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On the other hand, protecting whistleblowers is essential for honest, transparent government, no matter their crimes. And the US simply does not do that, not even close.

Unfortunately, the crimes Snowden revealed may well not have seen the light of day without him, which suggests we don't have enough whistleblowers. And beyond that - even the bits of PRISM, XKeyscore and whatnot that were legal are simply not authorized by a democratically elected government; you cannot claim electoral legitimacy while keeping essential parts of your program not only secret, but even publicly paying lipservice to principles in opposition to your very own secret programs. To the extent various US administrations participated in creating these programs they thus necessarily acted without a democratic mandate; after all, they lied about it in public. That's not democracy; that's conspiracy.

Had the programs been discussed at least in general terms, or the quandaries of trading which freedoms exactly for security been acknowledged by the US government, you could make the argument that the technical details must remain secret, but the principal was supported by the electorate. But as is; the whole thing - up to and including the participating judiciary - is no more legitimate than any other stolen election won by lies, propaganda, and misdirection - the kind of principles the US clearly rejects (e.g. https://www.usaid.gov/democracy/supporting-free-and-fair-ele...).

I mean: I completely agree that likely snowden is a criminal. There's little reason to assume otherwise. However, that's kind of besides the point, isn't it? Much, much more important than any one criminal is the responsibility a government, especially one that claims to uphold the ideals of democracy to actually protect its subjects as it claims to. For a sense of scale - consider the fact that governments routinely accept the legality of war, despite the fact that it's essentially akin to accepting mass murder. And I'm not trying to make the case that extreme pacificm is the way to go; but rather the opposite - if we acknowledge that even some of the most serious of crimes are potentially acceptable in the defense of proper governance, then clearly, clearly mere whistleblowing should be a no-brainer, even if that means overriding normal laws.

So the question isn't whether Snowden is criminal, it's why is he criminal? I'd say the party at fault here is the democratically elected US government, not Snowden. The law on this matter is wrong, and should be fixed.
Whatever 'scholarly work' does or doesn't do, journalists certainly interchange them; sometimes leaving a hint like the implied distinction between 'the average <trait>' (mean) and 'the average person's <trait>' (median; sometimes mode for physical discrete things). Also, though, that can just be sloppy and have no intentional implication, misleading depending on the reader.
and this belongs here because...?
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The direction GitHub has been moving for the last many months is very sad. It's amazing how fast a company can alienate developers, and apparently, also small projects wanting to bring some value for both parties.

I can only assume that they now only focus on targeting corporations -- faithful to classic MS style.
I concur wholeheartedly!

"Never trust a man who doesn't drink".
Belarus official version is that Protasevich's girlfriend send a photo of him from the Athens airport to a guy (Anton Motolko) who is officially considered extremist or something like this by Belarus and who published the photo in his Telegram where monitoring it Belarus authorities saw the photo. If it is true, then the social media is definitely wet dream of state authorities like Stazi.
Or just random. I noticed that in the handful of questions I checked, I often thought: I'm about average (e.g. in hours of sleep), but I had to pick. That might bias towards 50%.
As someone who works in export/import business, here in India people make a lot of money importing Ewaste from foreign countries. Some villages in Delhi are filled with mountains of garbage brought from foreign countries, it's literally poisoning our under ground water, creating cancer but authorities don't do much about it. Stupidest things is, there are millionaires in India who live in the same place where this work takes place or atleast spend 5 hours a day at their factory and drinking same ground water maybe processed with RO but I am not sure how good is RO at removing heavy metal and other toxic contamination.
Wouldn't it reduce its credibility as a currency or value store if it slowly gets regulated out of relevance?
It absolutely is. Many times when rigging halls for recording live events I've had to insert delay in to sub mixes to match latency to the back of the room. It's standard fair for a live audio tech (a thing I do on the side occasionally)
Second for puredata. It's pretty different from other options but very powerful. It's also quite visual and uses the same kind of design concepts involved in setting up a traditional modular synth.
Ok wow, I feel like this really describes me, I'm playing Kerbal Space Program Multiplayer and one of my friends has completed the game so knows how to do everything and I'm still trying to do each bit that's already been done.

It's very much, "look I get that we've done it, but I want to know how to do it", how else am I going to learn?

I never really got into ham, I should see if there's anything locally...
There's a good if a silly factiod in a similar vein -

More likely than not you have more hands than an average human.

That's because the average hand count is a bit under 2.
What a boutade. Even if all fiefdom weren't canceled after the demonarchization process, Italy still has usucapione laws that are fairly short and to the point.
Depending on what kind of audio programming you intend to do, it should be possible to use Rust or other alternative programming languages. Your mileage may vary, depending on the dependencies of what you intend to build. If you want to interface with your operating system's low-level audio libraries you should be able to do that from any language that can interface with C. I was able to use Ada together with ALSA on Linux in this way. In this case the code responsible for generating the sound was in Ada, and the code for interfacing with the audio hardware (via ALSA) was in C. If you intend to write audio code for bare metal, you should be able to use any programming language your target hardware's toolchain supports. I've heard of people using alternative languages to write VSTs. I'm not an expert in this area, however theoretically you should be able to do something similar to the above as long as you have a good way to interface with C/C++ code.
> Can monogamy survive in the long-term in a world without consequences to promiscuity?

Well yeah, sex is cool and all but I don't like strangers or sharing.

I've never understood the "promiscuous" lifestyle that a different part of society seems to be natural at. Thankfully that's not the norm, just one of many subcultures.
Nice to see React, react-router, redux in action.
Does someone know if radiolysis is being researched as a source of commercial hydrogen ( like, for fuel cell vehicle for example ) ? I mean a nuclear reactor might produce heat and hydrogen from radiolysis if I understand correctly ? Is this practical at scale ?
That’s hilarious. I had to self-sensor a lot for wrongthink as well. I still do on some topics. These people don’t listen, they do a quick pattern match of your keywords and dismiss if it sounds tangentially related to a non-left narrative, or contradicts theirs. Even when you explicitly differentiate from whatever narrative they’re associating it with. It’s maddening.

I assume you saw Yuri’s paper?
Turn off print.tab_modal.enabled in about:config.
He strikes me as enough of a self-important dork to say (and mean) something like this, and what I’ve seen of his politics are extremely bad to me, but let’s not lose perspective: we’re talking about an open-source VM here. There’s no lock-in. If I got into it and then found out that it was worse than I’m seeing right now then I would shrug my shoulders and move on.
The reality of software engineering can be disappointing as well. Incompetent non-technical managers, business metric hacking before the funding round, and a ton of technical debt. But it pays much more.
> If you want to write professional audio code, you can't really avoid working with C++ - it's the industry standard approach.

No, you can do with C just fine.
As a dad, I Aagree 100%. To be honest I don't know how people actually manage to spend those reported fortunes on their kids. For example, kids often show more interest in pine cones than expensive toys. Or play ancient worthless but still good musical instruments. etc etc. I think a lot of people think they need a gigantic car when they have kids. Just tell 'em when you go away on holiday you can only take a few toys. Seems to work, everything will still be there when you come back. ;)
> Also, most Samsung phones, at least the flagships are easy to bootloader unlock / root and have an active community.

The North American versions of the Galaxy S series phones (which use Snapdragon processors) have bootloaders that cannot be unlocked. Only the non-NA ones (which use Exynos processors) have unlockable bootloaders.
The answers only show how the HN crowds consider themselves. The significant deviations of the answers from 50% are ridiculously stereotypical from men in STEM: wealthier, more progressive, have less sex, dance worse, etc
I can get behind closing stale issues, to a certain degree, but this practice sound straight-out stupid: Why would you discard the context of a previews discussion?
Nice demo!

A question comes to mind: If the original pedal has N knobs, how can ML hope to learn the whole N-dimension parameter space? Are there any shortcuts?

Also, when you say PyTorch learning took 40 minutes, is this also running on RPi?
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It’s fine, as long as the time he submitter spent to write a decent bug report is worthless to you.
To add, relationships are not only about sex or a sexual partner. The emphasis in a proper relationship is on the partner part, not the sex part.
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> So you need to have a secure method of communication to transfer the code? Then why not just use whatever that is to transfer stuff?

Because sometimes that secure method of communication is speech. This is a particularly good utility for transferring information to parties that you can talk to verbally. Also, a bit quicker than plugging a USB stick in.
This is how old google would have worked. Now that google is all grown up they take a more cost conscious approach. How the mighty have not so much fallen, as sunk.
Some things are not meant to be fixed hehe. I love old bugs!
That "Five Bottle Man" quote from the Morning Chronicle might be tongue-in-cheek but I'm pretty sure it's about "Cinque Ports Volunteers", not "Cinq Port Volunteers", which doesn't refer to the drink but rather the Cinque Ports, a group of coastal towns in Kent.
Perhaps to avoid a mistake -- they could only expect one chance at this. For a while now, far fewer intra-Schengen flights will overfly Belarus, and people in the journalist's situation will now book two-leg flights to be certain they won't cross Belarus (or Russia).
That's funny. It should be downvoted.
Nope, you sit 3 or 4 feet from the soundboard in a piano, so the latency is around 3 or 4ms.
Its so weird how fast history is forgotten. Gmail was a galactic leap forward in terms of mail clients. At school there was a grey market to sell gmail invites at 20 dollars per
True, nobody is even checking your ID at all gor domestic flights. I had one business trip in Germany, including two flights, i did without my valet, and thus without any piece of ID. The eTicket was enough.
I recently played on an electronic drum set and it was absolutely fine with headphones. But when we hooked it up to the speakers across the room there was a very noticable delay (~5ms as we calculated) when hitting the pads with the stick.

Since I only used acoustic drums until then I never gave much thought to the idea of having your drums sound delayed. It was quite eye opening.
> without 30+ years of cruft

AKA learned experience
Endlessly texting back and forth, too many unproductive meetings, and zoom fatigue have been big problems for our remote team.

So we built a lightweight spontaneous voice chat app that works live and async seamlessly
The parent is downvoted because they are making an obvious statement that is not productive to the discussion and doing so in a condescending tone.

Free public transport in the title clearly means that using public transport will incur no cost, not that the entirety of the public transport network would require zero funding.
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> Do they actually pay you money, and you're free to buy or not to buy the ticket?

I'd say it depends. Where I work, it's automatically paid and I can do whatever I want. In other cases I remember people having to keep the used train ticket in order to get reimbursed.
From the article: Mariana Snailfish (found at depths beyond 26,000 feet (~8000m):

> These extremophiles only grow to be around 11 inches long, but despite their small size, they are among the top predators of their realm. They consume tiny crustaceans hidden in seafloor sediment.

Dunno about 'apex', but there are some awesome predators down there for sure! (anglerfish, gulper-eel, etc)
True, although most of the frameworks for building plugins etc. are in C++ as far as I know, so using C might be making life hard for yourself if that’s your goal.
Why, is it so fucking hard to place 101 points to be able to pinpoint where exactly you stand (and then show a graph of responses), instead of this beaten-to-death-horse more/less than average trickery (probably done solely for some BS psychology paper)?
One thing that bugs me is that on macOS access keys[0] are not underlined. This means I can't pick an action with the keyboard and have to use the trackpad. Anyone know how I can enable it / if that's even possible?

As a recent Mac user, I don't know if this is a mac thing, but I hate not being able to use the keyboard to navigate around the UI. Although the trackpad is nice, it can't beat the precision of the keyboard. I can't focus the menu bar, trigger a context menu with the keyboard, tab around panels and buttons. It's an accessibility nightmare.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/image...
Google open source engagement was already "throw over the wall" style before this.

I assume things will only get worse now.
How about if you need $x money for UBI you raise the taxes by $x. Then what you've done is just redistributing some money from those earning most to those earning the least.

If you want a higher income gap between those working and those not working, you can make the income tax negative at the bottom.
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Yes but then you ask people you know whether xyz thing is common, and it turns out the tent cities are permanent, and in fact everyone runs into people who need psychological help each day.

Nobody will tell you that London has an acid attack problem. I've lived here for years and heard about it maybe once on the news. Everyone will tell you SF has an issue with homelessness/mental health, and they've seen it with their own eyes.
Ooooh ouch, yeah C++ is generally rough on static analysis tools.
In the UK, during the purchase of our house we had to take a "chancel liability insurance", because our freehold once belonced to a rectory, so to protect ourselves from repair liability towards a chapel that has been here for centuries, we had to pay a one-off insurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel_repair_liability

Leftover laws are weird things.

EDIT: PS: sadly, the legendary, obligatory archery practice - http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-butts.htm SFW ; "butt" was the name of an archery range - was removed from the law in England: https://loweringthebar.net/2010/06/do-englishmen-still-have-...
One isn't precluding the other. For example, SBCL is an implementation of Common Lisp that compiles everything ahead-of-time down to native code, and like all Common Lisp implementations, it offers a powerful REPL suited for interactive development. The compiler has low overhead, so you don't even notice that it compiles everything you type into your REPL.

Another common misconception is that AOT compilers can only be used to build libraries/executables, which then get executed. Again, SBCL is an example of an AOT compiler that works at function-level granularity[0], in accordance with Lisp heritage of image-based development, where you write your program by starting it, and then adding/removing/modifying code into a running instance. SBCL achieves this by having the compiler being a part of your application runtime.

I don't know how Julia is implemented internally, but since it's essentially a Lisp clothed in syntax that's more pleasant to the masses, it inherits a lot of Lisp family heritage. That could easily include a fast, to-native, in-process AOT compiler.

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[0] - Or maybe even lower.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up! Strong agree on better file switching --- also high on my list. I've passed this feedback on to the team.
This was the most depressing realization of the past year for me. Otherwise smart people too. Including a large percentage of this site. They got nearly every story wrong, and only some are just starting to realize it.
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Accountability does not necessary mean monetary damages and compensation. It would be good enough, if there was a government internal reform, that actually resulted in reliable, "in-control" government, instead of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village "strong government" facade that is obviously in effect right now.

Nobody would have trouble entrusting bio-research to Taiwan or South Korea.
Don't get me wrong. I hate software development just as much as academia. After 7 years in the industry, there is not a single shred of positive emotion towards software engineering left in me.
Because someone posted it, and others voted on it.
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Now wondering which European countries still have intact feudal law. Scotland abolished feudal tenure in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc... ; most of the feu burdens were abolished or explicitly ported across. England&Wales still retains the feudal system in places and occasionally people are hit by "chancel repair liability" or somesuch.

The chivalric court still exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Chivalry "prior to [1954], the Court had not sat for two centuries and before hearing the case, the Court first had to rule whether it still existed"

As does the last relic of real feudal power: the House of Lords, the last of Europe's unelected legislatures outside a microstate.

Conversely there are a few recipients of ancient national debt: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-bond-still-pays-inter...
One may not help but wonder if the real reason behind this is not a movie with abysmal ratings, but rather a desire by the Modi government to get precedence that Whatsapp can be ordered to suspend accounts at arbitrary accusations.

"Pirates" first, and the next wave will be people critical of his government and especially his Corona clusterfuck. The Modi government already ordered Twitter to silence critics.
In an ideal world I'd agree with you, but if you or your team don't have the time to fix every bug - some of which will not be critical - then having a mass of open issues pile up often leads to people being overwhelmed and fixing even fewer. Also, over time, some issues are superceded by changes elsewhere so they become moot anyway.
Here's a fun English type of real property right that has taken some people by surprise in recent years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel_repair_liability
I’m content to use commercial solutions for this. Personally, I do all my transfers between different systems and devices using dropbox. I’ll probably get downvoted by even mentioning something commercial though :)
They want to show a full-sized print preview, which isn't possible on Linux or Windows (I don't know about OS X)

A preview is important as web designers seldom pay much attention to print stylesheets; the user probably doesn't want to print five pages of navigation menus, or print a black background with white text.
If you use a Force Touch capable trackpad, force touching a word opens the dictionary.
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If I can get the legendary FORTRAN sacks of gold, I’ll happily take Promise.then.then.then.then in 2040
The instant transfer/download start a really good point in favour of wormhole! I'll give it a try.
Spam blocking was on another level, I've managed setups with e.g. Spamassassin (?) back then and Gmail was something else.
The characterization of UBI as "free stuff" is a non-starter. It's an emotionally-laden term which also fails to consider how UBI proponents frame the benefits in terms of establishing a baseline quality of life (food, shelter, clothing). To conflate that with "free stuff" as if we're discussing free government-provided Playstations won't move the debate forward.
OK, but I'd rather not have to make a panicked call to AWS customer service and throw myself at their mercy just so I can do some coding in my free time, thanks.

And think about how that applies to some student at college or boot camp on a tight budget with rent/bills to pay.
And almost none of them are employed prior, so it makes sense he has not worked with them, and makes it suspicious that 3 working people went to hospital.
> what would be stopping land lords from hiking rent prices?

This argument doesn't seem specific to UBI, but could be raised towards giving anybody money for anything.

Maybe some landlords would initially raise prices, but presumably competition or alternative housing options would push the prices down again.
You can force click a word to trigger dictionary lookup. But I'm not sure how to get it working with a selection rather than only the word under the cursor.
For the uninitiated, usocapione is the legal process whereby those who are in possession of an item (in this case, land) can become legal owners over a period of time. Presumably the lack of enforcement over a very long time (60 years being mentioned in the article) implies that these feudal rights might not be enforceable anymore.
> When you can only tackle so many things there is 0 point in having a bug tracker that will only inflate

A public bug tracker isn't just for you. It, arguably, isn't even primarily for you. It's for all your users who experience a problem and want to confirm if someone else also had it, and if there's a known solution.

(It's something that particularly annoys me as a developer. I can fix problems on my own just fine, thank you. But I want to know if my problem is something tied to my configuration, or a known issue of some software that's failing for me - so that I don't waste time looking for the cause in the wrong place. I want the project's issue tracker to help me answer that question quickly - and auto-hiding/archiving/closing stale issues makes this job much harder.)
Why not move them to a low visibility category like a back-burner?

Some long standing problems get progressively easier to fix when the blockers around a bigger problem gets conquered slowly due to requirements.
> The common practice now is to "close stale issues", which was discussed recently, though I can't find the thread.

Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590961