skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The charge was always pretty consistent as "sexual assault" as you described, yes, with "rape" having a specific definition in Swedish law.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange...

It sounds like the women didn't really want to pursue the case (which is not at all uncommon in sexual assault cases!), they just wanted to track down Assange and make him take an STD test after he had unprotected sex with them, and the police said, well now that you've told us this, we're going to tell the prosecutor.

(One plausible interpretation is that the assaults did in fact happen as described and that the Swedish justice system was pressured by the US to prosecute it aggressively with the goal of getting him into US custody - the two are not necessarily contradictory.)
Decent thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20996771
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Well, this is another proof that Assange is the worst enemy of Assange.

He was so convinced that Hillary Clinton was going to kill him that actively put wikileaks to work to take her down, so Donald Trump won and "after the election of Donald Trump, UC Global's espionage activities registered a true escalation."

He also made enemies at the Embassy of Ecuador in London with his behaviour, so when Moreno rose to power it was easy game for him to collaborate with the new U.S. administration, Assange was a problem either for foreign politics and personally he wasn't making things easy to deal with.

Getting rid of him was probably a liberation for the embassy personnell.

He escaped Swedish justice, that now confirms being a just justice system, after 10 years of stall on Assange side they drop the case because it would be impossible to prove he did what we know he did (force a woman into sex intercourse without condom) - because he confirmed he did it, calling Sweden "the Saudi Arabia of feminism" and also adding "I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism".

Now it is clear that had he gone through the Swedish justice system, the worst that could happen to him would be a few years of jail in Sweden, which is an hotel compared to most of the rest of the world, now his "friend" Trump wants his head on a spike and he risks up to 175 years in jail.

And it's all Assange's fault.
Not spread misinformation on HN? That’s all people do here, especially about terrorism.
"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"
> The 48-year-old Australian was evicted in April and sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.

Still a couple of months to go (April + 50 weeks = ~March).
Keyword here being we.
Why can't people live in harmony and instead fight for a separatist nation inside a tiny little island?
Windows Admins, on the other hand, are peace-loving.
Nah, he's gonna be extradited to the U.S. where we'll stick him in prison for life to set an example.
This move to freemium pricing is a great match for JAMstack development cycle with other best-of-breed tools. It helps knowing you won't hit a pricing cliff in the midst of experimentation and growing your app via HOBBYIST to DEVELOPER plans. Way to go 8base!
Spousal rape and sexual abuse were legal in many places for a long time (and still are in some), doesn't make it not rape and sexual abuse, though.

"Informed enthusiastic consent" isn't so hard to figure out, is it? If you feel like you're being pressured into something you don't want, that's still non-consensual even if you don't put up a fight.
We are aware that is the price you have to pay. However "The United States is one of just two countries (the other being the African nation of Eritrea) that taxes individuals’ based on their citizenship".[1] That should at least give you pause to ask why, whether it is fair, and most importantly, if there is not a better solution to whatever problem this policy attempts to solve.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/how-countries-define-their-income-...
While there are situations like you describe where "didn't really want to participate" represents something immoral and selfish but less insidious than what we think of as rape, there are also plenty of situations where it does represent the weighty event of sexual assault. I think your simplification is less nuanced and much more dangerous than the parent's simplification. I also think "overwhelming majority" is a scary assumption, in terms of what it says about your experiences, unless we are mapping "didn't really want to" very differently onto real examples of emotional state.

*Disclaimer: The parent post was edited after I began replying to be worded a bit less absolutely.
I think the only way to catch you breath while running is to pace yourself correctly.

Keep a strict routine of just enough 9-5. Find a low stress app / tech stack to maintain. Leech off others when you need to. Don't code at home. Make sure you try to eat well and drink a little less. See family. be with people.
Don't play WoW ;)
Work is just something we do to let us have other things.
The elites that he would attack would easily do the same, so I suppose these accusations are all tit for tat. I mean it's totally acceptable in this day and age to attack someone for something that you yourself do all the time.
Classic example of an article in search of a movement.

Take a handful of tweets that share an opinion and write an article that makes it seem like there's a mass exodus.

It's ok, you don't need anything more than a handful of tweets to back your claim.

Yes, some people are privacy conscious and are going to stop using Fitbit but how many are actually doing it? A lot? A few?

Who knows. I'm sure author has no clue but that won't stop them from writing this empty article.
Or the fuckingham palace apparently.
In the US Ex Post Facto laws are constitutionally forbidden. Other jurisdictions is not so clear but it is generally frowned upon.
Taxes on regular people increases and the quality of services they provide decreases, precisely because of the tax-evading [0] behavior of the multinational corporations.

[0]: If you feel the need to point out the difference between tax-avoidance and tax-evasion then please watch this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2q-Csk-ktc
Really depends on what you mean by 'got away with rape'. He spoke to one judge who questioned him and left him free to go. The case got closed and the reopened by a completely different judge and he was called back. The political ties of the woman he slept with leaves a lot of unknown questions in place.

He had a modicum of interaction with the justice system and offered to be questioned over the phone which they religiously denied.

Nobody should get away with rape, but it's not clear to me that's what the story is in regards to justice.
Without the 'arguably' modifier I would hope. That's article 7 of the ECHR [1]. I also expect that the principle is part of most if not all European constitutions.

[1] https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Guide_Art_7_ENG.pdf
Interestingly, as someone who worked as an audio engineer for 8 years, engineering for audiobooks is very poorly paid. The studio I negotiated with (one that record some very well known titles) pay all their engineers by the _finished_ hour. So all the added production work for a poor reader falls on the editor.

I spoke to some friends who had done work for the same studio to find out what typical production times were for a quick-working editor, then quickly moved on.
Er, Assange himself was the press, here. Chelsea Manning was the anonymous whistleblower who tried to keep her identity safe until Adrian Lamo (may God have mercy on his soul, because I sure won't) reported her to US authorities.
> Either that or my money will be going to an Apple Watch.

Because at least you're not the product?
> About homosexuality for example, my naive vision is that it was "not OK" until very recently

Well... it was not "OK" until recently for some time. But was "OK" for some time before that. Atleast in some places... well.. atleast ancient greeks and romans didn't seem to care about that.
Wait, in the US criminal laws can be retroactive?
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There were, not long ago, times when Assange was considered a saint of freedom after he exposed the corrupt Bush administration, the liberals everywhere were defending him and his case everywhere, they even made a Hollywood film about him. But he then made the mistake of his life, he exposed the corruption of the Clintons and got implicated in the Russia gate meme because Trump somehow won. Now he is totally on his own. Nobody will defend him even if these corrupt governments burnt him alive and broadcasted it live. Makes you think if these liberals actually give a single shit about freedom anyway.

I know that this is an ultra liberal community and I will get downvoted and flagged within a few minutes. But if someone is too scared to even lose a worthless website account to say what he sees as the right opinion, he should not live anyway.
"Governing the Firm" by Gregory Dow is all about that exact question. Why aren't labor coops more common? What's holding them back, in game theory economics terms?

One reason is that it's much easier to capture entrepreneurial rents for a capital-managed firm. A capitalist with a grand plan can hire a lot of workers and realize his plan. In a labor coop, a majority has to agree that the plan is sound - and if it's a first-mover thing, it's hard to keep some workers from starting their own business and getting there first. Dow gives some other reasons too.

Labor coops do exist, but they're usually not startups, and some types of business are much more common than others.
I wouldn't be so sure about Poland though. CIA secret prisons and politicians begging any US politician to just wave in their general direction as sign of recognition.

US has a lot power over UK and Sweden, what makes u think western Europe is different?
That's literally rape. If you consent to a sex act, that doesn't mean you consent to any sex act. If you "switch holes", or "lose the condom" or simply don't put one on at all, without consent, that's a non-consensual sex act and thus rape.
Didn't really isn't = decided not to. It could be didn't feel like it but did it anyways.

Ever heard someone say this..

I didn't want to go to school but I did.

It's like saying I didn't want to kill that person. It is an unfinished statement to what the final decision is. It could be: So I did or so I didn't.
That's why I think corporation tax should be applied to UK Sales - UK Costs.

- Buy in the branding from the US? That can't be deducted.

- Import from China? Can't be deducted.

- Employ more people. Deductible

- Buy more from UK suppliers. Deductible. Now go on and export more with that. Those export sales won't affect your tax.
Even that approach seems very scary to me from an opsec perspective. You could be traced by CCTV cameras outside the internet cafe for example.
No shit, it was most likely false and a pressure investigation to have Assange in the public eye's crosshair.(negatively of course)

They got him though, too bad his message is nowhere near spread enough for people to give a damn.
If they developped it with VR in mind from the start there is no way to adapt it into a non immersive version.
In may she was quoted as saying "she wanted to reopen the case at any cost" and "get justice". I guess she's cool with it now? /s
Same here. I'm not going to use a health monitoring device from an advertising company.
I think part of what it takes to innoculate yourself is recognising it for what it is, and knowing the signs so you can at least put it in its place and manage it.

Symptoms are physical, emotional, behavioural - author touches on some of these, but for me its noticing I’m being continuosly negative about things, raised heart-rate and breathing, locking myself away from people or not being able to sleep at night. Ymmv.
He could leave the embassy at any time, which is where the purported damage was done. He is now in prison, where he cannot leave it any time. Melzer visited him recently in prison, thus your quote. It seems pretty clear. The parent may be lacking in nuance for his situation, but it is correct.
In the comments on that lesswrong post from a few years back, you raised a good question that is perhaps easily answered:

it has the same issue as Kurzban's blood-glucose/willpower
criticism: if the brain needs more oxygen than it's getting
why doesn't one simply breath a little more? While sedentary
during these sorts of tasks, you have far more breathing
capacity than you should need

Seems quite likely (or at least very possible) that we've outpaced evolution here, right?

Prior to the industrial revolution, seems our bodies would never have needed to adapt to a rapid spike in environmental CO2 levels. Our brains are necessarily good at signaling the body when they need more oxygen; they're not necessarily good at realizing when they're dealing with other issues they're not adapted to react to.

I believe there may be a common misunderstanding the relationship between CO2 levels and oxygen in one's body, at least as it was explained to me by doctors during my mom's struggles with COPD.

Blood oxygen saturation levels and CO2 levels are not inversely correlated. One of the problems with late-stage COPD and reduced lung function is that while it's relatively easy to get a person's oxygen levels up (just administer oxygen!) they still suffer the effects of excess CO2 in the blood. A late stage COPD sufferer can have > 95% O2 saturation in their bloodstream and still suffer the other effects (including cognitive issues) that result from the excess CO2.

(Apologies for responding you wrote four years ago)
It is also worth noting that expats can exclude something like $100k from taxes with the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. My understanding is that relatively few US expats actually pay anything.
I wouldn't imagine that he'll be offered a choice. He'll be shipped back to Aus.
I can't see any reasonable defence against the deportation that would stand a chance in a UK court.
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Thanks, the notebook link provides a lot more information than the repository. I found it interesting. The repository's readme, not so much.
Sure, but can you imagine those mediocre devs trying to make contributions to a Lisp codebase? I feel much more confident giving them a tool like Java or Go. I mean, Go is the way it is because there are other people who believe that a blunt knife is better in the hands of a clod.
If the alternative is potential death or at least more torture for the rest of your life it's not really a choice.
The load balancing setup I used today has issues, which you can see if you're using it now (very slow).

Namely, load balancing and scaling based on CPU is not a good metric, because new instances (which are still serving multiple users), will keep absorbing new users before the metric is triggered, and even when it is triggered, a new instance will take a while to spin up and build some browsers, so scaling lags too far behind load and the effect is existing instances get and stay overloaded.

So, I have an idea for a new autoscaling system that puts 1 tiny machine per user, but it will take some reconfiguring. So, in the meantime, I'm switching back to the old system (massive instances, vertical scale).

I'll do that now and the servers should switch to the new system in about 30 mins.
While we're on the topic, why do sites have non-wrapping anything? That site has non-wrapping code blocks, which made it so tedious to read on my phone that I gave up. HN has non-wrapping quotes. In what universe is non-wrapping anything a good idea?
Privacy is becoming something only the wealthy can afford.
Sweden already announced in 2017 they were giving up prosecuting the case because of the futility of proceeding.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/sweden-withdraws-arrest-...
Yep - 2 things about this

1) I am using the press as a kind of filter of what's interesting (hypothesis: they pick the most interesting thing executives are saying on earning calls)

2) I am working on extracting other sources like earning transcripts and twitter, but this will be tougher for me to go through due to the sheer amount of things that are said in those sources

SEC is a good one too, the management analysis section of filings is always interesting so I could extract that.

Thanks for the feedback!
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This is an amazing example for the “autonomy” part of self-determination theory. And it shows how intrinsic motivation relates to mental health. It also shows to some extent “relatedness” and “competence” part of SDT.

Other than that this post shows a potential issue that many people with burnout face: adult conflict. Without conflict one’s course of action is to change themselves. With conflict, one can change their environment. This (probably) only works in a healthy environment like the parent described.
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I just got rid of my Fitbit and never spoke of it on social media. My guess is it’s limited a few thousand to low tens of thousands of people which is not economically meaningful on it’s own. But, it does show another side of the privacy debate.

Many companies are selling data not because it’s significant revenue, but rather because they have no reason to leave money on the table. This kind of small scale boycott may actually be meaningful for those internal decisions, which IMO is interesting.
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Perl is not quite standard Unix, though (it should be imo)
A young bull and an old bull stood atop a hill grazing some sweet sweet grass. By and by they spotted a herd of cows let into the pasture in the valley below them.

The young bull pawed the ground with his hoof, snorted, and bellowed "let's run down the hill and service us one of those there cows!!!"

The old bull continued to chew his cud thoughtfully. After a pause, he said "Nope. Let's walk down the hill and service them all."
Even if you allow bigint numerators, addition is still not associative. You can similarly build an example 1/(M-1) - 1/M ...
Feels a bit rough on the edges, but still it's a welcome addition. I've been using it today and I think I would switch to it, provided they'll fix some outstanding issues like text rendering on non retina screens, show avatars in the backlog screen, replace popups with proper dropdowns etc.
Somehow Netflix, Hulu, and Google Play/YouTube all work.

And they're renting most of their content.

> The reality is that linix makes up 2-4 percent of the desktop PC market

Plus an additional 3% for Chromebooks.
If anyone is interested it seems you can find (more or less reliable) sensor modules for about $20, such as the MH-Z19, and read it from to an arduino or esp.
Perhaps I did not express that well. This is how things may go:

(1) I need to build this, but the Makefile is broken. (2) I invoke the build directly by asking colleague for help. (3) Can I be bothered to update the docs? Maybe. Can I be bothered to fix Makefile targets? Much less likely.
If you're lucky enough to have that neural protection.
Not everyone does. I don't, for instance.

I damaged my hearing trying to have enough sound to drown out the triggering sounds around me. (misophonia got a lot worse during working in open office too)
I don't think the new breed of fintech startups is going to help here much. The reason you can't see what's going on with your money on your own terms is because banks want you to use their software in order to upsell you financial products. The articles point out that the new fintech companies are also interested in exploiting the stickiness and eyball-attracting aspects of banking, if not for direct upselling then for something else.
I basically use Fitbit for sleep tracking more than any other feature. And I used to be a loyal Jawbone Up customer (yes, replacing it every few months when the band snapped) for the same reason.

This may be off topic since it has nothing to do with this acquisition, but does anyone know of a equivalent or superior sleep tracker that you wear on your arm?
We made something similar at a hackathon: https://spicy-lip.surge.sh/features
27 million active Fitbit users at end of 2018.

"Several" say they are getting rid of the devices because of a lack of trust in Google. How many constitutes "several" is left for the reader to calculate. 27? 270? 2,700?

Poor journalism.
So sick seeing how UK judges listen to US.
There is this cultural myth of the “hero worker” who puts everything on the line to succeed. I think some people identify with this more than others and basically set themselves up with an abusive external locus of evaluation.
I consider libertarianism to be contemporary monarchic support, due to exactly these issues. Corporations are run as monarchic or dictatorial structures, with some controls.

Ultimately, we have a choice: work hard to build the government that we want, or allow it to falter to the energies of the billionaire class. Or, even worse, allow the billionaire class choose the government that they want.
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one man's terrorist... you know the rest.
Expenses aren’t arbitrary. Look up transfer pricing. There has been a ton of policy developed that severely limits what one subsidiary can charge another.

Are there still areas that need further tightening? Sure, but the prices charged within a company are not arbitrary.
I'm getting rid of everything.

I want a bumper sticker "burn fb,goo, etc to the ground"
Noticed that too. Whenever there's a headline along the lines of 'People are doing x' I view that as a red flag. Similar to articles with 'experts say' in the title.
I'm sure the number is fairly insignificant, especially for a company as big as Google. As for myself, I requested that all my data be deleted when I first heard rumours about the buyout, and I haven't used my Fitbit since.
the forty percent number here is quite ironic -- that is about the same percentage of your total income you will pay in California as a high-value working professional person.. high-tech engineer and a company, registered nurse at a huge health company.. like that .. forty percent of you check is -gone-, roughly.. you might get some back at tax time (yearly) if your papers are a certain way..
Those are all great guesses, and I bet all of them come into play.

I wonder how many externalities aren't being accounted for yet in the process, like the new landfill Roundup will need to construct to handle all the excess packaging being disposed of.
Kotlin's approach is extremely nice, not perfect but nice, for example most of Kotlins collection operations are inline so functions like mapIndexed etc.. you can call a suspend function even though mapIndexed is agnostic (by nature of just a ~template) as long as your in a co-routine scope of course, I don't often call suspending operations in collection operations but the inline fun approach well in other areas (your own code). Other languages don't have this - Javascript for example map/filter/reduce won't await if you return a Promise. C# would need specialized Task aware version of the Linq stuff (they probably already exist).

The scope tree thing is really nice too once you get your head around it, much nicer than in c# with carrying cancellationtokens around and creating your own cancellationsource when you need something like a supervisor scope.
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