skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their main witness was a pedophile who lied to try get his own charges lessened.

As far as I understand it, that witness admitted to lying about a lot, but I can't find where he ever was the witness to Assange helping Manning, or that he even claimed it happened. The original article[1] that exposed Thordarson's lies doesn't even mention that; it's only tangentially tied to the claim that Assange was Manning's accomplice because they used it to say, "See? He helped Thordarson, too". As far as I know, we don't yet know what other proof the government may have that Assange helped Manning along the way simply because there hasn't been a trial yet. Until that happens, it's impossible to say that there is no proof.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1]https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
Just turn it off sometimes. It really helps.
It's definitely absurd that you lower your tax basis (i.e. the gains/income-based maintenance obligation we all have to keep the country running) because you paid a fine to offset an externality (which is a cost above, beyond, and unrelated to the maintenance cost of the country).
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What are you talking about? The US government? I agree that many in the government have hidden agendas and are traitors.
That does sound like a blast. Yes, too bad it wasn't a repeater. :)
The legal aspects may be hard to understand, and we may not precisely understand the underlying motivations of either Assange or the government, but the general dynamic is not hard to figure out. Assange spat in the face of the giant, and the law is now only an obstacle for the punishment they want to dole out. My country is throwing its weight around like a petulant bully.

I'm starting to accept that lies grease the gears of society somewhat, that we can't always live up to the ideals we propagandize about. Sometimes tricking people is the best way to get them to behave.

But I also think that the leaks themselves and the response to them show how far out of bounds our government is with its lies and liberties. The undermining of our diplomatic position began with our diplomacy, our military action. You can argue Assange released "too much", but that doesn't forgive the reaction.

I expect a government with some integrity would admit mistakes and do some house cleaning to regain the lost trust. Maybe I'm not following well enough, and there was some of that? But it seems to me like they went straight to trying to punish Assange with dirty tricks; no real admissions of guilt or plans to improve. That speaks to a pervasive lack of integrity, and so has undermined confidence in the fairness of these legal proceedings.
Yes, but whether it is a murder or not is decided in court, not by you. Not all assassination are murder.
It seems like no matter what improves in this area, something else breaks it. At first using a password manager helped. So now everyone wants to email or text a code if they don’t recognize the device/browser. But there’s a checkbox to remember the device/browser! And I find more than half the time the checkbox has no apparent effect.

There’s like a Murphy’s Law of Logins: Whatever frustration can be caused, will be.
Tailwind is best used with components. If you're repeating yourself, it should probably be a component.
I 100% agree. I was a Notes Evangelist for + 20 years. Now I'm using Nextcloud and hope it will have a long and good life.
Reliability. Most hardware dont last as long due to cost saving.

Smart Appliance. Most people dont realise how the word Smart ( implying software ) and Appliance contradict each other.

Information Quality. I spend some time thinking about it. I thought as I age and become more knowledgeable in multiple domains, I smell more BS. But then I realise that is not exactly true. It is not that I smell more BS, it is more BS are being produced at a much faster pace and spread at a much faster rate ( in many order of magnitude, likely thousands if not millions times easier than pre internet era. ). The old dream of information super highway where people can "share" information turns out to be a nightmare.

Constantly connected. No excuse for Battery is dead, not picking up phone? Instant messaging. This combined with Information Quality makes life way worse. I would not be surprised if the great resignation and people want to go to hermit have correlation with this because our brain are bombarded with information.

Digital Photos. Just like everything that started what was suppose to be a great idea. We dont value photos any more. Especially when they are compressed and takes very little space, you can store as much as you want. Not to mention modern smartphone camera "pretty up" your photo and they are no longer realistic.

Edit: I wrote this without first reading all the comments. Turns out many people feel the same as well.
> Obviously less relevant.

From the github....

> Why n.eko?
> I like cats (Neko is the Japanese word for cat), I'm a weeb/nerd.
I think this is a naive and unrealistic perspective. Journalists coordinate with their preferred candidates all the time to gain better access. They shouldn't but they do.

(And, whether wikileaks meaningfully coordinated with trump campaign is debatable)
> I think Go people are allergic to writing code that does anything other than functionally work.

I think that's what Go was designed for, as a language. To be readable, usable. It's uncaring for your personal programming philosophies. I think that's why it's been successful.
the article itself is an example of that. It's so frustrating to be preached to about "facts" by someone who makes no use of "facts" in their own argument. Same for "logic" and "rationality".
Yes it is absurd because destroying the environment should not be considered a business expense.

When a cab is fined for speeding, he cannot claim it as a business expense. He put lives at risk and that is not a reasonable business decision. It should be the same for oil spills.

But guess what, tax codes are not written by taxi drivers...
My kids are basically growing up with Stremio and Youtube on desktop (with adblock). I imagine most children of techies are the same.
I'll let someone else comment on the data collection part. But for why this is necessary, how else would you compute the housing costs of someone who purchased a home 15 years ago and hasn't moved since? That number is needed to compute the overall CPI, so you can't just skip it
> The basket of goods they track likely does not reflect your personal consumption patterns.

Or anyone's, really.

It's not really consistent either, because hedonic adjustments are effectively "arbitrary". BUT at least they are published, so you can, if you had the time, look at all of the fudge factors they drop in and decide for yourself how much skepticism to apply.
Wow! I miss a free and fair press that asks relevant questions.

This exchange would NEVER happen in North America:

DER SPIEGEL: Is it also possible that the next variant will already be here before you even start production?

Şahin: I've been thinking hard over the past few days about why we're actually seeing a variant like Omicron right now, what caused it. In doing so, I remembered being concerned about one thing earlier this year: In people with suppressed immune systems, the virus might get too much time to accumulate mutations and evolve. It appears to me that this is exactly what happened with Omicron: The virus has been able to undergo a prolonged evolution in a small group of people.

DER SPIEGEL: Was that an unfortunate coincidence, or are such strongly mutated variants a constant threat?

Şahin: It certainly could happen more often. Basically, it’s like this: Once Omicron spreads, the virus variant that comes after it will have to come up with something new to make the leap into the next generation. We would then be constantly facing a new pathogen.
To me a 3d rotation is a linear transformation from a 3d vector space to itself, so the natural way to represent it is as a 3x3 matrix.

Mathematically, this isn't an unusual way to look at it; you can read the Wikipedia page on this way of representing rotations. The nice thing is that it works basically the same as a 2d rotation, you just have one more row and column in your matrix.

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

I think this is simpler than any of quaternions, rotors, bivectors, or exponential maps.
That sounds horrific, I would much rather opt out of that event instead of going through that.

I refuse to live in fear.
IMO The only plausible way to do this is stop consuming media that has ads present.
Here comes the Geometric Algebra evangelists again.
A ministry that decides on truths? I wonder what that could be called!
They use psycho-acoustics. It's not actually louder, in the sense of carrying more acoustic energy overall; but the sound-engineer emphasises those parts that we perceive as "loud". Regulators are pwned, and refuse to act.

Movie sound-engineers seem to have started doing the same.

I really don't understand why annoying ads have't become extinct, in accordance with the Darwin principle.

[Edit] And advertisers hire loud, shouty actors to present their ads; it's almost as if they were challenging us to change channel or stick in a DVD.
Treating a valuation as if it was actual income is highly misleading.

If you inherit something without paying a tax in the gain in value, fine. But being able to declare your basis in it at the newly gained value allow taxes on its eventual sale to skip a massive gain in value. That is the sketchiest aspect IMHO.
Absolutely true, and I was in no way suggesting that rising prices for homes was good or bad. I've tried to stay neutral on that issue. The point, which is important to this conversation, is that nominal increases in the price of an asset cannot coherently or conceptually be understood as a form of "inflation."

The phrase "asset inflation" is one that we can use jokingly and informally, but formally it would not make any sense in any real attempt to judge changes in the standard of living.

By contrast, these are all valid questions:

Are wages going up faster than the nominal price of homes?

Is labor productivity going up faster than the nominal price of homes?

Is the share of national income going to labor increasing or decreasing?

Is asset wealth increasingly held in liquid or illiquid forms?

Is average rent going up faster than average wages?
Agree. Even in scientific conversation I dislike it. "Science" isn't some single entity of facts. It's a process of investigation. It's entirely possible for two scientific studies to contradict. And it's also possible for both of them to be wrong for some reason.

Overall, I very much dislike hearing the phrases:

- "Science says..."

- "Scientists say..."

- "THEY say..."

Considering the amount of information available to cherry pick from, or people to ask a question to, every one of those is no better than just saying: "this one random person on the internet said...".
I'm working with it at my job. I't called Embarcadero now. They name their versions after world city names.
I grew up in the 90's, when I turned on the TV the audio was being output immediately and the actual display took a second to warm up.

a second.

Now my TV takes about 30s to start up, it's actually constantly on standby mode. It takes a good 5-10 minutes to actually boot from cold.

using the UI feels sluggish, there's proprietary "applications" which clog up the main screen and I'm told it spies on me.

Not to mention: other people with modern TV's have Ads injected into their watching experience, I can't even begin to imagine how frustrating that would be if I were playing a game.

So: TV's are much, much worse than they were 15 years ago. Even if there are more pixels now.
In theory, if there is an important firmware update or safety (life or data) issue, if you're registered, they may contact you and you may not otherwise find out.

OTOH, you're trusting Seagate with your contact information and it's not strictly required. Perhaps they'd be able to contact you through the retailer that sold the product anyway (often retailers keep track of serial numbers on hard drives they sold; mostly so you don't return a drive you didn't buy, if they bother to check anything in the returns process)
I'd argue even if absolutely all housing went up 5% in value, everyone is still at least a little richer (albeit not effectively 5% richer and mostly on paper still).

Most people buy a house with a down payment. A conventional down payment is 20%. If you bought a house for $100,000 (with $20k down) and it's now worth $105,000. You can now sell the house, and put $25k down on another house, which means you can now qualify for a $125,000 house. For simplicity I'm ignoring principal that had been paid down on the first mortgage and transactional costs.
That day will be too late. The time to switch is before it happens to discourage it from happening. It's really too late even now.
You nailed it. From the footnotes in the article:

“A significant component of piracy is simply that it offers a better user experience.”

The biggest problem, IMO, with copyright in the current age is that the copyright holders want to adopt business models premised on controlling me and my experience. I’m not reluctant to paying for content, but if you make the experience suck I will work around you.
Simultaneous with collapse of Soviet style communism, then the impressive shrinkage of the US military. The explosion of the uses of PCs by individuals (who could, commonly, program those PCs) fed a completely delusional optimism that finally individuals could be empowered by technology. And potentially world-wide. For instance, China opening up, sure to join the gang. Maybe Tianamen was a blip. All nope. But I sure enjoyed the optimism while it lasted.
Extrapolate that to US politics, or politics in general, and you're just scratching the surface friend.
It's absurd that a fine reduces your taxable income. It has very little impact on low-income people, but quite a high one if you're rich.
Gain of function research made me basically lose two years of my life.
That is why Edward Snowden beeing still free is important.

Don't get me wrong. If there will be a good deal from US - Russia is going to hand him over in a blink of an eye.

But he is an example that you still can play it out between big boys and not all is lost.
TinkerOS: A Fork of TempleOS
Notwithstanding a down payment, monthly carrying costs have never been lower in the US:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...
If you are interested about the OS: http://c64os.com/c64os/
sure, we are willing to sacrifice assange for the greater good
Long term, the price per square foot goes up. Even without this building, the price per square foot has gone up.

Are you sure that's causation and not correlation?
Ivan Illich has a similar idea about technology and people becoming slaves to technology instead of the other way around, starting at some "threshold".
Yeah I feel that in a way, the best time to be a developer was back in the 1980s/90s. Your tools were limited but those constraints took away a lot of the "overhead" thinking about what frameworks to use and you could just focus on functionality. You didn't have Google or StackOverflow, but had a few books on your desk that covered pretty much everything you needed to know. Or if you were working on Unix, you had man pages, K&R, and Kernigan and Pike's The UNIX Programming Environment
Patents were the more obvious go to but we didn't want to work with obfuscated patent descriptions for the next years
I love these projects that show what can be done with 1mhz cpu and mere kilobytes of ram, really makes you wonder what we’re doing with the other 99% of hardware performance we’ve achieved since then
So it's okay to murder people as long as you're woke?
> I did not encounter quaternions in all my years of engineering, although a lecturer once alluded to them during a class in my masters.

I know that I am not coming in with same perspective as a lot of the other software engineers/graphics developers, but I started learning about quaternions freshman year of college. For aerospace engineering quaternions are used almost exclusively for spacecraft attitude determination and control. For a very dynamic system they are very useful.

There are some limitations that I have seen, and I have seen Rodrigues parameters (or modified Rodrigues parameters) used instead which are mentioned near the end of the article.
I presume this is a reference to the facts of the recent huge thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884
The US effectively has one party with two costumes.
> The climate comments here are virtue signaling.

What a convenient way to shut down a valid argument. The whole thrust is that the incentives are encouraging negative externalities by legalizing them and providing tax breaks for polluting. I don't like it, and it should be called out - more people need to be aware that these things keep happening because it's benefitting some rich knob.
Hasn't the global trend been for decades now that poor countries are becoming wealthier? The rich countries have had very little comparative growth.

https://databank.worldbank.org/reports.aspx?source=2&series=...
Maybe, but still this seems as vanity feature added because "It would be really convenient"... this wasn't something what was needed, but something what was added to make life of maybe 0.1% of users little bit easier. My guess is that most of users of Log4J2 don't even know that it is able to do such magic, and would be horrified knowing it.
IMHO Log library should log, not do some magic stuff.
This title is wildly misleading. The problem isn't the oil spill it's the treatment of step up basis on the death of her husband. That's where the real awfulness creeps in to this sequence of events.

You have a person with this basic trajectory:

Step 1 - Gets a $1 billion dollar asset, but claims it's worth $1.2 billion. No tax due, basis set at $1.2bn.

Step 2 - Sells asset for $1 billion, which is what it's worth. Says hey I just lost $200MM

Step 3 - Uses that loss to offset real gains from other businesses. Doesn't pay tax on anything at all

It's Step 1 that's the problem. For fucking insane reasons no tax at all is due at all in this step AND there's no unrealized capital gains transferred either, so the billion dollars of wealth created will never be taxed as having accrued to anyone ever AND there's an incentive to overvalue it since there's no tax due. In a normal world people don't pretend assets they get are worth more than the really are since that's a gain they'll have to pay taxes on.

This state of affairs is fundamentally indefensible. Even in our fucked up world of influence peddling I'm amazed the plutocrats were able to make this happen.
When WWIII happens it wont matter how many weapons you have at the start of the war. What will count is how fast you can make more weapons. That's all that matters. The war ends one one side runs out of weapons (or soldiers but China has a bit of a lead there). We can't even make new cars when supply from China is reduced. If you think having aircraft carriers is going to matter then you've not been paying attention. [1] The future is technology. Technology requires chip manufacture. That happens about 100 miles off China's coast, or rather, in China's opinion, on a Chinese owned island 100 miles off the mainland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
You can get by with English, but you won't understand the service (which is in the monastery's main language, e.g. Greek/Russian/etc).
It's not about WHY you "have to" get a flagship phone. It's about the fact that the flagship phone is 20% more expensive than it was 5 years ago, yet that isn't counting toward inflation with the CPI. Christ, we could use a standard of computation from a 1980's calculator and REALLY offset rising food prices. Hence the gamesmanship. Maybe I can offset the rising cost of my food basket by switching out to lower quality (or shrunken) goods for the same money, but you can't look me in the eye and tell me I have the exact same buying power as before with the same money.
Boy, what a mess.

All I ask from this crowd is, please don't make any more snarky references to `left-pad` ever again. The log in your own eye vs the speck in another's eye, and all that.

Thanks!
State what? Sounds like you’re afraid of it, too?
Oxycontin
They're using the age old 'roll up' strategy: buy a bunch of past their prime products/companies with an installed base, bean count them to profitability and then milk them dry. This tends to work pretty well with enterprise customers who will pay obscene amounts of money for years/decades to maintain the status quo.

Once products/companies enter these roll up black holes, they are rarely heard from again by anyone other than legacy customers.
Sure conveyances existed prior to 1945. What did not exist prior to 1945 was cities and towns designed such that the only effective means to get around was a car. Yes, I grant that the car is a useful invention for the rural farmer. It is not a useful invention for someone living in a town or city because it does not scale to a population the size of a town or city; the only reason a car may appear useful is that post war towns and cities are so badly designed that a car is the least worst option. The beauty of a well designed town or city is that everything you need for daily life is within a five minute walk of your home, a walk in which you often bump into friends and neighbors; work is a couple mass transit stops away at most, and a traffic filled commute is not eating hours of each day. A car cannot improve upon this mode of life; it can improve the life of a farmer, but it only detracts from the life of a town or city dweller. Unfortunately, people can’t imagine an alternative to the “convenience” and “freedom” of being stuck in traffic, fighting for parking, and paying for gas.
Their website seems to advertise the fact that they are in some the "top 9/10 investment companies, 10/10 telecommunications, 10/10 pharmaceuticals, 10/10 aerospace and defense companies." Not sure how they define topness, but maybe they've made a business out of buying up companies with lots of contracts in risk-averse fields and doing maintenance/collecting renewal fees?
I'm also this way: but I can easily see how it's easy to not be.

It feels like every app asks to display notifications; and sometimes I think of how the functionality of the app could be negatively affected. (Uber, for instance, could notify me when my cab is nearby)- but once the power is given they can spam you with self-promotion.
But the format of a cable subscription doesn't need to match current form factor. For the past few seasons we've bough Youtube TV during the NHL playoffs, and canceled after. I'd just as happily pay NHL directly (probably a lower cost for me, and higher margin for them) but their current offering has blackouts for exactly the games I want to see. Another example, we buy Disney+, but not their ESPN package. But we would it they had coverage of the teams/leagues we care about.

Really the blackout exclusions that leagues have that allow them get higher cable revenue deals are the problem. But if that dynamic shifts and the deals are exclusive, I would expect the league-direct streaming services to become competitive.
Housing / shelter is considered in the CPI, including wear and tear on the structure.

But the largest component of any "house" is actually the land, which is an asset and thus not in the CPI.
As a counterpoint, you don't have to switch distros and wm's. I'm still using the first distro I ever tried (Fedora). I did switch to KDE when GNOME 3 came out, cause I hated GNOME 3. That's the only time I've changed anything in the distro/desktop/wm combo.