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The political offenses exception is not ambiguous. It's well understood what the exception means, and the treaty explicitly bars it. It's just very strange to me that the US and UK explicitly agreed to arrange for extradition on certain terms, but that those terms are now deemed by this judge not to apply in the UK.

> But treaty law cannot establish domestic laws that govern things like extradition

In the US, treaties are law. The political offense exception absolutely applies when extraditing people from the US to the UK.

There are enough other problems in this ruling to make me very skeptical of the judge's reasoning here. A few of them:

* The judge says that it's an open question whether or not a journalist from The Guardian was the person who first published unredacted cables with informants' names. As was established beyond any doubt, it was The Guardian's journalist who first published the cables. The decryption key was the title of a chapter in his book, for crying out loud, and the encrypted archive was available online. Yet Baraitser treats this as an open question. Doing so allows Baraitser to argue that Assange put people's lives at risk.

* The judge asserts that Pompeo's statements about going after Assange do not represent the views of the US government, and therefore cannot be used to argue that the prosecution is politically motivated. Pompeo is the former director of the CIA and the current Secretary of State. He's one of the most senior members of the government, and he gave an entire speech devoted to arguing that the government should go after Assange.

To me, these are just unbelievable statements by the judge. The bottom line, though, is that the judge's ruling makes it possible for the US to go after investigative journalists in the UK who publish about the US military or intelligence apparatus. All the protections that journalists thought they had do not exist.
Thanks!! Means a lot. I reinforce but only if needed. If it's a more monolithic shape, then it's not really needed, but if there are parts that seem more breakable (thin) or bear significant weight, then I use glass fiber or steel reinforcement or even both. Regarding compression and tension -- I never think about these things. Maybe I would if I did larger sculptures!
"Accept it or leave it" is a post-facto event: one accepts or rejects the contents of the contract. What the OP is referring to is participation ("having a say") in the drafting of the contract itself. By definition "accept it or leave it" is not having a say in it.
Because UK is not a dictatorship. China is.
I agree with you on the football thing, although the players will be getting regular tests, and the sport generates a tonne of cash.

The rest of it make sense to me. Your example of golf: the sport includes the whole social aspect (the golf club rooms etc). Remember they have to keep the rules simple.

Also allowing people to order alcohol to be delivered within the hour probably isn't the smartest!
> come up with trade rules that are as damaging and onerous as the ones from Brussels

Simply not true.

EU has made trading free and effortless between the 27 member states for the first time in history. And for companies shipping to the EU it is only a one time regulatory hit and then you benefit from a single, coherent market.

Also the world needs a trading bloc that actually believes in climate change, worker rights, consumer rights, privacy etc.
> * Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned

Is restaurant takeaway alcohol even a thing in normal times in the UK?

In CA at least, the state temporarily removed the normal restriction on takeaway alcohol in order to help restaurants during lockdowns.
So is the business that I buy an ad on Facebook, someone clicks on it, I then show them a bunch of ads, and I get paid enough for those ads to recoup the money I spent on my Facebook ad, and then some?

Kind of genius, in a way.
We should ask the generation of homosexuals lost to aids about this.
> Yes, 'Who Is Hiring' days strain our server in general and there are a lot of other things going today, like Slack being down and the holidays being over. (Edit: and one mammoth 500-comment subthread that I've since split in two.)

You have access to both highly qualified people (that read HN and would most likely be glad to help you engineer a system (paid or unpaid) that would not be strained by usage) AND access to money if that was needed to improve things (and pay for a solution).

Does HN still run on a server colocated in a data center?

Is there a budget that you need to adhere to? YC certainly makes money and can afford to pay for a better setup.

A bit embarrassing HN should not run as if if it was operated out of one person's basement, budget, or expertise. (And it's not 1996 either it's 2021 and HN does not even have anything but text).
omg, someone could not have designed a better conspiracy machine than this publication's standard retraction process. Missing abstract. no way to find rejected article. People will go absolutely loopy with that
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Who are you dang?

Are you an official representative of HN? Because it appears that the vast majority of your comments are nothing but comments about other people's comments, or directives to follow guidelines.

Frankly, it seems more positive for the community to vote with their feet on comments and posts vs one individual continuously navigating through posts and threads telling people how to behave.

I'm serious about the first question...
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> Yes but the amount of amber, gold, silver, etc. on Earth is a known unknown. There are presumably deposits of gold that we don't yet know about.

There's a difference between known unknown with high variance and known unknown with low variance. As I understand it, astrophysicists have a non-controversial model for how much gold is present on earth. Geologists probably have a reasonable model for how much gold is easily accessible.
It does make sense imo to allow elite sports to continue while banning amateurs, there are relatively few elite players so the additional risk overall is low.
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I remember using clients like pidgin with all my accounts it was a great experience. Now I need to have like 100 apps
So basically this is once more a case, where cloud providers promise you everything then corner you into
unforgiving situations where you have to spent most valuable thing (engineers' time) to avoid associated
costs with particular vendor lock in, in order to have service continuation.

60 TB is a lot, but we can all agree that is surely doesn't warrant -/+ 13000 USD one-way trip price tag.

This statement is in particular worrisome: "Google Compute Engine network rates (we’ll ignore these, as
they get complicated)"

So you are basically buying a black-box that has an ability to drive your business into a ground if you are
not careful enough.

Yes, I am aware you can argue and plead for mercy once you get the bill, but this is not the way: they
wouldn't be so keen in forgetting your cost if it was making them a real expenditure: I was doing a napkin
calculation for AWS and I found it to be around 10x more expensive than DIY solution, which means that
from 10 suckers, only one has to pay for them to make profit.

The more I read about cloud providers the more I am convinced that their major business is based on the fact
that they have to get hardware and software for their core business and since they cannot scale it precisely
it is more lucrative for them to just try to sell "solution" to suckers for 10x and get rich in the process.
Then maybe it shouldn't have said "To get rich is glorious".
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The US Department of Homeland Security should provide the public a means for reporting potential vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure. Not threats, just perceived/observed vulnerabilities, not much different than bug reports in software. I can think of a few reports I would file in some detail given a secure means to do so.
Why didn't he wear a wig during his in-embassy venture and escape?

He had plenty of time to plot something like that
I don't believe there's any mechanism to go from full EU membership to the EEA when you're already a member? That is more or less the same thing as negotiating to leave before article 50 is invoked.

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring too?
Bisqwit's discussion of dithering is outstanding. He presents a very impressive algorithm for arbitrary-palette dithering that is animation safe.

> This paper introduces a patent-free positional (ordered) dithering algorithm that is applicable for arbitrary palettes. Such dithering algorithm can be used to change truecolor animations into paletted ones, while maximally avoiding unintended jitter arising from dithering.

He demonstrates it "live coding" style in this[1] video where he writes a demo in 256 colors of a "starfield" animation with color blending and Gaussian blur style bloom. The first animation at 6:33 using traditional ordered dithering has the usual annoying artifacts. The animation at 13:00 using an optimal palette and his "gamma-aware Knoll-Yliluom positional dithering" changed my understanding of what was possible with a 256 color palette. The animation even looks decent[2] dithered all the way down to a 16 color palette!

If that wasn't crazy enough, he also "live codes" a raytracer[3] in DOS that "renders in 16-color VGA palette at 640x480 resolution."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL0oGct1S4Q

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-kACj3uQA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8elxpSu9pw
Add to it pretty often incooperation od patient. Where with broken hand you are bound to cooperate, with psychiatric care of it is bigger issue.
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Some games like Factorio have nice contextual cues for certain key bindings. I'm sure there's extensions available for most editors to do the same thing.
It's a culture magazine. It started life as a fashion magazine and includes a fair bit of fashion in its content, but it has always been broader than that. It looks more like The New Yorker than Vogue or Cosmo. Or perhaps a cross between The New Yorker and GQ.
I wouldn't say that unionization of software engineers is a public good. It won't solve poverty or make the world a better place. It is a conflict between engineers and software executives to make money in the way that they want.

I'd wager that most unionization supporters at Google also support high taxes, a social safety net, and widespread unionization so other laborers can capture more of their own output.
>The rest of it make sense to me. Your example of golf: the sport includes the whole social aspect (the golf club rooms etc). Remember they have to keep the rules simple.

closing the clubhouse is hard?
as a nonexpert its hard for me to say too but perhaps you will benefit from hearing directly from source - the performance marketing guy at Uber who found all this out: https://www.marketingtodaypodcast.com/194-historic-ad-fraud-... honestly i am not sure if he did a good thing by asking all these questions, or was partially to blame for gross incompetence managing a 150mm ad budget, or both. (the chronology of when exactly he took over matters, it seems he was only in the job about a year)

and of course for more detail the full text of the fraud suit is public https://www.adexchanger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Uberf...
He allegedly sent out a manifesto about shape shifting alien lizard people altering human DNA.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...
Wow, super cool and transparent slide deck. This is awesome technology!!
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Let's not pat ourselves on the back too much.

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/13/new-eyewitness-accoun...
As a return student studying CS, it's just baffling how many kids think they can just get jobs/get rich after college. I had a roommate think that he was a super smart day trader and understood how to get rich.

Another one is the kids who think actually trying to "learn" things in an obviously padding in course for the bachelor's program is worth your time. For example, learning Assembly. My school is not an amazing school and unfortunately neither was my teacher for it. I did what I had to to squeak by an A with as minimal effort as I could because I knew I'd never touch that stuff again in my average job. Some kids took it very seriously as though it's what everyone learns.

The only thing important about school is to get the degree. You don't learn much in it at all. You learn more in what you're willing to do on your own to build a portfolio on github. That's one reason why I liked CS was because I could at least do that. Unlike Art though, it's a corporate job that usually pays the bills.
Non-Fungible Token. Which is the name of the protocol standard, and the abbreviation has evolved into a colloquialism in the art/game/collector world that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the protocol standard.

But it is referring to unique collectibles. The blockchain protocol aspect improves on the pricing and provenance of the asset, as one can prove when it was created (before or after another similar one, for proof of the original creation), and the exact amount paid for it at that time, to better illuminate prior market value. The art world has had trouble with all of this for millenia including in the present.
If that were true, you would expect to see that:

1. The exchange rate between USD and other currencies fluctuates about as much as USD/BTC.
2. The exchange rate between BTC and other currencies is relatively stable, or at least uncorrelated to the USD/BTC rate.

But in fact you see neither of these. So either (1) all developed-market currencies are seeing massive fluctuations that are all somehow perfectly correlated with each other, or (2) BTC is the one that's fluctuating, not USD.
And... it is back (for us at least.)
I sit up in bed against a backrest pillow, with my laptop in my lap. I don't have a mouse. I program with vim and use keyboard shortcuts in other apps as much as possible.

I have been doing this for years. I don't have problems with my back or wrists like I did years ago in an office, even though I had an office chair, desk, and keyboard drawer.
Ah, I came across it independently of the other article, but I get where you're coming from.

Edit: To note the copy/pasted set of links at the bottom of the post mostly end up leading to further instances of the same copy/pasted set of links. Not overly informative.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629935.
The recipe to build a product studio
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> He should have had the good judgment to redact all names

So how exactly are you supposed to hold officials accountable if you don't have any names to go on?

> I haven't said anything at all about blame regarding anyone other than Assange

Right. That is exactly my problem. When we're talking about war criminals I'd hope the person who exposed it would be the last to get some blame in the matter.
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And there are plenty of other non-5g 'conspiracy' reasons why someone might be driven to attack ATT. 641a and retroactive immunity for example.

Until we see more evidence then everyone is just guessing at this point.
I received that email but their status page doesn’t mention AWS anywhere, they just reported a fix has been implemented, so not AWS fault after all?
If you have an argument to make or information to share, please do.

What do you think he did?
Freud is not taken seriously anymore and for good reasons. I mean, his historical contribution was good, but it is outdated and basically bunch of nonsense as far as we know now.
This is why journalism is dying, it's not fact based, they write to get eyeballs.
I'd probably venture low-poly 'stylised' as their game graphic. Admittedly Mirandus isn't out for pre-alpha till 2nd half 2021 but they do give sneak preview posts weekly if time permits - https://gogalagames.medium.com/mirandus-monday-a-broader-vie...
SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks
I recently tried out a game backed by a block chain. I had uninstalled it quite quickly because it was taking dozens of seconds to load a level because my previous actions had to be saved to the block chain. Maybe they picked a poor implementation of block chain to go with, but sacrificing performance for any of the benefits of being on a block chain is not a trade off I see worth while in games in general. Players care about loading screens far more than they care about their items being on a block chain rather than a database.
Maybe someone will come up with an app that you use before you go to sleep and it trains/primes your mind to work on pieces of work (ones that require creativity or insight) while you sleep. And then corporations will adopt it and offer employees a pay rise if they sign up to use it. Eventually it will become mandatory, and people will write wistful articles about the uncolonized dream spaces of yesteryear, while accepting that no normal person would sacrifice the most productive part of the working day (night) in order to dream about fun things that they will mostly forget anyway.
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In the UK, 95% of the deaths are people over 60. There are more deaths for people over 90 than under 70.

When are we going to start putting all these efforts and resources into focusing on the vulnerable populations and not painting with a broad brush.

We know that lockdowns are too blunt an instrument which is why most of Europe is having to engage in ever more draconian measures. We are mortgaging our future here, without questioning the cost.

We don't need more of the same. It's not a question of willpower. It's a question of approach, and currently nobody is asking the hard questions.

EDIT It seems downvote brigade has arrived to ensure that any contrarian opinion is snuffed out. No rebuttal with data, just downvotes.
If other countries(like the US!) are running it hot it could just as easily develop there and still have spread to the UK.
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You can make the same argument for top level ministers. eg. "well it's fine for the PM and the cabinet to ignore lockdown directives because they're only 0.001% of the uk population"

It's still inconsistent, bad for PR, and puts the whole government into question.
There's no why in what you said, just stating the same premise that I did.

Selle Italia happens to be located in northern Italy, where most of this immigration is concentrated. Granted it's in Veneto and the highest concentration is in Lombardia/Lombardy...but that region has half as many and they're right next to each other.
A road layout using concentric circles with spokes works too.
> Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck

That's pretty much the definition of a mutation.
It was suspected that the IRA Docklands bombing[0] was possibly targeting the telecomms infrastructure. I think there were also some attempts at bombing the National Grid which failed.

You are correct that a lot of CNI is vulnerable due to its nature (remote locations etc). Thankfully, like with most terrorism, the people capable of doing the most damage are not usually interested in carrying out such acts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing
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The mafia influence over the Teamsters Union was at its height in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Well, well after Taft-Hartley.

The UAW and related issues absolutely killing the domestic US auto industry is late 1970s, early 1980s. It wasn't just unions there, but that was a major contributing factor.

Police unions create issues today.

Taft-Hartley barely even registers.
You should be paying VAT if you order from the UK to the EU.

I just tried out checking out an item on Amazon.co.uk with Finland as the destination. On the checkout page I have four different charges: items, postage & packaging, import fees deposit, and exchange rate guarantee fee.

So looks like Amazon is removing the VAT from the item (it was £39.99 on the item page and it drops to £33.32 on the checkout page) and then charging your local VAT as an up-front deposit. So if it's anything like my Amazon.co.jp orders, you just throw money at Amazon and you get the item in your hands without any customs hassle.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629990.