skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clinton's "we were already having these discussions" had me tempted to vote for Trump in 2016. Until Trump gave his position on the matter, which managed to be worse.
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It's a dilemma, he broke the law to expose what he believed was an unethical, overly excessive, and later ruled illegal [1] surveillance program.

In pardoning him would more people feel motivated to become whistleblowers, possibly with different outcomes? How dangerous would that be?

If he's not pardoned, what message does it pass to future generations?

[1] "U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal". Reuters. Retrieved September 2, 2020. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying/us-court-m...
To be fair, by going after Snowden the US painted itself anti-free speech and pro-surveillance.
Yeah, having done this, it's extremely verbose if you have all your error handling in there due to the verbosity of dealing with JSON and explicit return values instead of exceptions. By far my greatest annoyance is that []interface{} cannot be directly cast to []concreteType. Having to make a sized slice and type assert each value is annoying. Require validation of the values for even more "if err != nil" fun.

Many Go advocates seem to consider the verbosity a feature, because it's explicit and forbids any clever-but-confusing tricks.
They're just not making a huge fuss about it.

This is the same company that released the seat belt patent to public domain[1], just to make stuff safer for everyone.

[1]https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-patent-issue...
I think the business model is to get other businesses using their WhatsApp for Business services, and then cross-sell them to the FB ad platform.
I am in the process of building a side project which has the potential of becoming a source of income for me. Am I in the target audience for this?
> The Greatest Country On Earth™ has its citizens flee to the Empire Of Evil™

I’m not saying the US is white and Russia is black here, but you’re insinuating that there’s some kind of conspiracy to make Russia look bad when they’re in quite a lot of objective measurements really are. I think most people understand that when you’re in Snowden’s situation, you don’t really have the luxury of choice.
I think that's unknowable / up to the whims of Russia.
That's not true. Nixon was preemptively pardoned by Ford with no charges pending.
If the government wanted anyone outside of natsec or the IC to care about this, they shouldn't have operated a massive unconstitutional dragnet. That would change the tenor of discussion, I promise.
> They probably have good reasons to do that. And if they don't, then it is just a dumb decision that will end up costing them more anyway.

I love this Faith Based Model of software development...
I'm not convinced. I recently installed VSCode after all that hype and I'm somewhat disappointed. Without referring to external media, it's not all that easy to get anything done. It isn't exactly intuitive. It takes effort like anything else.

(full disclosure: these days I'm almost exclusively an Emacs user, but for Java I might use IntelliJ instead and long time ago, when VisualAge for Java was still around, I evaluated a bunch of Java IDEs for the company I worked for)
While I don't agree with every way that the case against Snowden was handled, I don't agree with the thought that things would be much different if the two sides were flipped. The general attitude towards Snowden is too black and white in my opinion. Traitors can be heroes, too. They are not mutually exclusive.
> Had Snowden simply revealed unconstitutional domestic mass surveillance programs, perhaps he could be pigeonholed as a whistleblower.

Multiple former officials did this and society largely didn't believe them and didn't care. Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, and others came forward through the appropriate legal channels and lost their careers, faced prosecution, and absolutely nothing changed.

Legally, you're technically correct. Snowden is a fugitive. That doesn't change the fact that he fundamentally changed the way we think about privacy and the government's role in digital privacy for the better. James Clapper lied to Congress weeks before Snowden's revelations, yet he never faced perjury charges. That's what a broken system looks like.
I think the Hummer EV is fantastic. It isn't a compromised version of a gasoline vehicle. It truly is an ambitious approach to an electric vehicle. Like triple the power of past Hummers and with more range (!) than the conventional gas guzzlers.

It has a bunch of interesting features that showcase the best of GM's engineers. It really is a good flagship. By going for the most machismo vehicle in the line-up, they're helping Tesla destroy any last vestige of electric vehicles as just fancy golf carts.
I mean, this was (and in some circles, still is) the popular perception of electric vehicles 17 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcmZ1dof3Qw

(Also, in absolute terms, they get the biggest emissions advantage over a conventional powertrain this way. Convert a Hummer from conventional to electric saves like 1 pound of CO2 per mile driven versus like 0.25 pounds saved per mile for, like, a subcompact car.)

Vehicles like this are super important for helping convince the general public that climate action and electrification of transport doesn't mean diminished capacity and a smaller, more boring future.

I was super impressed by the video GM released on it. I have said skeptical things about past "Tesla killers" and I am very much a Tesla fan, but I only have good things to say about this.

With such a huge battery capacity, it might even be useful for towing, who knows!
5 seconds on Google. This claims says he actually stayed there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/report-snowden-stayed-a...
I think you are confused.

The _operational_ problem with torture is that the subject tends to tell you whatever unverifiable information they thing you want to hear. it is in this context that torture doesn't "work." the information is unreliable and thus low value.

For immediately verifiable information, such as a password, torture most assuredly does work and it is foolishness to pretend otherwise.
As long as you don't mix the meaning of "tech" with "informatics", yes, that seems correct.

When you do stuff that nobody ever tried you both get some leeway on experimenting how to interact with the market and is unable to predict how the market will react to it. If you are doing the same thing everybody does, you are expected to know beforehand what is your product.

That is true whether you do those things in a computer or not.

But you are pointing on some confusion of investors that think they are getting into a tech company when the company is actually just a copy of something else. That may be widespread for all that I know (I still somewhat doubt it), but most product development does consist on copying nearly everything of another existing one, this does not make it any less tech.
Per the Wikipedia article [1], it seems like in the 2001 timeframe there were "NetMD" devices which could receive digital audio directly from a computer at much faster than realtime; I imagine this was a direct response to the iPod and other MP3 players, and was probably too little, too late. Particularly when it sounds like the process was bogged down by making you use proprietary, copyright-aware software.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc
Etymonline supports the attribution:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/scientist#etymonline_v_22921
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I typically use a subset of CSS. Get good at whatever grid framework you use and internalize that the layout will ultimately just be boxes inside of boxes inside of boxes, with some boxes spanning a row, etc (grids within grids within grids). That should always cover being able to achieve whatever layout you want (not just the page layout, component layouts as well).

Yeah, put this on and master the grid:
https://youtu.be/S5S6s5dZXNM

Then start targeting down into your grid for specific things you need to style.

Getting the first part down will set you up for an easy time on the second part. Don’t try to look at a <Button /> and try to figure out if it’s gotta be flex-end or anything like that at first. Put that sucker in a grid item and don’t worry about it initially. You want to refine your ability to control things, and if you get fancy with CSS initially you will not get a handle on it.
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DreamWorks Animation, as one existing example, is still doing a lot major 2D projects (though certainly not "traditional hand drawn" as technology has shifted a lot post-Flash) as the animation house brand for Netflix these days. (She-Ra and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, as two recent examples.) At least in "TV budgets" 2D animation is seen as more than competitive again (though it was a much briefer period where all TV projects seemed to be CG, and 2D never really "died" in TV like it did in features) and it's likely just a matter of time and aesthetic drive before someone (maybe even Disney) tries it again at the feature level. (Supposedly Rastetter was still pushing for it at Disney Feature Animation even after Princess and the Frog and right up to his ouster. Who knows when a successor will champion it as a priority.) It probably won't be DreamWorks Animation today unless Netflix has some reason they want to do an animated feature. (It is an Oscar category they could compete in, if they need the motivation to push. Maybe less controversy in that category for winning as a streaming site than their battles over streaming versus theater in other categories.)

(ETA: Oh and I just remembered that Fox, the crazy Australian company not the parts of Disney formerly known as Fox, and its subsidiary Bento Box do have a full Bob's Burgers feature film release on their schedule. Not that it entirely compares to the prestige of a classic DFA fairy tale based film, but there's at least one attempt at a 2D animated feature film in the near future.)
> I upvoted you because you merely posted your opinion, with which I agree.

Shocker, upvoting someone you agree with!
Nixon was pardoned without even being charged with a crime.
Happy for Snowden, but I hope that if Biden wins, he'd pardon Snowden - following Obama's footsteps in commuting Chelsea Manning. Although it might be harder since Biden to the Right of Obama, and given how hawkish, war-mongering, neo-libs have cozied up to Biden, and commuting Snowden isn't really possible since he has never been tried in court.
since the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time

Just last month:

> Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.

> In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying/u-s-court-...
And no subsequent President challenged that pardon. That's the operative factor here.

Nobody's ever tried to claim the President lacks authority to pardon for crimes untried. What would happen if it was tried is unclear; there's no precedent. Trump's enough of an outlier that his successor might actually test the hypothesis.
Isn't the explicit ruling of Burdick that a pardon must be accepted by the individual?
Agree completely. The method I describe is not prescriptive for a general population. However, it can be taken as a case study and an opportunity for experimentation.

It is also refreshing to see that modern science is now starting to investigate these various practices so as to determine the mechanism and physiological impact behind them. The fact that psilocybin and ayahuasca are now being researched for their medicinal properties under lab settings is refreshing. 

However, going back to breath work it would be nice if these publications gave credit to the original practitioners instead of framing the research as novel and revolutionary.
u/eyberg's https://nanovms.com/ look promising but they aren't self-service right now.
Correct. The US canceled his passport while he was in Russia, hoping that they would deport him. Whoever had that idea should be fired. Given the Assange situation, it is fortunate for Snowden that he did not reach either Ecuador or Venezuela, the latter country offering him political asylum as well.
Are you running 12.3 or higher?
Today's hackers are just like the pirates, robbers and thieves of the past. Many will find graish zones (e.g. software piracy) hoping to go undetected. Others will take high risk, high rewards (e.g. computer extortion, etc).
Maybe because they don't really have a story for why anyone would want to move there, other than running afoul of the same state security organizations that Russia is already opposed to.

It's not exactly a huge draw for anyone who does NOT have those unusual security concerns.
"even 50%-60% in taxes"

in the US paying 60% in taxes is equivalent to 'not contributing your fair share" which is why Biden wants to take it even higher. I'm surprised how US has some of the highest income taxes (especially in places like CA and NYC) but people still think it's a low tax place.
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And on this, I just disagree. It feels faster to use vs code for people that are used to tools like vs code. For novices, though, they are all complicated.

Worse, for many IDEs, the worst hole to dig is where you tie yourself to the IDE. Too many times have I seen projects that only build on a particular desktop with the press of a button on a particular IDE. :(
They tell SCUBA divers that because most people aren't aware enough about their airway. Those who practice breathing techniques can develop that ability/awareness and have it become second nature to hold safely.

There are two ways to hold your breath. The first, and what most people will do, is to seal off their airway at the back of the throat. If you ascend and your airway is closed at the throat, lung expansion injury is a definite danger.

But you can also hold your breath with your airway open and only seal at the mouth. This requires more diaphragm control because you're using that muscle to hold open your lungs. It's like the isometric version of breathing. If you ascend while holding your breath with your airway open, air will just be pushed out of your lungs and through the lips, since that seal isn't nearly as strong. This is why SCUBA divers are taught not to hold their breaths and to blow small bubbles when their respirators come out because both practices ensures an open airway. But those aren't the only ways to keep the airway open.

For SEALs, I would imagine it's important to learn to safely hold one's breath underwater. Exhaling bubbles make you visible to both other divers and those at the surface and there are times that a SEAL team would need stealth underwater. Some minimal risk of lung expansion is acceptable when trying to avoid getting killed in some other way. I had a diving instructor who had originally been trained by the Jordanian military's SEAL equivalent who would breathe roughly once per minute. He said it was second nature based on his training but that we should learn to breathe the way PADI recommends since no one would be shooting at us.
Except if you’re a company with millions of users, losing everything would be a lot worse. As @gowld mentioned: you can’t retroactively fix security.
Why is a webcam more invasive and creepy than holding your entire body hostage at a testing location?

Only because you haven't taken the time to make sure your personal testing location is prelared for public viewing, since usually you don't have to worry about that.
Great app, but an FYI for previous purchasers - you're supposed to be able to hit "Restore purchase" and get access to the new version without doing the new in-app purchase. It's currently bugged and will lock you out of the app, so hold off on updating.
Your list of options is extremely incomplete. You can also

- Require accountability from the government
- Remove petty fines that serve no purpose except to raise money
- Remove the ability for fines to be used as a source of revenue.
- Ban civil forfeiture, which has exactly nothing to do with reducing crime

You're coming at this with an understanding that every law is just and serves a purpose. Consider yourself privileged for being able to grow up in a situation that afforded you such a privilege. If you were born poor and had no opportunity to lift yourself from poverty, $55 (especially a pointless and unjust $55) is substantive.
We use an Echo Show. Easily customizable schedules for alarms, multiple alarms (one for my wife and one for myself), and a large display to see the time from anywhere in the room, even with those "can't see anything" morning eyes.
How's the fidelity of code that's lifted through LLVM IR and then lowered back down to PTX?
You have to wonder about the impact his revelations had on the Russian agents operating against the United States.
At minimum, permanent residency is a nice way to say "Thank you".
They're making a smaller version for EU.
Money laundering has the benefit of Federal law working to help the State laws. I think in an environment where there are 50 different legal regimes it's inevitable people will develop workarounds. You see legal arbitrage in every instance where legal differences exist between states. From corporate law to family law. I don't know why this would be any different.

If you want to stop the hackers, make it a Federal crime to pay anyone. In that environment, there would be no circumventing the restriction at all.
> Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft's specific implementation (Github)

Github has been intentionally conflating git with github for their own gain since way before Microsoft ever conceived of the notion of buying them.

A year or so before the acquisition, one of my Microsoft coworkers asked if I'd gotten approval to post our internal code on github. What I had actually done was put some of our testing code which was, for all intents and purposes, not under version control, into a git repo hosted by an internal platform.
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Slow to scale/drain will make your utilization go into toilet since you’ll have to overprovision by a lot. There are many other issues with dns loadbalancing
Had Snowden simply revealed unconstitutional domestic mass surveillance programs, he'd be labeled as a conspiracy theorist at best.

I imagine the data he took were to serve as proof of these governmental over-reaches. Nobody would've taken him seriously without solid proof.
It seems like people are confused about what non-partisan means. Non-partisan does not mean neutral on political issues. The ACLU has never been neutral on political issues, going back as long as they've existed [1]. Non-partisan means they pursue their vision of civil rights regardless of which party that brings them into conflict with. If they come info conflict with one party more than another, that doesn't make them partisan. It just means that their vision of civil liberties has been taken up more by one party than others.

[1] Just skim their wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union
Snowden is against government surveillance. It's hard to argue he can be used to justify SORM.
They would be a lot better if they took the damn search query into account instead.
I agree. Lots of amazing sites all over modern day Turkey.
> Does it really matter that Snowden received assistance from Russia considering the data he leaked was proven legitimate and courts even found the program he leaked from as being illegal?

One program he leaked was found to be illegal. 98% of what he leaked had nothing to do with domestic surveillance, wasn't illegal, and only was released to hurt US intel efforts and standing in the world. Which is why people view this as a Russian op from the start.

I get that you don't care about any of that, but perhaps insist on accuracy when discussing it?
This paper was not limited to the USA.
15min tests are possible, we have a health center here in the bay area that does them. I'm guessing the difference is actually having the testing machine present vs sending it out.
I'm neither wealthy nor the media and I believe that wealth taxes are a bad idea, too.
You get one t4g.micro free until the end of the year

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t4g-instances-burstable...
Power vacuums get filled. NSA was largely torched to the ground. Good or bad, there was a counterbalance between big tech and the NSA that is now gone. SV snatched up the power.

Everyone connected to big tech, Graham and company, stood to gain immensely from Snowden's treason against his country. Naturally, "hero" is the word. I'd speculate that Snowden singlehandedly added trillions in value to big tech.
I just added it to a highlights list (before I saw your comment)! We used to publish those periodically but Craig went off to do a startup.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=eMSRX56COtaX-gTVuqPoDQ&q=ha...

One of these years we'll start doing that again. Or maybe we'll just publish the feed as an HN page.
I may have poorly made my point. It isn't that bisect is /only/ useful with good commit messages, but many subcommands are vastly improved when there is meaningful information about the change in the message.

For example, rebase's default output includes the previous and next commit messages when you pause to edit a commit.
So what are you saying here? WebGPU should have been just Apple Metal?
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This source says explicitly that he was on his way to Ecuador
Pass the law to 1) forbid public entities from paying ransom; 2) stringent public timely (less than 24 hours) reporting incidents; 3) stringent public reporting on root cause analysis/resolution/future remediation.

If it is a legal requirement of my job to do the right thing, I'm gonna do the right thing.
Thanks for that additional context!
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Just like Chelsea Manning has and will continue to spend the rest of her life in prison?
> What is a refundable presale deposit worth?

That's probably why he says something low - I bet they estimate deposit -> sale conversion rate to be ~25%
<disclaimer, I'm the ED for FINOS>

I think the goal is efficiency. The realization that having a shared data strategy across the industry benefits everyone, including regulators, and make technology stacks more efficient.

Of course, like any other tech company, I think there's the desire to mutualize the cost of maintaining a core component (e.g. Facebook with Cassandra, Google with Kubernetes, etc).
Presumably it applies a floor on what your life will be like if you whistleblow (or betray, depending on views) against the US, thereby encouraging more such actions.

Just part of normal spycraft then.
Considering that most apartment and condo dwellers don't have the option of recharging their vehicles at night, and that the electrical grid would not be capable of charging that many cars simultaneously even if the charging stations were in place, switching to EV-only sales is still years into the future.

Hybrids may not be perfect, but they're better than the alternative of ICE-only vehicles, and the sale of hybrid consumer vehicles has done wonderful things for air quality in CA (wildfires notwithstanding).
Good on the Lux team for making it optional, but this is yet another app that wouldn’t have needed to introduce a subscription model if Apple would just relent on its unbending services push and add a mechanism for paid upgrades to the App Store.