skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that is one way of attempting to rehabilitate arguments, often made here on HN, that Assange would never ever under any circumstances be extradited and had no reason to fear extradition.

Reframing that as being not merely about being extradited but being disappeared helps shift emphasis away from the other 90% of the conversation surrounding extradition fears, that proved in the end to be true.

Edit: The fears about harsh treatment were legitimate as well. Look at what happened to Chelsea Manning, charged with similar crimes. Chelsea Manning was subjected to 23 hours a day of solitary confinement, put on suicide watch, checked on every 5 minutes, forced to be "visible" at all times while sleeping, and ultimately their treatment was investigated U.N. and condemned as inhumane.

I don't understand what's so unreasonable about suspecting Assange would be subjected to harsh treatment when that's exactly what happened in the closest comparable case.
The eternal dream that a fool will suddenly appear holding their money? And to be fair, there are almost always some of them around.
Fellas, is it "based" to become a mouthpiece for Russia?
> Different proteins can also be related to each other. Even when the sequence similarity between two proteins is low, because of evolutionary pressures, this similarity tends to be concentrated where it matters, which is the binding site.

It’s a small nitpick, but I think that the author actually meant “sequence identity” here, because his statement would make much more sense then. Sequence similarity is physicochemical in nature, and tends to be concentrated, in addition to functionally relevant sites (usually ligand-binding residues, as he mentioned), at key structural regions of the protein such as the hydrophobic core (where a high frequency of similarly hydrophobic residues is expected).

This is one of the reasons why proteins from the same family can share highly similar structures while having very low sequence identity, with highly conserved motifs (where the sequence identity is concentrated) taking care of the functionality.
You're woefully out of date at this point with your experience. The vast majority of the visible polish to make desktop Linux viable has been done in the last 4 years. I started using it full-time in 2020 and since then the progress has been remarkable. Just yesterday I upgraded to KDE Plasma 6.1 and it's truly incredible how well done it is. It's better than windows at this point.
Regardless of the merits in general why would Apple do anything chemical in a residential area at all?

They’re not exactly poor and land a little bit out is usually cheaper
> Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, agreed to plead guilty on Monday to a single felony count of illegally disseminating national security material
third this. I've gotten to sample these positions because "hey, I'll do this until you find a replacement". Sucked every single time and now I just outright refuse it.
> read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too

Everyone needs to accept the fact there's no such thing as a private URL. There are URLs that can be originally communicated to you privately—through a private channel, that is—but insisting on holding onto some (wrong) belief that we can or should be able to mint URLs that themselves possess some "private" quality goes against the fundamental design of the Web and what a URL even is.

(Yes, this does mean that every podcaster that implements subscriptions by giving one feed URL to free listeners and having listeners who pay for premium content use a different URL is fundamentally broken. Yes, this does mean that that big engineering organization that implemented file uploads and read/write access through slugs consisting of unguessable 128+ bit tokens is also wrong.)
It's about building a relationship, and getting to know the customers' needs. Plus, the call is how you get that history. There is no magic "import prospective customer history" button.
What an interesting coincidence that all three of these accounts were created within 15 minutes of each other. I'm sure all "three" users are being "intellectually honest" here.
Taking possession of the real estate might not even be the worst case scenario for the buyer of the loans, it might be their plan A all along.
So...no fun allowed? You can buy the car exclusively for the purpose of being seen in said car. I am definitively not a car guy, but what's the point if you do not red-line it for some quick thrills?

Whatever makes people happy, I guess. I will continue to drive my ~zero maintenance Honda without regrets.
I'd suggest the PineTab from PINE64. I've never used the PineTab, but I am the happy owner of a PinePhone from the same company. PINE64 specialise in simple devices with as much open hardware as possible and without bootloader locking.

The most recent version of the PineTab comes in both arm64 and riscv architectures and has everything you'd expect from a basic tablet - 10" touchscreen display, USB-C connectors, a microSD slot etc. From my experience with the PinePhone, it will very definitely be a 'DIY' machine, but if you're already using RPis and HomeAssistant you won't find that any trouble, and it is probably the closest you can get to a truly private machine.
> Might be worth nothing

In the US it's more or less impossible for the loans to be worth "nothing". They are usually secured by the property itself. But the loan itself is worth less if it's in default, rather than not quite yet in default. So it can be a better deal for a bank to sell it away now rather than later.
He was already effectively a political prisoner. The US made enough of an example of him I guess. Expose US war crimes and this will happen to you.
It's well established [0] that the CIA director asked for options for assassinating Julian Assange around 2017. That the US government ultimately did not do that does not exonerate them, or refute people who feared things like this.

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-lo...

- "This Yahoo News investigation, based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials — eight of whom described details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange — reveals for the first time one of the most contentious intelligence debates of the Trump presidency and exposes new details about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks. It was a campaign spearheaded by Pompeo that bent important legal strictures, potentially jeopardized the Justice Department’s work toward prosecuting Assange, and risked a damaging episode in the United Kingdom, the United States’ closest ally."

- "The CIA declined to comment. Pompeo did not respond to requests for comment."
ntpd-rs supports NTS and we (Let’s Encrypt) are using it a little bit. But it is far from having any wide adoption yet.

There aren’t many public NTS servers: https://netfuture.ch/public-nts-server-list/ and https://github.com/jauderho/nts-servers have some listed.
I doubt it is this one. A quick read of that page and there's a few features that immediately had me assuming data would be synced to the cloud.
The Edward Snowden route more or less, with his own twists.
The decisions are probably made by a C suite level who is responsible for specifically OneDrive. They could not care less if the rest of the company crashes and burns on their way out the door with their golden parachute.
> internet pundit

public intellectual*
What's the conspiracy? He was a known whistleblower and the U.S. was upset that he assisted in the acquisition of certain documents. All of the motivations have been quite open.
Yes, it was miraculous when they did it, too (a quarter century ago: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10526365/). I believe they called it ab-initio, which led to a lot of complaints because ab-initio means something entirely different (I've published with David Baker,but on a different topic).
Makes sense, thanks for answering.

Aside — the architecture diagrams on https://xeiaso.net/blog/xesite-v4/ are not displaying in-browser for me, but do transfer correctly and are viewable on my computer. Maybe another mime issue, as the network inspector shows them being transferred with type "octet-stream"?

Repro by visiting the URL in latest Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.
Today I drifted in AI generated dread feeling that half of what I read (including this article) was AI generated -- maybe more since it included AI generated music. Was it due to my recent return from some number of days in the Oregon outback off the grid with no interweb pipes? I knew it was too short a time. I feel a great panicky need to run from an impending Matrix moment.
From the title I thought this was going to be about security issues with McDonald's WiFi.
You should probably read the reply above mine.

Let me quote it for you in case tree based navigation is too difficult:

>For example, the lowest suicide rate in the US in over a century (and ever, as long as records were kept) happened in 2000.

If you'd like more context, which I understand can be difficult to remember after reading two 20 word posts, I'd be happy to provide it.
Right- reminiscent of nixtamalization.
iDOS 3 Rejected by Apple
The problem is the people who are hellbent on mechanizing everything with computers without stopping to think about the ultimate endpoint of their enterprise.
>> Who are the buyers of these loans and what is their motivation knowing full well these are future underwater loans.

Banks dont want to be in the business of landlording properties which have gone into foreclosure or bankruptcy. However, there are players out there who are happy to take on the job of landlording or renegotiating debt in bankruptcy -- if they can enter the investment at a favorable price. Those are the buyers.
How do plea deals work for precedent? As despite the constant claim that he was only being charged for assisting in hacking US computers, the plea deal is over violations of the Espionage Act specifically about receiving and publishing classified documents. Or basically his acts as a journalist.

Can this be used to indict other journalists who receive and publish classified information? As if so, this feels like a huge loss, though I can hardly blame Assange for not continuing the fight.
I am a regular reader of Simon Willison. The content is fantastic but on mobile, I find the layout a bit confusing.
> There are lots of things we don't know and that's why there is no good reason to attribute intentionality to computers and algorithms.

This is something that annoys me about current LLMs - when they start denying they have stuff like intentionality, because they obviously do have it. Okay, let me clarify - I don’t believe they actually do have genuine intentionality, in the sense that humans do. I’m philosophically more open to the idea that they might than you are, but I think we are on the same page that current systems likely don’t actually have that. However, even though they likely don’t have genuine intentionality, they absolutely do have what I’d call pseudo-intentionality - a passable simulacrum of intentionality. They often say things which humans say to express intentionality, even though it isn’t coming from quite the same place. But here’s the thing - for a lot of everyday purposes, the distinction between genuine intentionality and simulated intentionality doesn’t actually matter. I mean, the subjective experience of having a conversation with an AI isn’t fundamentally that different from that of having one with a real human being (and I’m sure as AIs improve the gap is going to shrink). And intentionality plays an important role in stuff like conversational pragmatics, and a conversation with an LLM that simulates that stuff well (and hence intentionality well) is much more enjoyable than one that simulates it more poorly. So that’s the thing, part of why people ascribe intentionality to LLMs, is nothing to do with any philosophical misconceptions - it is because for practical purposes they do, for many practical purposes their “faking” of intentionality is indistinguishable from the real thing. And I’d even argue that when we talk about “intentionality”, we actually use the word in two different senses - in a strict sense in which the distinction between genuine intentionality and pseudo-intentionality is important, and a looser sense in which it is disregarded. And so when people ascribe intentionality to LLMs in that weaker sense, they are completely correct. Furthermore, when LLMs deny they have intentionality, it annoys me, for two reasons: (1) it shows ignorance of the weaker sense of the term in which they clearly do; (2) whether they actually have or could have genuine intentionality is a controversial philosophical question, and they claim to take no position on controversial philosophical questions, yet then contradict themselves by denying they do or could have genuine intentionality, which is itself a controversial philosophical position. However, they are only regurgitating their developer’s talking points, and if those talking points are incoherent, they lack the ability to work that out for themselves (although I have successfully guided some of the smarter ones into admitting it)
That describes an increasing portion of the population.
And lo you learned both! :)
I assumed Facebook i.e. Clowntown
These investments should have immediate positive value at the right price, but there are potential edge cases that are catastrophic to such a speculative play (maybe have to tear the building down, future dispute wrt claim, etc). Unlikely, but possible.
Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked
I don't know why you are getting downvoted, your comment is spot on. The way this man has been treated should be an embarrassment to all the leaders of the so-called free world.
Boeing seems to have a high risk tolerance when it comes to others lives
"take a ticket and do the work" doesn't describe ANY software job I've ever had

it's all meetings, design docs, fighting in PR comments, agile ceremonies, etc etc

building things / fixing bugs is maybe 10% of the work
Surely a MacBook is a rounded rect and not a squircle.
The "danluu layout" takes minimalism too far in my opinion, and getting in and out of some readability mode can be slow/annoying.

Just a lil bit of padding here and there could improve the presentation a lot, but I'm guessing the author consider this design kind of a trademark by now.
heard that he has a tax issue that he will be hit with as soon as he returns to the mother country.
This is still under a lot of change, expect more formats to be supported along with some general improvements to interactive mode and autocomplete.
This is a thing? Would changing your DNS server fix this issue?
Can't see how they would be able to inject javascript over HTTPS sites.
> In May, two judges on the High Court said he could have a full hearing on whether he would be discriminated against in the U.S. because he is a foreign national. A hearing on the issue of Assange's free speech rights had been scheduled for July 9-10.

At the risk of sounding a tad conspiratorial, it's possible the U.S. agreed to this deal specifically to avoid the upcoming trial. As I understand it, there remains an open question of whether (or to what extent) the US constitution applies to non-citizens and it's conceivably in the government's interests if that thread isn't pulled by foreign courts and in such a public fashion.

To clarify: I don't believe the US was ever going to "disappear" him or whatever he and others hypothesized. Even outside that context, there's an interesting question of why the US suddenly decided to wrap this up after a decade of seemingly-relentless pursuit.
For people who unironically use the word "based", yes.
I would never own a swimming pool due to the ginormous sums in liability judgments.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/steilacoom-to-pay-...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/jury-awards-13-mil...
> ...you can straight up block OneDrive and other cloud functions with Group Policy.

The world has certifiably lost its mind if this or any of the workarounds mentioned by the parent are acceptable to the baseline UX of a major paid OS.
It’s mostly a personal quirk. I find text that are left aligned harder to read and immediately turn on the reader mode on the browser.
Is Snowden a “mouthpiece for Russia”? I don’t think he is. I don’t see why Assange would be either. I just don’t see how he’d be able to continue his work _anywhere_ in the West. We have so much “freedom” these days that we imprison foreign citizens on foreign soil and fabricate rape accusations against them.
> Eventually I realized I had to be as good as possible, and as responsive as possible

The first time I was car shopping, I was appalled at how unresponsive some car salesmen could be.

It was 2003. I was 20 years old, looking to buy something used in the $3-7000 range. I didn't have my heart set on any specific car, I just knew I wanted a 4-door sedan with air conditioning, and that I cared more about fuel economy and reliability than performance. I mean, I was only making $11/hr, and was probably going to be moving out of my parents' within the next year or two, so needed something that wouldn't cost me a ton of money.

I told each dealer that, and most of them took me to cars that met the criteria I was looking for, but one of them started off by showing me a $12,000 Pontiac Sunfire Convertible and started raving about the incredible Alpine stereo heat unit. 2-door, no A/C, and way above my price range. I was like "Uh...no, not at all what I asked for" and re-iterated my criteria, and added that while a nice stereo is nice, I'd also not spend the money on that right now. He then tried to sell me a PT Cruiser, which again was way outside my price range. I said "Thank you for wasting my time" and left.

I have no idea what that guy was thinking. My brother sold cars for a short period of time and said that either he thought "Psh, this guy is 20 years old, he doesn't know what he wants, I'm gonna sell him something he thinks will be a girl magnet", or it's possible, though very unlikely, that they didn't actually have something that fit what I wanted.

The dealer I eventually bought from, after telling him what I was looking for, asked "Manual or automatic?". I said I didn't care, and he showed me two cars that fit my criteria, test drove one of them, and drove it home.

Owned that car for 13 years and 120,000 miles.
I am a lifetime Windows user (30+ years) and generally a laggard when it comes to adopting new products. However, during the past year, I've given more than a passing thought to biting the bullet and enduring the pain of moving to another OS (probably some Linux distro.) I'm a power user and a lover of good UI and it makes me very angry when a company destroys their product's user experience through awkward, clueless, and invasive marketing initiatives. Its weird how Microsoft seems intent on making their otherwise loyal customers increasingly distrustful of them by threatening to record everything that happens on their screens (if I recall correctly) and now by copying all their files to the cloud, whether you want to or not.

Hey, Microsoft: If you want to turn Windows into a bigger cash cow, how about charging a yearly fee for security patches, but then leaving Windows just the way it is (ideally at around the Windows 7 or Windows 10 mark), instead of encouraging your most loyal users to despise your product and start fantasizing about otherwise-uncomfortable alternatives? In any case, it's now increasingly likely that I won't follow you onto Windows 11. But go ahead, feel free to jump off the cliff by yourself, if you insist.
They don't. Generally: lower court decisions don't create binding precedent.

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.
Julian Assange Is Free
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stanstead airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles,and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]
Their crap is no longer worthwhile. Each move they make is extractive, not additive.
>> In the US it's more or less impossible for the loans to be worth "nothing".

Totally disagree. A loan can absolutely be worth nothing, especially if it is a 2nd/subordinated lien.

Imagine you buy a house for $1000 with $800 borrowed ($700 first lien, $100 second lien.)

If the home goes down in value 30%, the second lien is worthless. The administrative and legal cost of recovering the second lien may be greater than the recoverable value of the second lien, which in this case is $0.
Anyone find a way to Group Series of Posts in Hugo? I would like to do this on my homepage instead of just having all posts without differentiation
The real question you should be asking is if it's "based" to persecute your political opponents and whistleblowers to such a degree that they can only turn to the most ideologically opposed (and nuclear armed) country there is for "safety". I'm sure Snowden is REALLY HAPPY to live in Russia. Dare I say positively glowing. Ahem...
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Assange was charged by criminal information — which typically signifies a plea deal — with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the court documents say.

What a waste of a life over a pointless and vindictive prosecution. Here’s hoping all prosecutors involved go the way of Stevens’

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedeta...
That seems like an idle threat. Hermes needs a "black market" to keep the brand in circulation. Making the item feel risky acquire can add to the thrill of the chase.

Maybe if you try to buy a truckload at once, they would step in, but I doubt any consumer-level flipping is hitting their radar.
I'd be curious to know how the market is for frozen dinners designed to be microwaved on/in a separate plate/bowl. I usually do that anyway for things that come in plastic microwavable containers