skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assange was blatantly targeted by a US intelligence conspiracy against him and it's blindingly obvious that Sweden wouldn't have had an arrest warrant against him without their meddling. The US also brazenly suspended the writ of habeas corpus in the GWOT and was absolutely indefinitely detaining people. The secret CIA black sites that were part of the same GWOT were also very well covered. Beyond what others have said, it's already public knowledge that the possibility of assassinating Assange was discussed by US officials.

I'm not saying this would have been Assange's fate, I would expect things to play out more like the Manning case. Still if somebody makes themselves an extremely prominent enemy of US intelligence, regardless of if you're an islamic terrorist or a whistleblowing journalist, it's very reasonable to theorise that there might be a conspiracy against them.

Usually the problem with conspiracy theories and why they're so mad is they presume thousands of actors act in concert with no clear motive to do so and all can keep a secret. This is a conspiracy which didn't really need to be kept all that secret, with a pretty blatant unifying motive - taking down Assange meant stemming leaks both directly and by making an example of him.
I'm curious if there are any Australia <-> USA deals here too, in terms of restrictions he may have upon arriving to AU
Other real estate firms. Example: back in the day Veritas bought a bunch of distressed properties including many rent-controlled homes; they recently defaulted on $1 b of loans on them; the buildings are sold to Prado Group.
But it has the "all articles are available offline and without an internet connection" exact quote in the landing page, and nothing else seems to do.
Competitive Programming in Haskell: sieving with mutable arrays
I didn't read it in detail but I did find this version of the same anecdote followed by a commentary on the original ROM code: http://wg20.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/...

the underlying algorithm to draw an octant of an arc may have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm

You "just" need to draw 2 octants of an oval at each corner of the rectangle, plus the remainder of the 4 sides of the rectangle, and correctly account for fill/edge flags while doing so. This likely leveraged the existing "region" code in the Apple QuickDraw, but to be sure you'd have to get down into the code or find a more complete commentary.
oh ye of such little faith... was GP referring to you and what have ye?
> things have gotten worse and worse over the last 20 years

My kids and I are trained and experienced in open water and lake swimming. Still, every time we go out, we use one of these:

https://www.google.com/search?q=swim+buoy

I've had the experience of being in a large lake with very high winds. It felt like being in an angry ocean. Having a swim buoy provided for a few opportunities to stop, chill, catch my breath and plan my route.

You have to respect, not fear, water. Fear means you are not rational and likely have no ability to control outcomes or make sensible decisions. What you need if your SCUBA gear malfunctions 75 feet down is to be rational. Anything else can kill you.

When I taught my kids (and a few other people) how to swim, the first skill they had to learn was to be able to float/bob in the middle of the deep end of the pool for one hour. Can't touch the bottom. The only way you are going to do that is to first learn to relax and, to some extent, be one with the water. Once someone realizes they can just stop and bob in place without moving much, their relationship with water changes dramatically.

From there to swimming just means slowly adding speed and direction. Style doesn't matter. Once they can stay in the middle of the pool until they are bored silly, learning how to move through water efficiently is the next logical step. The entire experience, if taught well, is very organic. More importantly, it teaches people that they can survive in water and that they have the ability to pause and use their brains.

> Fewer and fewer places to swim, more and more places just made everything a wading pool or a splash park to reduce liability

True enough. We live near a lake. I am good friends with the lifeguards from years of my kids being in the Junior Lifeguard program. They also know me from kayaking in the lake during Santa Ana winds (full dry suit and PFD).

A few years ago I was walking around the lake during a nice afternoon. I was walking in water up to my ankles. It felt good.

One of the lifeguards I knew well, came up to me on his boat to let me know that was illegal. He could technically fine me and even have me arrested if I refused to abide by the rules. Like I said, he knew me, so it was more of a conversation than a threat to action. He didn't like the rule any more than I did. However, they (the lifeguards) always told me that people do stupid shit at the lake and several have drowned over the years. And nobody wants to see that happen. So, nobody can even touch the water except where the beach is open and you have half a dozen lifeguards on duty.

Brilliant.
Did anybody read the headline and think "SpaghettiOS? Never heard of it, who can keep track of all these Linux distros?!"
I quite like the idea that you can write code as sentences, and they casing dictates what runs and what is ignored.

Id probably take it further and use a marker to better distinguish code from ignored comments eg

_my_variable is #equal to 3

Something to tell variables apart from functions. Let user use whatever casing they desire
> because ab-initio means something entirely different

I agree, and that’s probably why they switched to de novo prediction/design at some point.
It must just refer to the Cloud in a derogatory way, not the particular platform. It sounds so similar.
Hikware Games – (Indie Japanese Games from 2003)
"Open wide, here comes the bite-sized Jira! If you have any questions, don't think! Just ask your PO or UX designer"
it depends on where you hike? "southeast medicinal plants" by coreypine shane would give you a lot of applicable information for the entire AT. i read "bear attacks" by stephen herrero last year before a backcountry trip in glacier national park and the information made me feel a lot more comfortable.
To be honest, I give very little if any credence to anything she's said, especially if it's unsupported by evidence. Notice I'm not relying on anything she's said. Even if she is mentally ill, it's not reasonable to always assume the opposite of everything she asserts; that's called being a reactionary.

Fact of the matter is, EPA reported that Apple was under accounting their waste streams leaving open the possibility that filters were not changed as often as they should have been.
High-pressure youth sports is bad for America
Rheinmetall and Anduril join forces to develop C-sUAS system
A part of this issue is that said company intentionally cripples their web browser (and all browsers in their platform because they run on the same engine) to prevent progressive web apps from competing with their App Store.

This may not be the biggest issue but really grinds my gears because it holds back a whole ecosystem of possibilities.
Part of that statement is public knowledge. Wikileaks was a trusted entity who you could release documents to that would publish and keep you private. That reputation and threat has disappeared making wikileaks a tainted brand. Assange is also tainted and has lost power. The deal he signed also restricts him.

I'm not even sure it's a conspiracy anymore as each legal procedure by nation states played out in public.

The conspiracy in principle is always a layer deeper than public view.
This is light on details, but according to the article, this only happens during the initial Windows 11 set-up, and not for existing users: "Quietly and without any announcement, the company changed Windows 11's initial setup so that it could turn on the automatic folder backup without asking for it."
A question I ask of a lot of thinking is "What is your end game? Do you have even one?". Not saying you need one but it is a helpful question to get some context.

Regarding Win 11, this looks like thinking towards the next quarters engagement metrics. Who knows what change will occur for the next quarter?
This is something I'm aware of and need to fix when I have the time. Just need to figure out how to best write this migration. I know exactly what I need to do, just gotta write code to do it.
Do you not remember a time before border-radius? Or -webkit-border-radius? I remember including a premade rounded rectangle button in Flash just to get that visual effect.
It makes more sense that they agreed to the deal because Assange has spent 5 years in prison, which approaches or exceeds the likely sentence he would have received (even after applying the "TOP SECRET" sentence modifier) for a conspiracy liability charge. At some point there's no longer any purpose in pursuing the case.

Later

Moreso: assume Assange spends another year or two in UK prison, and then is extradited; the trial is complicated (for the same reason the Florida documents trial is complicated: because it involves evidence that has to be cleared for and during trial) and could easily run over a year, longer if Assange wanted to --- you're now running up to the maximum possible guideline sentence even if the prosecution could establish that he led the conspiracy, rather than just participating.
I consider myself fairly technically apt and I can google solutions with the best of them, but I gave up after windows 10, they are just data mining everything, being privacy hostile at every turn. I liked windows 10 as far as looks and usability, but eventually I just gave up and went to Mac and I’ve been a linux user as well (at home desktop)for 15+ years so it felt like home anyway. I requested a Mac laptop for work as well, and while I miss out on some resources at work (mostly limited IT support) because of it, it doesn’t hinder my work or get in the way.
If I’m not mistaken, society used to be structured quite differently. Kids were not grouped so much by age in school, and with so much intermixing of ages in society, young kids were forced to grow up quite quickly.

For example, Alexander Hamilton began working full-time at the age of 11.

Nowadays, we try very hard to shield children from the realities of the world, sanitize their fairy tales, etc. but that’s a relatively recent practice.
As someone who has built lots of things professionally (houses, cabinets, lots of handyman stuff) and as a hobby (boats, 3D printers, working on a little saw mill), I second his opinion about the more blue collar trades. It would be nice to see a little more real world creation (fixing, building, etc.)
One of the major drivers (if not the driver) for the creation of Rust the fact that C is not a memory-safe language.

This has been known for decades, but it wasn't until 2010 that a serious attempt at writing a new system-language that was memory safe was attempted and got traction - Rust.

https://kruschecompany.com/rust-language-concise-overview/#:....
rounded corners are actually a significant accessibility factor and powerful gestalt mechanism in design. The border radius of a rounded rect makes it discernable at a glance the boundaries of the element and what is inside and what is out. Concentric rounding can clearly communicate parent child relationships in an astutely gestalt fashion.
Golang's error handling is safer than C's, but it's more cumbersome than it needs to be. In high-level code, nearly every func you write can return an error, and 99% of the time you're just going to pass the error up. Webserver will catch all and send 4xx or 5xx, for example. Exceptions are a lot more convenient and encourage solid error handling.

Rust chose a good in-between (the "?" unwrapping syntax). In mid or low level code, anything can still fail, but I suspect the performance impact of supporting exceptions or similar for basic operations (integer overflow, div by 0, etc) wouldn't be worthwhile vs just crashing the program or doing something else. Interestingly, Rust doesn't crash in this case: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html
Law enforcement is spying on Americans' mail, records show
http://archive.today/1XvEx
It's fascinating how specific words in different languages can be, yet how they have a range of meaning that still relates them closely.

"solstafir" means almost the same, but more precisely translates as "crepuscular rays" -- the beams of sunlight sometimes emerging right at twilight, when the sun passes clouds just on the edge of the horizon.

how i learned about that: Solstafir was one actually of the first bands i discovered through early-ish open internet. I stumbled upon them on former rokk.is back when i was in school, where they used to distribute their music for free.
Did NFTs and Bitcoin indirectly cause a bullish rally such as the one we are seeing on Nvidia? Genuine question here. Because that's what scares me the most, what will happen with Nvidia.
First issue is that if you do comparisons you have to do them apples-to-apples, you can't assume that method A has that information available for free but method B does not or that method A assumes a given source model but method B assumes a different source model.

Second, I really don't understand how you intend to use a table of symbol counts: If you do it over the entire file the table might be a reasonable size but the number of permutations becomes infeasible. Conversely if you do it in small windows (like 8 or so in your examples) you have to store a separate symbol count table for each window which would explode the symbol count table. I really doubt you are gaining anything from doing this. You are going to create an enormous per-file symbol frequency table and then not count it against the compressed size, that isn't compression it's just misdirection.
This does not seem to align with what the report states. The report lists 19 potential violations.
In the original text it is "der Mensch" which translates to "man". It could also be translated to humans but it wouldnt be too accurate of a translation. It also doesnt help that the original is a text from 1967:
https://www.hollein.com/ger/Schriften/Texte/Alles-ist-Archit...
> For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 people has reported resounding success: Not a single automobile occupant, bicyclist or pedestrian has died in a traffic crash since January 2017, elevating Hoboken as a national model for roadway safety.

https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-dayli...
They think their harrasment of him is going to deter future whistleblowers but the only thing they've done is encourage future leakers to "go all the way, leak everything no matter how damaging, and then kill yourself to be a martyr. They should have just pardoned him and let him go.
Just moments ago I read that regulators are raising flags about banks' plans for unwinding their derivatives portfolios. Then I come here to read this. Likely happenstance. Maybe no connection. But a little jarring. Then again, they say there are no coincidences!

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-bank-regulators-...
I was searching for a game made by this developer. It had a very unique single button mechanic where you catch incoming rays, swirl them around, and throw them back at enemies. Dug up my old drive and found it's name "Ray Hound". Then found that the website is still alive and the developer is not making games anymore.

This dev made another popular game Warning Forever, which I haven't played but its the one that comes up when you search for games by Hikoza.
Sure, if you approach an intersection with a yellow light, you should stop.

However, the situation is you approach an intersection with a green light, and then it turns yellow.

You should stop, if you have enough room to stop and it is safe to do so. If the vehicle behind you is unlikely to stop, it is not safe to stop. You can't tell if the vehicle behind you is likely to stop by looking ahead of you.

At the same time, I'm assuming it's safe to proceed through the intersection given the light was recently green. If it's not safe to proceed, you should not proceed regardless of the light.

Driving with other road users is all about considering the likely actions of other road users, observing and reacting. Sometimes that means you need to look in multiple directions.
I feel like this happens every time we see one of her blog posts - she tries very hard to not provide any kind of specific information about anything she is writing about. Maybe it is to stop fanboys from harassing her when she trashes their favorite product or company, but it is the same technique used by people who are just making up stories.
Anything I need from ms office I can do with their online apps. They’re good enough for the company I work at and like 99%of other possible places I might work. For my personal stuff markdown and libreoffice are fine
> grinds my gears because it holds back a whole ecosystem of possibilities.

One of the possibilities being total Chrome dominance everywhere. "This website only works with Chrome" situation.
This brings new meaning to "Move fast and break things".
still no word of what happened to his beloved pet guinea pigs during his time at the Ecuadorian embassy.
"Generally" is one of those somewhat troubling terms on a case that has severe First Amendment implications, but that's good to know.

>Further: Assange wasn't simply charged with "receiving and publishing classified information"; he was charged with being instrumental in that information being exfiltrated in the first place.

Those charges were (presumably) dropped as part of the plea, and his plea did not mention them. The plea is only about receiving and publishing.
Something many have to consider. When doing something positive, think about how it can be abused to the negative.

It doesn't mean, do not do the good thing - it means consider how to prevent the bad thing at the same time.
Assange freed, didn't have that on my bingo card.
>I think in an ideal world they come with some kind of a diff.

I've got a couple annotated editions of famous books that do just that by way of marginalia and extended footnotes. It's a great way to learn about a story's evolution or context.
I moved over from SWE to Project Management. Yes, I make far, far less money than similarly-leveled SWEs, but I feel like I have more flexibility and I'm not on the treadmill than I was as a perpetual JIRA ticket puncher. It's not for everyone, but if you want a change of pace and would rather not leave tech entirely, there are options.
ARM64 Boot Camp: The Windows on ARM Tutorials
That's not actually Europe. That's Apple's "Europe" sector which includes 4 billion people across Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East.
> I don't want to name names

Why??
> Reading through bluescrn's comments, it seems like anything short of "I can easily replace the battery myself" is unacceptable.

Which is pretty reasonable. Giving up little bits of a control at a time is how we end up with no control at all.
Google sheets just is no way superior to excel. I’m not even sure how one can say it’s superior. Keynote is fine though. My presentations are just pictures and texts. I refuse to do transitions and all that other garbage.
4:3 screens preceded Apple iPad by many years, e.g. IBM Thinkpads.
I'm apparently a bit out of date. The last time I did any iOS dev was before iOS 9 when free provisioning (running the compiler) became a thing. Guess that's something at least.
The EPA said that Apple may have been under accounting the types of waste because they were treating it without the permits the EPA requires, it said in the document they had things labeled as "California Waste Only" that should be under EPA jurisdiction.

I didn't see anywhere that they weren't changing the filters enough, only Ashley said she figured that out from public records requests. I don't trust her to understand anything she reads.

She has confused everyone at work into thinking we're breathing/drinking toxins more than once.
How is C not memory safe? If I access memory I didn't allocate the OS shuts the program down. Is that not memory safety?

(Unless you're running it on bare metal ...)
I don't disagree that it's important, but I don't think it's underrated. I think it's very highly rated.
Hello --- I made this! Thank you for the kind words.

I have, BTW, just received a $6.50 watch with touchscreen, microphone and speaker, much better build quality, BT 3, 4.2 and 5, plus the traditional fake heart rate sensor and a bigger battery with an actual label on it. It's powered by a YC1133 which contains an ARM Cortex M0 with 56kB RAM and 4MB flash. This would be an awesome device for hacking if there was any information about it whatsoever.

Weirdly, it runs a more complex version of what's clearly the same software stack as the LT716!
It's unclear to me from the tweets if anyone confirmed the driver removed his foot from the accelerator. I'd absolutely love to dump on Tesla, but people often do stupid things in panic situations.
To the Bored All Things Are Boring
By narrow definitions of escape. He was essentially under house arrest, unable to leave the Ecuador embassy for years.
As a former would-be user of the cloud-to-butt extension, “clown” is a term I can truly get behind.
It's theft. Criminal charges now.
Any upstreaming was unlikely to ever be acceptable to the PUC-Rio folks.

PUC-Rio Lua uses C (with a tiny bit of C++ for stack unwinding on errors if folks don't want to use `longjmp()`,) Luau is strictly C++. Luau rewrites quite a lot of the core structures, and they aren't compatible. Further, Luau is a fork of PUC-Rio Lua _5.1_ (the current is 5.4 I think?) and intentionally picks and chooses features from later Lua versions. Even things like improvements to the core VM interpreter loop wouldn't be upstreamable, because Lua 5.2+ has a fundamentally different model to allow for yielding in metamethods. PUC-Rio would not accept changes other than fixes for critical bugs in Lua 5.1.

I like both PUC-Rio Lua and Luau, but a hard fork with no upstreaming was the only option here. The architectural differences of the VMs are so large now that it would amount to PUC-Rio adopting Luau. Supposing there is some tiny bit that PUC-Rio is interested in, they can cherry-pick it out of Luau, since they use the same license.
That probably is the better way to see it at this point. There's already enough bad actors out there that it's not really worth keeping track.

I'd be willing to bet that they have comprehensively sloppy and terrible infosec practices and that we'll never hear any details about it - most of their customers wouldn't understand, and it would only expose how bad they are at all of this if they did.
I really love programming my banglejs. Chrome plus webusb plus JavaScript is really fun. But the GPS is really hard to use. I wrote a toy application that posted data to a webapp for tracking my runs. But the GPS is so unreliable it isn't worth it. I know GPS synchronization isn't an easy problem. But I would love to find another smart watch with GPS that is a much fun to hack as banglejs.
They won’t all end up underwater, and they’re not necessarily being sold at full price. Banks have additional duties to maintain their portfolio for additional regulatory reasons that don’t apply to other institutions. We saw this play out for First Republic last year.

Other investors clearly think that the loans have some value. Some loans may not go into default, but banks down want depreciated assets on their books, other lenders may prefer to restructure the loans at higher interest etc.

A lot of commercial loans require certain rental rates, which is why you’ll sometimes see large vacancy instead of price reductions. This could be one tool that allows that to change. Maybe with a price cut the tenants will be viable, but the bank would rather offload that risk to someone willing to restructure the loan.