skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the most important part of this whole story. They (as in "the US government") will get you _anywhere_ and destroy your life if they think it's the right thing to do. And you can't expect any other government to stand in their way (except for those you probably don't want to interact with).
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It's bittersweet. It seems likely to me that the US government didn't really want an open trial due to the possibility of scrutiny and that indefinite detention without trial followed by setting the legal precedent that aiding and abetting legal whistleblowers is a criminal conspiracy was their goal.
and the closure is likely a timed gesture to reinforce the point that those values are indeed still there and worth defending
But surely someone out there will make a code highlighter for EWW, and maybe that highlighter calls org-mode on some block and that ends up evaluating stuff etc.
Architect means "master builder", but I think you will get a spectrum of people along that. Some will be people who can still be called master builder, but others will focus more on pure design with some project management and quality control.
> and now losing my channel of 14 years makes me not want to use the platform at all.

That solves your problem then.
Lol, shaky indeed. A business person once said, "can you imagine if machine engineer (like auto makers) behave like software engineering?".

Seems no digital system is truly secure. Moving foundational code to memory safe seems like a good first step.
so what is that "etc"?
It's really cool, but MicroUSB is a terrible connector.

Other than that(And the fact that I only very rarely build anything without WiFi), it looks awesome.

Most applications can just use the larger board, but for the ones that can't, this would sure beat a custom PCB just for a one off.
> as many legal experts have commented.

No doubt non-Swedish legal experts with no clue about Swedish laws or the Swedish justice system, meaning their opinions which are based on how the legal system in their own country works, are completely null and void.
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We had some zip files that if content was unzipped with 7-zip the files were correct but not if unzipped with Windows explorer. I am struggling to remember what were the contents of the zip files I think it was some data that was loaded by our or third party application what would produce a crash if not unzipped correctly. I never got to the root cause because coworker told me to "fix" it by using 7-zip and was not bothered by it since then, only when I passed the knowledge to newer coworkers. It was happening still on Windows 10.
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At least here the pirate party focuses more on green and far left politics than digital freedom these days.
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> There shouldn't be any diffuse responsibility for participating in this farce at any level.

I would argue there should, no exception. Not even WWII. While keeping in mind that the responsibility was so gigantic to begin with, that even diffusing it might end up putting most participants in jail, some of them for a long time.
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At work we have this C++ that needs to be distributed as, in essence, a shared lib, and that needs to work with a lot of variability.

So it has C++ and so needs a C++ stdlib. Dynamically linking is annoying so what if we statically link it? Oh but GNU's C++ stdlib wants glibc and has versioned BS and so even statically linking the C++ bits isn't ideal. And as mentioned statically linking glibc is a big no no.

So:

a) build a musl and install it in a prefix

b) add a few bits (some headers and C runtime objects) and turn it into a sysroot

c) build llvm's libc++ libunwind and a couple others, linking against that sysroot, and install it in the sysroot

d) build our shared lib, statically linking against that sysroot

The result is a shared lib that is self-contained except for the C stdlib, and any reference to the C stdlib has no GNUism nor glibc version. The trick is that musl is essentially a subset of glibc + there is no such thing as a musl-ism per musl's design tenets + the C ABI is stable enough. I don't recall us statically linking to musl - IIRC the trick is just to not have any GNUism at any level, in a way it also working in musl is kind of a happy side effect - but maybe I'm wrong.

As a consequence it works on all glibc versions and musl as well, and is entirely independent of the system's preferred C++ stdlib.

A requirement though is to load the shared library with RTLD_LOCAL (to not accidentally make internal symbols available to the outside) and RTLD_DEEPBIND (to not accidentally pick external symbols instead of internal ones)
Seems there is more to it

https://x.com/12am/status/1805341504086622355
> since Google offer zero support?

For non-partners, they effectively offer zero support. However, their support team on Twitter [1] is very active and helped me out in a pinch when I struck due to a fauly content bot on the (non-google) imgur.com influencing a YouTube content check and leading to community strike on YouTube[2], which support didn't want to do anything about.

[1] https://x.com/TeamYouTube
[2] https://x.com/FrostKiwiOne/status/1704737522449035634
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Hi hackers

This project is somewhat off topic but I think many of you could be interested!

My wife and I built Homestays with Kids for families to meet each other and share their homes and experiences with other like-minded families.

We've been building this for the past 7 months and we're finally ready to show it to everyone after having some initial families and some have even connected already!

We are just a couple of dreamers building this on our own :)
There was disagreement about the decision, but again the leaks were already out there. As you mentioned, Wikileaks published them on the second. Cryptome published them on the first.

Every possible decision after the keys were leaked was shitty. Maybe Wikileaks could have picked a less shitty one, but they were still in a terrible situation because of somebody else's actions.
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Which might be true if they werent all now leaving

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/business/uk-millionaires-...

https://www.ft.com/content/383587ee-5b31-4549-9392-2f0b4612e...
"People can be boring or not regardless of wealth" is orthogonal to the original assertion of "Only boring people get bored": I raised the incredibly common situation where wealth does matter that dispels the original assertion. I don't disagree with your assertion.
What US journalist isn't?

My impression that partisanship in reporting is incredibly strong.
That's just to make them fall asleep
Can you not unlock the hotmail account by providing ID to Microsoft??
The accusers withdrew their testimony, Swedish prosecutors were caught falsifying and destroying documents, and the case was withdrawn due to lack of evidence.

I'd say that you could have found all this out yourself with Google, but you didn't even need to. All this info has already been linked in these comments.
half-life time in the ten-year range should do the trick
Stop repeating those obvious lies, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. No, Julian Assange was not in prison for skipping bail. Nor did he do it to avoid legitimate rape charges. He was in jail for doing journalism. And now he is not going to U.S. territory in the Northern Mariana Islands to plead guilty to a single charge of doing journalism (whatever bullshit wording they chosen).
I made the account years ago so obviously
I don't have the number or even know what
that number is

Can you elaborate? How is that obvious?
Speaking as someone who has struggled with some of those things, those people generally ARE more boring.

Lacking mental energy to engage and not doing things has real consequences. It doesn’t mean they are bad people, but it is just realistic to acknowledge those consequences, like saying quadriplegics are usually bad at marathons.
Isn't it obvious why it's important?

It hints at motivation behind the actions.

Motivation is perhaps not as important as defending the principle, but it's not nothing either.
There's an enormous amount of additional capacity coming online. What makes you think there isn't?
> At least the current Labour leader strikes me as a decent man with some actual principles and backbone

You are speaking of the "human rights lawyer" who at best acquiesced in Starmer being locked up in Belmarsh.

You are speaking of the man who became Labour leader on the strength of six promises, all of which he repudiated as soon as he was leader.

He doesn't have a principled bone in his body.
Containers fix nothing, because inside your container is still a Linux distribution. (Often it's just Ubuntu, because why not.)

> the proper way to address this situation would be to compile static binaries

Nix is the proper way to address this. We'll get there eventually anyways, might as well bite the bullet now.
Did the US army or its participating individuals ever get charged for killing the “collateral murder” Reuters journalists? Or for doing the same to the proximate other civilians? Or for covering it all up?

The question who is guilty by a US court does not determine the guilt of an individual in any relevant or moral way under these extreme circumstances. It just indicates if you are part of the system or if you rather are uncomfortable and need to be silenced.
All fair points.

I find myself wondering something along the lines of: if it's 10-15 years to build a nuclear power plant, that's potentially 3, possibly 4 governments. How will a single power plant project make it through, let alone e 2, 3, 4.

Additionally, at that time will we see breakthroughs in fusion technology that means we are building into old tech? Not that this point can be helped without a crystal ball, bit it certainly wouldn't surprise me. Penance for 60 years of inaction and lack of commitment to nuclear technology?
https://archive.ph/wOBCv
Exactly, depression isn’t known for its fun and exciting side effects.
Sorry to hear about this issue, I hope you can get your account back.

If anyone has any old accounts with services that support MFA, enable MFA. You can get locked out with no way of getting back in.

Here is a similar issue where you could get locked out of Apple accounts if you didn't have MFA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/bl7cis/how_to_fi...
Governments can fund counter-terrorist teams to take out terrorists and bank robbers, and have a whole complicated infrastructure of water to deal with fires, but paying someone to copy files into a briefcase every day is too expensive.
> As you know, there is also Jack Valenti's proposal for term to last forever less one day.

The absolute contempt for the constituion required to even propose this is stunning.
Maybe thats because Apples devices are terrible to repair?
It’s from 1968. I think we can forgive old-time word usage.
I thought the same, and just participating in this study (the "control group" who got $50) selects the former group.
2FA is the source of all evil
The one big (to me) advantage of the Steam Deck is that it's a static system, this way many games have a preset specifically for the deck, usually automatically applied on boot.

No need to spend hours adjusting settings and scouring the internet for That One Setting that will make it run smoothly.

Even CP2077 runs great out of the box on it - and it's nigh-unplayable on PS4 level hardware.
I thought they'd just make new apps because the previous vendor lock-in made it too expensive to modify it.
He was smeared with false antisemitism claims, hence the massive defeat. One of those involved in the smearing was... Starmer.

Corbyn was never going to be "allowed" to be Prime Minister. Also, listen to his recent interview where he says he was asked by a committee if he would guarantee to be 100% behind any military action instigated by Israel.
No doubt that will be his new job now. Watch him become a pro-Russian influencer on X and a regular guest on various MAGA platforms.

It's no secret he was given a ton of leaked material material on the Kremlin but decided not to publish it.
Does anyone seriously use Microsoft OneDrive for backup?

It's 300,000 file limit means pretty much no developer would risk it considering the thousands of files in a typical app.

Believe me when OneDrive lost a heap of my files this year I was not impressed to learn of this serious limitation. To be fair GoogleDrive and DropBox also have similar limitations.

Azure Storage on the other hand doesn't have the limitation, is much cheaper and much faster. It's UI sux though.

I'm still searching for a reasonable cloud backup solution. Until then cheap external drives are the answer.
Life plus 70 years means the things you grew up with will most likely be never released in your lifetime. It's really not that far from an infinite term in the effect it has.
Firstly Labour went mildly social democratic, offering policies to the right of Nordic conservative parties in some areas. Just to contextualise what "full left" means in this respect. (A concrete example is parental leave, where the Norwegian conservative party is fine with far higher statutory pay than Labour would even dare suggest even under Corbyn)

Secondly, I see this, but at the same time Corbyn was the most vilified politician in the UK in a generation and he still got close to a win with that program. Suppose Corbyn could do that at a point where the Tories were not historically unpopular. In that case, it's clear Starmer could have stuck to his pledges to be "pragmatic continuity Corbyn" and walked this election - most of the actual policies in the 2017 manifesto were highly popular when polled, including with conservative voters.
> Setting up a machine or build system for older glibc is not trivial .

God, I hate glibc so much. It’s an absolutely terrible design from the 80s. It can and should be trivial to target any arbitrary version of glibc. The way Linux performs linking is so bad and so much worse than Windows. (Headers + thin import lib. Linking expecting a full and complete so is stupid and bad.)

Zig solved this problem. It can trivially target any version of glibc and cross-compile. It’d be nice if the Linux community demanded this level of functionality from their toolchains. Alas. https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
Plea deals aren't a solution. No matter how reasonable.

This agreement itself is a plea deal, but involves the agreement in principle that Assange has committed a crime by publishing this information. That in itself is an enormous problem for people seeking out government wrongdoing.
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Enforcing MFA or registering with phone numbers wasn't required on email accounts back in the day.
Sounds like you could have just put up a PDF copy yourself.
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I recently embarked on a creative experiment where I used ChatGPT to craft an elaborate steampunk story. Inspired by the rich narrative and intricate details, I decided to transform various parts of the story into demo tables, complete with text and images using https://tabulator.ai/.

The goal was to explore how AI can aid in the creative process and provide indie game developers and storytellers with some ideas quickly.
The ‘hack’ part isn’t drawing round windows; that is just using the operating system APIs to create a new window look.

The hack is injecting that code in the Finder. A way to do that is to store the WDEF inside the desktop file on a floppy disk. Then, inserting that floppy would be enough to give new windows that look.

The Finder would open the resource fork of that file to get info about files on the floppy and keep it open. When you opened a window, the Finder would ask the Resource Manager for “WDEF #0”, and the Resource Manager would find it (or rather, a WDEF pretending to be ‘it’) in the desktop file. Writing a Trojan for that OS wasn’t very difficult.
Well. Lorem Ipsum vs Donald Knuth. I think they both suck. I have a different hero. Linus Torvalds. He IS good AND actually delivers.

I enjoyed the video. However, both the author and Donald Keith strike as two people who are mainly motivated by aesthetics (which is supremely ironic as they almost define themselves as being the opposite of Loren Ipsum). I like people who deliver results.

I think the author mostly likes the appearance of someone who pays attention to detail. He says that in a movie if it's obvious that the coffee cups are empty, he notices and bothers him. 3 minutes later in his video he has a guy using his laptop at the beach where glare would make it impossible to see anything on the screen.
Meanwhile, every RN app uses CodePush to dynamically update its code
RHEL 7 (Centos 7) still has 5 days before end of support. You can get recent gcc with official developer environment update to deal with new code. Whoosh, 10 years of API compatibility suitable even for corporate environments.

Of course, new code may actually need features from newer libc, and often you won't be able to frankenstein your way out of it with no-op plug functions and copypasting successfully.

There's also a random page on the internet with a barebones cross-distribution compatibility guide:

https://gist.github.com/wagenet/35adca1a032cec2999d47b6c40aa...

In general, “community support” shrinks to “ride on what Red Hat provides”.
maybe ... buy locally?
What you refer to as a backup in reality is data exfiltration from users' computers. Terrible idea for a million reasons.
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I am father of a three year old girl. I want to support her in her development and learning.

Does anyone have suggestions on books and other resources?

I found this for example:
https://www.theglobalmathcircle.org/

Also if you want to share experiences on what worked for you and what didn’t?
You're being pedantic; we obviously live in a capitalist world, but Starmer is fully inboard with taking orders from corporate overlords (lobbyists) in the same way as the Tories. More balance is needed.
You are being downvoted but you're right. New entrants are joining the market. Problem is, these are usually smaller local players who don't have enough capacity to have any influence on rates.

https://theloadstar.com/ellerman-city-liner-relaunches-china...
Development time.

"Parse API-produced JSON as a contract" is exactly the kind of programming problem pure functional languages were supposed to solve.

And we're building horrific and error-prone rube-goldberg machines to bolt onto our functional programming languages instead.
It's parasitic because if you want to participate in the market, you need to use their platform.

Their value is ideally keeping scammers out, but they don't do a great job of that and part of the reason they don't is because they also profit when the scammers do. For example, gambling for kids (loot boxes) is OK. The other part of the value is having a central place to list and promote apps, but also there they're double dipping as you need to pay them to get eyes to your app.

Their value absolutely does not equal 30% of your revenue.
> There is machine empathy you simply cannot build any other way.

nice term, though imho 'experience' is more apt.
The mainstream press are all over this now, seemingly sharing the jubilation.

Where were they in the dark days of the semi-secret travesty of a trial in London?

Thankfully people like Craig Murray stepped up to the crucial fourth estate role they abdicated, to witness it for us.
The main error here was embracing DRM in the first place.
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And will likely remain with that major version for the next 20 years since Perl 6 became Raku.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)
Sure! But those were not ordinary people but special disciples, who had accumulated alot of blessings over a long time, thus were able to meet the Buddha and become enlightened with a couple of sentences from the Buddha. Still, the Buddha himself certified their enlightenment, they didn't go around claiming it themselves. Huge difference.
> I could make a spreadsheet in under an hour, but if it'll make me feel like I'm hacking together something buggy in an inadequate tool, I'd rather spend more time making a web app or a Python script.

Congrats you missed the point entirely and provided me with a perfect example case:

Have you ever spent a considerable amount of time learning Excel, the very same way you did for python?

It’s very likely that excel is perfectly adequate and not buggy at all, you’re just and ignorant (in Excel) and can’t go further than “hacking a spreadsheet together”.

So, have you spent time properly learning other tools or are you one of those everything-expect-what-i-like-sucks ?
Any decent American patriot, anyone with any love for America and its people and its reputation, would want it to not be committing heinous war crimes.

The people who committed treason are the ones who dragged us into multiple illegal wars based on fabricated evidence.

Those war criminal fucks cost us trillions and trillions of dollars, and are responsible for milllions of deaths. Assange tried to prevent that, and has paid a terrible price for doing so.
I had found a few I like on RR. The authors will sometimes do a shoutout for ones they liked, or promote. That gets me a fairly good variety.
People on the whole want the policies, though.

That even Corbyn - the most vilified British politician of a generation - got that close to a win is a strong demonstration of that. Since then the Tory party support has collapsed to historic lows. A win on a program close in ambition to the 2017 manifesto - which was not in any way radical - should be a walk in the park for someone like Starmer in current conditions if he actually had dared try.
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Sherlock Holmes used to take cocaine to help him solve the crime, they replaced it with a pipe ~100 years ago.

Soon we have to change the pipe into a cup of herbal tea.
My point is, if he would have been concerned, he could have used better security in the first place.

"In February 2011 David Leigh of The Guardian published the encryption passphrase in a book;[6] he had received it from Assange so he could access a copy of the Cablegate file, and believed the passphrase was a temporary one, unique to that file"

Assuming David Leigh was not lying, Assange should have been more clear with the security implications. (then again, I see no reason to publish the temporary key in the first place).
Still at that time it was not not known, except for maybe some intelligence organisations. So if really concerned, one could have done many different things to protect informants, delay the time, instead of publishing it officially for the whole world to see.
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