skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My naive assumption is that ordering Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival is not an official nor constitutionally authorized power, and thus would be prosecutable.
Good thing the the courts just reigned in the powers that federal agencies claimed via the chevron doctrine. https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...
> The impeachment process only applies to a sitting president. Once they're out of office, the threat provided by an impeachment is gone.

> More specifically, the role of the house impeachment and senate hearing is removal someone from office. That's it. There's no potential for punitive action (fines, jail, etc).

Judgement in impeachment can extend to "disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" [1]

But, judgement in impeachment is political, and if you could get enough votes to impeach a former President in order to disqualify them from running again, it seems pretty unlikely that they'd be able to get nominated and elected in a future election; so it's not a big threat IMHO; at least assuming a two-thirds majority is required to remove, then a majority to disqualify.

The constitution is not clear that removal from office and disqualification are linked, although in practice, disqualification has happened only after a removal, and the Senate has determined simple majority for removal is sufficient. [2] So, it might be possible to do a disqualification as a simple majority, without a removal.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#ar...

[2] https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-2/49-judgment...
You know the majority can read the dissent right? If they felt it so silly they could have addressed it. Rather than contesting the claim they dismiss it because they feel its not as likely as other (seemingly non-mutually exclusive) concerns:

> The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” [...] The dissents overlook the more likely prospect of an Executive
Branch that cannibalizes itself...

Also important to note is that the hypothetical didn't sprout from thin air, Trump's lawyers (whose arguments SCOTUS in large part accepted) acknowledged that extrajudicial assassinations would fall under official acts.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-t...
I'd not be surprised if that would lead to job with REMOTE (US EXCEPT WA) soon.
Robert Robertson execution day set in Texas shaken baby case
LOL, you just outed yourself as a smug Lisp weenie. Utter confidence is absence of any evidence. The obvious glaring difference is RDMS utterly dominate the database space something Lisp doesn't even come close to.
100% agree.

AFAIK, QI no longer exists in England (not sure about Scotland or N.I.). And Germany never had it (civil cases for damages would be against the state, not the state representative).
This is relating to 4 counts of election interference.

The court is granting him blanket immunity on one count, and the rest the prosecutors need to clarify that the crimes were outside of the duty of his office.
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This example came up during oral arguments, Trump's lawyer agreed that assassination of a political rival could be a protected official act[0]

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/seal-team-6-assassination-hy...
> The answer is subsidizing the ability to commercialize R&D with PLIs aimed at keeping some production within the US (or allies). This is what the CHIPS Act and IRA are doing for Semiconductors and GreenTech respectively.

Yes that is indeed the correct take on this if you see our society as an optimization problem on a spreadsheet.

But tell it to the 600 voters (and all of their family/friends) who just got laid off from jobs they've held for 30 years and staked their entire lives on. All of our previously purple states have turned into fascist hellholes due to this kind of attitude from those in power.
> The US and the EU have weaponized global trade and financial systems in their hybrid war against Russia

Yes, perhaps Russia is the primary target. But there is A LOT of collateral damage. When the USD is effectively the world's currency, the US Fed often makes decisions that are ideal for the USA (and the West) but then screws everyone else.

There are countries that can't climb up because the Fed keeps knocking them down.
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Which is why their sales are falling. My point is it needs to be cheaper to be competitive and they can’t seem to do that while still manufacturing in the US.
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> Could Obama be prosecuted for ordering drone strikes that unintentionally killed two Americans? It seems like that world would hamstring the president far too much.

I feel like you'd have a different opinion if it were you getting unintentionally killed!
Not Logo - but BASIC.
Guess again! Roberts explicitly calls out orders to the military as covered by absolute immunity. EDIT: and motive is explicitly barred from review too.
You can still prosecute someone for whatever the prosecutor wants. This doesn't change that. If someone is acting in bad faith, they can do so regardless of the law.
This doesn't really explain why those velocity variations occur in the first place, or am I missing something?

It sounds like "We observe velocity variations on the wing and these correspond to pressure variations that create lift due to conservation of energy." But it leaves the question on what is causing the velocity variations in the first place.
It helps to consider the case that was decided.

A federal agency was tasked with monitoring herring fishing. This is done by having an inspector on the boats to see that things are done right.

The agency was short on money, so they decided to have each boat pay $700/day for the inspector. Nothing in the law says they can do that. But also, nothing says they can't.

By the Chevron rule, since this isn't mentioned in the law, the agency can decide that they have the right to demand money.

I think it's hard to claim that, as experts in fishing regulation, the agency is best suited to decide if they should be allowed to take money from those it regulates or not.
FTA

>‘It is routine to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious’: This is how we do it in Iceland
>When Sigrún checked out her family tree online, it wasn’t to find out if she and Einar were related – it was how closely related

then the article starts talking about their sex-life...
Hah... Ask, and HN (sorta) delivers. Not RNN, but self-finetuned LLM cost vs performance compared to GPT-4.

https://openpipe.ai/blog/mixture-of-agents
If it was good enough for Adam and Eve (and their spawn), why isn't it good enough for Icelanders?
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please edit all that out and stick to making your substantive points thoughtfully.

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Innocence Project [1]:

> Palestine, Texas (July 1, 2024) — A broad and diverse group of eminent scientists, medical doctors, faith leaders, former federal judges, best-selling novelist John Grisham, and the former lead detective on the case oppose the execution of Robert Roberson, an innocent father who has spent over 20 years on Texas’s death row for a crime that never occurred and a conviction based on the outdated and now debunked shaken baby hypothesis.

> At the request of the Anderson County District Attorney, the 3rd Judicial District Court in Anderson County today set an execution date of October 17, 2024 for Mr. Roberson, despite overwhelming new evidence showing that Mr. Roberson’s daughter, Nikki, died of natural and accidental causes. Mr. Roberson would be the first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby hypothesis unless the courts or Governor Greg Abbott intervenes. The court set the execution date without granting Mr. Roberson’s previously-filed request for a hearing.

See also [2-4].

[1] https://innocenceproject.org/texas-sets-october-execution-da...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750146

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458662

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
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> The private key is much easier to set up than stunnel's TLS certificate, "dd if=/dev/urandom count=4 bs=1k of=key" and you're good to go.

The spiped documentation recommends a key size with a minimum of 256b of entropy. I'm curious why you've chosen such a large key size (4096b) here? Is there anything to suggest 256b is no longer sufficient for the general case?
Trade works however we collectively, through policy, make it work.

Neoliberals were telling everyone it’d be fine to offshore manufacturing, because there was plenty of other high value work to be done, and then surprise, that gets offshored too. Corporations would sell you for parts of it earned an extra penny per share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHUGVEThmsg

> The company [John Deere] brought in $2.37 billion in net income during the quarter, down from $2.86 billion in the same period last year. Worldwide net sales and revenue also decreased 12% quarterly.

> In 2023 the company made more than $10 billion in profit.
The closest thing that comes to my mind are the false claims about the autopilot, that are currently under investigation in California.
The autopilot is linked to at least 13 fatal crashes.
Yeah, they're actually simple enough that they're kind of a perfect way to learn a new language... You get to try something that is pretty familiar (transforming some source files into some destination files), small enough that you can actually build the thing in a weekend, and big enough that it isn't just a toy program--it will give you a tour through the standard library, the build tooling, the package management / ecosystem, etc.

You can also use it to play around with different programming paradigms--I recently rewrote mine from Rust to Go and played around with a maximally parallel architecture (what I thought would be a fun throw-away experiment quickly became my production SSG): https://blog.weberc2.com/posts/efficient-ssg-with-csp.html
How different is this when the "marbles" are compressible?
> From a quantified perspective, the world is improving over time. There is less suffering now than in the past.

How are you quantifying that exactly?

> This progress is driven by optimists

Citation needed.

> What are you talking about? The world has done a lot to combat global warming. Just a few things:

> - Paris Agreement

> - Kyoto Protocol

Mostly fluff for politicians to preen.

> - Significant investments in wind, solar, and hydro-electric.

"Significant" is questionable.

> - Increased focus on large-scale reforestation and conservation.

"focus" is not action.

> - Public awareness programs and grassroots movements.

"awareness" is not action. We've already been aware.

You've listed mostly minor steps.

If the world has done a lot, then why have we failed to stop global warming? Why are we continuing to blow through the temperature thresholds that scientists warned about?

Putting band aids on problems may be optimistic, but such optimisim is not a solution to problems.

> PS: I assume you are "lapcatsoftware" Jeff? Because your pessimism is so signature? I encourage you to try and look at the bright side of things, if only for your own benefit.

This kind of personal comment is totally out of line here. You've never met me and know absolutely nothing about me. Moreover, I have zero interest in or use for unsolicited, oversimplistic advice from random anonymous internet commenters.
Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
It seems like every day there's a Show HN post for another "open source alternative" to a popular SaaS app.

And indeed, this search shows 34 pages of results, with clones of everything from Notion to Jira to Hex to Figma to Carta.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=open+source+alternative

I have some personal hypotheses on why this is a common pattern, but I am mostly wondering whether any of these have really succeeded as projects / businesses. Are there any examples of these "open source alternative"-type products really taking off?

This can be taken however you want – either big revenue, or big user base – I'm just looking for some marker of being a breakout hit.
She's a Supreme Court Justice so her cautions shouldn't be lightly dismissed.
The winners in this case are Japanese (Kubota), American (CAT, AGCO, New Holland/CNH), European (CNH, Kioti), and Indian (Mahindra) manufacturers - all diversified conglomerates from countries allied or aligned with the US.
So if they believe abortion is murder, they actually have to punish it like it really is.

So with years in prison for the woman, the supporting husband, the nurses and the MD.

To be clear, I do not think it is murder. But if I did, I would try to send to prison all participants. Not doing so seems philosophically weak, not quite hypocritical, but really self-serving or delusional 'look, those are murderers, a small fine and an administrative slap on the wrist seems enough'. I respect the opinion 'capital punishment/life sentence for any abortion, even in case of incest, rape, or unviable fœtus' way more, even if I find it unhinged. At least they are consistent.
I rather like the idea of "days (hours) to complete assuming nothing goes wrong". With the explicitly given understanding that we all understand that these estimates are necessarily fictional.

Pros:

- It provides a common reference for everyone in the hope that developers might at least be consistently misestimating.

- It provides an easy justification for burndown multipliers, for those external sorts of people that object to burndown multipliers. "The burndown multiplier is a calibrated measurement of how imperfect scheduling estimates are (see The Mythical Man Month). Now go away and stop imposing unnecessary drama on my development team."

- It provides cover to those who assigned initial story points from being needlessly stressed over differences between estimated and actual effort (if you have one of those dreadful people who don't get it involved in your process).
From the diff introducing the bug [1], the issue according to the analysis is that the function was refactored from this:

void
sigdie(const char *fmt,...)
{
#ifdef DO_LOG_SAFE_IN_SIGHAND
va_list args;

va_start(args, fmt);
do_log(SYSLOG_LEVEL_FATAL, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
#endif
_exit(1);
}

to this:

void
sshsigdie(const char *file, const char *func, int line, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list args;

va_start(args, fmt);
sshlogv(file, func, line, 0, SYSLOG_LEVEL_FATAL, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
_exit(1);
}

which lacks the #ifdef.

What could have prevented this? More eyes on the pull request? It's wild that software nearly the entire world relies on for secure access is maintained by seemingly just two people [2].

[1] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/752250caa...

[2] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/graphs/contribut...
> > The Constitution does not say that war must be declared for the armed forces to operate.

> It does.

Since the Constitution is a publicly available document, would you please point me to the spot where it says that? Thanks.
So ... a president can now order an executive branch officer to ignore any Supreme Court decision or law passed by Congress with absolute immunity? Seems like the Supreme Court is going to get what they asked for.
> I’m motivated by the success of AI-based language models to look at the future of digital minds.

When intelligent machines are constructed, we should not be surprised to find them as confused and as stubborn as men in their convictions about mind-matter, consciousness, free will, and the like.

Minsky, as quoted in https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/12/14/a-i
maybe got hit by an NK shit balloon...
That's not what they say, you cut off their actual response:

> The dissents overlook the more likely prospect of an Executive Branch that cannibalizes itself, with each successive President free to prosecute his predecessors, yet unable to boldly and fearlessly carry out his duties for fear that he may be next. ... Virtually every President is criticized for insufficiently enforcing some aspect of federal law (such as drug, gun, immigration, or environmental laws). An enterprising prosecutor in a new administration may assert that a previous President violated that broad statute. Without immunity, such types of prosecutions of ex-Presidents could quickly become routine.

Their argument isn't that it's not likely, it's that there's another failure mode that is even more likely.
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And even if they do think they can probably win, they'll usually leverage that into a plea deal.
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If you want a really fun time, try to explain that Border control, immigration, and citizenship are all large government bodies enacting a government created construct wherein they control where different people are allowed to live and stay... that pisses most small government people off.
Which they can't because official duties haven't been defined.

Trump can now continually appeal his actions were official, delaying charges until after November when, if he wins the election, he can instruct the DoJ to drop the case.
I understand that you have good reasons to feel strongly about this topic, and probably also to feel frustrated with HN users who aren't as acquainted with it as you are. But I still need to ask you to stop posting flamewar comments to HN (and especially religious flamewar—that's one of the worst sorts).

I'm sure it isn't your intent to do that, but we have to go by effects, not intent, and that is the effect that posts like this tend to have (and are having, in the current case). You've posted more than 30 comments in this thread, in the "ideological battle" style that the HN guidelines ask you to avoid here*. It's far from the curious, respectful conversation that this site is supposed to be for.

Also, it's important to edit out swipes like "I can see you are determined to dimiss [etc.]", "Your beliefs have nothing to do with facts [etc.]", and so on. Your posts have included a great many of those, and that's definitely against the site guidelines.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

(* not that a religion is exactly an ideology but that guideline applies to both)
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Article II of the constitution specifically gives the POTUS the authority to command the armed forces. The limit is declaring war, which is vested in Congress. So it seems reasonable that commanding Seal Team 6 is specifically a constitutionally authorized power and within an official duty.
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