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> The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture interviewed for the article makes a pretty convincing picture that Assange was unlikely guilty of any of the crimes he's been accused of.

Then if he's not guilty, let it be shown so at trial, and not at the say of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
There are more reasons, and it goes a lot deeper, than just following this one pattern. The entire binomial theorem relies on 0! being 1, unless you start putting in huge numbers of exceptions and special cases.

Here's a better answer: https://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57128.html

If you prefer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfk_L4Nx2ZI
Shitlords don't just "meme". They radicalize themselves and others. I had a friend ask to crash on my couch during GamerGate because a guy on 4chan took a picture of himself with a knife in front of her apartment building and it's the people who aren't shitlords who are the problem here? What's your proposed "immune system" response to that, exactly? Or to an Elliot Rodgers, he who was cheered on by exactly this crowd?

"These people are attempting to incubate a culture where you might get swatted for being vocally not a straight white man, but it is we who are too sensitive." Nah. The problem isn't the people who have the misfortune of being downrange of scumbags, and never is.
Stolen from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastpsychiatrist/comments/70rbuu...:

> ten years ago Steve 'Asshole' Jobs played a hilarious prank on all the digitally-illiterate 20th century luddites by pick-pocketing their ol' trust, reliable telephones and replaced them with computers instead. Tee-hee! Let's see if they notice the difference! And then he promptly died.

> The result, we see today, is a stratified understanding of "the internet".

> One level consists of everyone who really knows what the internet is. The internet's early adopters were a bunch of nerdy white males out of touch with society, guilty as charged. Annoying athiests and such. The thing is that this group (which I count myself among) knows how communities online function because they've been part of them for decades. They've lived the lifecycle of growth and collapse of forums (platforms) again and again. They see how technology brings people together, but not the people in their immediate life. Rather, safely brings anonymous groups of people who hide behind pseudonyms and avatars together through common interest and lively discussion and debate. [...] They see the new digital medium for what it is: connections between individual users spread across many different forums and platforms which are ever-changing, rising and falling. friends/strangers/communities first, platforms/sites second.

> Another level, the social media level, is what Fruit Juice Jobs foisted onto the unsuspecting public who now think they understand current technology and the state of the art of digital communications. Of course, they don't. They are sold a bill of goods and put all their identities into profiles which are used to sell them shit. And of course now they are vulnerable to a) people who spend hours arguing on the internet and tearing stranger's ideas apart (me right now) and b) actual trolls who love exploiting psychological vulnurabilites to make their victims squirm and squee and cry and through tantrums for the sake of drama (4chan, etc.). This decade-young group has no experience in what the internet actually and take no personal responsibility for their own online safety. For instance, they assume or act like a) Twitter will be around forever and b)Twitter can just block the bad guys and create a peaceful, harmonious online community. They cede all personal responsibility to a corporate hiearchy, like they were customers in a fast-food joint demanding to speak to a manager or some shit. They see and use the old medium in the new one, as McLuhan would say. Like how every town they visit has the same half-dozen franchises, their internet consists of the same top-5 "apps" and Google. Platforms and friends first, strangers/communities second.
Stop responding is a fools argument. The game has changed a lot since the days of your average internet trolls because the line between internet and reality has become increasingly blurred.

For example, I don't use Facebook. But my parents do. I've had to talk with them on more than one occasion because they would get caught reading objectively wrong things spread on Facebook by bots. Thankfully my parents trust me enough that I can be an authority on those sorts of things, but it's not something I can simply ignore. If I were to let it fester, eventually it could turn into things like 'vaccines contain brainwashing bleach' or 'the government wants to take away your spleen' levels of nonsense.

At a certain point it's a good idea to stop platforming people like anti-vaxxers but it's also irresponsible to say it's possible to just ignore it.
Red Hat still ships ancient versions of PHP in their official packages.

I wouldn't bet on a backport unless you have a lot of clout (a.k.a. purchasing power) behind you.
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As I've gotten older, I've started to doubt the idea that there are any objective facts at all, or at least if there are, the human brain has a limited capacity to comprehend and communicate them.

(Edit) This doesn't mean I don't believe in truth, right/wrong etc... it means that I'm constantly balancing what's most likely to be trueish - subject to higher quality information at a later time.
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'responding to it' is engagement, and there is a financial incentive for that.

So the algos are boosting controversy, to boost engagement, to boost financials.
PayPal is the more mature product and is accepted in more countries. You can opt to keep funds in the native currency, or perform the cross border conversion when the payment is received.

Stripe is supported in fewer countries.

It really depends on what you realistically need.

You also need to be aware of how refunds work. Also be aware of fraud and chargebacks. You lose a lot of visibility using a third-party service with fraud detection so you either rely on their tools or rely on the 3rd party to perform the due diligence for you.

Fees are also higher to accept globally, so you need to factor that into your pricing.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/country-worldwide

https://stripe.com/global
Sure! Here are some things that could cause the rent/value ratio to be significantly different for a single property:

- There is no usable building on your property.

- There are plans to build a highway through your neighborhood in five years.

- Amazon has announced plans to build an office in your neighborhood two years from now.

- There are harvestable (with further development) natural resources on your property.

Many of these have impacts on hypothetical future consumption, but hopefully you agree that a tax on anticipated future consumption indefinitely into the future is not a consumption tax.

I don't have data as to precisely how strong the correlation is, but I think it's pretty clear that it is not 1, and furthermore if we really wanted to tax imputed rent directly we could presumably do so (we'd have to guess what it is but the same challenge applies to valuations of properties that haven't sold recently). So I just don't think "consumption tax" is a good way to look at a tax that clearly captures, and is designed to capture, other things.
The quantity has increased, if the quality is still basically the same. Also, I bet the average education/intelligence of the typical user has shifted as the internet user looked more and more like the typical population.
Seems like the author didn't have any financial pressure due to years at Google so it's hard to judge how serious he was about making money. I think if he didn't have money for rent this month (my experience as a "solo-dev" back in the day) then he would've done consulting/contracting or more profit driving ideas. Making $5000 a year is not realistic for most of us so this just seems like a long vacation with some coding.

But yes B2B is very underrated among younger devs especially. They have huge problems in scale and complexity and most of the money is in there.
What's more is that Telegram's approach to crypto has been shown to be deeply flawed[1].

I take my chances with Signal instead. Unfortunately, enticing all of my contacts to do the same has proven difficult.

An aside: is anyone else disturbed by the fact that Whatsapp now shows the Facebook logo when you first open the app? The day the Facebook Messenger/Instagram/Whatsapp merge happens is the day I'm deleting Whatsapp.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...
Sirius/XM has disgusting tactics, maybe not THAT bad, but I think it's part of their business model and it's been working for them for years. Although I question their longevity at some point.
I would argue that perhaps your idea of living in the moment is more like mostly living in the moment. To truly live fully in the moment would be to react to stimuli as they were encountered, wouldn't it? If so, then to truly live in the moment would be to ignore most the ramifications of what you say or did, beyond what you could internalize, as to act without forethought is to strip away all we do to try to tame our less desired instincts.

That is what I tries to express by talking about moderation before. At one extreme you have what I outlined above, and at the other you have the person who always seems absent minded because they are always thinking about something else, and are rarely if ever giving their full attention to what's going on in front of them and around them.

I think when most people say you should "live in the moment" they are actually espousing moving that direction on the spectrum, which can be beneficial, even if reaching the end of the spectrum likely isn't. The point of all this is that being more mindful of your surroundings and living in the moment is probably useful most the time, until it isn't, because you've gone too far, where too far depends on the location, company, and circumstances, so there's no real "correct" answer.

The reason I even broached this is because it was already alluded to in this exact same thread, with:

I think it's a question of balance. I was too far on the side of not living in the moment, and spending lots of time on what-if scenarios. I think that I might have veered too far to the other extreme now, and my capacity for empathy is suffering a little.

I can relate to that in some respects, even if only for aspects of my personality. In letting go of always being too overly concerned with exactly how I was perceived and interpreted when I was you to being able to let some of that go later in life, I noticed times where my not making sure to explain myself in extra detail probably left people thinking I was dismissive of their concerns (and there are probably plenty of times where I don't realize I was dismissive of their concerns, and I'm willing to bet that's more often now than in the past).
So youre for poorly planned cities or gentrification? The value of my property is simply that it is the house in which my family and I live. I gain no benefit from the market increase until I actually sell my house (I suppose there is financial wrangling that could be done but I dont have the money or time for that). Anyone that buys my house or any house in a high value area is going to be paying a higher tax rate simply based on the cost. Prop 13 insulates me from that and encourages/allows me to stay put while still setting the tax rate for all new purchases.
I will indeed resist poorly planned additions to my town and will insist on proper infrastructure in place before conceding to any mass buildings. Im not interested in living in an Oakland'esque place with ghost ships everywhere. Ill let you do that elsewhere.
Further, you still havent reasonably outlined how getting rid of prop 13 is going to fix things. There are plenty of wealthy people around to pay the taxes assessed on a home purchase ... plus, they can probably afford CPA's to dodge taxes otherwise. Youd be better off trying to fix the socioeconomic disparities so prevalent in our society ... and if you think eliminating prop 13 is going to help toward that end then I got a bridge in Arizona for ya ...
Honestly that's somewhat nonsense. People don't just believe whatever they want to believe, education and diffusion of information has radically changed humanity over the last few centuries and you're fooling yourself if you think that somehow improved communication and discussions didn't drive that. Schools have improved reading and mathematical literacy of the general population, that isn't just some made up statistic.

Humans are incredibly social beings, they hide in each other, as well as grow in each other. People absolutely can and do change their minds on all sorts of things every single day, and it's a "throw my hands up in the air and quit" to say otherwise.
>How is this better than photography?

I can think of some ways:

- a photo can have too many details

- a drawing does not have a focal point so it can be sharper

- a drawing can accentuate some important features, like caricatures are easy to recognize then pictures

My conclusion is you can have both pictures and illustrations , use them in combination or the best tool for the job
Balanced paranthesis are not a regular language, so it s theoretically imposdible to match them with regular expressions.

In practice, most regexp implemenations you see are more powerful then regular expressions. For instance, .net has a balancing groups feature [0] for exactly this usecase.

[0] https://regular-expressions.mobi/balancing.html?wlr=1
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There's a lot of good movies that people don't discover, but it seems to me to less be about age of the movie - in the era of algorithmic reccomendations, you will get quality stuff surfaced. (Ex: I logged onto Prime Video one day to see the original Total Recall recommended)

OTOH, really good films that are not free on streaming are often not known.

I think we're missing out by relying on algorithms rather than doing research or talking to friends to find good content.
It's my understanding that one reason people like Telegram is unlike Signal, you can use a username and hide your phone number. (Please correct me if this is incorrect, I don't know anyone who uses it so I stick to Signal)

Signal is the gold standard for confidentiality, but forcing folks to disclose a phone number as a primary identifier has privacy issues.
Ask HN: What's the hardest thing about your job?
Everyone's job is slightly different, and everyone struggles with different things. What's the hardest part of your job?

I thought it might be useful to collect together all the tough things about the jobs we do. Perhaps it'll help some of the more junior community who are starting to see it, and maybe it'll be a good outlet for those who are veterans of their industry.
>Samsung deliberately produced a 132-page report comparing the iPhone to their current phones at the time and pointed out hundreds of features and design elements they should steal from the iPhone user interface

But that doesn't really matter, you can adopt concepts and designs from 3rd parties (including competitors) so long as the same is not protected.

The "rounded corners" was patented and infringement of the patent was a count on the lawsuit, and Samsung was found liable for infringing that patent.

What is unfortunate and "twisted" is claiming a research university is a patent troll. Research universities develop and patent new technology all the time, you could say its part of their business model, and historically they are happy to license their patents to commercial entities to take to market...very rarely do universities actually develop their new inventions for commercial purposes. Most would consider it a win-win to shift costs of development to universities, not universities being patent trolls.
Why put the conditional if? Avoid conflict entirely by eliminating judgement calls. Like how close a car needs to be in front or behind you for you to react. It just provides justification (in their mind) for a driver to stay left.

Just pass and get over, regardless of if anyone is behind you. Driving rules should be as simple as possible.

The fact that the lane isn't being used by anyone else isn't an excuse for you to use it as you see fit. Anymore than driving on the wrong side of a 2-lane road, just because there's no oncoming traffic.
There’s quite a lot of formulaic pieces written in UK media where the news outlet comment section has more outraged commenters than the original issue.

If you use dailymail.co.uk and search for “outraged” there’s quite a few examples of this formula being used.

I suppose it increases impression time of adverts which means higher price earned for them. I’m not criticising the business accumen.
I tend to go to https://www.regular-expressions.info when I need to find out which features are supported between dialects. Not always up-to-date, but has some good info.
Thanks for reading!

>Reading the post makes me most curious about how you live so cheaply?

90% of it is just location.

When I was in Manhattan, I was spending ~$7k/month. Part of that was higher cost of my apartment and health insurance, but another big part is just the culture. In NYC, it wouldn't be unusual for me to go out to a $80/person dinner, spend $25 on drinks afterwards, another $25 on Ubers, then another $20 on brunch in the morning.

In Western Mass, I do make efforts to live cheaply, but so much of it is just the ease of not spending money when nobody in your social circle spends like that.
>the other media encourages polarization and demonization of the other for dumb short term. That's a purely American phenomenon

Nope, tribalism and divide et impera is a human phenomenon
OP shares his struggles with the world and this is the best you can come up with? The illustrative warning here is for anyone in OP's position to not post personal nor professional difficulties with randoms on Hacker News.

Share wisdom, not criticism.
Yes, the internet’s always been toxic, but the audience has changed. It used to be a small subset of the world population that had the money, time, and know-how to get on the internet. Now it’s the entire world, and it seems to me that the average media-consumption sophistication has gone way down. Trolls used to be a smaller fraction of the whole, and easier to ignore. Now, the signal-to-troll ratio is all out of whack.
This is my experience and perception as well. I don’t understand people who think it’s always been some civil gathering.
Yup, and it's a tragedy. A boss cares about the work being delivered, and wants the end product as a valuable piece of the business.

It's not like school where if one is late, one might as well not even turn it in; even if it's late, it's still valuable, and school doesn't teach that.
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I think they're referring to transferring responsibility of thought/action to an "other" in the mind. I assume they were told to stop that style of habit because you don't usually see healthy things from that ("Not my fault, the voices told me to" or similar). Might be a cause of a condition or a symptom of trauma, etc.

I am not a shrink
We actually agree with each other so I'm struggling to see what your point is that contradicts mine.

I explicitly said what I'm talking about isn't necessarily directly applicable to amazon kindle. I also agreed with you regarding software telemetry being used responsibly and irresponsibly.

So I'll repeat I don't see where we disagree.
> The use case for military being more oriented toward heavy vehicles, tanks and buildings, I don't think a few pounds of explosive would be anywhere near enough.

That describes a bazooka warhead perfectly, and they had no problem penetrating tanks. More recently, TOW anti-tank missiles are used to great effectiveness by many armies (including us) and their warhead is only 13 lbs.

One of the amazing things about shaped charges is that penetration depends only on the diameter of the charge, not its weight or velocity, and it can penetrate 7-10x its diameter in armor. So a 4-inch diameter shaped charge can blow through a meter of solid steel.

The other interesting development is that nearly all the advances in armor designed to defeat shaped charges (ceramics, Chobham armor, reactive armor) have an assumption that the same spot will never be hit twice in battle. The first shot basically destroys the (roughly 1 sq. foot) armor tile, which is useless for further protection, but this doesn't matter because in a traditional gun/missile tank duel the chance that the exact same spot will be hit twice is miniscule. This assumption falls apart with advances in robotics and AI. You could imagine a drone swarm where instead of launching themselves at the target, they land on the target, crawl to the most vulnerable parts (on top of turret or on the magazines/engines, for example) or those that have sustained previous battle damage, and then detonate themselves.
Cool, I like it too! I host on Firebase. You can check out my deployment script here:

https://github.com/mtlynch/mtlynch.io/blob/f35d9cf947a3d2c23...
I cant find it, but it turns out I can still do it. As I recall, that author had described the experience as being animal-like. My approach:

Have no music on - following a melody feels similar to following speech to me.

Dont be around people who are talking. With practice you will be able to have them present and utterly ignore their words, so make sure they're not talking to you first.

Take a wide eyed look around your environment. Visually (or any way but verbally) imagine you are an animal (you are of course but one that doesnt speak). Look at objects purely visually and repress the urge to "name" them in your head.

If you find your inner dialog active dont "tell it" to stop, just focus on a the visual or other sensory experience.

I find when this works, some muscles spontaneously relax that hadn't noticed were tense. I'm not sure I'm getting as far as that blog I recall, but it really is interesting to observe things without that dialog. You can even perform tasks, unlike during meditation.
Some additional details about these and related retractions from Pruitt's work can be found here:

https://retractionwatch.com/2020/01/29/authors-questioning-p...
> It is far wiser to copycat. Aim for a massive crowded market (e.g. weight loss), because your chance of missing is hundreds of times lower.

And hence ... the fuckery of the modern economy.

"Too many hands in too many pockets / Not enough hands on hearts." - The Housemartins (80s)
Mandating wireless charging is still a bit of a stretch (it's not popular yet, so would be a short-term cost and manufacturing increase), but wireless charging is mentioned in the linked article as something they should look into ensuring is broadly-compatible (which should help prevent incompatibility waste when it does become ubiquitous).

Also, presently anyway, wireless charging generally has power limits on the order of 5 watts, while the USB 3 PD spec allows for up to 100. A modern mobile phone pulls more than 5 watts from a wall charger, so mandating wireless charging would also result in a short-term charging time increase. They're also not as easy to transport and use anywhere (e.g. on a train with a power socket but without a tray table). Many people would find that unacceptable.

My Nexus 5 had wireless charging, I had that phone for more than 3 years, and I never got to use it before it died and I upgraded to a 6P, which doesn't have it.
Well ... this 'joke' code created a multi billion dollar business and sowed the seed for a platform that is shaping our world in ways unimaginable (in more harmful ways than good, but that is beside the point) ... you can't complain!
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