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> This has nothing to do with preventing the reveal of mass security violations and everything to do with laws put in place to disincentivize bad actors who are in a position of trust from profiting from the leaking of state secrets.

So, why is it then that these laws do apply here? Is that just incompetence on the part of those who wrote those laws? Because, you know, if it wasn't, then your claim that this was not a goal of these laws is a bit unfounded.

Plus, the fact that these laws still haven't been changed to protect whistleblowers really completely invalidates even the possibility that this is just incompetence. All those people who would be in the position to change that law know about Snowden, and nothing has happened. That is not what an honest mistake looks like.

> However you try to spin things, this is exactly what happened.

So?

> Snowden was in a position of trust, leaked all kinds of state secrets, and then tried to profit from that leak.

So?

Why is it that you feel the need to defend these abuses? To grasp for these straws of plausible deniability? Why is it so hard to see this for what it is: Systematic human rights abuses and violation of the law with other laws that protect the abusers and punish those who reveal the abuse. Why is this law that protects the abusers so much more important than the laws these abusers broke and break? How can it possibly be just to uphold the law against the whistleblower while at the same time letting the abusers continue to break the laws they don't like?
> ... had engines so loud, and i mean insanely loud they would not be popular these days. I remember covering my ears as it flew overhead.

I lived near Heathrow and Concorde was such a thing of beauty that the noise, if anything, just added to the spectacle!

Trust me, this never got old:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ShTUVIzCI
many years ago, when i worked at google, we'd joke that every time fiber was 'cut' it was some rando government agency installing a tap. this was before internal traffic was encrypted.

of course, we were less than half joking.
You say that as if they are somehow being sparing in their support of C# and .NET, which is clearly not true. What specifically do you see as lacking on that front?
So not so much of a laptop as a foldable desktop.
Yet we don't use nuclear energy because of its "risks"
This is basic functionality via `git annotate` (which goes back, at least, to `cvs annotate`).

It is also built into Emacs as `vc-annotate` (default `C-x v g`), though `magit-blame-addition` is a better option for projects using git.
https://github.com/neilalexander/seaglass looks promising.
Can't wait for Threaded I/O as our app main bottleneck in some deployments was Redis.
Shocked by the downvotes, to be honest.
I wish there were alternatives to the Youtube recommendation algorithm. The algorithm in my opinion gives too much weight to frequent uploads of shallow 10+ minute videos (2 minutes of content stretched out to 10 minutes) filled with filler and clickbait-y titles with obnoxious thumbnails. Perhaps there'd be less burnout and increased viewer satisfaction if there were was a way to watch Youtube with alternative recommendation algorithms.
> Still, as long as something is a compile-time error, I don't care about having to update my code when I choose to upgrade compilers.

It's not just your code; it could be the code of any of your dependencies (or their dependencies, recursively). Besides, the Rust team does intend to keep older code compiling unchanged on newer releases of the Rust compiler, unless the breakage is caused by fixing a soundness hole.

The best example of a non-exhaustive enum, in my opinion, would be std::io::ErrorKind (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/enum.ErrorKind.html). Several Rust releases ago, I added a new variant to that enum (the last one, UnexpectedEof, used by std::io::Read::read_exact - notice how that variant comes after "Other", which used to be the last one). If that enum were not non-exhaustive (non-exhaustive enums already existed since Rust 1.0, though using a doc-hidden trick instead of formal compiler support), I would not have been able to add that new variant, since it would risk breaking anything which matched on every variant of that enum.
Hmmm, I've also been experiencing downtime today to nixval and amazon (don't know which region exactly) hosted sites. IDK if it's a coincidence.
I'm mystified as well. I worked at Microsoft for seven years and never once heard any mention of Java. Maybe it's in the acquisitions? (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.)
Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (1994) [pdf]
Behave? J++ was Mike's ahead of sun, hence the lawsuit. Their jitter beat sun's
Cases like these are protected by whistleblower laws. But you can’t just leak stuff, call yourself a whistleblower and claim
immunity from prosecution.

Factually, objectively, Snowden didn’t even try to use the law. (HN voters will immediately censor via downvote any comment that points this out, of course.)
Was this a test? Who and why would be motivated to see the result of these actions?
Why should I trust the NYT when they frequently exaggerate and lie about things I know about? Is it unreasonable to assume they also lie and exaggerate about the areas I don't know about?
> https://stefankrause.net/js-frameworks-benchmark8/table.html

The version of Svelte used there is roughly 100 releases and a year and a half old. These days Svelte's performance appears to be much closer to Inferno's than Preact's.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...
Why do you keep using the second person? I am not in charge of federal drug policy. You can lump me into a category that's neither "us" nor "them", thanks.

And the proper analogy wrt crack would be to hold the CIA accountable for unleashing it on urban communities, which is clearly never going to happen, but if it did, then yes I would expect it to satisfy/validate affected communities to some extent.
As someone who's worked at many startups and look at this from that point of view.

Here are my key points:

- What makes aws great is NOT ec2... it's the ALB, route53, ecs/eks/fargate, redshift, rds, lambda, SQS, Kinesis, cloudwatch, cloudfront... ect. The last startup I was at our production MySql got corrupted... glad I paid for RDS and had their 5 minute interval backups to s3 that required 1 click.

- Nearly everyone is on aws, if aws is down the internet is down. The down time from aws is often hand waved away.

- With aws I have access to 3rd party services like snowflake and databricks. Hiring and training talent is more expensive then ease of use services.

- The cost to performance ratio had always been worth it for every startup* I worked at (double given aws gives baiscly a free year when you raise a round of vc funding). Its costly to dedicate staff/time to infrastructure. I had a real time data pipeline up in under 2 hrs using kensis and imply. Just having to set up somthing like kafka alone will take a multiplitude longer. *The exception being the startup that did billions of requests a day... I doubt they regretting paying aws to get to that point after 6ish years.
For folks who have used this and WSL, how does this compare to WSL? (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Has anyone tried to run production(ish) workloads on WSL? Multipass?
News flash: elastic pricing is not optimal for static workloads.
Because when you feel threatened, you are fine that your government passes laws (e.g., surveillance laws) you would never let them to pass.
An active fork of IKVM can be found here: https://github.com/jessielesbian/ikvm

Also re: using Java with .NET, there's also their Java Interop project which is used with Xamarin: https://github.com/xamarin/java.interop
Admittedly I haven't read it. Are the operations information in the book from his leaks?
I know it's possible to load remote images in emails, but I don't think I've heard of anyone doing so until now.
This is true, but many(most?) of these companies aren't in that strong of a place yet. Red Hat might have been but a side effect of the investor driven rocket growth model is that even if you're setup to have a strong company, you often don't have the position to make these kind of deals.
Pure deflection. Pressure your Senators to remove Trump from office for the multitude of proven crimes and then we can go after the FBI for their procedural mistakes.

Conflate the two and you are supporting treason against the United States, assuming you are a citizen of the US of course.
From Wikipedia: "Kassar reportedly offered Warshaw US$200,000 and an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii in compensation." [0] . $200K in 1982 is equivalent to over $500K today. When you give a halfway intelligent and sensible 25 year old that kind of money, "have to" is probably not something that applies to working anywhere.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(vi...
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A look through the yarn issue tracker tells me it's not time to try it again yet, since the last time it burned me. Maybe some day.
Bloomberg didn't say possible, though. They said it had happened, and been discovered.

Specifically, they said "A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network". And then that manipulated hardware was never produced and verified, Bloomberg provided no evidence for the claim, every outside investigation disagreed with it, and their primary source criticized the story (in favor of an even broader, equally unproven assertion).

It's an interesting theoretical attack, but Bloomberg made specific, concrete assertions which are, according to all available evidence, bogus.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evide...
> You can write a pretty and functional Electron app in a weekend.

You can also do so in Qt and other frameworks.

The fact that you are proficient in web frameworks does not mean other tools are less productive.

In fact, being proficient in modern web dev, including HTML, CSS, JS, TS, React, etc. takes way longer than learning something like Qt. And if you go to easier frameworks like Delphi or VB6, you would be amazed at the productivity speed.
It seems Microsoft is doing .net Java introp:
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/2517
> To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika.

Seriously ? Christmas didn't cause the holocaust. Christian idiots who don't know who Christ is or what he taught definitely caused millions of deaths but that's more on their leadership/organized religion.

I'm exmormon, ex-christian. Agnostic, but seriously people need to take a chill pill. Santa's more like Mickey Mouse than a religious figure at this point. Hardly a religious symbol imho. If anything he's a symbol of xmas than christmas.

For me I just treat Christmas like it's Festivus, while my wife and other family celebrate Christmas because that's what they believe. Tolerance goes both ways. This person is as much a hate monger as a Christian hating on Muslim's. It's only offensive because he chooses to be offended by it, just as the religious right chooses to be offended with a transgender person goes into what they deem is 'the wrong' restroom. It's all perception, people need to stop it with being so offended, while at the same time accepting others for who they are obviously.

How did our world get so toxic... Why can't we all just get along?
Definitely read Toffler. He saw so much of what people are talking about today, as far back as the late 60's. The details have changed, of course, but a lot of the basic principles are exactly what he talked about in Future Shock.
Bloomberg did it to me. Even blocked my phone number. I figured that out when I changed my caller id. It was back in the day when VoIP was new and they didn't expect that someone could do that. It was worth hearing the panic on the voice when they realized who it was.

The only reason I called was because they stiffed my the reimbursement for travel expenses which they had agreed to pay for. The HR turnover was so high that everyone I had talked to before the interview was gone by the time I put in for the reimbursement.
I can't explain Reddit, but for Twitter it's a side-effect of how they decided to create the "simple" linear view.

Tweets are actually structured as a tree similar to Reddit comments, but while Reddit essentially displays a depth-first traversal, Twitter opted for a breadth-first traversal so it can show all the immediate replies. Almost every "show more" is for going one level deeper in that tree.

(With some caveats/custom rules, at least - if a subtree only has 1 reply it'll often be shown in-line, then there's tweet chains like this one)
Microsoft's apparently not ready to use line breaks.

Seriously, people that write lines like that... just... why. What email client is even allowing it?
The difference between other public figures, such as politicians, presidents, and movie stars is they make millions of dollars per year. YouTube stars usually don't. They're putting all of the time and little money they have into something so fragile, so easily broken. PewDiePie mentions this in his video about taking a break: He did not expect a YouTube career to be a possible, long-sustaining venture. He expected, maybe 1-2 years of success and then it'd fizzle out, though that's not what happened. This paragraph is my criticism specifically with YouTube. It enabled lower and middle class people, who don't have the financial security to handle the realities of life as a public figure, to become public figures.

Why do you need me to name a person impacted by cancel culture? The discussion shouldn't latch onto one person's particular situation. I have enough empathy in me to believe that some people impacted by cancel culture regret their actions, and are given no opportunity to make amends, and I think that's toxic and it encourages people to be further more toxic, because they're given no other option than to double down. Cancel culture is a very new phenomena and is not as old as electricity or democracy.
Part of this point is that Amazon / Google / Microsoft pricing is intentionally complex, which at the end of the day leads to surprise / higher costs
Do any browsers or popular blockers object to these things if they aren't setting cookies?

I've used a 1x1 transparent image on many pages on my site for a long time, with a simple page identifier attached to the URL, such as "?index" for the main page.

This was simply for convenience in analyzing logs. If I wanted to know which of those pages were visited in the last N days, it was a simple matter at the command line to take the logs for those data and make a quick report that counted how many times that image was fetched, broken down by page identifier.
This looks awesome- I wish I knew about it a few months ago!
Auth0 is completely down for us too.. http://status.auth0.com/ again, probably not related but a weird morning with all these outages.
Not finding any errors would be more disconcerting, there must be some in almost every case.

The main thing is to know if your error rate and development methodology matches the risk profile, eg is it a train braking system or a playlist enhancer and did you achieve acceptable results in reasonable time.
Ah, cool ! I am off to installing tchap then.

Really glad to hear you are upgrading the game on the front-end/UX/UI !

edit: well, I give up :D. Been playing for 40 minutes with yarn build/dist and config.json and missing olm and async_hooks dependencies.
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so 20 years ago the US dropped troops into a former military base with ample warnings of chemical and radiation contamination legible in two languages. a sizeable number of them developed cancer. The VA subsequently ignored and marginalized these cases.

>“We were doing a great thing” at K2, said retired Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeff Frisby

two trillion dollars later, this proves to be patently false or at best, arguable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743782

The US went down this road in Iraq with the burn pit ailments, and again before that with the chemical weapons ailments. Prior to this, Vietnam soldiers and agent orange. at some point this has to stop for recruitment sake. the internet makes it far too easy for the average highschool student to spend 10 minutes catching up on exactly how forgotten a promise the government makes to soldiers after they've fought in service of their country.
FB can track users without accounts via cookies; you don't have to have a login to use cookies.

But they may also be fingerprinting; I don't know how they do things.

The key thing from my perspective, though, is that Google ads don't have any sort of special treatment in Chrome.
I have spent the last two days fighting with these new Github tools. I've been trying to do a simple Hello-World Maven app, built on Github Actions and deployed to Github Packages. It does not work.

Github documentation is a disaster. They leave out critical parts. They don't provide examples. Everything they write is terse, confusing, and incomplete.

They have short little articles on how to do things, and for each sub-task they have a link to docs somewhere else. This would be fine, except the links don't point to anything useful.

To give an example: they say you can use the Github API to talk to Github Packages, but the link goes to their generic GraphQL documentation. They don't point to any reference material on the actual calls to the packages service. If it exists, I can't find it.

If you go to the main page in your account for Github Packages, it says that all you have to do is this:

mvn deploy -Dregistry=https://maven.pkg.github.com/mycompany -Dtoken=GH_TOKEN

That is just straight-out wrong. It does not work.

Seriously, Github, you need to fire your documentation team and hire some people who know how to write. Perhaps you should hire people who have actually used your tools to write the docs. Or just provide some freakin' working examples.
The criminal conspiracy was very well documented in the Mueller report? As Greenwald says in the first sentence, no American was charged with conspiracy/collusion/coordination with Russia. All the people sent to prison are for process crimes or unrelated matters (Manafort). Hell, Roger Stone is going to prison for lying that he was part of a conspiracy with Wikileaks, when in fact he was making that up!
I think the most disappointing thing was the "klong klong" sound it made while eating pellets, and that the pellets were bars instead of dots. The ghost flickering looks awful in an emulator, but it's almost bearable in a CRT.
Awesome. Was missing that in emacs. Magit continues to surprise and delight me.
>Facebook, Ebay, Mercedes Benz and a few others[0] don't seem to believe so. Better tell them to use a different language?

The already "use a different language" for most of their stuff.

Their D use is tokenish, the way you can find any bizarro, niche language used somewhere big. That doesn't mean the language is in any kind of widespread use, just that some teams in some big company or another adopted it - as outliers.
Auth0 Having a Major Outage
Which you would then do what with, as there's no free supply of oxygen to burn it with in the engine?
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I grew up in Noble County, Ohio (next to Belmont County) and still get the weekly newspaper delivered to me via mail.

There were exactly zero write-ups of this in the local papers.

The Radio stations in the area are generally owned by one entity (AVC Communications), and there really isn't a lot on their website about it: not really surprising, because 25+ years ago they went Satellite Only and only someone in the news room from 6A-4P.

My biggest complaints about the Oil and Gas industry taking the SE Ohio area and turning it into a cash cow are two-fold: 1.) We're basically treating nature like a resource and stripping it all back to nothing (like AEP did in the 60's and 70's), and 2.) this has basically zero benefit to the locals: most of the jobs in the Oil and Gas industry are specialized and workers imported (leading to stories of welders making $140/hour in Ohio: just simply not true).

I could go on and on about growing up in the second poorest county in Ohio, but, I'll just leave it at this: not surprised that it happened but very surprised that nobody has really reported on this until now.
For one, the law is not being applied consistently. The abusers are still not in jail. Rather, the abuse is still going on, still breaking the law.

But also, actually, it would be a problem, because the law would still be broken, because the law still systematically protects the abusers. What is needed is a change to the unjust law, not some exception for someone who highlighted that that is what it is.
Ask HN: Like Superhuman, which other products have the best keyboard shortcuts?
I agree. That's what Semver is for. If you are adding new variants to your enum that can break code for your dependents, then increment your version accordingly.
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F# would get my vote for resources over C# and Java
Clearly it's petty. The Feds have a history of taking one misguided step based on ignorance and never backing down no matter how stupid they look. We don't disagree on that.
However, a lot of the comments here are based arguing First Amendment. Employees enter in all sorts of employee-employer agreements that limit First Amendment rights.
Should you write an article that can be summed up by "no"?

>For a lot of tasks the performance works well, but for extreme precision it will not fly — yet.

But we all knew that going in, didn't we?
Github is Ruby

LinkedIn is Java
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The description you doesn't addresses consciousness.

The remarkable aspect is that of conscious awareness. You (presumably) have an experience of the world, in a way that a computer does not. Paraphrasing Nagel, "there is something it is like to be you."

Most people don't think that this is true of an executing computer program, for example - it executes whatever its instructions are, and even a self-modifying program, as you described, doesn't change that.

There is no known way to write a computer program which has conscious awareness, and no plausible reason that scale should affect this. If you scale up a computer program, or a computational neural network, there's no reason to believe that it wouldn't just be a very big machine, blindly executing its instructions with no conscious awareness.

The proposed explanations that do exist are all nothing but handwaving at this point, hence my original comment. The burden of explanation here is on those who claim that the brain is nothing but a computing device, since our current models of computing devices can't explain consciousness.
It is a big blip, and they talk about it in the article.
Since you like my comment, then why not go further. A computer, any computer, is just a blank slate. This is a matter of nature vs nurture, in computer language: a matter of programming. Good programming practices is all we need...

OK, now, what is this subject anything else than massive stupidity?
Yeah, that was a bummer for me.

Discord is admittedly awesome, but not in line with openness.
Learn both, and choose whichever makes most sense for the task at hand. Neither are that difficult.