skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is receiving his full consular assistance entitlements. They are scant. What I think about him isn't the point here, what needs to be understood is that he is entitled to help from the embassy, and though said through gritted teeth, no Australian Minister for foreign affairs has ever said they are denying him support, and have said in very luke-warm voice they confirm he is being offered them.

They don't amount to much. They confirm he has access to a lawyer. They confirm his state of health. They can't get him out of Belmarsh, or prevent the extradition.
Ellsberg says otherwise. There are countless links, but here's one: https://progressive.org/dispatches/daniel-ellsberg-on-arrest....
Perhaps that's a sign that remote work is not as valuable as local work.
> What's your proposal?

I don't have one. As you say, they'll do whatever it takes to prevent that. Maybe they'll eventually give up, once climate change has destroyed civilization, but then it'll be moot.

Bottom line, it's hopeless.

Upon reflection, maybe strong AI will emerge before human civilization collapses. Then it'll carry on after humans more or less become extinct. As Spielberg "predicts" in "A.I. Artificial Intelligence".
Still no real MERGE, sadly?

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/21/1446/
From an evolutionary perspective, it simply does not make sense for standards of beauty to be bound so tightly to culture. Humans must have some degree of innate selection characteristics, defined at a minimum by heterosexuality which selects for non cultural sexually dimorphic characteristics.

But, as another reply already mentioned, your source is likely nonsense. Further, even if it were true, consider that her "beauty" may very well have been tied to her status as a princess; in other words, suitors were disheartened by rejection less because she was attractive and more because she was royalty.

Moreover, I don't know how applicable a single, isolated locale's standards of beauty are to trends in other cultural segments.
I've wanted Anker stones for years, ever since I read about them, for precisely just that purpose. At the moment I'm (sort of) scratching that itch building Gothic-esque buildings in Minecraft. But someday...

Pity Anker stones are still so rare and expensive.
American Airlines union: blaming pilots for Boeing 737 Max crashes 'inexcusable'
Nuclear power can support our industrial civilization just fine.
Rethinking rewards and recognition programs [pdf]
> You could simply have judges write decisions in a decision language as well, which is defined just as the law language is defined.

But how could you write the laws in the first place? You can't write them in a language designed to be unambiguous, because they are meant to be imprecise.
Assange was snatched from a foreign country.
I hope your comment stays at the top to at least inspire people to try to exceed your expectations.
Has this sort of thing ever happened to you?
1. pomodoro method (plan out the day in half-hour time blocks, there's a bunch of other stuff I don't do)

2. build sunshade for laptop, go work in the park, turn off all laptop radios to save battery

This won't work if you need the internet to get stuff done of course. Works for me though.

When I am really fighting to Be Productive, I will take out a physical timer that I have modified to be my Pomodoro Timer by painting over everything past twenty five minutes. When I am not I will just loosely track my time with Time Sink.
This, and apparently he released a bunch of documents proving financial corruption among him and his friends/family.
The FISA application declassification will make it all clear.
Unfortunately I think your point boils down to "if we had better representatives, we'd have a better government". I agree, but at least since Plato, there's been no consensus on questions like "what is a good government", "what makes a good representative", and "how do we identify good representatives".

Once the philosophers give us a decent spec, it should be trivial to implement. ^__^;
Thought that was the Amiga.
Of course Sweden is going to turn him over. Why do you think the "rape" case magically appeared in sweden?

Just like how "rape" case magically appeared for kavanaugh. Just like how "rape" case magically appeared for bill clinton. Of course the Trump.

Whenever the "elites" want to attack someone, they love to use "sexual assault" as weapon to try and take down their targets.

Sweden is a tiny vassal state of the US. They'll do as they are told.
I am not describing a utopia. I just do not think, barring some world-wide catastrophe, there is any way you can turn the clock back on globalism at this point. I know people want to go back. People always want to live in the past. Many Trump voters were voting for someone to take them back to the past. Same with Brexit. But go far back enough in the past and you will see everything was once different.

The world is changing and that change is pointing in one direction however much people want to fight it.
I loved this post (basically a balanced criticism of psychiatry by a psychiatrist), and I think it makes a great HN submission.
IIRC most of South America was furious as they were all active targets of the exposed spying.
> There are lots of people in the US that believe strongly in the rule of law.

You mean like the First and the Fourth amendments?
The chimp using Instagram is amazing. Wow.
Having a bunch of white tech dudes show up with a startup to "solve" something like mass incarceration is just absurd, and reveals both the massive naivete of this project and the extent to which startup funding has become a meaningless ponzi scheme with no expectation of profitability.

It's also just insulting to activists and others who have been in the trenches fighting these problems for decades.
Without reading the article at all, this kind of thing sounds like an interesting mathematical problem.

You have some time series above various nodes on a graph (each node is an account), and you cannot observe the time series directly, only some functions of the total state space, such as yearly income statements, ( i.e. some information is hidden or obfuscated). The question is how much of the underlying graph and time series you can reconstruct from your observations. I know some people have methods for reconstructing time dependent dynamical systems from observations using E.g. manifold learning, but I'm not sure if this problem exactly fits the bill.
I practice yoga (mostly pranayama, and ying) I find this helps me not be invested in my surroundings(distractions). After that it becomes a simple matter of prioritization and bookkeeping..
I'm not sure that matters.

Assuming Ellsberg is the gold standard, his behavior would be sufficient, but not necessary, to be in the clear. Put another way, just because you don't live up to his standard, it doesn't necessarily mean you've done something wrong.

I agree that Assange is no saint. Assuming the allegations of rape are credible, he should stand trial and be punished if convicted. His motivations across a wide variety of leaks are certainly open for questioning.

But did he break any laws with regard to this specific leak? If he did actually assist Manning in cracking passwords (or whatever is alleged), then he should be held accountable for that. If not, he should go free (for that particular charge). It's that simple.

Of course, I don't trust the US gov't to give him a fair trial. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd manufacture evidence in a case like this; my belief is that they'll take any measures necessary when it comes to deterring people from leaking classified information, especially classified information they find embarrassing or damaging.
It should be nationalized.

Specifically product discovery should be switched to a non-profit quango. The people currently engaged in the advertising industry should be paid to promote positive shit whilst their business wind down over a decade.
Employee-Driven Learning
In addition, The Guardian's editor (David Leigh) actually published several articles (that WikiLeaks wasn't going to publish) BY ACCIDENT. He then blamed the release of documents on Julian Assange[1].

In addition he published the password for a GPG-encrypted archive of documents that were shared via BitTorrent in a book and claimed that WikiLeaks was given plenty of notice to fix the issue -- not understanding that you cannot change the password of an existing file that was already distributed and probably in the hands of the NSA.

[1]: https://youtu.be/vwjazrixP1Q?t=4818
One incident does not constitute a habit, especially when you consider all of the backlash cited on the same link. Prior to the Bush administration, the US had a much better reputation for fair treatment and trial and given everything which has happened since you really need to establish that the Swedish government would do the same thing.
I don't think so:

"Yet, 10 months after the probe started and a month after Robert Mueller was named special counsel in the Russia probe, Comey cast doubt on the the Steele dossier, calling it “unverified” and “salacious” in sworn testimony before Congress.

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page further corroborated Comey’s concerns in recent testimony before House lawmakers, revealing that the FBI had not corroborated the collusion charges by May 2017, despite nine months of exhaustive counterintelligence investigation." [1]

1. https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/419901-fbi-email-chain-may...
Your summary of the music situation feels very accurate given that in general Spotify and other services are apparently terrible for artists. Which was less of a concern for me when I was on the mainstream pop train, and has become a huge concern now that I've been exploring into less popular genres (and leaves an interesting dilemma: if it doesn't make it viable for artists somehow, what's the point?)
"wealth tax" is already a biased framing of specific design.
There still isn't a movie streaming service with as much selection as an old video store. Meanwhile Spotify has just about everything.
Seems pretty reasonable. One of the reasons I became more drawn to table-top role-playing games and strategy games as an adult is because they just did a better job of satisfying my social playing needs than MMOs (not that I have much time for either these days, but oh well).

Additionally, I think one of the strongest benefits of traditional role-playing is the opportunity to employ lateral thinking to overcome challenges. You can of course min-max your character to make them hyper-effective within the rules of the game and allow you to defeat a more dangerous opponent in a straight up fight. Or you can just play a normal character and persuade the dangerous opponent to join forces with you (and push them out the window of a high tower if they aren't convinced).
Hey! So I released an update today which adds settings to change the font size for story title, text and metadata. It also removes the haptic feedback for back, setting and search buttons. Plus a setting to disable it entirely.

There will also be another update tomorrow available which will also add ability to edit the padding around elements to make it as compact as you like which lets you see more content on screen. Check out the screenshots of what it would look like after tomorrow’s update (note that all sizes will be fully customizable to your liking):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wd2n18vh77y94of/AAC5bwOI1xWL1rtuL...

I will also add auto hide on scroll for the top UI elements. I was going to add it today but the font stuff took priority.

I will also add a way to make a page the home page on launch.

Let me know what you think and any other feedback!
This is a false paralellism. There is no equivalent to 'taste' in terms of medication. Sure, you may urge your doctor to switch from one medication to another because it works better for you or has more acceptable side effects. But that's very clearly a clinical decision.

In any case, shilling with free ice cream or a giant house of cards does not communicate this information.
Many projects that have had contributor sponsorship efforts in the past have had negative experiences with it, due to contributors showing up motivated by farming the payments with minimal investment.

In my experience sponsorship that isn't at a level that can sustain a developer at least at an ongoing significant part time level often ends up being toxic-- pulling in the worst outcomes from funding it (changing motivations to being dollar driven, bringing in low effort farming contributions) without bringing most of the positive outcomes.

I really hope that this is handled carefully.
> Drugs should be prescribed on a clinical basis, full stop. Attempting to advertise your medication on any other basis should be a criminal offense.

You want to jail people who advertise medication on the basis of price?
Currently I don’t have downvoting and flagging because I don’t have enough karma to test it lol. I will add it in as soon as I have enough karma here to test.
Which is often audibly watermarked: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermar...
Setting aside other circumstances, IMO student pricing is usually dealt with pretty well overall. I think I paid $10 apiece for several different cutting-edge niche software packages with four to five figure commercial license costs, and various software from Microsoft was free.

Even Adobe does it sometimes: https://www.cnet.com/news/5-a-year-for-photoshop-and-other-c...
Fuck that. Leave your descendants no more than 10M each and anything over goes into a social dividend. It's the "you got to be incredibly wealthy for decades and leave a fortune to your family and now you can repay the society that gave you all that wealth" tax.

If we make it as easy as we do to become incredibly wealthy, we should make it just as hard to stay wealthy.
You’re an idiot
On the other hand, just because an idea is suggested by a hypocrite, doesn't mean it's a bad/wrong idea.

Presumably a discussion is held to arrive at some sort of solution or truth, and not to advertise the moral virtue of the participants.
> You keep framing this conflict as though it is a purely political/value-based disagreement. It is not. When somebody denies basic facts about the world or the validity of rational methods and/or scientific reasoning, you are not simply disagreeing with me in a political sense, you are advocating for a world that is entirely arbitrary.

Isn't that a position based on its own set of values, though? And your position would clearly be based on a different set of values.

> I don't deny anybody their experiences. If you trust someone who swears upon a bible, I will tell you that you are gullible, and point out that this activity neither aids in the service of justice nor pays due consideration to our mutual respect for freedom of religion.

Followed immediately by

> But if you say "homosexuality is a choice", you are marginalizing people's fundamental perceptions.

[Emphasis added]

Look, there's nothing wrong with having values and staking out a firm position based on those values. Claiming that one's own values-based position is distinct and special and is fundamentally different than other values-based positions, however, is merely dogma.
This is where they use Third Party Doctrine which basically means "if you give information to someone else, not involved then obviously it's not private!"

Which essentially means that law enforcement can collect info from your ISP, cell carrier, grocery store, banks, and anyone else without a warrant because it doesn't qualify as a search.

It's a completely broken mindset but there has been zero effort to reform it from any political party.
Just wanting to quickly point out that unlawful != unethical.
People only charge enough for the amount they drive. If the car has 250 miles of range and the commute is 25 miles then charging once a week is reasonable.
I don't think the parent is saying the government should not be allowed to keep secrets. The problem is that it's hard to balance that need with the public's need to keep checks on the government. I would personally like to see more transparency in government, even though I know some things really should remain secret. The pendulum has been swinging too far in the wrong direction for some time now.
> it changes the 70k value to what it actually is in the real world, though.

This surprised me. What is the real-world altitude at which there is zero atmospheric drag? I thought the atmosphere was basically just continuous.
You're fine with political campaign ads targeting you? Only showing their support of wedge issues you agree with, while hiding their support of issues you disagree with? Sorry, but that's just too manipulative.
Looks like psychiatrists have a word for every disorder except the disorder they themselves are afflicted with.

It's either that or these preponderance of woke talks and problematizing anything and everything is a prime example of the Shirky Principle in action.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/
Pretty sure if they were ever going to sell it would likely be to tucows
These protections you list are weak, biased, and have been proven to fail time after time.
Hm. It didn't occur to me until I saw the mailing address posted, but how do fully remote companies handle incoming mail?
Thanks for posting curuinor. Hey HN, I wrote this. Hope you enjoy.
Parent comment specifically states "I'm not saying the post is bad", yet you say "Saying it's a bad post because" in your response. It would be better to read their comment in full to attempt to better understand their angle before responding with a comment like that.
The first amendment doesn't protect conspiring to illegally access a computer system. Further, not all dissemination of classified materials can be classified as a first amendment activity.

In short, there has to be a difference between a spy and a journalist.

Further, it's worth noting that Snowden agreed to sign his life away when he signed the SF-86 form to apply for a US clearance. Glenn Greenwald did not.
Interestingly, Notre Dame's own Wikipedia entry states it was nationalized in 1789, with several laws passed since reaffirming it's status as owned by the state and (what I interpret to mean) loaned back to the Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#Ownership
> Im surprised that people are so eager to protect their overlords when our friends and family finances are getting destroyed by the federal governments policy.

All the better reason to reduce taxes and reduce spending. Then the federal government can't be destroying your friends and family.
Ideally, the courts exist to make judgement calls on this case-by-case basis. That does mean going on trial, though, which has consequences even if you are ultimately exonerated.

It's a tough call. I don't have a good answer.
And the Dead Kennedys wrote a song about it that appeared on Bedtime For Democracy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2M_fQnVqew
I am primarily concerned with how the government establishes jurisdiction in this case. Assange is a foreigner, and every single one of his actions were done in a foreign country. At what point does the United States government gain the authority to apply United States legal code to his actions? There might be an obvious answer to this, but I honestly don't understand it.
> but the majority did put extreme amounts of energy to get to the point where they can make lots of money and that can't be said about everyone.

Did their children also? Then why do they inherit it? I'm all for a 100% estate tax. You shouldn't be able to take it with you. Society doesn't need dynasties. Their children were raised with the benefit of extreme wealth with all of the advantages it brings. They shouldn't also get to keep it.
>I should score a point the first time an HN user psychoanalyzes another user over the Internet on it.

To be sure, I think it should be the first time someone estimates someone's political party based on psych comments, a reversal of the usual trope.
No, it wasn’t actually, even though I do own an android device too as I make android apps, I don’t use it as my primary device. So not familiar with the android store much.
The problem is not the secrets. It's the misuse of that word to protect information that does not deserve that protection.
You have some very strong opinions about what kinds of discussion are suitable. Fortunately, those opinions are not universal.

Turning off comments kind of defeats the purpose of the site, to my mind. It's no fun when moderately voted links that generate no discussion park on the front page for extended periods of time as already happens.
Mosy auto manufacturers never update their car either.

My Honda still wants to drive off the road if the exit ramp doesn't have a dashed line to keep it on the highway, no matter how many times I correct it...
In my experience, it does mean exactly that. Went to the local modular synth store (which I like a ton; they have tons of events like weekly meetups, workshops, etc.), and they often tend to run out of Teenage Engineering PO series devices. Talked to the owner (as it is a small shop, so he more often than not works the register himself), and he confirmed that they cannot stop ordering new batches, since they get sold out so quickly. And that's despite the fact that they sell it not any cheaper than through other channels (official website, amazon, etc.).
> But did he break any laws with regard to this specific leak?

According to the DOJ Indictment yes. He conspired with Manning to obtain access to a classified system. That's different than say Glenn Greenwald merely accepting Snowden's documents.
As a big fan of 70's and 80's pop music, I had always wanted a vintage Sequential Circuits Prophet V synth, but when I saw the maintenance required on even that semi-modern synth, I think I will stick to the VST/AU equivalent!
Yes. Lots.
The update with password fix is now available if you wanna give it a try?
9front (Plan9 fork) man pages in print form
I have my reasons for not wanting to go to work.

Economies change. Everybody has to adapt and do work that people will pay for. In music, increasingly, that means performing live.

There might be other options too. Crowdfunding new albums, maybe. Merchandising. The more we accept the new reality, the more we'll figure out.
A large proportion of work is aimed at housing, but for entirely the wrong reasons. Housing costs in first world countries these days generally expand to consume available income, via land price inflation. Actual build cost - "production" - is a minor piece of the pie.
They will probably also block California in a year or so, since similar law will come into effect then.
I'm planning to do this (small claims court). When I looked into it a year ago I did not have confirmation that Equifax did business in the juristiction, which was a requirent. My previous employer (I'm still on their payroll as a part time employee) recently notified me that they are now participating in Equifax's "The Work Number" so I'm going to request my data in a month or so as confirmation of Equifax operating in this jurisdiction. I plan to claim damages as the service cost of enhanced credit monitoring service in perpetuity, at least up to the limit of $6,500. Any thoughts on this approach? What did you declare as damages and what was the representatives rebuttal?
@buxtehude I agree with you, and while I also didn't agree zratar's comment I don't like the idea of it being hidden here as it's part of the conversation. I did "vouch" for his comment on that premise so maybe you can see it again.
Interesting. If I understand correctly, this is like a "fridge" for your body, where the actual box itself is a heat exchanger?
Next-Gen Under-the-Display Touch ID Could Use an Array of Pin Hole Cameras