skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what most people understand the law to be. What is surprising in this case is that the US prosecutor is arguing that it is an incorrect understanding and that merely publishing or receiving classified information is a prosecutable crime under the espionage act.

> James Lewis QC: Do you accept that the Pentagon Papers judgement is the most relevant one?

Eric Lewis: Yes, but there are others.

James Lewis QC: A close reading of the Pentagon Papers judgement shows that the New York Times might have been successfully prosecuted. Three of the Supreme Court judges specifically stated that an Espionage Act prosecution could be pursued for publication.

Eric Lewis: They recognised the possibility of a prosecution. They did not say that it would succeed.

James Lewis QC: So your analysis that there cannot be a prosecution of a publisher on First Amendment grounds is incorrect.

...

James Lewis QC: The United States Supreme Court has never held that a journalist cannot be prosecuted for publishing national defence information.

Eric Lewis: The Supreme Court has never been faced with that exact question. Because a case has never been brought. But there are closely related cases which indicate the answer.

The case they are mentioning is this one (or more specifically the dropped related case against Rosen) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Franklin

Read the legal principles by which the judge was planning on allowing it to proceed with.
There are some media organizations which imply that all of Portland is constantly a free-for-all, and that's certainly not true. But I think it's hard to look at many of the videos (the most recent example I've seen is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2CCeFlxIiU) and not conclude that there's a localized, temporary free-for-all. I think anyone would be terrified if this were happening just outside their window.
This is definitely a failure on PG&E's part, but I'm still not sure how much sense it makes to assign them blame for this fire. The environment they're operating in is somewhat ridiculous - the forest is so dry and overgrown that pretty much any flame source will start a fire large enough to burn a huge area; this specific tower failure is basically just the thing that revealed a much larger issue.

With proper engineering and maintenance, PG&E could probably reduce the frequency of fires significantly, but there's always going to be a non-zero risk of fire, both from power lines and other sources, and it seems basically inevitable that one of them would have started another fire at some point. If this failure hadn't happened, and the same fire had happened a year later due to an "excusable" cause (like a tree falling on a line, or someone's house catching on fire), would that outcome have been any better?

PG&E does ultimately have some responsibility, due to the fact that they were the immediate cause, but it really seems like people want to blame PG&E for the entire situation while avoiding the much harder truth: that this area will likely never be safe without significant policy changes (if ever).
i upgraded to SE 2020 too but only because my SE 16gb space is running out. The SE 2020 is an ok upgrade and since its cpu is pretty good, I expect this one can last with me for another 5 years.
But isn't it better to be native on multiple platforms? Like Chrome itself, or Photoshop, or Sublime Text, and many others?
It covers this in the article:

>NIH's SRT, formally established in 2005, had previously been a hazardous materials response unit, but evolved to be able to respond to active shooters and other serious incidents at the Institute's campus in Bethesda, Maryland. NIH works with radioactive materials for medical research and infectious diseases, among other hazards, all of which present potential security risks.
What stodgy complainy whininess.

I can play 60%+ of games on Linux because Valve cares way more than anyone else.

Big Picture works great for a console like experience far better than anyone elses.

Valve Controller let's practically any game under the sun be couch & controller playable.

Remote Play, then Remote Play Together, now Remote Play Tablet blow everything else out of the water.

I'm sorry the you doesn't meet your high pop culture desires? It feels much less glossy-plastic & more direct to me than Epic. That's just me I guess. The thing is, that is way way way way down my list of concerns. Steam is a technical juggernaut. No one else is even playing. Steam is super under appreciated. The lack of mainstream highly visible overwhelming successes doesn't bother me. Steam is innovating at the edge in radical ways, & they are always always always trying to spread the love, not steal the sunshine.
This is a very good point.

I love to malign PG&E, an organization that I despise, but these forests are loaded guns waiting to go off. If we had zero PG&E towers, they would still catch fire and explosively burn, given the levels of built up fuel.

My source for this is very current and immediate: my volunteer fire department in Marin County just did a post-op debrief, last night, on the (relatively small, 5000 acre) Point Reyes National Seashore fire (the "Woodward" fire) and the photos and descriptions we were shown were very clearly indicative of dense, overgrown, heavy fuel loads.
The easiest way to point to the distinction is to ask the question: in your direct experience, who came first, you or your parents?
spoken like someone who remembers the kennedy announcement.
I have the same problem as you. Our ears must be similarly defective.

You can buy silicon flaps that slip over the top and will keep them comfortably in your ear. The problem is that they don’t fit in the case with the flaps on.

I haven’t tried AirPod Pros but I assume they are better in this regard.
Awesome. There are plenty of modern forms of music / rhythms indented to induce trance as well. Disco four on the floor and Techno come to mind.
I've seen it justified as every single member of the marginalized group has some life experience that no member of the majority/powerful group has. So although it's a prejudice, it's a correct one. That's different from traditional prejudices that aren't true for every individual.
Yes? At least in my experience that is the reality.
React Internals – Fiber Architecture
PaperWM is inspired by/implements parts of this: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM/
> “Most folks don't realize, because we don't stop and think about it, but the US has unbelievable amounts of infrastructure in this sort of condition.“

With respect, it’s obvious to anyone coming to USA from elsewhere in the world.

Observing America is a strange mix of “wow, these people were so early, they really invented most of this stuff” and “wow, they really haven’t updated it since”.

(The American banking system evokes the same bewilderment. Every system seems to run on a 1958 IBM mainframe where someone feeds my transactions on punch cards.)
Chris Roberts post on Star Citizen timeline/roadmap
Hm...it's unclear whether you read the stream. They had reason to believe that the C-hook would fail after 97-100 years, yet weren't even checking the C-hooks on towers that were 100 years old. That seems willfully negligent.
That is super messed up. That is not how a status board should work.
I do. They are using hotspots through their phone data plans.
I miss these days...
> Google does that because they aren't able to make sure that every android device gets an update.

Hopefully they'll be able to remediate that in the future and separate the core OS deployment from the vendor-specific files. Let Google pushes the OS, and the vendor could update their own stuff separately / through the Play Store. At least there is "Project Mainline" that helps keeping those devices secure.

> App store updates won't magically make the mail app devs work faster or produce more.

Definitely, but it would make it easier to deploy a patch without having to wait for the next iOS update.
Debates on whether this is HN worthy or not aside, what a silly point it is that starts the article. The picture in question just has a completely anonymous, faceless feminine shape it in. It could be a modern day Le fils de l'homme. Why would Ratajkowski own that image, which is almost entirely interesting because of the composition and not the person present in it?

From reading the first few paragraphs, I thought the context was going to be a picture of, say, her just stepping into a building, and then she reposted it to say that paparazzi are just stalkers for hire. But she reposted the image because she liked it and wanted to use it as her own, not to point out how these people are invading her life.
More signal than any mortal can handle. The bandwidth, it was coming too hard, too heavy.
I'm not sure how these particular devices work, "microwave" is anything from a meter to a millimeter which is a pretty broad range (300 MHz to 300 GHz.) Certainly some lengths of microwaves go through glass though, otherwise microwave ovens wouldn't have that metal mesh behind the glass window.

Also I know that microwave ovens normally don't heat glass, which suggests to me they're either very reflective or very transparent to microwaves in the low GHz range. I've cooked enough food in glassware to think it must be the later. (Interestingly if you heat a small portion of glass to red hot with a torch before microwaving it, you can melt the entire piece of glass as the oven heats and spreads the hot spot.)
Maybe, but I think the market for a Facebook-free Oculus is smaller than one might think. Your average xbox dudebro probably uses instagram quite prolifically and isn't in the "protect my privacy" camp.
This reminds me of the binaural beat technique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemi-Sync) that the Monroe Institute has been claiming for decades is a way to induce out of body like experiences.
This is a motte. "Limiting your hiring to a specific race" means excluding everyone outside that race because of race. I think everyone here agrees that's stupid, and today almost no one is openly doing that. It's not the "key message" because 99% of those hearing it already agree, and the 1% who disagree probably aren't changing their minds and don't have much power anyway.

The key message (the bailey) that diversity advocates tend to push these days is that, if you just go about hiring in what you normally think is the best way, and you end up with hires of only one specific race (or of a few races, but none of a certain few other races), then you are doing something wrong and bad, and you should change your hiring process so you end up with people of more races, even if that means sacrificing some of the goals for which you originally optimized your hiring process.
Because this particular task really feels like the killer app that we should already have -- frictionless, non-heirarchical notes that you can just dump into the system and then retrieve based on a few relatively simple axes, date, keywords, a little semantic analysis, etc.

Where I think people are going off the rails is thinking that this can work as a business. I'm hugely skeptical that there's a market here; businesses rely on some measure of "if you don't pay you can't have this part of the thing." -- and even if a startup is able to make this work, it's likely that the "value-add" will be easily replicable into something free (as in freedom) owing to the nature of this being a "power-user" thing.

For example, none of these things promise too much more than, e.g. Zim-wiki (longtime user here) -- which itself is extensible either as FOSS, or simply owing to the fact that it saves in Markdown-ish, immediately MAKING it extensible anyway.
> I'm of the opinion that humans should not be living in areas that burn regularly.

Along similar lines of thinking, humans should not be living in areas that flood regularly, or that have earthquakes regularly, or that have hurricanes regularly, or that have tornadoes regularly, or that have insufficient water, or that have excessive heat or cold regularly, or that have high rates of animal-transmitted disease.

This doesn't leave many places for people to live.
Show HN: Drone Trails (Discover and Share Your Drone Flights)
Digital item economics/lootboxes/items is a big one[1], they even hired Yanis Varoufakis for a bit.

They also did a good deal of the foundational work for VR working with HTC and Oculus.
Then there's steam link, Steam controller/SteamOS/Steam Machines, Player created layers in Portal 2, Steak Workshop/Mod support (and paid mods) to name a few. There's a lot of not hits and a lot of not games, but they've been at least doing some stuff.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6Qn56QWI
Knowledge can be lost. There is a stark difference between using a tool and mastering a tool. It's even harder for theoretical knowledge. Don't use it, lose it.

Look at the US space program for example. It took them 12 years from the first man in space to go to the moon. Nowadays Space X, Blue Origin etc. seem to have to re-learn everthing and edge themselves slowly towards launching manned missions. They very likely have the books about space flight but not much experience.

I'm not saying that young people don't know assembly and C. What I'm saying is that most younger people don't need assembly and C, so they are a lot less proficient in it. Hardware has become so fast, it doesn't matter that JavaScript is 20x times slower, so people nowadays write entire desktop programs in JavaScript that are slow on not-cutting-edge hardware and have bad OS integration.
Wherever possible, don't use us-east-1. It's one of the older regions and parts are aging. Yes, I know there are things that are only available in the old regions but most services are globally available. I've worked with a few ex AWS SWEs and SREs. They drink the kool-aid and won't say anything bad about us-east-1 but they also won't launch net-new services there. YMMV
The IRS has ordered a Remington 870 shotgun that’s pretty interesting. It’s the MCS, shorty, illegal for civilians without a tax stamp. Same version used in Afghanistan for breaching.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010/02/05/the-irs-shotg...

Now... why the IRS needs them, IDK. But the real trip is the Dept of Education ordered the same ones awhile back. So... yay budget justifications?
Unfortunately, Dotrice's recordings of the later books diverge so significantly from the first set that it's almost worse than a different person altogether. Character voices are drastically different, names are pronounced differently, etc.
Which is in itself a huge problem in democratic societies as demonstrated e.g. by Cambridge analytica. I think the potential harm that this business model produces and the power it gives the companies who deploy them, is something our formerly nice working systems didn't really price in when the seperation of powers was invented.

So while protection of privacy is always also the right of one individual, I think it is crucial to realize that this kind of power over "the masses" isn't something any free society could afford in the long term on a systemic level. If we look at a democracy with it's separation of powers, it's institutions etc as a delicately balanced electronic circuit — which has the ability to self correct — players like Facebook are like the introduction of new feedback paths that work better for people who don't mind to sell their soul when abusing them. Of course such new connections will have an effect on the whole system, but the crucial point is, that nobody really considered what this effect might be and whether what we have and like in democracy can actually survive this.

You cannot have free elections if the people voting in it are put into their own matrix-esque simulation of reality. How could we ever find agreeable consent if our realities have no common overlap by design?

I think a lot of people in tech sphere don't really want to see this as they are profiting from this. It makes us powerful wizards who see more and understand more than others.
I think the point is that PG&E negligently caused sparks. But many things can negligently cause sparks, including dozens of human and natural causes. Even among power operators, sparks seem to not be too rare (for example, the tree that fell on the line).

So while PG&E can be blamed for that specific fire that doesn't really address the root cause of "why can some sparks in one place cause such huge destruction and can we do anything about that?"

I'm just not so sure that if you accidentally knock over one domino and a cascading whole room full of dominoes falls that you should take the blame for the cascading effects. Maybe whoever setup the dominoes behind the first one shares the blame as well...
Whoops, that's embarrassing.

I quit working at Reddit a few years ago and don't do much there any more, but yes, that's me. Thanks!
So, corollary. Should we completely rework the process for certifying cars (safety testing) and drivers (drivers licenses, training) due to the FAR more than 346 roadway deaths last year?

Adding just a few lessons from Aviation - things like "only allow the use of spare parts that are approved by the manufacturer", "forbid use when diagnostic errors are present", "mandate pilot rest periods and duty cycles" and "revoke the license of anyone with a sufficiently serious medical condition" would have huge consequences. I'm personally confident that each of those would reduce driving fatalities in the US by more than 346/yr. Of course, they'd also destroy the livelihoods of millions, make car travel far more expensive, and have (prior to 2020) unfathomable social consequences. But hey, any system that allowed that many deaths must be broken!
> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers.

I agree. Some solutions from Apple are uniquely wonderful.

Imagine if they opened up this feature for 3p companies like Netflix. And let’s suppose Netflix commissions original content that is tailor made to take advantage of this type of audio. Of course, Netflix would benefit from increased subscribers and one could argue Apple would benefit from the availability of the content too — more people likely to buy airpods.

However, I’m personally convinced that Apple’s 30% commission charge to Netflix is completely justified. After all, they’re taking advantage of an end to end solution built by Apple. But of course, Netflix could bypass the IAP policy and not past the benefits into Apple. But I’m just using Netflix as an example. Any 3p app such as game or music app or movie app would benefit from this feature.

I only bring up the 30% point because it’s been make headlines recently and the hn community also has been vocal on the topic.

(Disclaimer: I don’t know enough about the spatial audio feature to say if it works with apps like Netflix or not. I’m presuming it doesn’t for illustrating my argument.)
"simplified" things with Docker and k8s.. if you are using docker for anything other than microservices and development environments you are doing it wrong.
ProseMirror [1] has (mostly) solved that problem in the browser with an excellent transaction-based wrapper around contenteditable! I highly recommend checking it out. I'm also the author of a WYSIWYG math plugin for ProseMirror [2].

For me, WYSIWYG is essential, since my notes contain a lot of math, and I don't want to stare at LaTeX source all day. For that reason, stopped using Overleaf in favor of Typora [1] for a while, but grew out of it as my note-base became large enough to need a good wikilink system.

Quarantine gave me enough free time to build my own note-taking app [3]. So, these days, when I get frustrated with my note-taking app, I have only myself to blame :)

[1] https://prosemirror.net/
[2] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math
[3] https://noteworthy.ink/
> i like this used car analogy. basically, they bought a used car and ran it without oil changes until the engine seized.

This brings the Growth Ponzi Scheme to mind:

> What we have found is that the underlying financing mechanisms of the suburban era — our post-World War II pattern of development — operates like a classic Ponzi scheme, with ever-increasing rates of growth necessary to sustain long-term liabilities.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

PG&E maintains how many linear miles of power lines? How many towers like this one? Built how long ago?

The reason the Growth Ponzi keeps happening is the cities fail to account for ongoing maintenance costs. When those costs come due, the easiest way out is to build more to increase revenue.

Setting aside the question of intent and liability, I wonder if something similar happened to PG&E.
Electron “apps” don’t have much of a choice; they can’t even add toolbar items. This is why it puzzles me why a Cocoa app would choose a unique look. I am just not a fan. Regarding theme frame, it looks like a different gradient to me. It certainly isn’t how it looks like Bug Sir.
U.S. airlines started charging extra years ago to NOT carry things on board.
“Personal finance advice from John Doe, the $350 million powerball lottery winner”
I'm wondering how much of it is a form of filtering based on a social bias. There are a lot of hobbies in the world (that the author would potentially enjoy), but the ones that first come to mind are ones that have an examples nearby (e.g. my teammate Dan mentioned he went rock climbing on Sunday)
Amazon is sadly not the only company that works this way.
> frictionless, non-heirarchical notes that you can just dump into the system and then retrieve based on a few relatively simple axes, date, keywords, a little semantic analysis, etc.

You mean a piece of paper with a filing cabinet? I’ve been trying note taking apps for 15 years and nothing beats a plain old notebook for ease of use, flexibility, and helping me think.

I don’t do filing cabinets so retrieval has suffered. And for me personally that hasn’t been a problem because most of my notes are ephemeral. When I’m ready to save something long term I write a blogpost and let Google take care of the rest.

PS: the main issue with most note taking apps is that there’s just something fundamentally different about thinking on the keyboard vs. thinking with a pen in hand. Digital pens have so far not been able to replicate the feeling for some reason.
The power line failure just lit the fuse of the existing powder keg. Had the power line not failed, an equivalent fire could have eventually come from a cigarette butt of a hiker, lightning bolt, etc. The PG&E maintenance/record keeping fails are egregious, but the article also mentions climate change and forest management as things we need to address as well; it's not enough to eliminate one ignition source - we need to also prevent the powder keg from forming (or at least getting so big).
I think part of it has to do with a sort of mythos around note taking. This is pure speculation, but it seems to me that part of the reason note taking apps are so popular is that we've built this cult of productivity that is very much magical and religious in the sense that we think 10x producers simply must have some secret trick, that they meditate, take godly notes, have supreme organizational skills or...something...we're all looking for the secret sauce, the silver bullet.

There's this latent idea of "man if only I could get a proper note taking system in place I'd be doing killer work", put another way, "we aren't successful because we're taking notes the wrong way! (not because our ideas are not good or because we simply are not one of the lucky few that will make it)" which unfortunately, is usually false. We like to focus on little micro improvements to our processes because they tangentially relate to work and feel productive, but at the end of the day, are still just another form of procrastination.

All that said, I use org mode and you should too :P