skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Julian Assange getting away with his sexual assault of a woman due to his politics is very reminiscent of how Donald Trump avoids blame for his sexual crimes through the lens of politics. Very smart tool to ensure you can never be guilty of anything and your supporters will deny any wrongdoing as politically motivated. It's no surprise that Assanage and Trumps people communicated and coordinated, as these devious tactics sure look familiar.

Reminds me of Assange's "Seth Rich" gamble, how he supercharged a heinous conspiracy theory on behalf of fake news purely to earn political approval and gain loyalty from folks who, like you, will not do their homework to validate the claims they make.

>It'd be one thing if he was hiding from the charge "assistance in attempting to crack a password hash to gain unauthorized access to military computers", but despite your comment clearly implying that this was the case, it's not.

Julian's sexual assault crimes have nothing to do with the United States or his extradition here, as the original charges were espionage related. It's a red herring for you to bring it up, and I think either evidence of ignorance (you thought the US was extraditing him for his sexual crimes in Sweden ...?) or malfeasance (you know it was espionage, but you brought this up to muddy the waters intentionally).

>I'm not going to accuse you of being a political actor, but what a weird coincidence.

It's always cute when people try to repeat your lines back to you as a weak "gotcha" but completely fail. You're not going to make that accusation because I'm obviously not.

I will accuse you of being a victim of fake news and implicit supporter of sexual violence though.
History gets rewritten constantly. An example: Julius Caesar, hero, martyr or villain? Ask an Italian or a French, probably two different versions. But also ask to an Italian 50 years ago (probably a hero, maybe even a martyr) or today (maybe a war criminal to be judged in the International Court of Justice.)

Of course a correct judgement should apply the mindset of when the facts happened.
I wish very much that explainers of of this kind NOT center around exemplars on the individual level. In practice there is no applicability of political philosophy on the individual level, only absurdity.

Where there is some value to this work is at scale policy. One's only hope for fairness, equity- any qualities of importance- depends on modeling and quantifying. All models are wrong but in these cases it is incumbent to try to make them as useful as possible.
The jury will be sequestered to avoid media influence. This is common practice in high-profile cases.

The judge will set firm boundaries for what the jury can and cannot consider in their deliberations and while the jury is actually free to use any criteria they want, it will be very heavily implied that they cannot. The court will do everything in their power to make the jury believe they must convict based on the evidence presented and the rule of law.

Similarly the court will put significant limitations on what can and cannot be presented as evidence. US's commission of war crimes is (arguably) irrelevant as regards the crime in question, so I won't be surprised to see that bringing it up will not be permitted.

This is all fairly standard US court stuff.
>No, he isn’t going to a FISA court, those don’t try criminal cases…

Never said he was. He's going to the spy court in virginia. It's obviously not something you list on wikipedia.

FISA is too monitored. The court he'll be going to always sides with the government.

Assange is going to the same place Daniel Hale, Chelsea Manning, Paul Manafort, various terrorists.

I wonder if Assange will ever see if he is guilty or not. Epstein treatment incoming. Though I do believe he will be treated properly, no enhanced torture or anything.
Yes, I'd too prefer HKT in Rust. And a GC. And getting rid of all those superfluous braces, parens and semicolons. And instead of 'Rust' (WTF?) we could name it after a mathematician - why not e.g. Moses? :D
This has got to be the worst example you could have used: clearly video is better for this, right? You are talking about a sequence of steps in a GUI... sure, the least important one of those steps might have a keyboard shortcut, but that would be something you'd find later (and I don't think anyone is suggesting replacing a quick reference card with a video) and isn't a "learning" step. A textual description of this is going to be extremely awkward, attempting to describe dialog panels and icons and explain the semantics of color choosers... even the process of actually using a gradient tool is something that involves angles and lines and mouse placement: it isn't some abstract transform or fill, it is something that has a required direction semantic.

I am 40, I learned to program using physical book instruction manuals, I absolutely love reading things, and yet it just feels so obvious that if I want to learn how to use a gradient tool I would want a video. If I couldn't get a video I would want an animation. If I couldn't get an animation I would want a flip book of screen shots. If I couldn't get a flip book of screen shots I would tolerate some illustrated prose... but if you couldn't even get me the illustrations I am frankly at an age where I simultaneously know that life is short and yet there is virtue in patience and so I would work on something else until I could find a video (or another human to show it to me in person, which would probably be the best option) rather than waste my time trying to interpret someone describing a purely graphical concept using text.
"Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" is the text I see referenced most often in this context. On the pdf at [1], from page 24 onwards it describes the procedure to create a flat surface accurate to single digit micrometers "from scratch" with nothing but a scraping tool and some dye (and a whole lot of patience).

[1] https://pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/15_Mfrs_Publications/M...
My new startup will loan you the non-fungible e-medallion you need to operate as a blockchain cab driver, in exchange for just 30% of your fares.
What's to keep this from evolving into a walled garden of sorts though?

Charging needs to be open and standardized in my opinion. I could see this turn into something that could be abused.
> Utility is a rhetorical construct

It's a mathematical construct to show ranking of points in a topological space. With two simple axioms, comparability and transitivity, it is fairly well defined mathematically, though it typically enters the extrapolation zone at extremes.
Those aren't really comparable, though. "Git" is just an insult:

> git, noun. British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.

"Gimp" can be an ableist slur for someone with a walking impairment in US and Canadian English but also to someone engaging in BDSM (hence "gimp suit"). The GIMP project has also seen a fork in part due to conflicting opinions about whether the name should be changed (tho I think more people were aware of the BDSM meaning and felt uncomfortable with having sexual innuendos in professional software).

"Mongo" (in German, and presumably Dutch also, anyway) specifically is used to mock cognitive disability and is derived from the historical medical term "mongoloid" which in itself was already racist. Unlike git and GIMP it's also extremely likely none of the people involved in picking the name were aware of its unfortunate meaning since the name sounds innocuous in English.
At least they should clean their own house first. Let say by punishing everyone who participated in or voted for wars and voted for politicians who voted for them...
Thank you for the tactful disagreement and I appreciate your perspective. I also believe journalism is necessarily adversarial and should be allowed to exist with little encumbrance. However, I do think there is a line that needs to be drawn at some point as to what is journalism, versus what is propaganda for a specific agenda masquerading as journalism.
From https://defend.wikileaks.org/, here are some ways to support Julian:

- Donate to WikiLeaks Official Defence Fund: https://defend.wikileaks.org/donate

- Sign petitions: https://bit.do/free-assange, https://bit.do/free-assange-uk (UK specifically)

- Contact politicians, unions, charities to inform and urge to act

- Inform yourself and others

- Social media: #ProtectJulian, #FreeAssange
Seems fine until you do this kind of stuff over “identity groups.” This view taken beyond an individual level seems to be the cause of the current negative social situation.
All deals with the US are one-sided. It's their foreign policy
Yea it’s tough. No matter how many times people say, you get the parenthesis eventually, it still is off putting for people when they see it the first time. I'm a big Lisp fan and the parenthesis don't bother me at all. But it's always going to be a sticking point with some people.

This is a big reason for the Rhombus project in Racket[1] one of it’s main goals is to be a Lisp like language which combines the extensibility of a parens based language, with infix notation and a different surface syntax

1. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype
WikiLeaks is a good thing. WikiLeaks works as protection intermediary between journals and sources https://wikileaks.org/-Partners-.html
keep watching
Thanks. I didn't realise how much faster. Probably you can do 10x the FLOPs in similar die space on dedicated silicion vs GPU. I thought it would be faster, but not an order of magnitude more.
I am not talking about Hillary's emails. He leaked diplomatic cables.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikileaks-releases-classifie...
When I’m feeling particular caustic about politics, I feel this sort of thing is LARPing Civilization but with the difficulty set to “Easy”.
There was a Half-Life mod called The Specialists that I played ages ago. It was a Matrix-inspired arena shooter. There was only one map, but it was well done and I got a tremendous amount of gameplay out of it. The bullet timing mechanic was wild. At the time I'd never seen something like that in a multiplayer game.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-specialists

I was kind of hoping this demo would include something similar, but this looks more like a cinematic than anything. Then again I'm too old to play games like that now. Civilization and Railway Empire are more my speed.

EDIT: Here's a gameplay video if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8V4IQlb0zc
Oh. Ok. So you have 2 facts sitting right next to each other that are completely unrelated. One about the construction of a building. The other about sound transmission withing the house. I understand. I was under the impression that you were trying to suggest that one fact implied the other. Forgive me
So will USA extradite let's say Israeli hackers to Iran? If not they are purely hypocritical.
OTOH, maybe politicians shouldn’t be trying to meddle in the wellbeing of individuals beyond providing access to infrastructure and policing?
Given rampant climate change, foreign debt crisis and sinking middle class, it doesn't sound like 'we' will be the victors
> You cannot be the arbiter of what other people like or don't

That's not necessarily what the GP said. The charitable reading is that they're genuinely, open-mindedly, asking what they're missing that's so great about it, so they too might get to love it.

Hey, maybe your explanation above does the trick.
The first steam "engine" was the Aeolipile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile), but it was more a toy than a useful tool. IIRC there was also a temple somewhere that used steam to open its doors as a cool trick to impress the masses.
Unfortunately, with Wayland's growing popularity, such programs will not be able to run on the Linux desktop for much longer.
This argument can work both ways. Some people claim everything in Egypt could be done with hands, patience (or by forcing someone). But there are many other clues, suggesting that civilization had access to some very sophisticated tools or machinery. Maybe not lasers, but not hand saws either. Check this short clip for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oe1--ss51Q&t=917s It describes a sarcophagus was ditched mid-production, because the cut was made in the wrong way. I am not saying that the conclusion is valid, but it's an interesting data point.
I'm more interested in UNR844-Cl (by Novartis). It appears that it has longer lasting, possibly age-correcting, effects.

"This prodrug is topically instilled binocularly, whereupon it penetrates the cornea and degrades into two naturally occurring substances, lipoic acid and choline. The lipoic acid is then hydrolyzed by esterase in the tear film into dihydrolipoic acid, which destroys the disulfide bonds in the lens, improving flexibility as noted earlier. An interesting hypothesis regarding this medication is that it may potentially halt or even reverse the natural lens hardening that occurs with age, thereby allowing a potential restoration of natural accommodation."

Source - https://modernod.com/articles/2020-sept/coming-soon-presbyop...
Just yesterday was thinking about how much pavement is between me and my neighbors across the street. Standard suburbia single family home area, and I think we could have a car on each side of the street and still pass two cars through side by side, though thankfully cars never need to slow down out of fear of hitting things - one side is no parking. It's a ton of infrastructure and maintenance cost that is never fully utilized. Even at the peak of demand (Christmas or Thanksgiving probably) we're not all hosting at the same time, and most likely two very nearby neighbors will be traveling (not taking up street space, and probably fine with you parking in their driveway if you ask permission).

On top of the massive street, everyone has driveways that can hold 2-3 vehicles and typically 2 sometimes 3 garage stalls (though many are filled with "stuff", an entirely separate issue).
And it will. Imagine a world where, let’s say 20% of all online payments are via blockchains.

With enough meet in the bone, bad actors will show up.

How can anyone claim that it will not be vulnerabilities is beyond me.
I hear you, but why do we have to reduce this guy, of all people, to mere labels. Just reading story of him coming to power makes you gasp in awe at the sheer force of will and confidence that you are being destined for something greater.

I dunno, I just like dislike this kind of, whats the word, reductionist approach to a human being. Million things made Julius the man that he was. If he ever had avocados, would we consider him proto-vegan?

edit: I am only jesting.
The US does not have an extradition treaty with Iran, so no, they will not extradite folks there.

I do hope the US files charges against Israeli hackers who have targeted American organizations though. No country should get a free pass.
The kind of fluency needed to translate doesn't come with memetically bad "Polonia" polish (even if it's a bit of exaggeration). Especially with works that use polish language to its fullest (like Lem) or reference culture and events that are local (infamous example was the first Witcher game, but also Witcher novels - the english translation of the game was much, much weaker content than the polish original which requires familiarity with polish politics 2000-2007).

So you need a combo of american poet, fluent polish linguist, and possibly historian and/or anthropologist. Tall order. Sometimes it can be smoothed over by adding considerable appendices (something that accompanied first releases of Harry Potter in Polish, for example, explaining untranslatable puns and reasons for translating things in specific way) but again, not a trivial thing to do.
And yet, the theory of utility works well under extensions of bounded rationality, with full acknowledgement of time inconsistent preferences.

Utimately utility is a simplifying model of human behavior.

> we'd hardly have different morals, political parties, and so on.

This touches on where preferences come from, which utility theory is mainly silent on.
Lock him up and throw away the key, he’s a sex offender
Also known as manipulation. You cannot get to a better combined perspective if you are not presenting yourself truthfully.
Thank you. But seriously, my website only gets updated when I'm looking for a job. The rest of the time it just sits there gathering dust.
He leaked war crimes.
I just had to authenticate apparently:

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"correct judgement should apply the mindset of when the facts happened"

That doesn't sound right either, we 'as in the himan race' done some fucked up shit because at the time it was cobsidered the right thing to do
Explains why so many people think that women can have penises
Obama droned them. The Judge Dredd of Presidents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Roman concrete would be a strong contender:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete

That stuff is clearly better than our modern concrete.

In theory one could replicate that material but nobody does, hence our crumbling bridges.
I’ve always heard utility in the context of a utility function. Basically:

f(u) = Wx*x + … + Wz*z, where x and z are variables that are impacted by decisions and constraints. Each variable is weighted for importance by the person / group using the utility function.

So for a home buyer needing to get to a city, the utility of the house improves as the location to the city gets better, subject to the constraint that it’s not in the river. A home buyer utility function might also weight cost, neighbors, amenities, square footage, local pollution, safety, and any other meaningful variable for the buyer.

Turning this into a quantitative formula can be cramming it in and quite hand-wavy, but ultimately it’s up to the person optimizing for their own utility to put in the variables and weights. These will be shifted by the person’s moral code (e.g. A Jewish person may highly value living in the city’s Eruv).

On a political note, big government supporters believe the federal government can define a utility function for the country that is best for the greater good. People who believe in smaller federal government and governing at the local level believe the utility functions should be defined at the individual level if possible - subject to the constraints one does not infringe on others’ rights. There are benefits to both sides (some things we can’t achieve if everyone acts independently, some things create externalities, some things have too many edge cases and unintended consequences).

I think the extreme of a shared utility function is communism, with an idea of central planning.
As Frank Herbert said: "History is written by the historians". And they are part of the system. Just look at history books which are thought in schools.
This happened with both myself and my sister. Thankfully, I dropped out and started attending community college where I could proceed at my own pace. I don’t think a lot of parents are aware of this option.
The media work starts before the trial starts.
is the loss of flexibility caused by hardening of proteins? is this the same or similar to what causes cataracts?
>>Why have a linear hardcoded storyline when the users can live out their own stories in the game?

Because a lot of people seem to enjoy exactly this - 10-30 hours of a very linear, hand crafted experience, not sandbox "you can do anything" kind of experience.

>>I know it might be hard to see now, but we don't have the energy to not build it.

I don't even understand what that sentence means, to be honest with you. I work for one of the largest video games companies in the world and we somehow still build both sandbox as well as single-player focused games.

>>Also kids lead the way, and TV does not exist in their world, they call that YouTube and Twitch.

Kids have zero purchasing power, and it's the money which decides what to make. Your "average" gamer, by industry's own stats, is a 20-30 year old male, who owns a console, and buys exactly 3 games a year - latest Fifa, latest CoD, and one other game(and companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing to occupy that 3rd spot).

Minecraft and Roblox are as big as they are not only because they are good games, but also because they are fantastic at extracting money from parents through children. Trying to figure out the future of gaming by looking at those two is like saying that future of movie making and holywood is animated cartoon short stories, since Peppa The Pig is unbelivably popular with kids.
Example Spring Boot Application Vulnerable to Log4j RCE
For anyone interested, this museum in Thessaloniki Greece: https://www.noesis.edu.gr/en/ancient-greek-technology/ has a lot of very interesting items. If you ever visit the city, worth going there. I was particularly impressed with Syracusia, the giant ship/castle designed by Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracusia
Right, but juries don't convict on a majority.
How comes that circa 2000 VB6 was the most hated and belittled programming language out there? I was there, I remember it. Now it's suddenly part of the golden age of desktop programming? I think you should put your nostalgia glasses off.
> Because obviously, if you can't imagine how to do something then it must be impossible.

Yep, this is known as the "argument from incredulity".

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity
There is room for more systemic improvement than that, surely. Or do you count education, social safety net, basic healthcare as infrastructure?
AWS down again?
I've been getting the "We're sorry!" error for at least 15 minutes. No idea about regions or anything, I was just about to look up their docs about moving accounts between orgs etc. Anyone affected?

Edit: Seems to be flapping between the 'sorry' error and a blank page. Thoughts and prayers with the SREs, if they call 'em that over there.
There's no equivalent of Rust's core library that's in C++ though. So if you don't use the C++ STL you need to rebuild an entire library for all basic types. You also can't declare that your library doesn't need the STL.
'First they came for' definitely applies. The chilling message it sends is hard to mistake by anything other than a warning.
I remember doing ls /usr/bin/x* and just running all of them to see what they did, there were a lot of fun things in those days.

Here's a pretty exhaustive list:

https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/
Trump's feelings could get hurt at some perceived slight at any moment, and he could suddenly turn his cult against Assange on a dime, just like he did with Netanyahu. Like if he got the idea in his fat head that Assange didn't do enough to help him overturn the election that he lost due to his own incompetence and corruption.

‘F*ck Him!’ Trump Reportedly Furious With Netanyahu Congratulating Biden, Hasn’t Spoken to Him Since

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/fck-him-trump-reportedly-furi...

>Former President Donald Trump is reportedly livid with Benjamin Netanyahu. At issue? Congratulations that former Israeli Prime Minister expressed to President Joe Biden following the 2020 general election.

>This is according to a new book from Axios writer Barak Ravid who reports:

>>Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore. “I haven’t spoken to him since,” Trump said of the former Israeli prime minister. “F*k him.”

>>What he’s saying: Trump repeatedly criticized Netanyahu during two interviews for my book, “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East.” The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.

>“The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. … Bibi could have stayed quiet,” Trump is quoted by Ravid as saying. “He has made a terrible mistake.”