skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, pol nerd here.

What Trump is trying to do is access the libertarian/tech worker vote.

Remember, relative to the rest of the population, we skew white, male, and affluent. Those, as he sees it, are his people.

The problem is that libertarians, as (center or right-leaning) adversaries of authoritarianism, are not natural allies to a self-confessed admirer of Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, and Putin.

The solution is as crass as it is obvious -- trade horses with the libertarian 'squad' in the GOP, and attempt to build a new alliance here even as the 2016 alliance with center-leaning, moderate college-educated white people is in tatters.

The prototype for this attempt at bridge-building to our world is probably Elon Musk himself -- I recall the "red pill" tweet controversy from a few weeks back, it's still fresh somehow even despite all the goings-on.

If I worked for Trump's campaign, and I wanted to further this strategy, I'd donate a bunch of money to Burning Man. In a crisis, everyone loves a solution, no matter how vile its provenance.
So if Copernicus and Einstein were drinking coffee with Galileo and Hawking on a little planet orbiting this star, trying to formulate an Alpha Sagittaricentric model of the galaxy, how much would Einstein and Hawking be contributing to the conversation? How important is relativity to explaining what they would be observing of the light from other stars?
Except you’re going to have an unprecedented amount of letter mail coming in November! These changes should have occurred post election, if cost was a concern.
definitely going to try this out, thank you!
The CIA will instagib Snowden the instant it is physically possible for them to do so. A pardon will never change that.

The commander of the CIA states it plainly: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/39568370275766272...

(Remember, we're talking about the same CIA that hacked US congressional computers, because the congress was investigating the CIA’s torture record and they wanted to cover it up. Then the CIA lied about hacking them. Then they later lied about lying about it.)

The IC knows they would suffer zero consequences for his “heart attack”.

Ed is far too smart to ever put himself in that situation.

Thus, for practical purposes, such a pardon is irrelevant.
the best times with mutt were the days where we were hanging out with michael elkins (me) at the linux user group meetings in L.A. during which i came up with this joke:

"i didn't write mutt, it was me"

i used mutt until a few years ago when i switched to sup.
Correct. Volume of flats (exactly what it sounds like; mail that can be bent, basically) has plummetted since COVID19 began, while Priority Mail is no longer 2-3 days to anywhere in the US.
Very cool, played around with it for like an hour and found a good one.

Nice looking website too.
> This is a battle for the courts, not Twitter.

The legal channel isn't the only one though. Sure it would be amazing if the court would do something, but let bet honest here, like you said, it's just a billion dollar company versus another one, except a shit ton of cash, nothing will come out of it.

People need to understands the power Apple has (and Google, and so many others, too by the way). When the theatrics are over, is when people will stop caring... there's nothing good about that. People needs to be aware that companies abuse their monopoly and they need to be aware that when they choose a platform that decide to abuse their monopoly, that they help that kind of abuse.
It's why some people rewrite perfectly good code - because they don't understand the "theory" of the program unless they work through it for themselves.

You can discourage this by writing code that doesn't just perform the required task, but also makes its theory clear to the reader.
Being inclusionary isn't costless - historically the marginalization of trans (or other minority groups) gave the establishment / mainstream / cis in this case peoples power to dictate the material conditions of that group. The marginalization of trans people empowered the rest to drive them to suicide or normalize their abuse. That kind of power dynamic is appealing to sociopaths and other hostile personality types.

That doesn't create any economic benefit of course - bigotry in general is an economic impediment. That does not stop its widespread practice, it just means that in macrospect practitioners of hate repress their populaces productive potential and we can hope over sufficient time frames that leads to their own self inflicted obsolescence.
That is not the case at all. There is no need to speculate as the President has made his rationale clear:

> President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him reelection.

https://apnews.com/ece1f6e9cea1b2aa0a8c6af7ca003f26
Big fan of Amazon here... I’ve been using Amazon since 1990-something… yet the co-mingling counterfeit items has caused me to stop using it for many items I formally purchased there.

Amazon make inefficient use of truck rolls for delivery, often sending many trucks through my small residential subdivision every day, needlessly delivering one non-urgent item at a time.

This is probably the key competitive challenge facing Amazon today: somehow keep up with the rapid growing overall demand while simultaneously improving execution fast enough to not leave the door open too long for someone else.
Clearly Snowden has been useful to them, at least from a propaganda angle, and perhaps intelligence-wise as well. By now they've extracted all the value they were ever going to extract from him, and he may just be a cost center to them now, but you're absolutely right that if they wanted to be rid of him, it'd be trivial to do it.
Still. I watched the 5-minute clip just expecting "the twist". Then when it happened, it had less impact because I was anticipating something different or "twistier". Had OP not announced the twist, that last shot might have actually surprised me.
bought some wireless earphones from them a while back, the store sold me a knock off. open up a dispute and the owner told me their delivery guy was swaping fake ones for the real ones. took forever to send me new ones. after all that I went to post a review saying that this happened and guess what? my review never saw the light of day
Why is it troubling for Andrew to give his opinion? Is it troubling when you post your opinion on HN? Or only troubling when people you disagree with share their opinion?
A jury can...but that really depends on the opinions of the jury.

It's not like a legal argument about what you knew or when and what the law says about your responsibility / actions.

A jury ignoring admissions of crimes is pretty rare and a roll of the dice.

I get why people would want that to happen, but expecting that random chance of an outcome and using it to measure fairness, I dunno, they're likely to be disappointed.
PayPal isn’t as much of a thing these days for ebay transactions
yeah, it is super funny

have to feel bad for the guy

he basically was taking over the world

And now he's getting kicked out of the biggest market on the planet
I doubt it was invented in the 1980s

PT Barnum was doing it 100 years ago.
If you were the real Henry Kissinger, I think your disapproval would be a great reason to pardon Snowden.
Yeah I mean, if he pardons before the debates, suddenly that takes up a debate topic slot. All he has to do is directly ask Biden, ‘You don’t think Snowden did the right thing by exposing your administration’s surveillance program?’. It’s such an easy win, and will take mindshare away from other issues (coronavirus response, police reform, Medicare/social security cuts). Add a TikTok ban in there and take up another debate slot, fill it in with all the anti China stuff.

There are things he can do to set the stage for sure.
I’ve never been more inclined than now to do the same thing.

How do you deal with spam?

How do you ensure your emails don’t get junk mailed?
Almost everyone thought mass surveillance was a conspiracy theory before Snowden. On the balance maybe he still deserves prison, but denying the positives of what Snowden did is disingenuous.
Without going too deep down the "jury nullification" rabbit hole, I'll just say that it's entirely reasonable to admit taking an action that is prohibited by law, while pleading not guilty to violating the same law. You may argue that there were extenuating circumstances that pre-empt the law in the specific case, or you may argue that the law itself is inherently wrong, etc. Yes, it's difficult to win an acquittal like this, but it does happen.

That we can't just mechanically apply the law like the axioms of mathematics is part of the very reason that we have judges, juries, and the adversarial system, to allow for some measure of human judgement in the process.
With a pardon he could travel. He wouldn't have to leave Russia either. In time those who want him dead might fade away. Even if he never left Russia, a pardon might sway some voters one way or the other. Of course a pardon is relevant! (Not saying he should be pardoned, or that he shouldn't be.)
Except a pardon would mean he could move back to the US and leave Russia
Don't get me wrong, it makes sense to use diagnostics to verify hardware issues, but they aren't the only tool you can use. I'm convinced Nvidia only would reimburse apple for computers that had a recorded failure of this specific test.

In 2010, Apple wasn’t exactly a beleaguered company. It wasn’t like NVidia not reimbursing Apple would break the bank. Apple should have repaired it just to protect its reputation.

Jobs himself was famous for saying to high level employees that at a certain level of authority, you don’t get to make excuses.
I still use POP cause I’m paranoid. Does imap guarantees that it downloads and stores all mail indefinitely?
Plenty of early stage companies openly advertise €75-80k base in Berlin on AngelList so that's a pretty low offer for somewhere like Amazon! My total comp at Airbnb Berlin was approx double that €65k quoted. An ex-colleague makes more than that at Amazon Berlin but at a higher level.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear. If he ever sets foot in the US again, he will be quietly and instantly murdered by his former coworkers, even after he is pardoned.
This is the first I've heard of Snowden helping elect Trump.
Apple just spent a billion dollars buying Intel's wireless modem business. If there's still a hardware reliance on Qualcomm, it's certainly coming to a quick end.
The whole of the NT kernel was essentially a futurized implementation of VAX-VMS.

Both VMS and NT had the same manager, in the person of Dave Cutler. Microsoft hired a large team away from DEC to build NT (which became the subject of litigation from DEC).

I have read that NTFS shares common architecture with Files-11/ODS-2&5 (native VMS filesystems). Aspects were also lifted from OS/2.

ZFS was developed a decade after NTFS. Most UNIX was still on FFS when NTFS was born.

https://wikimili.com/en/Files-11
From the article, it isn't clear how long it will take to get the results. Is it the same as the "traditional" test? Any ideas? Here in Oz, I received a negative in 24 hours (actually more like 14 ) using the nasopharyngeal method and which was free for me (covered by Medicare) so would love to know if the turnaround time for SalivaDirect will be lesser as well.
It’s relevant in the sense that he could maybe get a legit visa and leave Russia at some point.
The national security of the United States was placed in jeopardy by the people who violated the Constitution. The Snowden Revelations should have resulted in half a dozen people being put to death for treason.
Can you explain how you reconcile that belief with multiple statements supporting e.g. running for more than 2 terms, un-elected leaders, as well as the very recent refusal to fund the post office because it will help more people exercise their constitutional rights and the installation of a postmaster general who is actively removing sorting machines and post boxes, as well as unsourced claims of mass voter fraud, particularly through mail-in ballots?
Completely irrelevant to anything, but seeing this comment downstream from a conversation I started pretty much made my day.
> For years, S2 was thought to be the closest star to SgrA, but then S62 was discovered. As a team recently discovered, it's a star about twice as massive as the sun that orbits the black hole every 10 years. By their calculations, at the closest approach, its speed approaches 8% of the speed of light. That's so fast that time dilation comes into play. An hour at S62 would last about 100 Earth minutes.
Thanks I didn't know about that!
If this were youtube I could at least be certain that an account named "HenryKissinger" spouting authoritarian drivel was a novelty account. Here? I legitimately don't know.
I'll be impressed when he actually issues a pardon. I'd say Trump is notorious for "talking about" things without ever delivering anything. Take the issue of 50 state concealed carry reciprocity. Regardless of what you think about this issue yourself, it seems clear that Trump has tried to pander to gun owners and 2A advocates by constantly talking about this. But last I heard, there had been no meaningful action on it, or any reason to believe he was actually pushing his allies in Congress on the issue.
Isn’t that exactly what I said?

once you almost die it kind of changes your priorities and just by founding Apple he has done more in his life than most.
Not parent, but I'm in the same boat with the self-hosted email VPS. I usually use Thunderbird as a client though, but sometimes mutt.

- SpamAssassin does a wonderful job after training it about once every 3 years. I get almost no spam.

- I was able to send to most people from my VPS, but not Charter. Charter blanket-blocked my ip block. So I ended up setting up SMTP forwarding via sendgrid free tier (100 emails per day). Now I always get through.
No. Two extra letters per household (one ballot, then one returned ballot), largely spread out over days or weeks, is just not that much more volume for the USPS. That's of course the maximum; in practice the average per household will be much lower than that. Further, as stated elsewhere, non-package mail volume has collapsed because of COVID19.

What does matter is the backend, the infrastructure for counties and states that previously did not use mail ballots, or only used them for absentee voting, to a) properly send them out to the right recipients, then b) accept and process them. All this a) of course has to be done by early October to give voters a month before election day, and b) has nothing to do with the USPS.
" constantly trying to dispel the idea that git is too difficult "

If that's the case, why wouldn't you concede that it is?

"The problem has always come down to the missing attempt to understand the issue"

Isn't that always the case with misunderstanding something?

That 'it's common' and 'people misunderstand the issue' is essentially proof that at least from a certain level, 'git is hard'.

- Git is very powerful. Nobody doubts this.
- Git is sometimes easier to understand when the model is well understood - yes, this is a common refrain.

But - it's still a very complex model, and the UI is bizarre + counter intuitive and as a command line, without a lot of visual reference.

Even standards and practices are not well established as there continue to be wars over idiomatic usage, arguments on HN often by 'experts' who actually make some mistakes in their argumentation.

I suspect a lot of people who think they are 'good at git' 1) don't realize how much they don't know and 2) maybe lacking in self-awareness as to how much trouble if often causes.

I've seen very smart people with very strong git skills befuddled far too often for me to believe the tool does not have problems.

The fact that 'Oh Shit Git' even exists, is in some ways problematic - because it's obviously not clear to many how to truly 'undo' things they've done. OSG could be 100x longer, easily.

Have a look here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114095/how-do-i-revert-...

This is really scary. It's not a complicated question necessarily, maybe a little specific - but - there are just so many answers, so many variables, incredible complexity in the answers.

Git has a kind of 'unbounded complexity' that allows for so, so many situations and uses cases. There really wasn't much 'Product thinking' rather, just a decade long cadence of 'let's add this feature with this flag' over and over again.

It's such an interesting case study from a Product perspective.
I haven't heard of it. Reading the synopsis on Amazon suggests that it's not something I'd find much to agree with. While I do believe that trans identities are in the forefront of the discourse right now and that some folks might be inclined to question their identities more, I don't find the idea that kids are being forced into a craze very compelling. (Shrier's writing reminds me of the satanic panic of the 80s, where my parents were asking me if I was worshiping satan because I played D&D.)

I went through, as an adult, a period where I was sure I was a trans woman, and I sought therapy. This led to experimentation and further discussions that no, that wasn't the right label for me. I do regret, even as someone who is masculine presenting most of the time, that I didn't have more of a choice in my hormonal changes during my teens. Many bodily changes via testosterone are irreversible, and it would have really helped me had someone said, "let's hold off on those changes for just a little bit so we can figure out what makes you feel right."

So, that's a bit anecdotal, and it definitely doesn't apply to every child's situation, but I sure wish that we had the resources and available knowledge back then that we do now, because I probably would have taken a different path.
That's https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/258
I think it's debatable whether he should be pardoned for leaking the domestic spying information (I don't think so, he didn't try to bring it up through proper channels first), but he leaked information that had nothing to do with that. For example, he gave the Chinese government information about which computers the NSA had access to. My personal theory is that he just gathered as much information as he could get his hands on to give to China, then went back and looked through the data to try and retroactively justify what he did.
"Showing up at the gate(s)" just seems odd. I wouldn't think there's anything to see there.

"In 1995, the federal government expanded the exclusionary area around the base to include nearby mountains that had hitherto afforded the only decent overlook of the base, prohibiting access to 3,972 acres (16.07 km2) of land formerly administered by the Bureau of Land Management."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51

(I remember reading about this in the newsletter I mentioned, at the time)
What leaker or whistleblower has the CIA murdered? Why didn’t they murder Manning?
> Do you know how much Google, Microsoft, Steam and Epic themselves take from sales on their stores?

Nice job of misinformation right there! Apple should send you a check for that one! Let me quote you the article we are commenting on:

> Apple has removed Epic Games’ battle royale game Fortnite from the App Store after the developer on Thursday implemented its own in-app payment system that bypassed Apple’s standard 30 percent fee

How many of the one you named did the same? Weird how it's 0 right?

Okay now let bring something you said yourself, how many of them block side loading, which is a great way to bypass this? Again 0.

A fee for a service is perfectly fine, you are the only one trying to argue anything about this. What we are arguing is that Apple is forcing people to pay that fee, even though there's perfectly valid alternative that can be done, and that this practice is wrong. None of the company you are citing does that.
Leaking classified data without authorization was reckless and unlawful. There are already stringent safeguards in place to prevent abuse of the intelligence community's surveillance powers. Oversight of US surveillance programs is exercised by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The purpose of these congressional committees is to oversee and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government, to submit to Congress appropriate proposals for legislation and report to Congress concerning such intelligence activities and programs, to provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States to assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States. In fact, there is no country in the world where surveillance activities are subject to more regulations and checks than the United States.
Dude, if you can get it built, please either send me all the instructions or just post the binary.

Thanks for all your great tips on Twitter, btw. :)
Is it just me or is the term leaker politically charged in the context. For me, Snowden is a whistle blower not a leaker. There's a reason why he revealed secretes (he also didn't just release them, but was very careful how much he revealed), the secrete programs were unconstitutional -> whistle blower not leaker.

edit: typo.
> Git might not be hard, it might be easy, but for someone who has not spent enough time trying to understand it, it gives options to royally F up if you don't know what you're doing.

You've just described nearly every tool, show enough carelessness with a hammer and you'll certainly fuck something up.

> So I make it a point to never use any command other than cherry-pick. Everything else I use GitHub desktop for. Its a simple ui that only lets you do the bare minimum of git actions thats less F up prone.

Yes, when you handicap yourself, limiting to a subset of available features. You'll usually have fewer ways to screw up. But I hope that's not advice you give out to others. That's exactly the mentality I'm trying to encourage people to avoid. "I don't understand it, so instead of trying to learn more about it, I'll just limit my self to a trivial subset of the actual options." That's not how you get good at anything.

> Thats my personal story. The other problem I see is a large number of engineers who say git is not hard, it's very straightforward and they understand it very well, but actually they don't. And every once in a while they royally F up the entire repo and cause issues in deployment because of that.

Other people making a mistake is pretty common. Sorry you've had to deal with it, I've been there myself. Fixing others mistakes is pretty annoying. It's expecially annoying when they pretend like they already know everything they need to about git; refusing to learn anything new.

> So git's main problem from my perspective is that it's an extremely advanced, unforgiving tool that gives a false sense of expertise to many mediocre programmers.

Again, it's not extremely advanced. MS Word has more features/options than git does. And I'd never call git unforgiving. In-fact git has been my best friend; I deleted a live directory with a bunch of code that I (foolishly) didn't have backed up anywhere. Including a good portion of the .git directory. Thankfully, git was very forgiving to me, and I was able to restore most of it from the objects that git keeps. But that's something I didn't know how to do before deleting my repo. It's something I had to go out and learn.
The Post conversation reads like Trump has just heard a pitch to attract voters, and wants to know which side of the argument could help him more.
Politically, he just says insane things that get headlines, which distract from the real news: Covid killing hundreds of thousands under his care, dismantling of the Post Office, and other highly unpopular consequences of his presidency.