skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone pencil out the real danger of this position? Sotomayors opinion seems to posit that a president can receive a bribe and pardon someone for that and this is an official, immune act. However, I don't think soliciting a bribe would be considered an official act of the POTUS, and by what I have been able to understand from this opinion would still be subject to prosecution. I also think that this opinion seems to be exactly in line with existing legal precedent. Truman was never prosecuted for the massacres he presided on. Nixon was never prosecuted. Reagen was never prosecuted. We just don't seem to ever prosecute ex presidents at all whether we had this opinion to spell it out for us or not.
I'm on Oracle Linux, and they appear to have already issued a patch for this problem:

openssh-8.7p1-38.0.2.el9.x86_64.rpm
openssh-server-8.7p1-38.0.2.el9.x86_64.rpm
openssh-clients-8.7p1-38.0.2.el9.x86_64.rpm

The changelog addresses the CVE directly. It does not appear that adding the -e directive is necessary with this patch.

$ rpm -q --changelog openssh-server | head -3
* Wed Jun 26 2024 Alex Burmashev <alexander.burmashev@oracle.com> - 8.7p1-38.0.2
- Restore dropped earlier ifdef condition for safe _exit(1) call in sshsigdie() [Orabug: 36783468]
Resolves CVE-2024-6387
When in a similar situation, I went to therapy, which helps. Also exercise, I find a lousy feeling builds up when I don't exercise and magically goes away when I do. Also eat right, you have to feed your gut properly or it will affect your brain. Use the healthcare to take care of yourself. You'll need coping mechanisms where ever you go. I think life is just about figuring out those coping mechanisms as you go.
Not seeing your email, so I'll post here. I wrote up a similar theory of consciousness here: https://peterholmes.medium.com/the-conscious-computer-af5037...

In particular, I think there's a nice overlap between my description of self-awareness and yours. You mention a model capable of seeing its own output, but I take it a step further and indicate model capable of generating its own simulated actions and results. Curious what you think, thanks!
what a dramatic take. surely you haven't read the actual opinion.

for posterity, this is "the blueprint for a [sic] American dictatorship" to which you refer:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
Founding Fathers didn't write the constitution.

They wrote the Articles of Confederation which failed leading to the Framers writing the Constitution.
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Once you get beyond the cities, there is still plenty of open FM spectrum. Getting a frequency isn't the real hurdle. Human effort and licensing are the much greater challenges.

Especially licensing. Even on commercial radio you can regularly catch them playing "10 second" clips of different songs, to stay within fair use, that they wish to play but cannot legally do so. The college stations are more brazen about it and will flat out tell you that they can't play different jobs for legal reasons.

Indeed, commercial radio does have to appeal to an audience, but that audience would unquestionably enjoy other music – at least within the same genre. But playing it for them opens up a huge legal minefield. It is a lot easier to pick a small catalog that you can properly audit and disallow anything beyond that.
Unconventional advice but I think if your mental health is at the point where you're posting on an internet forum asking this, you should probably do what you can to exit the situation.

If your financial situation permits it, it probably makes sense to walk away before your health and/or relationships deteriorate further.

If your financial situation does not permit exiting, I'd advise you to spend all of your non work energy in changing your situation. You can do it. You really can. Getting into Amazon is not easy, there plenty of places that would be ecstatic to hire you, but the hard part is finding them. That part is kind of like dating. Its definitely about fit - we are all human after all and trying to decide if we can work together.

Easiest way to explain this situation to future employers in my opinion would be "I had a health issue that I needed to resolve, but it is now completely resolved" would probably be enough to get me as an interviewer to be satisified on any gap in employment etc. People can tell when you lie, so this would be a good strategy IMO as it is truthful.

Best of luck and remember this will pass. You will figure this out.

Rooting for you friend.
If anything that is more impressive given the tiny size of the UK, few natural resources, and miserable weather.
A president could put a bullet through a political rivals head and say he was "to the best of his ability, preserving, protecting, and defending the Consitution of the United States" if that political rival was calling for the "termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution" and was preparing to do it.

I could see the argument being made that yes, that's an official act. You'd have to argue why it's okay for a President to abandon their oath of office.
I didn't know anyone had actually received cars.

The few people I know who wanted one were on the waiting list. None had actually got a car. And now their deposit money is gone, too.
I believe the best clarificstion there is that you have to consider the person and the office separately. When acting as the president and largely executing his duties as defined by Congress and the Constitution, he can't be charged. If the person does something outside of the office's powers then immunity doesn't hold.

Meaning, if the president shoots a random bystander on the street they can be charged with murder. If the president orders a military strike as part of an official operation and done through proper channels, they can't be charged if it later turns out the intel was bad or the strike went wrong in some way.
We got very similar findings: we published a paper that show that smaller LLMs (3-7b) when finetuned with LoRA can match or outperform GPT-4 on a variety of tasks (29 out of 31) including classification, summarization, info extraction, "reasoning". https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00732 (Predibase cofounder and coauthor of the paper)
Just pardon everyone in the United States that act on your orders every morning after you get up before breakfast.
Critically, the former president was posting about how his political enemies should face military tribunals for treason yesterday
> The ruling says that if the President is acting within the legally and constitutionally defined scope of their duties then they shouldn't have to wonder if they'll later be prosecuted for it.

The other big problem is how do you resolve a question of whether the president is acting within the legally and constitutionally defined scope of their duties? If there is a presumption of immunity and precluded from examining motive, it may be nearly impossible to establish the facts in cases where the president is acting improperly.
> I pray when Trump is reelected he makes no such moves.

project 2025
>Qualified immunity

Qualified immunity is unconstitutional
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This summary sounds much more tolerable than my initial reading, and I think what constitutes the discrepancy is the absence of the statement

> In a ruling on the last day before the Supreme Court’s summer recess, and just over two months after the oral argument, a majority of the court rejected the D.C. Circuit’s reasoning. As an initial matter, Roberts explained in his 43-page ruling, presidents have absolute immunity for their official acts when those acts relate to the core powers granted to them by the Constitution – for example, the power to issue pardons, veto legislation, recognize ambassadors, and make appointments

which I can't find in the linked article, but which is of course in what you've linked to.

In those enumerated things I think the ruling is quite tolerable, but the decision is much broader than that, and this presumptive immunity, etc. becomes quite burdensome.

It's going to be like the state secrets privilege, and that has already allowed people to get away with torture, even people whose identities are well known, and where there is clear, unambiguous evidence that they were involved.

What Roberts says almost makes it sound alright, but it definitely isn't.
Some suggestions: I watched the movie and thought the “ask questions” part could be done better.

Going back a problem I often have: I search youtube movies for learning something and click through 4-5 movies until I find a good presenter, not just ads, well explained and good summarized. You might not be able to to a better search algorithm but you could think of on a specific topic summaries a few youtube movies and by this give a good suggestion which to look at/read the summary.
I think and hope that the results of this ruling will be less extreme than the dissent warns. It could potentially be very bad, though. The word “official” is doing a lot of lifting in this ruling. If it is not interpreted too liberally, then perhaps not that much is “official” and thus immune. If it is interpreted the other way, then this could be bad.
There's a purported PoC exploit that delivers shellcode available on GitHub, but I saw someone comment the link here, and then their comment disappeared on the next refresh.
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Add Ukraine.
That’s why businesses pay Redhat, Qt, Unity,… Clear contracts that reduces the risk of compromised dependencies. Or you vet your dependencies (it helps when you don’t have a lot)
> Depriving someone of their constitutional rights cannot be an official act by definition.

SCOTUS disagrees with you. People can be stripped of their constitutional rights and they are official acts.

For the most recent case: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-upholds-bar...

2nd Amendment versus the executive branch's right to enforce that law.
Even in the first few sentances of that article I don't understand the situation they build about who pays for what. They say auto exaust is an example of an externality since car users presumably aren't affected by its ills. Here I am thinking they certainly pay for it in terms of a tradeoff between worse local air quality and convenience. Maybe some people believe things must only be paid in cash and not through time or experience.
I'm mad because authoritarianism and its supporters are bad, full stop.
You need something else to run your electron app on mobiles. Ok, you take Capacitor, fine. Probably you'll take React (or something else) to manage your state. Great. You still need some UI toolkit. Literally all of them, even the paid ones, are pretty basic and dumb. So, most likely you'll have to make your UIs pretty basic and dumb, or reinvent the world and/or dig through tons of half-baked libraries which deprecate faster than you manage to integrate them.

Modern QT (with QML) has very low amount of the boilerplate, all the 7guis examples can be implemented with 20-80 LoCs and will run on all the platforms, although despite all the modernization efforts, C++ still feels dated and it's nearly impossible to be productive with it. The main issues are: lack of pattern-matching with type deconstruction, lack of ADTs/GADTs, lack of closed hierarchies, lack of exhaustiveness checks, lack of closed type hierarchy (no top/bottom), lack of typeclasses, lack of first-class functions (yes, while there is some syntactic sugar, it's just a sugar, e.g. you can't return two different lambdas depending on the template parameter from one template function).
At work, we use extensively Palantir Foundry and its [excellent] PipelineBuilder.
I was reluctant at first with this low-code no-code stuff. But after porting custom python code, I must admit it covers 99% of the transformation needs we have.
Plus it keeps a semantic all along, that is much more difficult to understand/maintain by code [especially in Python].
Adani Update – Hindenburg Research Response to India's Securities Regulator SEBI
Unfortunately, the majority decision has the sentence
> At a minimum, the President must be immune from prosecution for an official act unless the Government can show that applying a criminal prohibition to that act would pose no “dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.

Since imprisoning the president would obviously intrude on the functions of the Executive branch, it really looks like the majority opinion is that no president may be prosecuted for any "official act".
For me, this says everything:

> The structures helped the company [Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)] reach an effective corporate tax rate of 4.7 per cent, far below the US statutory rate of 21 per cent.
With the Court killing the Chevron Deference, they have given themselves all the power to decide what is an official act and what isn't. Anything not spelled out in plain terms will be interpreted by them and nothing is spelled in plain terms.
SCOTUS disagrees.

The most recent affirmation: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-upholds-bar...

There are countless other cases.
I did suspect that, but now the implication is that the memory allocator is not reusing memory even though it easily could.

GLIBC used to have a fixed 128 KiB threshold, but since 2.25 (2017) it defaults to dynamically adjusting the threshold to prevent exactly this pattern of excess syscalls. A manual threshold disables this though!

(This may be a microoptimization depending on how much real work you're doing between the syscalls, but there's also a good chance that it's easy to fix.)
"Investigate Europe can reveal that the 15 largest European and US drugmakers, including BMS, publicly disclose over 1,300 subsidiaries in tax havens and low-tax territories. These jurisdictions offer corporations low taxes or ways to shift profits (sometimes both). In Europe, researchers and activists generally agree that they include Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg."

The nasty secret is called "transfer pricing", which is permissible under OECD rules, which permits companies to claim their headquarters are whereever they want (so they choose a low tax jurisdiction), when everybody knows that their "real headquarter" is not there (including their own Website, which names an entirely different place as their HQ). One such loophole the "Double Dutch-Irish Sandwich" was closed two years ago, but plenty of other ways remain.

It is a bit unfair to "Big Pharma" (or Apple) to single them out, because lots of other corporations do the same. For example, just check the Canton Zug (CH)'s ratio between companies registered there (29k?) and people living there (25k?).
I have not seen a single political party offering in their manifesto to fix this... meanwhile large corporates create shell companies owned by other shell companies licensing brands to third shell companies while receiving loans from fourth parties etc. etc. - typical money laundering patterns like organized crime, yet entirely legal at the moment.

In my opinion, everyone who is a Director of >50 companies should be investigated for fraud to begin with, and rules for determining companies' true headquarter should be changed so they cannot be freely chosen "only for tax purposes".
https://archive.ph/yya1S
I'd assume its better than alternatives. People don't just decide to whip their back with a rope every day. They make choices that make sense to them and give them the best individual outcome.
Sure, but the same concern exists even for applications that have inflexible protocols. You either have someone willing and able to say that enough is enough and break backwards compatibility, or you don't.
This is what has Netanyahu fighting for his political life at the moment.
Generating possible subdomains for ethical hacking using AI (GAN) [pdf]
Because it's 1) just a rant, which 2) is not even on-topic, to which 3) no meaningful reply can really be given.
It matters a lot of it bleeds off faster than you can reasonably replenish it.
I think we are operating on different definitions of abstractions/concepts, here. My guess is you are trying to invoke a very specific meaning of "abstraction" in another context.

To note, most text is a symbolic representation of spoken words and words are abstractions of any number of things. Both physical things such as "running" and less physical things such as "thinking." (Yes, legographic texts exist, such that they may not be representing spoken words, but I fail to see how that changes things here?)
Yes. MapReduce's model is basically:

1. Map (key, value) -> (new_key, tmp_value)
2. Group by new_key
3. Reduce (new_key, all tmp_values for that key) -> (new_key, new_values)

In that respect, it's not that far from SQL with custom aggregates. I guess the most precise SQL representation would be

SELECT REDUCE(MAP(t)) FROM foo GROUP BY KEY(MAP(t))

(I've both been on the MapReduce team, and worked on an SQL database. I don't honestly think they're that comparable.)
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NOTE: Please include Ask HN 2024-07-01 in the subject!

I'd enjoy a more backend role in software development or engineering support for larger networks.
What would native SIMD support entail in a language without first party JIT or AOT compilation?
>SQL is one of the databases languages

I had a good laugh at that formulation; indeed, SQL is one of the database languages of all time :D
The Founding Fathers created a government that:

- Led to a bloody civil war that was the most deadly war in human history (until WWI), over 600,000 Americans dead, just ~75 years later;

- Largely wiped out the indigenous people of North America;

- Enshrined chattel slavery;

- Denied the right to vote to women (and in fact all non-white people); and

- Has been involved in, responsible for and/or complicit with many coups in the rest of the world [1].

Maybe it's not the best thing to celebrate.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
> How can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was no official basis for an act? Especially when the response is almost certainly going to be, "the reason for the official action is classified".

In my hypothetical? Because there's no congressional declaration of war or authorization of the use military force against the waitress, which can be determined by reading the journals of the house and senate.
Sad to see that had as much support as it did. I'm glad at least that the ACLU knew better
And income tax was even lower in 10'000BC !!

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-federal...

For our contemporary age, they are at an all time low.
There are several crates available which implement the dangerous parts of signal handling safely for you.
The 14th amendment is a restriction on government. Civil rights acts on private entities involved in intrastate trade.

CRA also expressly allows racism unlike the 14th. For instance the civil rights act allows a business to preferentially treat an Indian in a near reservation (but off res) business while outlawing discriminating say in favor of blacks near a historically black neighborhood.
I think you're confusing your kiloseconds with megaseconds.

* 60 seconds per minute

* 60 minutes per hour: 3600 seconds per hour

* 1 kilosecond = 16 minutes and 40 seconds

* 24 hours per day: 86,400 +/- 1 seconds per day

* 1,000,000 / 86,400 ~= 11.57

I love giving metric-using friends a hard time whenever they criticize imperial units of measure. I always tell them that I will happily embrace metric when they give up their irrational attachment to an archaic system of time-telling.
And how, pray tell, is that compatible with them also saying that neither Congress nor Courts can call into question the motivation of the President for doing so? All the president need do is say "they were a national security concern" and they are now absolutely immune from anyone so much as presenting evidence in a trial that says otherwise!
Show HN: Sonatino – small audio dev board based on ESP32-S3
Hi!

My name is Ben, and I recently updated my audio dev board "Sonatino" after receiving a lot of good feedback from the initial launch a year ago.

I began working on this after building a few projects that required audio capabilities. I was getting tired of wiring up external DACs and amplifiers to ESP32 boards, so I decided to look for a more compact, integrated solution. The available options either had larger footprints, non-standard connectors, or features that I didn't typically need for my projects. That's when I started working on a custom PCB that could be a sort of "audio swiss army knife". The result was Sonatino.

Some have criticized the use of a DAC and ADC that support HD sample rates and bit depths, especially when other factors will limit the usefulness of anything over 44.1kHz/16-bit audio. I actually agree - HD audio in this context is mostly overkill, but most modern audio chips support it and it's entirely optional. My primary goal was for the ADC and DAC to be easy to use - no I2C configuration required (like many of the CODECs available). It needed to be easy to use from an Arduino programming environment. The chips I selected (from Cirrus Logic) were a good fit; they just also happened to support higher sample rates / bit depths.

The latest revision drops the built-in antenna in favor of an external one. It also has a better speaker amp (3.2 W), an RGB LED, and improved power circuity. It's been a fun little board to work with!

https://sonatino.com/

Check it out and let me know if you have feedback. Price is currently higher than I'd like, but that's a result of it being manufactured at low volumes.
> Pay: to give in return for goods or service

So, yes. A Paywall. By the very definition of the word.

If you can't bypass it without giving something it is a pay wall.
It’s way worse. Mediterranean countries have free education system that produce engineers, doctors, etc that they can’t keep, because they can go to the Netherlands or the UK for bigger career opportunities and salaries. At a personal level is “an amazing opportunity” at a country level it’s a vicious cycle that increases the gap, a real tragedy.