skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's charged with espionage for material related to a war crime. It's not a peripheral issue.
I think it's a test of what you think of him - i.e. whether you consider it strictly journalism or activism.

As far as I'm aware his activities regarding the whole guccifer, Seth rich, etc. affair make me think a mere journalist he is not.
you can have a good game that plays well and you can have a good game that looks pretty. but the truly great games both play well and look pretty...
Florence: Microsoft’s new foundation model for computer vision
I have `snow.sh` in my PATH. I have no idea where I originally got it from, but its the same as this gist https://gist.github.com/sontek/1505483
I was specifically responding to:

> All logging libraries contain some kind of template engine as a performance optimization

This doesn't need to be the case for some languages. But also, a language's native string interpolation doesn't need to be implemented as any sort of runtime template engine in the first place, because the compiler can compose the the components of the interpolated string at compile time. This compile-time/runtime split is IMO the key differentiator here, because runtime string interpolation is much more prone to bugs/RCE (since an untrusted string may show up as your template string.)

To use an example, in swift, `f1("Some \(string) with \(vars)")` is fundamentally different than calling `f2("Some {} with {}", string, vars)`, because of the fact that such a method signature for "f2" may allow an untrusted string to show up as the first argument, which isn't possible in f1. (And no, an external string that happens to have \()'s in it will not be expanded... it has to be a string literal in the source code, which the compiler can see, for interpolation to happen.)
Yeah, bully the weak... Never really going against the big boys...
Personally, I don't need logic due to personal experience, and yet so much personal experience now makes my faith logical (to me). But my personal experience would be something you'd need to take by faith, if you don't have this personal experience like I do. I'd just point out that such experience is not unique to me.
Doom engine code review (2010)
That will make a vas deferens.
> I'm not going to accuse you of being a political actor,

Then don't bring it up, it doesn't add to the discussion.

> he is charged with a relatively minor criminal offense stemming from his assistance in attempting to crack a password hash to gain unauthorized access to military computers

That was only the first charge he was indicted on.

> Imagine hiding from a 5 year max sentence for 10 years.

Assange currently faces up to 170 years in prison.

He was hiding from a one of the worlds largest perpetrators of targeted assassination, one which we know has debated assassinating him at its highest levels.

> As for Reality, she really could not have transitioned in Russia and China regardless of prison, that was the point you missed.

You seem to be confused. Reality Winner did not change genders and was not working for the military when she leaked documents to the Intercept.

> I do think that the idea of classification and state secrets have merit

Just because there is merit to the idea doesn't mean that everything that gets classified deserves that classification, nor does it mean that the government doesn't use that classification infrastructure to hide things that the American public needs to know about. The prosecution of Assange absolutely represents an unacceptable expansion of the USA'a ability to suppress such information.
U.K. court grants Julian Assange's extradition to the United States
> C++ is the industry standard, C is a retrocomputing language.

You'd be surprised how many fortune 500 software companies have thousands of programmers who are writing new C code every day.

Even Apple writes new C every day.
Almost 50% of Americans voted for Biden. Almost 50% did it again a second time.

It's not that Voting for Biden is in any way related to being against Assange (It's my understanding that Wikileaks is well liked within that community), but I've learned to to speculate on what Americans might do.

I've taken to just expecting the worst possible outcome from any decision.
One place I worked at we had a nice little 'golf clap' when the build worked. Then of course you had to have the the 'missed the putt groan' when it failed. Nice feedback from 3 offices over and you did not have to sit and watch it. Fun times...
The storyline on the control plane for the Architect and Crypto is fertile field to explore for Civilization player types. Isometric hextile tabletop player map for massive multiplayer gaming with escape hatch for FPS gaming addicts covers all bases. This demo looks GTA skinjob on Hollywood themed franchise, nothing new really. Ideas about reality being a controlled hallucination as theory of mind is an intriguing plot element to expore, too.
> Like Epstein?
Yes. And like Milosevic. And like Saddam. It's funny how some people choose to commit suicide just before trial.
That's not a problem of the craft however, it's a problem of the culture.

We are perfectly capable of writing native GUIs, and we have powerful tools for it as well. QTDesigner comes to mind as a well known example.

The problem is, about 12 years ago, application design went through a gameification and "toy-i-fication" phase, from which it has yet to recover, because suddenly, everything had to look like it was designed for tablets or gaming consoles. Then the "javascript for everythiiiing!" happened, and suddenly the tools and workflows behind all the bloated, inefficient, low-information-density apps were swept into the desktop world.

But, since the modern definition of an "App" is basically everything that is displayed on a phone ever, and devices got so powerful that no matter how badly devs f* it up it still kinda-ish works (if we ignore the battery screaming for dear life), and this situation has generally been accepted.
Unless he kills himself, not a chance. He's done his damage, unlike Epstein who had whole houses of closets with skeletons in them; nobody wants him dead.

Prison is worse.
Editors/publishers exercise judgement and take responsibility for what they put out into the world. AFAICT, Assange's best argument for his innocence is that he bears no responsibility because... he neither took nor accepts any responsibility.
In case it wasn't clear: I'd do the echo run first to validate roughly what commands I would be running (minus some escaping gotchas that you raise), and then another run without the echo.

The echo trick is mostly a suggestion of a very quick trick, but it fails in a large number of cases (even something as simple as piping that command through another).

Thanks for the pointer to :p too!
I don't think it's that easy. The syntax of `find` is weird enough as it is, with flags that need to be passed in in the correct order and so many options to choose. So on top of all of that, one now needs to learn an exclusive new regex or globbing system. I don't see that as any easier to learn than remembering to put quotes around the search term.

I don't disagree with your central point that this problem can be fixed with better design. But the ergonomics are a hard problem to solve.
I mourn the loss of Compiz and Beryl more than quirks like this.

I miss my terminals which would explode into flames when closed.

But, such things are not impossible in wayland at all, it might even work via xWayland.
The thing with presbyopia is about losing the elasticity of your lens - thus not being able to change your focus (muscles pull the lens changing it's shape and with it the focus).
With the hardening of the lens the range is getting narrower around the lens' natural focus (far field).

Article does a good job at explaining briefly the limitations. This drug by manipulating pupil opening extends the depth of focus, and if the lens is not too hard, in combination with the extended focus you could cover the near field, but the light accommodation becomes a problem, by not being able to dilatate your pupil (driving being the biggest problem).

Overall a limited application, and not so life changing as the article title implies. Reading glasses could very well be a better option for all.
Dont forget Iran and North Korea
This is one thing the C-shell (which was my shell for decades) got right.

% echo no*such*file

echo: No match.

Whereas in bash you can get used to this behaviour until it bites you. Luckily the tcsh usage has already given me the "finger memory" to use the quotes.

$ echo no*such*file

no*such*file
Is there any way to fix my old 3G phone to continue to work under 5G?
Pandemic innovations that are here to stay
If it's supported by government funds it's not "independent journalism" anymore.
The PS5 is basically a paper weight with these electricity prices.

So what happens when these kids grow up and don't have to nag their parents?
True Tales of American Life - it's a collection of mostly autobiographical true stories, submitted by everyday Americans as part of NPR's National Story Project and edited by Paul Auster.
I'm pretty sure it is everyone's responsibility to inform the world about war crimes when that information is brought to our attention.
I'm stealing that phrase:
"Premature abstraction is the root of all evil".
It's hard for me sometimes to justify in a code review why an abstraction is not required (yet) when someone has put some effort into it.
Right, but if the essence of the question is by what function you measure utility, then the question as posed by the article is a moot point. utility, priority, equality - they're just slightly different cost functions for the utility. And it's not even the case that they're well-defined and clearly separated; some level of interpretation is going to be required regardless.

For example, people routinely act as if money has a non-linear utility; we'll insure ourselves against stuff partially because being destitute is worse than the mere loss of money might suggest; i.e. each additional dollar is worth less.

But exactly how you define those non-linear relationships, especially once you include stuff like happiness, health, and intend to aggregate over multiple individuals is clearly tricky, and it's not reasonable to expect any one simplified model to work well in all situations in reality. It's not even reasonable for that to be knowable or computable.

So it's both perfectly reasonable to consider it ludicrous to label one such scenario as having "40" and "80" utility without having had the critical discussion of what that utility is measuring, while also conceding that the concept of utility is reasonable and... sometimes... enlightening.
“My body my choice”
The XBUS Is Here
I have not been able to. I don't want notifications on my lock screen, i just want time. Small time. Like before.

I'm on a Pixel6. It is kind of an upgrade to my previous 4 year old phone and I sort of like it but no, it does not have a better battery and it barely has any better performance, but other Android phones are ad-ingested junk ( looking at you, f!cking Samsung ) or a joke of a software ( Looking at you, OnePlus), plus they arent whitelisted on major US carriers in Feb 2022, so Pixel it was.

The new UI is total junk compared to the UI of 11. To make it somewhat better I replaced the launcher with ActionLauncher 3, disabled gestures and disabled Google Assistant.

What I want to know is if "Now Playing" can be made into a widget/app-tap, because no, I do not want it always listening.
We are sorry page is all I got.
> Or at the very least, it doesn’t hurt.

I think you missed this part of my comment. I don't conflate cause and effect. No do I conflate correlation and causation, which is what I think you meant to write.

> be even more innovative

So your premise is that the most innovative, productive company in the world could be more innovative?
For further context I highly suggest the articles from Nils Melzer (UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment):

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...

https://medium.com/@njmelzer/response-to-open-letter-of-1-ju...

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/nils_melzer_julian_a...
> Do they really think the current financial system is great and their online bank account is perfect and nothing radical is worth trying?

Try, absolutely! New tech is fun tech!

The problem is it's not about the tech is it? Lets be honest. It's just people trying to milk it for cash right now. Once they've all got theirs it'll evolve into something useful or just sorta be there now like Bitcoin

Web3 tech, from my perspective, is people promoting profile pictures of bored apes, pirates, robots and (new to me) snowflakes with varying accessories on Twitter. It's like a ridiculously expensive version of Pokemon except you can't even fight them against each other. It's a bit of a joke currently, I hope someone finds a decent use case

In any case whether I'm right or wrong, NFTs and web3s are something I'm too poor to understand right now. It's like watching an orgy of millionaires taking money from each other and patting themselves on the back if you're on the outside haha. It's so weird to come across an "open" tech you can't afford to learn
Joe Biden was not kidding around when he said America is back. Much better than Trump who was a clowinish buffonish sheep in wolf's clothing obsessed with his twitter account. He was so incompetent he could not start one new war.

Meanwhile there is a twitter blackout on following the Ghislaine Maxwell case.
Advent of Code 2021 [PL Edition]
Don't touch that dial... You've got KOME on your radio!
You don't win this fight for freedom by not playing the same game as the big corporations.

> Google throttles the load time of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one-second delays in order to give Google AMP a “nice comparative boost.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975443
He leaked war crimes AND he leaked the information I mentioned.
I agree although you could turn it on its head and say it's also a good example of how utilitarianism loses its explanatory power because it can explain away anything just by changing the utilities.

The problem with utility has always been in defining the utilities.
As someone who lived for years with year-long problems with boars.

Hunters do jack shit about them. When we had concrete overpopulation problems, it wasn't hunters who dealt with it, it was organized by forest management officials as dedicated culling action, methodical and directed.

The reason people are annoyed by "hunters" is that they are out of control, often drunk on the hunt, create danger to other people (lots and lots of cases with people killed by hunters, including causing danger in build up communities), and if you try to stop them, expect to be intimidated with guns and to see your pets shot.

Then you have hunting lobby in current govt get itself legal right to organize hunt on your land without you allowing it (and again, try to stop the mafia...)

So, yeah, zero sympathy for hunting as it is done now.
unfortunately he switched from citizen journalist to selective propaganda release and russian propaganda washing.
The evil part of hypocricy is not pointing out and criticizing evil.
I'm so glad you asked! I have two or three, I'd love to have any of them critiqued or stolen.

First one or two are not ocean-based but might be intrigueing all the same. Essentially, people flip houses, but there's not much flipping of land itself. And yet, a lot of land can be bought for relatively little money because of either nutrient degradation or soil contamination. So the business model would be slow but simple - buy distressed or contaminated land, practise slow but inexpensive means of remediation[1], flip it for a profit once it's remediated, and use that to buy more distressed land. There's actually a company in South America named Adecoagro that does this as one of their business segments. From what I could gather via their investor reports, the major bottleneck to this business is finding people with the expertise to do it. Adecoagro works on quite large farms, but I have the idea that if one did it with smaller parcels and combined the remediation efforts with hosting permaculture or similar courses, it might be a better way to bring in the necessary expertise.

Possibly the same or possibly an adjacent idea is phytomining[2]. Find land that either has been mined out and is distressed, or that a local community will sell cheap rather than have it go to a conventional mining company. Mine the soil via phytomining over a longer period of time, possibly in tandem with other regenerative land management techniques.

And the ocean one - there are techniques for recycling plastic for a fairly low cost[3]. With a basic plastic shredder and press, it should be possible to clean up the seas and make artificial islands[4] in situ. Combine with an ecotourism or seasteading brand and it should be quite interesting to people with money.

Like I said, I'd welcome any feedback! They're all very early-stage ideas (besides the land-flipping one, which exists but has an early-stage twist on the standard execution) so I'd be very interested in hearing how others would modify them.

[1] e.g. https://www.amazonmycorenewal.org/
[2] e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43258437_Method_for...
[3] e.g. https://preciousplastic.com/
[4] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island
I am just curious to know where such efforts could provide the most value. If it is in setting up and building out something like salesforce I have no issues
The patch which apparently introduced the vulnerable code path landed in 2013 -- https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/

For context, injection attacks were on the original OWASP top 10 list from 2003.
> Additionally, if one was to ponder how nutritional guidelines for content consumption might sound like for the public at large, they for sure wouldn’t advocate for reduced memetic variability across society, but would encourage individuals to independently stray off course once in a while, avoiding reaching a local optimum on a societal level.

This doesn't feel correct to me. In the analogy of avoiding a local minimum you are increasing the variability slightly so you don't get trapped, but the reason you get trapped is that you're aiming "higher", i.e. the overarching goal is to move from semi random starting points towards 'better' in the terms of the current metric.

So this appears to be talking about a plan for doing one thing, while claiming to do the opposite.

Though the fact that it's personalized, may actually provide this, while also defeating the other purpose (i.e. it could lead you deeper into a flat earth rabbit hole by finding you the exact content best placed to meet your need for more challenging flat earth content at that point).

Not sure how it can achieve both goals at the same time.
> Has anyone ever put a picture of a stroad up as art/instagram etc like you see with downtown NYC, Paris, small european villages, shanghai, rural mountain towns, old downtowns in America etc?

Yes, but in a different way than I believe your question implies. Edward Burtynsky produced an amazing series of photographs centered around the automobile and in his words, how it "represent[ed] not only freedom, but also something much more conflicted."

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/oil

One of the most internet famous images from that series is of a stroad in Breezewood, PA:

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/news-hub/2019/7/25/what-inte...
Ask HN: Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?
Back in the 1980s I used to read Omni magazine. In the 90s, it was magazines like Wired, Mondo 2000, and Boing Boing. These all presented views of the future that I found interesting and (mostly) hopeful - even if a good percentage of their articles had no basis in reality.

Today, they're all gone or nothing like what they used to be.

What magazines, blogs, podcast, etc. do you use to discover possible positive future technologies?
Depends! When using 'DPR' (dense passage retrieval, potentially for more accurate results), a re-indexing is required.
Bonus additional reading: https://twobithistory.org/2019/11/06/doom-bsp.html
Two words: "should of" ;)
we tried to sanction russia, but its hard when they used 0uppets to help railroad democracy
Official Report on Ireland's healthcare system ransomware attack [pdf]
> ...if two or more people strongly disagree about facts, is to drill down into the underlying definitions that provide context for the facts.

Except that surely you don't have the time to do that most of the time? What about cases where the other person is being dishonest and shifting the burden of proof about a claim, or trying to offer more and more arguments which detract from making the original point?

While drilling down is possibly indeed what you should do, it's also easy for it to derail any average discussion, if done wrongly and either of the participants don't have honest intentions of having a discussion and finding out the truth.
Because the language itself was terrible. The RAD tooling/UI designer was excellent. There was a product that had those but included a better language -- Borland's Delphi, but Borland and its successors squandered its initial success and didn't invest in improving it.
You are technically right, but it would be unlikely ("when I thought my son was dying" would have been a more likely expression).

While I would certainly hope for it to not be true, out of respect I would not focus on this side of the story regardless.
He is in jail, he can't.

And the right thing to do is to denounce evil as it comes. Journalism is a requirement for democracy.
They also don't follow necessary sanitation guidelines, necessary due to African Swine Fever rampaging through Poland - which results in hunts increasing danger of ASF instead of reducing it.
Web3.0 is just one big real world example of Chesterson’s Fence in action.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
A video I saw for this looked like it was using an Xbox controller.

Perhaps the video I saw was on a PC with a 3090 or something insane like that.
But if the definition is barely more fleshed out than "some cost function", then the difference between utility, priority and equality as discussed in the article collapse; they're all the same thing. Cost functions, aka: utility.
Cool, but the problem is people ( marketing department included ) extrapolate this tech demo into something more, and we all know how that ends..

Maybe the most recent one is Cyberpunk 2077 and there were many reasons for that disaster other than the "tech", but it always ends with a couple million angry people robed and a few hundred burned-out employees with long lasting mental issues.

Cool demo, but nothing more.
I think in a lot of cases, allowing the content below a modal to scroll is okay. If the user wants to scroll the content beneath a modal... so be it
>Using nouns, adjectives and verbs from (familiar) concrete hierarchical analogies makes technical writing much more accessible.

This is a really good insight. I can remember back to my university days, a teacher used a cooking analogy to explain something that was really hard to understand- since then, the concept stuck.
I wonder why the error message is also in … French? (I’m not located anywhere French speaking).

> Désolés!

> Une erreur s'est produite lorsque nous avons tenté de traiter votre requête. Soyez assuré que nous travaillons déjà à la résolution du problème que nous pensons trouver très rapidement.
Surely he has some sort of a dead man's switch aka doomsday files that US doesn't want out there, there was something about encrypted 'insurance' files. I don't think US is doing it out of principle, they want to have a deal with him. Or maybe that data is no longer relevant or was a bluff to begin with.