains stolen/destroyed to prep for TechCrunch Disrupt
and annoying. you're charging your most loyal users the cost of providing proof after all these years.
The remote viewing stuff was a bit silly, but the MKUltra stuff included a lot of very unethical human experimentation. These two things are not really in the same category in terms of scandal.
I've only started reading them back when PG11 was in beta and found them mostly by googling.

Here's what I can find:

- PG 9.6: https://www.slideshare.net/noriyoshishinoda/postgresql-96-ne...

- PG 10: https://www.hpe.com/content/dam/hpe/download/pdf/japan/linux...

- PG 11: https://h50146.www5.hpe.com/products/software/oe/linux/mains...

- PG 12: https://h50146.www5.hpe.com/products/software/oe/linux/mains...

There are more, but those are in Japanese.
"Everything that has ever been invented has already been invented", said in 1899.

It's very hard to think of future inventions at large. We are absolutely not done and programming + Computer Science has just started.

Imagine civil engineers giving up their craft in ancient Rome because everything that will ever need engineering has already been engineered.
That was unexpected, and unfortunate.
Fewer people dying seems like a decent metric to optimize for, no?
When did words become forbidden? I heard recently that someone lost their job because the used the N word in a purely illustrative manner, of words that are forbidden, not as an insult. I think it was a Netflix exec, but I may be mistaken. edit yes it was: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44585072

I don't understand how the words master or slave are offensive to anyone in a computer context. People need to grow the fuck up and stop getting so butt hurt over stupid little words and microagressions. There are real problems out there in the world, go find one and do something about it and stop being a little bitch cry baby.
I was confused about that as well. There are plenty of privileged ports you can use.
Perhaps it'll make you feel better that there's a good reason we do it: when everyone else is doing something, it's often a good idea to follow them. We all love to hear the one time someone does something contrarian and it turns out well, but in general if you have no prior knowledge picking the thing that other people is doing is a good strategy because they may know a reason you don't.

A slightly better thing to do, of course, is ask why they're doing something.
Is it mandatory? Mothers can be abusive.
As a solution or as something that was tried before?

Spam as a term transitioned from, “flooding a communication channel with the same message” to “ads sent indiscriminately” due to a green card advertisement on NNTP.

What we need along with federation is federated moderation. There are some characterizations of content where we can agree to a label but not whether the label is bad. You might trust me to label gore accurately, I might trust you to label incitement to doxing. We might never agree on what constitutes baiting. Or the crossover point where a flame war should be filtered. So you might ban an individual who I think is “keepin it real” or vice versa.
But ten of us shouldn’t have to do the exact same moderation in order to maintain a federation. N log n would be great, 3N would probably be tolerable.
The main problem is that since it is illegal, there's no easy way to address abuse (victims will not want to talk because they are potentially at risk of being punished). So if VR can reduce the amount of sex workers (less demand -> less supply), it may (?) lead to less cases of abuse. That sounds to me like something Better, but maybe not as Good as some other alternatives.

It's also interesting: why is human connection considered good? People connect because it makes them feel something, but if you could achieve the same result w/o human connection, would it be that much worse? It feels worse to me, but not sure why. :-)
Is it easier to just use federated identity that creates pointers to the origin account? e.g account exists on server A and a new signup to server B creates a link as acc://alice@server-a/blabla
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> I know that talking about propaganda and shills on HN is frowned upon, but it seems relevant to this discussion. I believe that the negative opinions of Assange mostly consist of either propaganda by sock puppets, people that heard this propaganda and repeated themselves, or a bit of both.

I have no issue with Wikileaks, and frankly, don't care whether or not they are being funded by Joe Bob, Putin, or the Antichrist.

Assange, however, is a somewhat unpleasant individual, and the allegations against him (the hacking conspiracy) have teeth.

It's rather telling that most of the posts in his defense in this thread believe that his means should not be criminal, because his ends justified them.

Yes, that appeals to a rather popular understanding of justice. But no, that's not how the law works. No, the law isn't fair.
Federated and decentralized solutions have significant UX issues compared to leading products in the area. They're not only harder to use and slower, but are much worse at converting and keeping users to begin with, since they're not ran like businesses are, which take in more funding and try hard to optimize all of these user metrics as KPI. It will be a long time before this can change I think, users still do not (and won't) care if what they're using is federated or not. I say this as someone who loves the idea of federated platforms, but we cannot truly succeed until we have a way to convince large amounts of (normal) users to give them a try.
> There are real problems out there in the world, go find one and do something about it and stop being a little bitch cry baby.

it's all about posturing and signaling, and being a crook.

yes, there are real problems that stem from corporations and society's heavy efforts to divide and capitalize on us. however, it's far more difficult and low-roi to actually fight racism or do anything productive, whereas you get most of the benefits by acting like you care and banning a couple words and saying it's bad!
> It seems like every potential solution has some major caveat that someone will invariably point out as making the solution useless.

You have to come up with a threat model. You have to decide what threats are the most important to you.

I'd group them into three domains, based on the amount of effort involved in mitigating the threat. From the most work to the least: Threats you absolutely and utterly must avoid at any cost and effort. Threats you want to avoid, but you're not willing to the extent of fighting a state-level actor. Threats where it would be nice to have them mitigated, but it's not worth exceptional effort or cost.

For your backblaze (BB) example, your threat is "BB's client can't be trusted" and the sanctity of the data falls in bucket two.

To mitigate your distrust of BB's client, you'd want to make sure it never sees unencrypted data. And so, you'd do something like encrypt the data with your own key, and then send it to BB. You'd want to use a second computer (or a dual boot system) to ensure that the OS which hosts BB's client is not running when the encryption is happening, and share the resulting encrypted binary files with the computer that will do the upload.

The keyboard on the encrypting computer could still be a threat, but that's getting into the "state-level actor" levels of effort to counter.
Someone setting this up well on Linux would be using iptables forwarding, not a user-space service listening and forwarding. Now, this hypothetical attack has to be able to manipulate the kernel's network stack and we might as well stop pretending the low 1024 ports have special significance in that case, either.
This country is increasingly making it impossible for anyone but the top 20% of households to have children.
True. But most of the people commenting here in this thread are not from India, so most of the Indians we interact with are probably not in India.
Email is particularly broken regarding spam for at least two reasons:

- it's a distributed system and not really a federated one: you can set up your own SMTP agent and send mails to anyone without prior registration to a federation.

- anyone can impersonate anyone: if I want to send an email pretending I'm bill.gates@apple.com there's no built-in mechanism to prevents that.

Theses aren't fundamental features of federations, and came from a design which just overlooked how many bad actors email would attract when it became mainstream.
You may wanna check that mirror of yours, what he’s saying is correct and nothing out of the ordinary.
Different people express their emotions in different ways. Im sorry for you that you expect people to behave in a typical way. Maybe he does cry in private, maybe he is on antidepressants and can't get himself to cry, it's his business how he expresses his emotions nonetheless and it should be our last concern here.

What should be a concern is his trial and whistle-blowers in general. Whistle-blowers are now reluctant to expose wrong doings because they are prosecuted and hounded even if they meant good. With Assange it’s more complicated but why is he on a trial in the UK?

Also leaks that prove horrible things show the world how thuggish our leaders and influential people are and yet nothing happens to them, they're not even ashamed when caught red-handed. Panama papers? Nobody got indicted!

Why do we care care about punishing Assange while leaving the real criminals free? The ones who steal our children’s futures? I expect nobody reading this is a thuggish politician whose future progeny may actually benefit from their begavior
note that you do not need a full-blown Mastodon server to participate in the AP ecosystem. There are very little barriers to entry here - one is being able to process dynamic scripts and the other is a registered domain name.

I think the lowest cost solution to this would be a WordPress site on a shared host somewhere, with this plugin installed:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Nice twist to story, but... why is it here?
I should have made my statement more carefully. I agree with you fundamentally; I see them as two heads of one beast, though.
I agree, it seems to be all about virtue signaling as opposed to trying to do anything actually transformative.
I think you would be in the extreme minority of web users there.
Better said - the revenue model is the ultimate reflection of your culture.

I'm working on a startup right now that has this understanding at the core.

We are building a revenue model with a fixed margin of profit.

In our company, no matter how many costs the teams cut, they'll always end up with the same short-term profit. So - it's pointless to screw the customer to try and get some kind of short term win.

Their job won't be to manage the P&L, their job will be to reinvest all the remaining margin into the customer experience.

We got this idea from Costco, who do something a bit similar.

In terms of Google, I don't have an easy solution, but it's clear that Google's internal incentives (actual culture) are overriding whatever barrier is in place (that thing is called culture).
That is destroying competition though. What Google does is enter a market which previously had a healthy economy of paid software, snuff out all the other players with a free version, and then abandon the space when they get bored. And the old economy can never come back, because there's hysteresis involved in the relative costs of starting from scratch versus keeping a functioning ecosystem alive, and because users now expect the software to be free and throw a fit if they're charged for it (especially if it's an ongoing cost, because god forbid developers can't live off a single payment for the rest of their lives)

It's only gradually becoming common knowledge, but eventually we're going to collectively realize that Google killed small ISVs, and at the time we all cheered them on.
I suppose as a starter, can we redefine journalist to be more of that? Wikileaks is a rare source of information that is both international and relevant to me; more news like that would be very welcome.

Secondly
> It is irrelevant whether he succeeded or not...

I mean, that is sort of the complaint. He annoyed powerful people doing something that isn't a crime (the leaking) and then they're combing through hitting him with random charges that nobody cares about. We haven't been watching an 8 year circus because of a failed password crack. None of the response is proportionate to that bullshit crime. They've made everything around leaking illegal so they have fig-leaf excuses to prosecute whistleblowers and journalists.

Furthermore, the security apparatus could probably just make something up if there were no crimes. They've lied to everyone else, why not the UK justice system?
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- Float ranges can't be used for indexing/slicing slices

- Float ranges don't implement Iterator

- Rust is clever enough to make is_empty checks NaN robust, so `is_empty` return true

- contains checks if it's inside the stard bound and inside the end bounds, but whichever of the bounds is NaN is always not inside the bounds and as such the range won't contain anything (which matches with the behaviour of is_empty)

So it works well.

But float ranges are kinda useless for anything but the contains/is_empty methods.
Make up a support e-mail address at random, send refund request to it, wait 14 days, file chargeback, be sure to mention no response to refund request which is attached to the form. Don't worry, they probably don't pay attention to chargebacks either

Alternatively, simply wait 12-18 months and the same feature will be relaunched under a slightly different name by a different team
> “ Assange is accused of going beyond leaking into assisting Chelsea Manning get pass security systems. If he was not only the distributor of classified material, but actively participated in expropriating it, he’s on the wrong side of the law.”

This is not actually true for whistleblowing. Manning’s conviction was an illegal conviction given that the exfiltrated evidence unequivocally shows criminal murder, among other crimes, on behalf of the United States.

It is not theft or illegal access or possession if it is indeed whistleblowing. You’d have to prove that the criminal murder was not in fact criminal before any action taken to exfiltrate it can be considered a crime.

On top of all this, there is no evidence that Assange illegally exfiltrated it. It is illegal for charges to be brought based on the available evidence.

Of course, the fact the charges are illegal or that the conviction was illegal in Manning’s case unfortunately doesn’t matter in the United States where political actors will go unpunished for perpetrating such crimes.
Quiet hours could be exactly what this person is looking for, yes
People often forget that "the Internet" itself (i.e. IP, BGP) operates on a federated basis.
So many comments. Just wanted to say, never seen furry stuff before and found the art on the linked page quite pleasant. I’m flabbergasted that this is some kind of issue for anyone. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. I for one found my furiousity piqued by the imagery.
I think comparison is a bit unfair since nms is (mostly) single player while fo76 is not. If nms gets good (i believe it is good btw, I play it regularly on VR) it would still sell 5 years later but fo76 would be dead if it can't keep up player count high.

So yeah, a failed multiplayer/mmo game is a bigger failure imo, because it is hard/impossible to recover from