skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poland, like all Eastern states, is desperate for US military assistance to stay around to deal with Russia, so they will just reply "how high?" when asked to jump by any American administration. This is particularly true now that their executive carries a certain disdain for the legislative branch and the rule of law.

The hard truth is that Assange won't be free nor safe anywhere in Europe. The tactical and propagandistic value of detaining and punishing him is so high, the US won't have any qualms black-opping him out of any EU country like they did with Abu Omar in Italy; and his freedom is not valued highly enough by any EU country to stop this from happening.

The only places where he could safely stay in the long term, at the moment, are Russia and Venezuela. Even Cuba has enough problems that they won't dare adding another one to the pile just out of spite; and that goes for most South-American states in general. China stands for everything he despises, so that's another hard no. Places like Japan or South Korea, so deeply embedded in the US military stance, are extremely unlikely too.

Assange must hope the current administration is replaced by someone so firebrand-y, s/he'd be willing to make a grand gesture of reconciliation. Snowden comes before him in the list though, and doesn't carry the baggage that Julian does, so chances of that are very low too.

Sadly, this is a round that the Galactic Empire has won. The only satisfaction Julian might get, will come from history books.
What does 'worked well' mean?

If you measure anything, infant mortality, poverty, murder rates, diseases, nutrition, education, which of them fit any sensible definition of 'well'?
I don't trust that you've read your own mind.
There's no argument over that. The argument is that if his stay at the Ecuadorian embassy was akin to prolonged "psychological torture", he could have surrendered himself to British authorities and received the same treatment as any other prisoner. The strongest case you could make is that his life at the embassy was akin to living in prison.
Independent tech in the 2010s is like independent banking in the 2000s. You find a decent partner and 6 months later you roll over and see BigCorp beside you.

I struggle to see how this even is consistent with the spirit of the Fitbit terms-- the purchase of the company transfers ownership of user data, which Fitbit assured customers it would never do. Time for some common sense concerning this consumer-unfriendly trend.
So he was free to leave, but would then face Swedish justice, which is the 4th best in the world [0], just behind Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

[0] http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/#
Research Integrity: The Teachings of Chairman Cao
> Either there's a rule of law or there's not. You can't hide from the police and then claim that the very act of hiding is an act of torture enacted on you by the police.

So by that logic Anne Frank was in the wrong, and wasn't psychologically abused/tortured in any way by the Nazis because she was breaking the law?
What’s Behind a Phobia of Holes?
I think that’s a much more coherent argument, especially if you factor in a fear of disproportionate punishment.

For example, in the case of the bank robber I would actually agree that it would amount to torture if police were clearly communicating to the bank robber that they were intent on killing them as soon as they showed up, no matter what they did.

So there is nuance to this and I don’t think that nuance ever gets you around to actually arguing the case and the facts of the case.
The supreme court has weakened the definition in its interpretation. I find that absurd since I think the definition in the constitution sufficient.
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Gun shops as well, and they have an even stronger legal standing under federal law.
It doesn't [1]. It switched to First to File several years ago.

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-does-the-first-...
> Stuff like this is part of why people don't trust the media anymore.

This kind of nonsense is nothing new. It's been going on for ages.

You know those man-on-the-street news segments with people literally repeating the reporters words for a soundbite? It's the exact same thing.
I think one of the things that stands out to me from this article is how little the actual cost of physical goods account for the in the price of commodity consumer goods.

I think one of the reason why this system works is the different costs of financing inventory different players enjoy, and the relative time constraints they have for holding inventory.
I used to have a fitbit, it broke within the warranty time and sold the replacement rather than actually keep using it. Since then I've been thinking of getting a new one, but the Google acquisition instead prompted me to have my account deleted.
Australia's doubling down on coal production, with a new mine approved in the Galilee Basin. Go figure.

https://www.channel4.com/news/how-coal-mining-threatens-aust...
Information and communications technology.
I think it's more commonly used in England.
I don't know if it's a transparency issue rather than an editorial perspective. I don't really know or care who gave me my CNN/Fox/BBC/ITV news, but I care that it has a consistent and trustworthy editorial perspective, that may be carried over multiple people.

I guess transparency and a greater overarching perspective both work.
I used to be you. I hated the flavor of coffee, and I also didn't want to be addicted.

Now I've "matured" and realized coffee is a drug. Or, if you will, a medicine. You don't take medicine because it tastes good, but because the effects are, on balance, good for you.
Juul wanted to revolutionize vaping. It took a page from Big Tobacco’s formulas
>> All criminals are being tortured (these same things happen in prison)

If you are talking about US Prisions then there is a Good Case to be made that is true. The Treatment of Prisioners in the US is abhorrent
UBC is a highly ranked academic school with a lot of international students. I'd imagine the party scene is a lot like UIC... non-existent.
Sweden doesn't have a death penalty. If it did, UK law would not allow extradition to Sweden.
Let's see if it can make it to 3 tweets.
I think it could be argued that case law is a prevalent form of ex post facto law in common law systems, and so constitutes an additional justification for statutes of limitations.

Many acts are ambiguously criminal, until clarified by a test case. Legal decisions are also often made in the context of time, taking into account what is commonly considered offensive, what a person is presumed to know (in establishing mens rea). It's difficult to try some crimes with a modern perspective and take into account what was considered acceptable in the past.
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After which he would be extradited to the US...
And I find some of the ads on TikTok are relevant and interesting to me. Additionally, I don't have to wait 7 seconds to skip an ad I don't want to see, nor do I have to watch several ads in a row to continue to the next video (think Youtube).
Stadia exists because Google wants to create more opportunities to show video advertising. What better way to do this than to turn games into another type of streaming video. Pre-roll before the game starts, mid-roll in between levels. When players stream games to other views, more pre-roll before they watch.
Sell anything, everywhere, from one place
List your items on tons of local channels like Craigslist, Facebook, OfferUp, LetGo, Poshmark, Etsy, GOAT, Relovv, and more, all from one place.
http://www.listacross.com
In your example, law enforcement can force itself into the conversation in multiple ways (without compromising your counterpart), including listening devices or a break-in.

Most real-life analogies to encryption are not good enough. A smart layperson can easily spot issues with the “if crime happens in private, you shouldn't ban privacy” type of argument.
I'm curious to hear how ethical people consider MTurk. Between the $1/hr rates and Amazon's union busting nature, this kind of stinks of abuse. That being said, their probably should be a way to fairly hire folk for small "human-in-the-loop" tasks.
Google launching AI startup accelerator, campus in Tokyo, Japan
(I know the civil war was terrible, and there was a lot of pain and suffering. I do not want to make light of what happened in any way.)

My first question was: I wonder if, when people don't listen to him fast enough, he tags on "sudo" before a command.

"I want a report on the economy asap."

"Well, that might take some time. We have to do a field study..."

"Sudo I want a report on the economy"

"Okay, we are on it."
"however I’m quite sure that most would disagree about what the “right” amount would/should be."

I currently spend a little over 30% of my income as the sticker price to living in a first world country. Compared to the price of renting an apartment in my city, I think this is a steal.

People who never set foot in any type of public school or university benefit from everyone else being educated, because everyone else designs their clothes, their cars, their planes, their buildings, roads, computing devices, etc.

No one is self sufficient in the society I live in. It's totally possible to go and be self sufficient. This reduces your income so you don't pay taxes, since you're not interacting with government-protected, government-manipulated currency. Seems reasonable to me.
Did you see what happened to him after he left?
I can completely relate to what you’re going through. One thing that’s helped me is to realize that management, like development, requires training. Study it like an art. Take some classes, listen to podcasts, find books on the subject. Harvard Business Review is a great resource. Check out the Dear HBR podcast as a jumping off point.
7 years confined in a room, no matter how nice the embassy, common sense says it is obviously psychological torture.
Assange has been under conditions a little worse than "threat of prosecution."
What's the operating margin? Of course a new company will have like 0 ads as it tries to capture market share and be cool. Once VC moneys runs out and they need to make money, believe me, you'll see ads.
As I understand it (from reading [0]), that would have historically been called "socialism" (the term changed a bit to mean command economies during the Cold War).

The Mondragon [1] corporation organizations around these lines.

In general - as I understand it - you could view Unions and Coops as attempts to apply democratic processes to operating a business.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-at-Work-Cure-Capitalism/dp/...

[1] - https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/

EDIT: for clarity and link organization
Disney+ Launch: What Broadband Providers Need to See
According to this (written ~15 days ago), Mellanox ethernet support is being added and should be available in PfSense snapshots:

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537

Mellanox cards are very cheap 2nd hand on Ebay, and are very good quality hardware. Just don't buy them new. :)

eg:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn...
Part logistics: if the US was the size of 1 or 2 states, it'd be simpler. Part incentives: can't get paid and will get fired for any time off. Part terror: the Police here are armed with live ammunition and if you are shot, you will die, and the officer will continue policing.

If / when the powder-keg explodes, the media will scapegoat the protestors to protect plutocratic interests by showing the destruction of plutocrat-owned property, playing it off as the destruction of worker-class property; this will divide the public into two superficially opposing, easily conquered, groups, one that defaults to accepting any appeal to authority and law as just (liberal), while the other is labeled radical or reactionary (left). Plutocrats will further gaslight and inflame fascism on the impoverished right, blaming the left for all their problems. This seems to be happening in every nation touched by international, capitalist trade, in the same pattern. Maybe we should solve this one before the world breaks.
I concur with you on this. The availability of a theoretical ‘out’ does not automatically mean that the victim is consenting to the ongoing mistreatment. Often it is intrinsic that taking that ‘out’ has perceived costs that make it less preferable than enduring the experience the victim is being subjected to. This is in and of itself a source of great angst for the victim.
It's interesting, the relationship Romans especially had to homosexuality. There was much more differentiation on which 'end' of the sexual act you were (giving/receiving) than most people attacking homosexuality today put emphasis on

(https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ce7a63/would...)

This changes throughout history, with modern homophobia being also a very modern phenomenon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dw27v9/what_...
https://xkcd.com/149/
In other words, you like it more because it isn't trying to actually be profitable yet. If it needed to make money right now, you would see the same level of annoying advertising as on other platforms.
Yes, because it may show the commentators intention and may offer some context of the interpretation.

Also, a lot of people don't read the source. Or know the context.
> Samuel Pepys noted at a 1666 council meeting: “All I observed there was the silliness of the King, playing with his dog all the while and not minding the business.

Can't help but think our governance would be improved if our current rulers spend more time playing with dogs and less time minding the business.
Especially since the original "victim" retracted the allegations. Sweden simply refused to drop the charges afterwards, apparently for political reasons.
> If he is released from UK jail he can hop onto a ferry and go to mainland EU. There he could travel to anywhere within the Shengen zone.

That relies on his Australian passport being valid and not being cancelled by a US-friendly Australian government - the relevant Minister has the right to cancel a passport if the person is subejct to a foreign arrest warrant. [1] It would likely also rely on the EU member state being convinced that Assange was only visiting the EU for 90 days and had the intention to leave, thus qualifying for the Schenghen Visa Waiver for Australians. The border officers in France (or wherever the ferry lands) can reject him at the border before he has a chance to travel elsewhere if they aren’t convinced he is legit.

[1]: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2012C00135
They might know in general what people search for, but as a person using !google for both email and search I too would be pretty pissed if my health data was going straight to the biggest advertiser.
"free country"... oxymoron of the century by now...
He couldn’t really leave the Ecuadorian Embassy given that he was afraid of being arrested and eventually being extradited back to the U.S.
The Afghan DJs hired and abandoned by the US military
> Not allowing any kind of escape, even temporarily, from hell on earth.

It may read like harmful advice now, but I can imagine that "don't fuck too much" might have been meant well back then (as I believe it is usually meant well today). Certainly lust has caused much suffering in the world, on scales large and small, and this looks like a rather ham-fisted attempt to blunt the worst of effects of lust.

What I find fascinating is that the people would even permit the Church to comment on such intimate matters and in such agonizing detail. Of all the myriad human issues dealt with in the Bible, sexual misconduct isn't particularly important (the one counter example is Jesus mentioning divorce in his sermon on the mount).

This intersection between religion and sexuality is interesting and someone should look into it.
Also called "Beating the Heavenly Drum"
https://allendaleacupuncture.com/2018/04/20/beating-the-heav...
You are right that it is the style of how you communicate something that matters as well as understanding your place in history. Perhaps Turing resonated and Engelbart didn’t is because of when they spoke. But there’s another aspect to this and that is perhaps engelbart didn’t understand his audience. By comparison jobs went to the computer club not to seek acceptance but to sell. Once he realized they were not his audience he moved on to an audience that would. But in engelbart’s case he kept selling.
Whenever I read 'drop ship', I think of the noun from "Starship Troopers".
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/930228239494209536

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-...
I have never felt harmed or threatened by the idea that my anonymized data (health or otherwise) is being used by large organizations... assuming it is anonymized.

As far as I can see, there are many good uses of this data (some potentially profitable, such as selling to health insurance companies so they can better price their products and evaluate risks) and very few bad uses of this data.

Can someone please clarify for me exactly what the potential harm is here... using evidence and reason instead of conjecture and belief? Because until then, this all smells an awful lot like a conspiracy theory https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

Here's an example: Google has had our data for literally decades now. What is the measurable, significant harm that has resulted? And if there is nothing, what catastrophes are yet possible where a single or group of rogue bad actors profit off the suffering of many and get away with it?

Please explain to me my naiveté here.
It's really depressing when people see that group A is doing reasonably well while group B is treated poorly, and conclude not that we should treat B better but that A needs to shut up about their problems.
I'm saying that's wrong.

There are measures to alleviate depression beyond sleep restriction, including therapy, e.g. CBT, shown to be highly effective. A case of one not being prescribed a brand of experimental therapy like sleep restriction is not tantamount to withholding therapy "someone needs".

If that were the case you ought to hold the vast majority of psychiatrists to that standard who opt to prescribe a cocktail of medication, not sleep restriction, which is comparatively uncommon as a first measure.

And most importantly, because in such a scenario that sleep deprivation were to be prescribed, it would not necessarily be eschewed over a fear of the health effects of sleep deprivation in the short-term, a fear strongly presumed to supplant for your point to stand. It's not uncommon for patients to consume medications with negative side-effects, such as those that cause liver, kidney damage.

By the same token, being underslept makes you feel like shit, makes it difficult to focus, increases the risk of injury at work, on the road, etc.
That's rubbish; you may not be in the mood, but you still consent to it - wanting to do something isn't the same as being horny. The point isn't about being horny, it's if you want to do it - being aroused is a factor you're introducing.
From that link:

"A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention"

It seems to me that the "described in a printed publication, or in public use part" here would suffice to protect the inventor no?
In practice, all EU countries have the dual criminality requirement in their legislation, like the one you mention for Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_criminality
Followed the Geneva Convention?

You guys literally invented the suicide bomb.

Everyone deserves to have a second chance, and war is hell and crazy things happen. So I hope you live a decent life from now on.

But don't for a second claim that LTTE weren't a bunch of brutal thugs who forced non combatants into war, brainwashed kids and girls and themselves gleefully committed all manner of war crimes to achieve their objectives. And for what, Prabhakaran himself turned out to be a run of the mill dictator who exploited the people around him to glorify himself.
the charges were of 'rape' (not sexual assault), as it is defined in sweden. I m pretty sure these charges don't qualify as rape in most other countries: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/12/18306901/julian-ass...
totally agree. Turing was a mathematician - today to see a parallel we can look at how far quantum theory is ahead of quantum computing devices
I’ve owned/own 4 Fitbit products and was planning my change before this news. The privacy thing is an issue but compared to your phone, it’s pretty small potatoes. The issue that really irks is the products seem to take software updates that make them worse, often with bad bugs. Like my ionic will vibrate when a phone call comes in and continue to until the call ends. Bands wear out too quickly and are expensive to replace. The watches themselves seem to die at an almost predictable rate. Then the price is sort of in this sweet spot of being inexpensive enough to not hurt you but expensive enough to be frustrating when it’s not right.

I like the concept but I think Fitbit doesn’t have enough data points to be really useful and then the execution is mediocre. Maybe google will be good for them but I think I’ll switch
The espionage act is a horrible piece of legislation. So challenge it. Go fight the charges. Take the spotlight and let everyone see how unjust the law is.

Fleeing from the law made Assange seem like a coward, which worked against his cause. There is no better way to seem guilty than to run from a legal process that most people feel is fair, even if you personally think otherwise.
Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years, but her sentence was commuted by Obama in part because she was transgender. She deserves to be in prison.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/chelsea-manning-sent...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday overruled his secretary of defense to commute the sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who was convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks.

The decision -- which a senior defense official told CNN was made over the objections of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter -- immediately touched off a controversy in the closing days of the Obama administration.
A former intelligence official described being "shocked" to learn of Obama's decision, adding that the "entire intelligence community is deflated by this inexplicable use of executive power." The official said the move was "deeply hypocritical given Obama's denunciation of WikiLeaks' role in the hacking of the (Democratic National Committee)."
That has to do with consistency of employment. Most developers have reliable income; at any given time, approximately two percent of the actors guild is employed. Most actors, voice and otherwise, have day jobs; fifteen percent of actor's guild members make over sixteen thousand dollars from acting.
It's not torture if you can shot in the head at any time.
For us the most attractive option would probably be to wrap yEd Live in Electron. We're not a large team and rewriting yEd with something else is a major undertaking (especially for a tool given away for free). That makes it hard to justify development costs.

Personally, I'm still hoping for Microsoft to see the need for a good cross-platform managed-code UI toolkit. Perhaps they're open to funding or adopting Avalonia. But perhaps that's just me being open to rewriting an aging Java application in C# ;-)