skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is an entirely accurate take, and excessively kind to them, if anything. And what Snowden did or where he ended up have exactly zero to do with teh "US Propaganda machine"

For reference on what such a machine actually looks like, go look at Russian media this last two weeks.

Read what people who were actually in the intelligence agencies said; this [0][1]should have enough details and links to start you off.

You might also note that while the progressive Barack Obama had no problem pardoning Manning, he did no such thing for Snowdon. This was after the US House Intelligence Committee — not intelligence agency people, and both parties — UNANIMOUSLY voted to approve a report on Edward Snowden finding that he "did tremendous damage" to U.S. national security [2].

Perhaps you can explain how the whole airport fiasco and taking on Snowdon could have happened without Putin's direct approval - and why he'd do such a thing if it is "only" US civil rights issues at stake from Snowdon's theft.

Perhaps you can also explain how among the million+ documents Snowdon stole, only a few actually have anything to do with the headlines touting the civil liberty cause - e.g., exposing details of Israel’s killing of senior WMD proliferators in Syria [3]. Seriously, how does that improve anything in the US?

If you actually bother to look, without the hero-worshipping glasses and Qanon-level suspicion of anything related to government, you find that his massive story is a fraud.

Seriously, stop being fooled. I was similarly fooled, until I started trying to find actual experts on what had happened, and not just going along with the utter Kremlin line pushed out by popular trolls like Greenwald, and picked up and repeated uncritically.

[0] https://observer.com/2016/09/the-real-ed-snowden-is-a-patsy-...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200606111426/https://20committ...

[2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/house-intelligence-committee-rel...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200226232346/https://www.jpost...
I think NATO would look the other way for a stray missile that could in any way be construed as an accident. Open war between NATO and Russia, weak as it is, could be disastrous for Europe, if not the whole world.

It's much safer to ruin Russia by giving weapons to Ukraine while skirting around open conflict. It's a way of depleting Russian resources (manpower, military hardware, money, mindshare, etc) while keeping the possibility of nukes to a relative minimum.
> It worked as long as nobody was trying to go after it. That's been changing

I see no evidence of this. Authorities have been going after crypto-currencies users very effectively ever since the early days of Bitcoin; from the first darknet market takedowns, to arresting people on LocalBitcoins because they didn't register as money transmitters.

It sounds like we agree on the limitations of a ledger, but saying it "doesn't work" simply because the physical world exists and governments can arrest you, attempt to track you, make rules for exchanges and merchants etc is nonsense. Of course they can.

They can equally block encrypted chat apps, VPNs, prevent device makers from allowing them onto the hardware, force backdoors, effectively threaten people who use them, or spy on your communications locally.

None of these things mean that encryption doesn't work, or that it isn't useful.
The US is friends with the regime that has the war crime tribunal, and Russia is not. In the end such things are disappointingly simple.
Maybe it is to create the 'inefficiencies' which the merger can then 'synergize' away, so that the acquiring execs can get bigger bonuses. Because I've yet to see one instance where real (non-stupid/contrived) synergies actually occurred as foreseen, but plenty of cynical M&A.
Also plenty of absolutely atrocious dysynergies in corp history of course.
Apples ARM cores have been significantly ahead of off the shelf ARM designs for years now.
> Is it possible for you to construct a scenario where torture is morally acceptable?

Yes, it's possible to concoct a fictional scenario whereby torturing one person saves millions of lives. Heck, why not a more plausible scenario where torturing someone saves 2 lives. But it's a non-sequitur: a true statement that is irrelevant.

I won't argue this well, especially not well enough to convince someone for whom "torture" is acceptable, but principles matter. It's the only thing that separates the good guys from the bad guys. Not guns, not good looks, not firm jaws, not money, not power, not magical spells. Bad and good people have, or don't have, those things in equal measure.

Torture = bad guy. Beating people in the street = bad guy. Planting evidence on a suspect = bad guy. Stealing elections = bad guy.

This is important because, while some of those things might be expedient to get your desired outcome, it makes society worse. If you do that, you are the bad guy. Maybe the other guy is bad too, but you definitely are. Now when other people do it, you can't say shit. You did it. You could not come up with a better way. Society is now worse and more dangerous because of you. All the bad guys have reasons for doing bad things, but only good guys do the good things, even when it's not easy. Good people say "times are extraordinarily dangerous, so now more than ever we must fight to maintain our integrity and our values, and treat our opponents with due process and dignity, no matter how much we despise them"

We now have a society where torture is considered awful, but that is hard won. Not long ago, we would burn people alive publicly as punishment for Very Serious reasons. When we start saying "torture is ok now because these times are extraordinarily dangerous", then torture is a bit more acceptable when times are not so dangerous.

That's it. That's the argument.
I wouldn't call a $1400 graphics card anywhere close to "reasonably priced". $400 maybe.
Building a Backlog Your Team Will Love
I do not care much about "basic" and "minimalism" vs more baroque approaches. Each has its place. Kawaii, Glassmorphism, Uniyo-e, you name it, they can all work in the right context.

What I desperately need though, is Boomer-Mode. It can be Boomer Light or Boomer Dark but when it is active both are 100% consistent. When I'm in Dark Mode I want everything to be light on dark, no exceptions.

Nothing drives my aesthetic sensibilities - as well as my aging eyes - more crazy than sudden contrast changes.
This is the beauty of open data and open source in general. No one is forcing you to use the tools as intended. Want a map of all free bathrooms near a café as a markdown file? Knock yourself out! People will even help you do it.

Meanwhile Google Maps has one increasingly user-hostile frontend per platform. It won’t let me see how long a route with waypoints is, and it just started showing me a news feed every time I use it.

OpenStreetMap is as precious as Wikipedia, and very few people seem to realise it.
> In a series of meetings, the United States and the Saudi royal family made an agreement. The United States would offer military protection for Saudi Arabia's oil fields, and in return the Saudi's would price their oil sales exclusively in United States dollars (in other words, the Saudis were to refuse all other currencies, except the U.S. dollar, as payment for their oil exports).[54][55]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_St...

I doubt SA will give up US protection so they might just want to renegotiate terms.
Never heard of partiful, enjoyed looking at the design of their website. What really stuck out to me is that for the most part the design isn’t actually that noisy (some colors and informality fits well given the product), but as you scroll down there’s always one element on the screen that’s “abnormal”: a marquee ish thing, some word art looking title, etc.

I think, as a millennial, when I was growing up these elements were often design smells: only a boomer will use word art unironically, etc. our clean minimalism became the suffocating corporate vibe of the 2010s (via tech giant software).

Now, word art in the right context can be playful and imaginative without the boomer vibe. Hip startups are disrupting the suffocating millennial minimalism. Brilliant.
I do not right now but in the past I have made single purpose silly things to park my unused domains. I may do that again now that you mention it.
Even if you can construct a morally acceptable edge case it should still be illegal.

In these extreme edge cases the people on the ground can be expected to break the law and break out the thumb screws. After all if you're willing to torture someone your own freedom is presumably a relatively mild price to pay... right?

We could then hope that the citizens enforcing the legal system will recognize the correctness of their actions and let them off.

Legal torture exists because the powerful don't see themselves as answering to anyone.
Switching away from oil is less expensive than the climate disaster of not switching away. Plus it generates a lot of new economic activity.

(There's already a broad policy consensus about this, see the Paris Agreement)
Those positions are not mutually exclusive. Rather, it's more of an ultimatum. "Spend more on our collective defense and reduce your dependence on our adversaries, or we'll no longer be allies."
Actually, about that...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/amd-reverses-course-...
Yes but I'm not responding to the article but to a particular comment in a subthread about benefits that can't be expressed in terms of money.
If it is the possessive article (‘my courses’) then you are correct. If it is a name for the product ‘My Courses’, then Chris is correct.
> In real life, using a hermetic build system for tests does not actually scale. The dependency graph of your repo becomes entwined with how much of your repo gets tested. Change a deeply nested component often? Even though you only want to deploy one out of all your services, you’ll get full rebuilds of your repo.I still think a hermetic build system is the way to go; but I wouldn’t gate merges on testing the full repo. Instead, let’s give some flexibility to our engineers.

Scaling a monorepo also involves scaling with the number of engineers at the company. The strategy mentioned here, of putting the trust in your engineers to determine what tests need to be run after platform-wide changes does not scale. Eventually there will be enough product teams who care more about speed than quality. Likely resulting in increased outages, because changes won't be guaranteed to be fully tested in CI.

A more reliable way to solve this problem would be to scale out testing in CI. For example with Bazel's remote execution or any type of CI sharding strategy. Optimizing CI build and test times for changes impacting many targets is a scaling problem any monorepo will eventually need to tackle.
The thing is he wasn’t forced into a role of writing code. He was an APM at Google when Google didn’t have many PMs, and he was in a supporting role of helping teams to be organized and decide on the future of the product when we didn’t know whether some non-technical ideas should be executed upon or not and help with the non-technical part of the execution.

Nowdays I felt just the opposite happening when I worked in Google Ads: PMs getting new feature requests from sales people and pushing down on us with strict timelines, even if we feel that that feature is not the best way to deliver better ads targeting for our customers.

Probably you should just go to a smaller company with less PMs, where the PM/Eng ratio is optimal or too small (or go into higher management)
> You will actually experience a lot less downtime by investing in your own wafer saw (or your own servers) rather than outsourcing (to a foundry or a cloud provider).

Analogy doesn't work; "in-sourcing" of previously-IaaS resources as a cost-cutting measure, is used almost exclusively for "base load" (vs. elastic load, which is the comparative advantage of IaaSes); and so your in-house servers are usually running pinned at 100%. So the hardware components will wear out just as fast, if not faster, than the IaaS's servers will; and when they do, your ops team won't have as many spare parts on hand as the IaaS does; nor the ability to live-migrate the enforced VM to another exactly-equivalent substrate host in the fleet (which was already warm) to avoid downtime altogether.

Also, apart from that, there are economies of scale in reliability. Your in-house backups are probably just a ZFS pool or a RAID5+1 array or something. They're certainly not hosted within a 17+-copies Dynamo-ish system, the way most IaaS object storage (incl. archival storage) is, because the costs of doing that in-house are ridiculous.
The new QuartzPro64 is interesting and I'm glad to see more from the company but I'm one of those people hoping to hear about the PineBook Pro and this month's community update was a bit disappointing in that regard. :(

It'll be cool to see what the developers manage to do with the new board though, the RK3588 adds a lot that people have been asking for, so once they manage to get good firmware support for this board maybe later revisions will end up in a PineBook Pro v2?

EDIT: CNX-Software does a nice breakdown here: https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/15/quartzpro64-sbc-rk35...
I don't know either, but I can confirm that's within the scale for a domain I sold in the last year. Got 6.5k and it wasn't even a .com
Revenue Projections for D.C.’S Sports-Betting App Have Been Slashed
Yes, of course, anyone with a decent imagination can do so.

Unfortunately, that has little practical impact.

I can construct a lot of scenarios where I build an amazing startup and become a billionaire seemingly overnight.

Tragically, my bank account balance always seems to ignore the brilliant scenarios my mind comes up with.

Honestly, outside of philosophy departments questions like this aren't terribly useful.

The problem with your question is that ignores the specific circumstances of this case - where there obviously was no dirty bomb, there was no "certainty", there were not one million lives at stake in some definite deterministic sense.
Well at least 50% of that % is me forgetting which is justify-content and which is align-items...

Words are hard
Bazel isn't a general purpose a automation tool or a deployment tool, so, you wouldn't use Bazel for this.

Your deployment script would run Bazel to build your binary/container image/whatever. That is, building might be part of the deployment process, but deploying is not part of the build process.
I don’t know of any around me either.
> torture is morally acceptable?

Someone stole the car with the baby inside. Police caught the thief, but there is no car or the baby. There is a heatwave and the baby can last max 2h in the car. The thief panicked and dumped the car somewhere. He is not willing to tell where it is.

Beating him up to get the info is acceptable ethically.
Seems you took your comment back, allright. (Before I wrote:
Have a read at the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and start to be helpful and kind with your comments. Thanks.)
People keep bringing up these hypothetical thought experiments, but they are just wildly unrealistic. Also, they approach the topic from the wrong end: I shouldn't have to justify not to use torture. The abolishment of torture is a milestone of Western civilization.
Thanks, it really wasn't clear that the accusation was limited to the twitter account after reading it. I came away with the opposite impression.
Measuring Up: Metrics in Developer Relations
Which then in turn puts pressure on the spiral of talent loss in the departments management wasn't targeting.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/amd-reverses-course-...

Basically all Ryzen 5000 series chips can become compatible if your motherboard OEM releases an updated BIOS.
That's an interesting counter argument to Jack Welchs' "Fire 10% of the company for the sake of firing 10% of the company" management philosophy.
Probably depends on your definition of "shortest lived". There's quite a few sockets that only got one generation.

AM1 comes to mind, there were only ever about 5 processors compatible with it and really only two were ever intended for retail market and only one of them ever really existed off the drawing board. That's probably one of the rarest consumer sockets ever produced, at least recently.

There have also been a few HEDT sockets that saw short life and small numbers. The W-3175X platform and AMD Quad FX (Quadfather) both were exceptionally short lived in themselves, but on paper supported a decent number of server processors due to socket compatibility. They are probably some of the smallest numbers sold. Quadfather never lived past a single board and neither of them probably sold more than a few thousand units.

TR4 and TRX40 both went down as exceptionally short-lived HEDT sockets with only one generation each and no cross-compatibility with server chips that share their sockets. But they probably sold higher numbers than W-3175X and Quadfather.

WRX80 is probably one of the lowest-volume sockets around since it's basically OEM only and a niche of the niche HEDT market, but again then you've got two generations, even if the volume sold is small.

Most Intel products really aren't contenders here, "one generation for the socket" is table-stakes here, it's volume that really decides it imo. Nobody can really say Intel doesn't produce volume for their stuff, a short-lived socket for Intel probably sold 100x the amount that Quadfather sold. Weird niche products like W-3175X or Kaby Lake-X are the exception but again then you've got other products in the same socket.
for one, the marine general Mattis said he was against torture. Not because of moral issues, but simply because it was ineffective. People will say whatever they think you want to hear to stop being tortured, which then leads to a lot of really bad and false intel
Ahh, woosh on me, sorry! haha
I’ve seen a company move from mono repo to micro services with moderate success. However they had to increase the team size 5x. Most productivity dropped a lot.

Although on some of the really hard problems it freed them up enough to be more successful.
That honestly seems a little convoluted as a theory. Like a double-double-doublecross in some spy movie, IMO real life is usually more straightforward.
The NFL is undoubtedly the most popular entertainment in the US. Honestly it might even be more popular than it was pre internet giving us unlimited entertainment options if you look at the value of their tv deals. Having 95 of the 100 most viewed events really shows the dominance of sports. Almost all of those 95 events are not the finals, most aren't even playoffs. They're just regular games that beat every other category in terms of popularity.
Whatabboutism is pretty silly here. When was China a US colony? If it's ok for China to steal IP from the US, then why was it wrong for "western" countries in the past to steal from others? If it was wrong for others in the past then why is it justified now? It's either never or always ok. I vote for never myself. But if you think "revenge" stealing is justified against a country that never colonized them, then you are justifying all countries doing it since the beginning of time, because just about every country in the world was conquered and exploited at one time or another.

China is still stealing IP and has been for over 20 years. It's nothing new.
Because they are the one wielding the social justice bat to other corps.

When you are the one to do the inquisition, you are expected to be held to the higher if not the same standard.
Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook
Eh, as a Zillenial, I like it when my eyes don't hurt so I'd probably use that mode too
On the other hand, having the stadium built in SF was arguably the primary catalyst in the transformation of SOMA from an underused-warehouse district to the new tech epicenter of the world, stealing Silicon Valley's fire in a way previously thought impossible.

If the stadium had been built in the south bay, SF might today be saying, "Whew, we really dodged a bullet there", and meanwhile Twitter and Dropbox and Uber and Airbnb would all be headquartered in Santa Clara county and giving them all their employees' tax revenue.
Oxidation makes tea black
The Sudan+Afghanistan thing was two days after the scandal broke. I am curious if there were any similar actions by any of the following presidents but launching stuff right after entering office doesn't appear to be the same kind of action.

(Perhaps there is another cynical explanation for the Africa thing but it is probably not to distract from an, as you say, decades-old scandal.)
As a curiosity, how does the compute module's connectors handle serious vibration? I cannot imagine it was designed for major abuse.
I often wish HN would just allow titles to get
posted and HN folks just have a discussion around
that. (Similar to Ask HN, but not necessarily in the
form of a question.)

Sounds like a real recipe for hivemind to me. I mean, any community struggles with hivemind a bit. But, at least with discussions centered around articles that exist outside HN, we get a little fresh air.

especially if I don’t even know whether
this person is an expert on said topic.

He's a pretty respected voice, or at least popular on HN.

I find it very valuable to look into the authors of linked articles, see which authors pop up on HN frequently, etc.

Gives you an idea of who the leading voices in the industry are, helps you to know which way the winds are blowing.

Especially for somebody with a slower reading speed this may be crucial; helps to understand which article may actually be worth the time investment.
Not sure you could call Iraqi-occupied Kuwait a sovereign country.
he mentions it in this video
https://youtu.be/mq2mcwtyjEA
At one minute and 21 seconds, if it gets you any insight like subscribe share and espouse how it’s a wonderful resource for all things to do with McLuhan, thanks
Seattle still doesn't have a basketball team because they refused to pay for a stadium. That's exactly why teams are able to extort cities over stadium funding.
IMO, ASUS is taking the right path here. Everything besides the panel doesn't matter.

This particular model or lineup might not be the best, and maybe the QA sucks, but it's not like the 69% of people on Amazon giving it 4+ stars have gone crazy.

I see this another way: these ASUS displays are a firmware update away from being a better buy, and ASUS is just one competitor.

My prediction is that the Studio Display pretty quickly becomes a questionable purchase as more competitors enter the space and mini-LED displays become more prevalent. It's going to be a great webcam and speaker and a mediocre monitor at that price.

Also, if webcams and speakers are so important I wonder why the Pro Display XDR doesn't have either?

Honestly, that question lines up with my original claim: that the Studio Display is an aspirational purchase for non-creatives who have a lot of money and want a nice home office monitor for fiddling with spreadsheets and taking Zoom calls. The actual professionals (Pro Display XDR) don't have any need for some impressive for their size but not studio monitor built in monitor speakers and webcam.

Someone producing semi-professional video content is going to go with a display that supports HDR, especially considering that our consumer-level phones already record HDR footage.
But he didn’t ask just one person, he checked with multiple. Obviously that is still too small a sample size, but who says he isn’t on to something?