skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"However, I do not agree that a “journalist” should be able to enable espionage"

"Espionage" like publishing warcrimes.

"I consider setting up a website purely designed to encourage leaking of potentially classified information and assisting with the ability to do so as being no different than any other criminal conspiracy"

Transparency is a government duty. It is a shame but totally justified that private citizens have to enforce it. As for "criminal", sounds like yet another victimless crime. If anything they are exposing crimes.

"being someone who was quite literally in Afghanistan when he leaked the information he did"

Thank you for disclosing that. How many people did you kill (directly or indirectly) and why didn't you try to expose warcrimes?

"Assange is an activist, not a journalist. He should not be treated as such"

Activists, journalists, and regular citizens should all be treated the same.

"is directly related to his own actions (e.g., fleeing to an Embassy)."

Yet given how the events turned out it seems that he was right. He was hiding in the embassy in fear that they would try to send him to the US.
I think one reason for this is that quotes and wildcard expansion works very differently across platforms. On Windows it's the tool's responsibility to do wildcard expansion and parse quotes, but on UNIX the shell usually does wild card expansion and (AFAIK) also removes quotes before invoking the tool. This is especially "fun" in Python scripts which invoke command line tools and that must work across UNIX-oids and Windows, or when trying to run UNIX command line tools on the Windows command line.
Any reason the demo isn't available on PC?
I think that the parent comment is referring to extrapolation in the semantic space (ex: use brown cats as training data and see if the ML algorithm can recognize albino cats).

Edit: or take photos of brown cats indoors from the front and see if the model recognizes albino cats from the side outside.
There’s no SLA for the console, IIRC.
It feels like very few new things come out.. (I'm ignoring anything "as a service" and anything that requires an Internet connection).
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1. If the interests of the public and US adversaries coincide, then there may not be a distinction. For example, if the US government had gone rogue and was spying on literally everyone (as, indeed, appears to have happened) then it is useful to both the public at large and the US's adversaries to know about it. It is good journalism to report on it. Ditto war crimes and all sorts of other shenanigans that Wikileaks has uncovered.

2. I don't think Assange is accused specifically of furthering the goals of a foreign adversary. If there was evidence of that then he would presumably have been charged with it somewhere.
Or bifocals if you already wear glasses for nearsightedness.
So call it an ethics for society's leaders. They do have moral agency, but we expect them to channel their individual subjectivity in a certain way.
Because of the backwards things occurring on the other side of the Mediterranean?

Weird standard. Its like a historian researching Iraq in the year 4,050 AD and also finding a ancient semiconductor factory in Austria saying “huh, that shouldn't exist”

On today’s timeless news, group of wandering nomads hopes for religious nation state, more at 11!
> none of the “crimes” happened on US soil

He is charged with helping Chelsea Manning to hack into a government computer which did happen on US soil.

“ they charged him with conspiring to commit unlawful computer intrusion based on his alleged agreement to try to help Ms. Manning break an encoded portion of passcode that would have permitted her to log on to a classified military network under another user’s identity.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/europe/julian-assan...
These sorts of comments are so deeply discrediting to the green movement.

We need to focus our dialogue on big problems where small changes yield huge environmental results (like transportation and meat production) rather than small problems where even outright perfection (100% of people wearing glasses, no one using these drops) does literally nothing for the outcomes we care about.

If plastics is the thing you care about (which is completely reasonable), we should be approaching as how to produce better plastics with less environmentally harmful production and discard. Choosing not to make this particular object or that particular object is simply not going to move the needle.
That same country still has a mandatory selective service for the military.
I work in the Fire Industry, we've been selling LTE communicators for fire panels like hotcakes these last few years. Mostly due to so many sites not having good enough internet connections for IP-DACTs, or IT refusing to deal with fire alarm panels on their networks like putting us on a VLAN and giving us access to the outside world. I understand their hesitancy, but so many panels have built in IP communication with useful features now.

We're lucky enough that the vast majority of our clients moved off of 3G in this last wave of fire alarm system updates or they went straight from land lines to LTE as the land lines become less commonly used.

The most annoying thing is the sheer volume of spam mail I get from 3G advocates trying to convince us to contact regulators to stop 3G sunsetting. I'm sorry angry emailer, but we've long since moved on just like we always have when a technology gets put to pasture.
This is a broader problem in society

Inequality and meritocracy are euphemism for caste system
Still waiting for her to serve her first term.
The Operation That Made Israel's Elite CT Force (Yamam)
I don’t understand these Java protocols enough to understand why was loading arbitrary bytecode from URLs even considered a feature, but I guess it was the 90s and Objects were all the rage
Back in those days there also was a game which i can barely remember: There were two monkey any you need to throw bananas at each others over or through skyscrapers... Does anyone know what game that was?
Right now, we're also trying to get the US steel tariffs removed too.
There's a stromal stem cell treatment that's been developed, went through very successful human clinical trials, and so will likely become standard practice for everyone to heal age related degeneration; it won't be a daily use, recurring monthly revenue stream however, so pharma industry isn't going to push it.
This morning I’d bet more on a rushed log4j patch. They use it heavily.
Welcome to international politics? Any kind of moral or justice is a farce, it’s all about power.
On the contrary, downtime is inevitable and I think I'd rather have downtime when all my competitors do too.
Where have you seen stroads in Oxford?
How do we measure "should" or "shouldn't" there? Answering whether you're right or wrong requires looking at the alternatives and seeing whether political programs that go beyond infrastructure and policing create a better world.

There are arguably answers from all over the world that they do: universal healthcare and education are obvious ones.
Back when I was a cultist I was proud of how effectively I could canvas. :-)

For context: If you look into street epistemology, it's similar to what I was doing. From the other side, so to speak. We then played doubt (I think the SE creator calls it the pebble in the shoe) into action, and as long as we could suggest the action, in the absence of other suggested actions, the actions we suggested were taken.

Pray in this way, listen for the answers we tell you to listen for, act as if God told you to do this, add this new structure to your life, keep this one, subtract that one. Review what you're grateful for and be happy feeling content with all these amazing blessings...BTW did we mention that you have successfully changed your life, the thing you told us you wanted?

You spread this across months of friendly visits against a backdrop of loneliness in a chillingly pragmatic society...I mean we taught people how to visit, respect and take care of their elders, which is STILL not something that's exactly on blast in modern society.

Cults have pros in addition to the cons, those pros are where followers come from, the followers look at the cons and say "everything has faults," bada-bing, they're in, and that's the simple truth you have to come to terms with.

It's infuriating to think about now in a lot of ways, but this is also a good lesson in how human psych works in general.

Using these techniques I was told that I got doubters into the church at about 9x the average rate for our first-world region. I gave all credit to the big guy.
When I've worked with AWS and other providers before, they've typically given early indications about potential root causes under NDA. If you're a small customer, you probably get to wait with the rest of us but the big folks probably have some idea of the root cause.
Covid has seemed to gotten the meaning of life better than all humans combined
I don't think you said what you think you said
Heard an intesting analysis of this on BBC news. The court was more or less bound to accept the 'assurances', as they were an underlying predicate for the whole extradition framework. To challenge that would be to unpick a lot more politics.

I'm not sure the judges were naive enough to believe the US government, but they probably had no choice.
For an enterprise to move to Java 16, a huge amount of code needs to be reviewed and tested. It's not as simple as incrementing a number in 200 pom.xml files.

Sure records are pretty cool but Lombok does do a few other things as well.
> - he’s not a us citizen

> - none of the “crimes” happened on US soil

Not commenting on the legitimacy of the underlying accusations, but neither of these have ever been obstacles for extradition treaties.

Generally, as long as the actions are a crime in both countries (the country where the crime was committed and the country where the person currently resides) then it would fall under most extradition treaties.

There are additional hurdles such as sufficiently believing that punishment will be proportional tot he crime and that the trial will be fair, but simply being in a different country doesn't mean someone is free from the consequences of committing crimes against victims in other countries.

Some countries do have exceptions that their own citizens can't be extradited for treaties in foreign countries, but that doesn't free the person from being prosecuted for the crime in their own country either.
Only because no one cares enough to pay for thar specific bit of work. We have other sculptures of similar quality and craftsmanship.

I am looking at a color-changing glass right now, as are you.
https://hackaday.com/ and the podcast that goes with it.
I still donate to the EFF.

What have they done this last year to change? Is there another organization you could recommended supporting?
Hum... Even though C++ can do HKT with templates, it's not a convenient feature of the language.

C++ is really not the language that comes to mind when somebody talks abut HKT.
>If you think that is the information that he is being punished for is that video, you clearly did not look at what he leaked closely enough.

If you think it wasn't about that you clearly didn't follow the lawsuit.
I think you're right that Web3 won't come close to displacing existing last-resort dispute handlers (courts, laws, etc). But it's dangerous to overlook the revolution lurking in "remove some friction from the system."

Uber removes some friction from hailing a taxi.
AirBnB removes some friction from finding a room to rent.
The internet removes some friction from sending messages.
Just went up for me, but it was indeed down earlier.
Thank you for the thoughtful response and I especially liked the way you put the dilemma related to how the internet breaks borders. Similar to you, it's challenging to wrap my head around and is a pretty big paradigm shift in terms of the sovereignty of countries, let alone the legal implications of that shift.
In my personal experience, Scala in 2021 is de facto best language for business logic. Effects are easy, parallel code is beautiful and easy to reason about. Ecosystem is big and no other languages comes close to productivity I have with Scala.

For example, its very fast and easy to prototype code with ADTs and scale that code to big codebase. I rarely have to run my code and if I do - it most of the time works as intended because of the type system. Its like magic. In other languages if you want to write code without bugs you are stuck with TDD or a lot of tests. With Scala usually few tests are enough, everything else encoded in its expressive type system.

I would say the only big negative I see is using Scala as Haskell. With tagless final, Kleisli and so on. If you do - it becomes very hard to onboard new people and I am not sure the positives outweigh the negatives.
I have never seen a major company so vehemently despised from the inside like Amazon. It’s internal ratings compared to 99% of other software companies are abysmal.
>keeping out the poors

It's not "the poors" that the middle-to-upper-middle class care about. It's the underclass. The lumpenproles.
Reading about this got me to the words “servlet” and “BeanFactory”, which I don’t really want to uncover right now, as it might open some pandora’s box
> As a side effect, anyone still using a 3G device needs to buy a new one, but I don't think that is the main driver for the move.

Despite the positives, this feels kind of sad.

If you look at software, many of the older browsers out there can't even open simple modern webpages. After years, i grow weary of the churn, i've gone from Windows 98 to Windows 10 now, through numerous versions of Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS/Fedora, From Android 2.1 all the way to 10 currently. I have had software and even hardware be ripped out of my hands every few years, because someone decided to change something and deprecate the older stuff.

But what is the alternative? Use old and sadly insecure hardware/software? Or keep up with everything and partake in more consumerism than i should?

Just some musings on the topic, because watching Bryan Lunduke talk about old computers from another time when not everything old was considered "vulnerable" and "a risk" (due to not having much network capability at all) was interesting and enjoyable. I wonder what i'll be working with in 20 years and whether the older Debian and Windows XP versions will still hold a place in my heart.
There are several ways to avoid generating log strings that don't involve sketchy ad-hoc templating. Use a language with laziness, put the string generation in a lambda expression, use a language with a good compiler and don't put side effects in your log string expression, etc.

As a matter of principle, it should also clearly not be possible for a templating engine to perform any kind of side effect. That's totally crazy.
It's slightly ahead of release Firefox, so so you can test what Firefox users will see soon (both for trying new features and testing if something breaks if there are new security features etc). And it gets new dev tools a bit early and has some defaults set differently. Overall fairly minor stuff, at least nowadays.
Disagree, but if in doubt get a good lawyer and follow their advice instead of some strangers from the internet.
In many places yes, but still with a much reduced bandwidth allocations.

Newer generations increase the spectral efficiency, so more throughput can be supported on the same spectrum. So the operators tend to move spectrum from old to new generations.

This is not immediate and there are a lot of differences from one operator to the next: in an area with low demand it's more cost efficient to keep using the old hardware as much as possible for example, until at some point using new more efficient hardware is cheaper than maintaining the old one. Then there are contractual obligations: some 2G is kept around to support industrial M2M applications with contracts covering 10 to 15 years of service for example.

Which is why there's quite a lot of differences from operator to operator. Still, the trend is always there. What changes is the transition speed.
This sounds like the "mashing together whatever two things are going on at the moment together and claiming they're related" theory of politics.
I'm wondering if anyone has or knows anyone who has experience with Vuity?

Now that I'm reaching that age, I can definitely tell that my eyes are changing... And I really, really don't want to have to wear reading glasses or bifocals.

One thing that concerns me is that Vuity constricts the pupil. I definitely can't see as well in low-light situations compared to when I was a kid. Makes me wonder if Vuity will just make everything too dim.
The only skyscraper game I remember was the one where you're flying a plane that's getting lower and lower and you have to bomb the scyscrapers before you crash into them.

Probably not a game that would get made today...
The default for the X server was for a long time that everybody on the internet could connect. From today's perspective a bizar situation. Back then, when you logged in on an another computer, you only had to forward the DISPLAY envirnoment variable and applications on the remote host could connect to your local display. Handy, but very insecure.
> “The suburbs has benefits for your gifted son - the levels of the crime in the city are fairly high, the cost of living is higher and so your home would be smaller, and so on.”

What a strange argument. I realize it’s more of a thought experiment, but the benefits of a city’s cultural life are obviously greater for a gifted child than having more space at home.

If you were a talented 15-year-old, would you prefer to live in Manhattan or a New Jersey suburb?
Start with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the membership of the Council on Foreign Relations. FOAF 3 or 4 levels deep, and you will find the people who are murdering millions of innocent human beings in your name, Americans.
QBasic Gorillas (gorilla.bas).
> I've never, not once, got an applicant that said, "I don't know Lisp but I'd love a job with an interesting language."

I don’t know Lisp and I’d love a job with an interesting language - but it would never occur to me to apply to a job requiring experience with a language that I don’t have experience in.
I really hope the scandal around Downing Street throwing raucous parties while the rest of the country suffered under a strict lockdown is the final straw that breaks the back of Johnson’s government. At the very least he’s being extraordinarily dishonourable by going on TV and lying through his teeth to the country about it while bringing in fresh restrictions to keep his hypocrisy out of the news (and fortunately failing) rather than resigning as soon as the scandal broke. He’s presided over an accelerating slide into authoritarianism and oligarchy and will no doubt be remembered as one of the worst Prime Ministers to hold the office.

When the politicians, media outlets, top civil servants, and other people in the corridors of power are drawn from the same Eton to Oxbridge to power pipeline you end up with a proper British Bulldog of a political culture: a creature so heavily inbred it can’t even breath properly.
I'm in Brazil and also read the message both in english and french
Lots of words. What crime do you think Assange has committed, specifically?

> Assange is an activist, not a journalist.

Assange has broken two of the biggest stories of our era and literally hundreds of stories each of which would be a reputation-maker for a lesser individual.

Just because you don't like the truths that Assange reveals, doesn't mean he isn't a journalist.

> any probative value of the information Manning leaked was overshadowed by the indiscriminate way in which it was done.

Wikileaks tried to get cooperation from the US government to redact the sensitive parts. They refused to cooperate.

Your way would have meant nothing at all.

Can you explain what harm you believe these leaks caused, compared to their value in knowing that the US engages in war crimes and covers them up?
Xantfarm was a particular favorite of mine. Made coming into work on a Monday morning kind of fun, to see what the ants had been up to

https://acme.com/software/xantfarm/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
I had a summer job one year working on space stuff. I was in the clean room and the first day they took me back there, white suit and all, and took some ball bearings off a wire rack. They were maybe a foot in diameter. My job that summer was to test to see which were the least noisy. (Basically, they rotated very slowly, and there was a phono needle resting on the outside with a strip chart measuring the vibration caused when balls hit each other, etc.) The best ones were going up.

They told me to be careful. These were the rejects from another project, but this project was legally required to use only US tech and the US no longer had the ability to manufacture bearings this large, since we had outsourced for some time and everyone who could do it got out of the business. So we needed these exact ones. (This was the late 70's.)
>For encouraging Americans to break American laws, which I think is the non-legalese summary of the accusation?

Were Gandhi/MLK/Rosa Parks wrong when they made a point of breaking unjust laws and encouraging others to follow along?

Many liberals at the time thought yes - "the law being the law" and all that. It does sound like you're making the same argument they were?
Related, 'UK to ditch 2G & 3G by 2033': https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/12/uk-to-swit...

(I did submit it here, but no discussion to link.)
Interesting, what metallurgical skills were they missing? Wouldn't even a very crude steam machine be better than animal harness?
Maybe the missing part was coal, burning wood would be very inefficient ...
You can't possibly hope to match the reliability of AWS with a tiny VPS
I don't think it makes sense to partition society into leaders with moral responsibility, and followers without. It seems peculiar to think that what is good is shaped by external circumstance. Certainly if an action is good, it is good regardless of your lot in life.
Do you think people who manage their own data-centers never have outages?
Thanks! Yeah, `dig` with no DNS gives me a SERVFAIL but `dig @1.1.1.1` works.

My ISP isn't Vodafone directly (I take it you think that because 83.146.21.6 belongs to them?) but might be a Vodafone reseller or something.
CFR <revolving door> Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Do you mean progressive inter ocular lens? Or like progressive lens (glasses)?
As C++ features go, HKTs in the form of template arguments and templated associated types are fairly straightforward to use and understand. In fact we had usable type level lambdas before we got actual lambdas in the language.

Of course, as the rest of templates there is no actual definition time type checking.
My understanding is that Scheme is quite functional. So were the very first versions of Lisp. Common Lisp, on the other hand, strikes me as not very functional at all (from what limited experience I have of the language). It does have first-class functions, and functions like ‘map’ and ‘reduce’, but that isn’t enough to make it truly functional — it seems to lack the characteristic approach of building functions from smaller functions that is so common in functional languages.

(Also, functionality is more of a continuum than a binary category. CL certainly is more functional than Python, but less functional than Scheme or SML. It all depends on where you draw the dividing line, though I’d argue that classifying CL as ‘non-functional’ makes for more meaningful categories.)
A hint of tongue in cheek with my comment :)
You are partly right. Only _some_ Nazis and _some_ Japanese military leaders. The others lived on to become, for example "Americas most loved war criminal".
Which revealed war crimes.