skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not convinced that many employers will remain remote-first after the pandemic is abated. We were complaining for years that remote work made more sense than packing people into open plan offices, and almost nothing came of it. At most the Bay Area might lose its high concentration of strong engineers (because the cost/benefit of staying here is poor when everything fun is closed and all tech work is remote-friendly), to be replaced with a more fractured market of small regional hubs, adding friction in changing jobs.
Hm, yet another cloud based app with zero privacy and questionable life expectancy. Personal notes are very valuable and may go back 30 years.

What I need:

- self hosted server app

- data stored in human readable independent format with revision history (text+git)

- auditable security

- clients for web, mac, android

- integration with other platforms
I can understand your concern. But don't worry, there's no problem here.

HTTP is used when you create a localhost project. On a local server, API requests transit directly from the browser to the local server without going through an external network.

On a remote server, HTTPs is enforced to avoid security issues.
> Engineers aren’t asking to be paid the value they create, they’re just objecting to pay cuts for physically moving while doing the same job.

While ignoring that their pay in their current location was as a consequence of a location specific market, while if the market becomes the whole of US, the market rate will obviously change.

If you have to discard this for the argument to hold water, it is a bad argument.
To be fair, this doesn't prove her wrong ... they haven't made money from it yet.
Not really answering your questions, but regarding monomorphization, you can see a comparison of code size and compilation speed between printf, std::format and C++ iostream. The last one is monomophization, I believe.

https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt#compile-time-and-code-bloat
Have a look through this list of 100 startup directories - there will be a few places to add a link to your landing page. https://aeroleads.com/blog/startup-directories/

Definitely check out Indie Hackers and /r/SideProject as well.

Good luck!
I never said he does not need it and you are projecting some tone on my question that is only in your head.
Rowan Atkinson has worked on Control Theory in his MSc thesis

https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDeta...
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TLDR+; No extradition due to Assange's mental health.
> I use Alexa on a daily-basis - which can be seen as a chatbot.

More general virtual assistants (Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri) are at a completely different power level from most chatbots. Most chatbots use cases that I come across are some company thinking that they can replace human support with a language model trained on their custom knowledge base. They expect something as good as Alexa but which also has knowledge about the company's product and the results are always disappointing.
I'm not quite sure what you're going for here, but your last paragraph seems pretty reasonable to me. Was it intended as "look at these stupid ideas like the one you've just suggested", or something else? If it's something else, I'm not sure I understand what it is from what you've written. Otherwise it feels like a bit of a straw man you're arguing against, because I didn't understand the blog post in the way you're characterising it.
I don’t disagree with the criticism of it being opt-in but I would go further: Apple and Google took months to roll out their framework, they certainly didn‘t prioritize it enough. They are the only parties in a position to implement digital contact tracing natively and they failed us. With great power comes great responsibility. No start-up or government has the ability to implement a low-level cross-platform contact tracing api. As of Today Apple still has not enabled their framework on iOS <= 12 devices even though there are countless people using devices that can not be updated to the current iOS. They have previously provided critical security updates for out-of-support versions of their OS. Why did they not do the same for the contact tracing framework?
"Mr Assange was jailed for 50 weeks in May 2019 for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London."

Given that the US Government is appealing and he has a record of skipping bail, I'd guess no. I suppose they might possibly let him out with an ankle bracelet, but no idea for sure.
Like you say "ye" from "year" and "raw"; in other words, it should sound like "ye-raw".

Now, if you want to say "this is gyros", you simply pronounce it as "ye-ross".
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> I found that vectorizing algorithms in Matlab makes them unmaintainable. In python this is much smoother.

Are you using numpy? If so, can you give a concrete example?, in my case the opposite seems to be true. The numpy notation seems to be much clunkier.

Apart from that, this sentence:

> To get fast you need to vectorize.

describes a very sad tragedy of numerical computing. It makes no sense that in 2021 interpreters for scientific languages are not able to optimize loops. The so-called "vectorization" should be a non-issue in a modern interpreted language. The running time of calling "C=A*B" and that of the triple loop to fill the elements of the matrix C should be identical.
This is the full decision (PDF):

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-As...
It's quite evident autistic children have warped, undeveloped vision, but yes the idea of many seeing everything upside is probably excessive. But it is possible some do not learn to automatically flip their ocular sensory input as they have no true basis of comparison. Sensory integration begins with hearing, not vision.
Yes he was. 'Man of his times' is a good phrase. I wonder how the behaviour of moralizers of today who castigate those in the past, often with little or no appreciation of the mores of their period, will be viewed in a couple of hundred years time.
The implication here is that money spent on ads is largely wasted.

Companies like Uber and Ebay have turned off all their adspend and saw little to no change in their acquisition metrics. You can argue that they were just doing it wrong. But the point is that, if even they are doing it wrong - and getting nothing in return for the millions they're spending on ads - then it's very likely most others are in the same situation.

You are right that this doesn't mean _all_ advertising is useless, there are absolutely profitable usecases. But the larger points still stands: most money being spend on advertising right now is likely not returning anything.

We now have some strong precedents being set. I believe this will cause more major companies to run the ultimate experiment: turn off all ads and see what happens. It's too early to tell, but it's not impossible we'll see adspend drop significantly across the industry once everyone finds out they're just burning money.
"If you believed something different you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."

~Chomsky to Andrew Marr.
That was my point as well, I guess I just didn't explicitly state it. Thank you for adding this comment
So, she basically dismissed all other arguments of Assange team except the mental health argument/risk of suicide, and blocked extradition based on that.

That's really interesting.
Reading the judgement the key points are on pages 116 onwards and the extradition is denied under section 91(3) of the EA 2003 which reads:

> The condition is that the physical or mental condition of the person is such that it would be unjust or oppressive to extradite him.

The judge states:

> it is my judgment that there is a real risk that he will be kept in the near isolated conditions imposed by the harshest SAMs (special administrative measures) regime, both pre-trial and post-trial

And goes on to contrast with the conditions at HMP Belmarsh:

> many of the protective factors currently in place at HMP Belmarsh would be removed by these conditions. Mr. Assange’s health improved on being removed from relative isolation in healthcare. He has been able to access the support of family and friends. He has had access to a Samaritans phone line. He has benefited from a trusting relationship with the prison In-Reach psychologist. By contrast, a SAMs regime would severely restrict his contact with all other human beings, including other prisoners, staff and his family. In detention subject to SAMs, he would have absolutely no communication with other prisoners, even through the walls of his cell, and time out of his cell would be spent alone.

These conditions sound barbaric to me and I'd go as far to describe them as torture. Amnesty International do a better job of outlining the problems with this regime than I can: https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/entombed-isolation-in-the...

Frankly I don't understand why the UK continues to maintain an extradition treaty with a country which clearly has a poor record on human rights and fails to maintain a justice system that meets the UN's Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

She concludes:

> I am satisfied that, in these harsh conditions, Mr. Assange’s mental health would deteriorate causing him to commit suicide with the “single minded determination” of his autism spectrum disorder.

> I order the discharge of Julian Paul Assange, pursuant to section 91(3) of the EA 2003

Whilst a victory nonetheless for Assange, it is unfortunate that the entire judgement seems to come down to this point alone. Let's hope it is not overturned.
I am incredibly happy for this ruling, I really hope it stands after the appeals. Freedom of expression and the right to know what oppresive governments are doing are too important to lose.
The US is a flaming pit of despair right now, for reasons stretching far beyond any impact COVID-19 may or may not have had. It's not reasonable to take the state of specifically that society as any sort of benchmark for how bad things are.
If Hillary Clinton gets a role under Biden, then probably not.
The grass-eater men phenomenon is crazy. And the people who live in net cafes are painfully sad.
TOS is particularly interesting given how it made a noticeable push for equality and so on, a push that is much harder to notice due to different mores today and lacking context (for example, mini skirts used to be sign of women liberation, and IIRC there's at least one TOS episode with male crewman in a mini!)
I'm comparing apples to oranges every time I'm trying to decide which fruit to buy at the supermarket though.
Making art and selling art are two entirely different things.
"Good morning," said the little prince.

"Good morning," said the merchant.

This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented
to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week,
and you would feel no need for anything to drink.

"Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.

"Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the
merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With
these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."

"And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"

"Anything you like..."

"As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had
fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at
my leisure toward a spring of fresh water."

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Time for Australia to step up and own this one. Take your citizen home.
Wouldn't you have bandwidth problems by streaming via Tor?
The rate from infection to mortality has increased notably. Our government is trying their best to paper over the seriousness. Just now people on social media are demanding a harsh lockdown like March because its getting out of hand. Maybe news outlets will cover something I can link to.
This really does seem like it shoots a massive whole in the narrative that Assange's supporters have been pushing that this was some fixed corrupt process. For all the talk about how this was an establishment stitch up, suddenly those people who told you that the courts can't be trusted.... suddenly trust the court.
Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court
It doesn't work that way. If outsourced workers produce the same economic value they will eventually get paid the same amount. Incomes in China are rising, not falling. Poverty is the result of low productivity and if you increase productivity you decrease poverty.

Imagine if you are building cars worth $20000 for $5000 and undercut western companies. Your car is worth $20000 so instead of undercutting you can just sell it for $20000 and take $15000 profit which then leads to more demand for employees which then leads to increased incomes once unemployment is down.
I don't mean that it's unsafe, just that it's somehow become controversial or at least less usual, people laboriously writing 'he or she' where I'm sure they wouldn't have ten years ago; 'they' isn't a modern invention it was always fine, and I suppose for the modern world is more inclusive than 'he or she' anyway!
What is the incentive for the employer to do this?
That seems like the line of argument you could employ to deny every extradition to the US then. I might be overly cynical but that seems to be little more than a ploy of appearing impartial by denying on something you are certain it is going to be reversed on appeal.
One way to avoid/reduce this is to always place orders from a private browsing/incognito window, and to never log in using your normal browsing sessions.
A retrospective of my open source work last year
So basically the UK tells the US that they don't need to punish him any further because the UK already broke him.
Timezones matter, but parts of Latin America are in the same time zone as the US and parts of Africa are in the time zone as the EU.

Paperwork and laws matter as well, but if you can save 75% of your salary spending you'll deal with that.

Big tech and SV hire people straight out of university, don't they? What's the difference between hiring an MIT grad that stayed in the US and hiring an MIT grad that moved back to their home country?
From a user standpoint the delivery latency is really what kills it for me. I use one or two websites that still have one-time sign in links and it's always a tossup whether or not I can actually get in within a few minutes. If the email arrives an hour later I've moved on with my life and I can't imagine it is any different for other people.
Apple says that the M1 Mac Mini supports:

> One display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz connected via Thunderbolt and one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz connected via HDMI 2.0

That is, it does support two 4K screens at 60 Hz.

Note that this is in contrast to the M1 MacBooks which only support one external display in addition to the laptop display.
But, C and C++ compilers also can autovectorize quite well. I had some SSE & AVX algorithms where the compiler ended up doing the same or lightly better job in C++ for instance.

So maybe it's just the C benchmark being a cargo cult.
Seems like a less advanced, but clearly more automatable version of the South Korean mother who was able to see her deceased 7-year-old in VR[0][1]. A friend of mine wrote a short story about this sort of thing a couple of years ago[2]. We actually spoke about it, and it got me to wondering what the business model of a service like this could be. Subscribing to receive videos from and communicate with a deceased relative. "Unsubscribing" would be like condemning them to the grave yourself. It's gross and scummy, but I could definitely see it being backed. Money on the table, I guess.

[0]: https://www.pcgamer.com/a-grieving-mother-meets-her-deceased...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uflTK8c4w0c&feature=youtu.be
[2]: https://www.ectoplus.com/shorts/replacement/
Remembering the start of the film Idiocracy and how many resources have been spent on erection pills...
Your last point is very well put. Clojure's selling point to an extent was "look, a Lisp they might actually let you put in production!" compared to Ruby's, which certainly in the early 2000s was "rip off your suit and join a startup".
I don’t think that you are slow or not a good developer is the right conclusion. I think you focused on the wrong things. Like code coverage, CI, etc.

You mentioned of being afraid of your codebase exploding in other comment. You know code don’t really explode, right? The worst case is you will need some refactor down the road. Nothing worse than that.
Those people would have gotten the exact same domains at the fraction of the price - eg. im TLD domains are available on name.com for $12.99... What you did was soup up a lot of domains for price boosting, not "inspiration". I consider this type of business to be a damaging force on the internet.
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Personally? I’m in favour of anyone being free to move anywhere anywhen. I don’t see opposite sides of international borders as being more substantially different than different regions within any single country, likewise corresponding movement of people.
That's kind off what Microsoft does in Microsoft Authenticator. It doesn't ask for password, it sends notification to you phone app and asks you to tap "65". The app then shows 3 numbers, one is 65. You log in on the other device after tapping. No passwords entered at all.

They did a nice job on that one.
Would that solve anything? Surely the US could seek extradition from Australia if he returned there?
(Most) English prisoners only serve half the given sentence in prison before being released on license, so he won't go back to prison for that. I don't know if he can be held pending a US appeal on the extradition case, given his history of skipping bail.
You can have a bot reply with "ah! Give me a second" or something along those lines while you're away. There's no need for a sophisticated solution, as people already know you're a person and are thus not very likely to suspect a bot (assuming you don't tell anyone that is).
The whole point is that what makes a competitive salary will go down as the supply of workers increases.
No it is not a massive shot in the narrative at all. That Assange is imprisoned under such conditions confirms the judikative to not be as independent as some people suggest.

In detail, the ruling is pretty aweful for that matter aside from this result.
All of which is still much better than rebuilding that stuff in your application layer, which is what you'll inevitably end up doing otherwise. Besides the fact that you'll likely do so in an incomplete and buggy way.
>>However, you'll never drive a Tesla and buy $4000 road bikes when you're on $27k/y.

But I'll easily buy a 6 bed house with lots of land, something that pretty much no one in SV can afford, so.....what do I need that Tesla for?
I'm genuinely concerned. What is wrong with you?
I never thought of it I before but I think you’re right. The demographics of internet users has broadened a great deal since then.
Not a bad suggestion, but the host running the VM would have to run Linux in that case, not Windows.
This is great news for the various AI researches around.
This happens on the first day that UK is no EU member anymore. Is this somehow connected?
This is fantastic news, however I’m sure there will be a lengthy appeal.

In summary:

- the judge did not agree with the defence that this was an improper extradition request

- however she blocked extradition on the grounds that Assange would likely commit suicide due to the extreme prison conditions he would face
HDMI can do that, but unfortunately the M1 can't.
How's the interop with .NET and C#?
Citing Assange's mental health, judge rejects the US's extradition request
You can use the renice command from the command line, after finding the applications pid:

http://cheat.sh/renice
Given the ruling, probably the best outcome for his mental health.
Every system that relies on passwords also provides a password reset facility. The facility typically sends a token to your email address and allows you to set your password that way.

Doesn't this mean that a system which relies on an token sent to you is no worse that a system with a password? With a password, you can guess that GTP used the same password on Hacker News and BigBank, and if that fails, you can try and have their token redirected to you. Without a password, you have to rely on getting that token. So if your argument is that email and SMS are insecure channels, I mean yeah okay; but it doesn't make a system more secure if you can get in with a password _or_ an email/SMS vs the only option is an email/SMS.

I hate passwords; my password manager (the one built into Firefox) will generate passwords on my desktop, but most of the time I need to generate a password it's on my phone (where, oddly, they have not included the capacity to generate a password). So my password is crap, perhaps not stored, and I forget it. I rely entirely on the password reset facility. But most of the time if you tell me "please just sign up, think of a unique username and a secure password" I'm just not going to bother.
It's an awful ruling overall, from what I can tell from skimming it. It's great Assange won, but this ruling is not at all support for freedom of expression. This is the one part the judge agreed with the defense on as far as I can tell:

> 363. I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.

For anyone not suffering from severe mental health problems that want to expose secrets this ruling in scary as hell.
I have never come across the use of satisfied for "persuaded by argument or evidence" before. (yes, I had to look it up, not a native speaker)
Is this usage common or just some kind of legalese?
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I think it is (sort of) and the best signal may be not a legal analysis alone but the actual shift in the enterprise-backed communities.

Ever since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internation.... Eclipse Foundation required what they call "Type B" IP scan for all projects (Eclipse F. is not just an IDE but a competitor to the Apache F.), essentially a deep scan of the code searching for any bits of GPL (our Eclipse project had a dojox dependency flagged because its MIT-licensed code contained a small snippet of GPL, that was the only time we got a rejection of a library). In late 2019, the change was made to make "Type A", a deep scan of the licenses only, to be the default (https://blogs.eclipse.org/post/wayne-beaton/updates-eclipse-...).

To me it signals that the common sense in the enterprise community now is that there is not much risk in that scenario, worst case would be that the original IP holder can force you to remove their code if they convince the court the developer had no right to publish it as opposed to getting crazy amounts awarded. I think it is also judged that the likelihood and the amount of trouble are relatively small compared to full code scan of all deps transitively at all times (incl lost productivity).
I've experienced that too.
The NHS in the UK now recommends all adults suppliment vitamin D, not because of COVID, but because a large part of the population is deficient due to the low levels of sunlight we get.
And sad. Same thing happens in data science now - people are happy to have any number regardless of correctness. They just need something to report on and keep the work going.
So pointing out you shouldn't go around injecting endotoxin laden crap into your body is now acting almighty is it? You sound like one of those biohackers who just injected live virus into his hands, good luck with your superpowers (or death) but keep it to your garage. People learned not to F with endotoxins a while back, apparently it's heresy to you to point that out.