skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any reading from that where Trump doesn't have blanket immunity. They stopped just barely short of saying so, with a clear implication of what they believe.

I don't understand, just read the next two paragraphs. They say he doesn't have blanket immunity, and his presumptive immunity can be pierced, and explicitly sent the case back to the lower court to gather facts and decide whether he has immunity in this instance. All three of those points are not blanket immunity.
And the other half wholeheartedly endorses convicting a certain candidate of something, anything to keep him out of office.

I happen to agree that he should be kept out of office, but I'd rather that be done by putting him up against an electable opponent than by giving his base yet more fodder for their belief that they're being collectively persecuted.
JR Central is partnering with the people that want to build a bullet train from Dallas to Houston. We'll see if it ever happens. I'm hoping so!
Wait, has no one mentioned LibreOffice yet? 200 million active users (!) seems like it's successful enough. Admittedly, it hasn't really challenged Microsoft Office yet, but it's growing, and also it's hard to look at something with 200 million active users and say 'that's a failure'. Definitely an alternative though.

There's also uBlock Origin, but I don't know if it's the largest adblocker yet. It should be, though. I think it is a serious competitor, even in terms of market share, to many major for-profit adblockers.
It involved suppression of an article published by a New York newspaper, by social media companies with a large presence in New York. You could indict the social media companies as part of a conspiracy charge under New York law, even if other relevant events happened elsewhere.

Also, do other jurisdictions have obscure election interference laws they never use? Does Delaware? I bet they do.
There is a set of years, maybe a decade where learning what to do and not to do is learned by spending too much time doing so.

Productivity is a relative thing. Ask folks who take a few days off from a keyboard and notice a boost in speed in typing and making more progress than they were.

The idea of having pushes to rest and recover can be normal.

But time away from the keyboard to think (or not) and be creative (or not) is as important as time at they keyboard to allow the brain to make new connections between everything it's working on.
Did you really refer to charging Trump for several felonies for which there is abundant evidence, "lawfare?" That is a weird way to say "consequences for breaking the law."
I’m guessing there aren’t many studies on this, but as a young, fast runner I’d zigzag every time if they’re shooting _at_ me. At least run in a straight line that isn’t collinear with the shooter’s position. Obviously, if you can find cover, put it between you and them and cover distance.

It’s so, so hard for any amateur to hit a target that is moving radially in a polar coordinate system centered on them, at all. I’d bet your average shooter who makes the news can’t put 7/10 shots in a stationary silhouette at 10yd. It’s harder than you’d think.
> Developers spend six hours per week reviewing. This is a bit too much

It's extremely difficult to adjust the time spent on reviews. The options are unattractive. Do you start blindly accepting changes when you hit the limit, or just stop and not let people merge code?
They said in effect that using Seal Team 6 would be presumptively immune, and at that point the court would have to consider whether prosecuting a president for assassinating his rival would impose a chilling effect that would impair future presidents ability to command the armed forces. Since killing your domestic rival is not an important part of tactical wartime decisions, the government would easily overcome the presumption.
Normal amendments are fine. The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments weren’t just any old amendments though. They were passed via a non-political means (or if you take Clausewitz’s opinion, that war is a continuation of politics by other means, it is still a non-constitutional means), effectively without the southern states’ consent.

Almost everyone today thinks the reconstruction amendments were good, but the fact that we had to fight the bloodiest war in our history to get them is not a compliment to our political process.
I would say that of almost all predicaments of the world. We like to reduce our problems down to single factors but they are almost always a marbled symphony of good & bad, black & white, up & down.

While we cannot find a response to everything, we can isolate the key significant factors.
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https://www.aten.com/us/en/products/kvm/desktop-kvm-switches... ?

https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/kvm-switche... ?

Not my current experience btw., just know them from the past, where they worked flawlessly, though not at your current demands. Was longer ago.

But remembering those as professional grade gear, I just checked/skimmed and I think by the specs there could be something for you.
Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?
But the official act is appointing the ambassador. Taking a bribe is not part of the official act of that. That's something else entirely not connected to that act at all, at least in my eyes. I'd hope the eyes of the law as well.
>The fact that we've peacefully transitioned between presidents ~45 times is honestly rather amazing.

well last transition got a little exciting lol
The article is from [2010] except for the addition of a short, but sweet, new paragraph:

Editor’s Note from 2024: In the fifteen years since this was written, I started another company WP Engine, which is still growing and profitable at hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, powering 2.5% of the largest websites in the world. It still wasn’t because we wanted to “fundamentally change how website are created,” but rather we saw how to dramatically improve something that people were already doing
> And the other half wholeheartedly endorses convicting a certain candidate of something, anything to keep him out of office.

There's a strong argument that the candidate in question shouldn't be in the position he was in is because he acted inappropriately. Not just in demeanor and professionalism, but he has several ongoing criminal trials going right now. There is a real possibility that he committed treason.

But even so, no one is really opposed to him gaining office if that's what truly people want. At that point, the concern is what the hell is wrong with the people that voted him in, and what the hell happened to get the population to that point. My guess is Reagan.
I have no specific knowledge of the case you're referring to. I'll just assume it happened as you say it did.

Why are you upset that people are concerned by a ruling allowing exactly what you're concerned about? Shouldn't you be upset that neither the DOJ nor Congress took action against the President in question?
If the README included the tl;dr installation instructions, I'd be trying this out already.
I transfer it to people on the slowest method for 1st borns baby shower. I used it on furniture at Overstock.com while they allowed it. I gamble with it. I have donated with it.

For me and probably many others, when expediency isn't an issue, BTC works great.
I would hope the law isn't so loose in interpretation where people could get away this easily with this looney tunes legal defense. For example I used to work in a public capacity and we couldn't even take gifts, so I would think the president couldn't just say they were gifted a huge yacht or something for a wink wink nudge nudge, or else it would have been done by now.
I’m simply erring on the side of caution. Everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face.
I don't think the hired help is any more absurd, given that the primary perceived problem would be the increased likelihood that a bad actor exploits the system. I think that's what would keep a landlord up at night far more than an impermanent modification to the real property. Either way, it removes the resident's own judgement from the request/response cycle. But then again, so does the resident handing out copies of keys, which has a very different but still substantial attack surface.

No matter what, the main gate still keeps out random people who aren't sophisticated in their attack, which is all it ever did in the first place, so there's really not much going on here.
But what he did on jan 6, asking people to break the law for him, is not an official act of the presidency, so that would still be prosecutable I would think.
I'm halfway convinced that Datadog is so popular for the exact same reason.
> Maybe Australians cofounded these places in America? Or just Americans who had life-defining experiences in Australian locations and came back to start restaurants in honor of those places? I have not dug too deep into their origins.

As far as I am aware, Australians had nothing to do with the founding of Outback Steakhouse, and its founders had nothing to with Australia. A group of Americans in Florida in 1988 wanted to open a restaurant, and were looking for a distinctive theme or branding. And the Crocodile Dundee film had been a big hit in the US a couple of years earlier, and so they decided to appropriate the stereotypes of Australia it represents as the basis of their branding. I’m not aware any of them had any personal connection to Australia at all. If it wasn’t for the popularity of that film, they probably would have picked a different theme for their restaurant instead
Prolong this by staying up all night and having microsleeps every 5 minutes.
There is approximately zero chance Trump would redirect military spending towards healthcare for regular people. His main accomplishment last term was a trillion dollar handout to corporations. He doesn’t represent you and me.
The question is if there is a cumulative effect from the smaller shock waves or if there is a threshold that needs to be exceeded to cause issues.
If it wasn't illegal, then what else is new? Republicans always try and twist the knife and get whatever profit seeking muck they can passed while they hold the reins.
IMHO, those distances of 463 miles (745 Km) seem more suitable for maglev trains, which I imagine would put those cities at a distance of around 3 hours, including wait times at station to board.

By airplane, I imagine the total time from Los Angeles airport to San Francisco airport, including wait times to board and latter to pick up luggage, may be around 4 hours?

Just crossed my mind quickly, I did not made numbers.
Presumably you understand that how long it takes to find bugs in code depends on the code. If not, then I hope you've read the code for Linux and SSL, etc.
I'm not sure code reviews hold much merit. I've been a web developer for around 12 years and I've worked in companies big and small.

I think there should be a manual QA process to test the functionality of what the developer is pushing out.

The issue with code reviews is always that they take so much time for another developer and many devs are super busy so they just have a quick review of the PR and approve or feel they have to add some comments. Context switching between what the dev is already doing and having to come to the PR to review properly means they should switch to that Git branch, pull down the code, test it all and check for logical bugs that a static code review won't pick up.

For juniors, code reviews are still useful as you will be able to spot poor quality code, but for seniors, not as much for the reasons above, better off having a QA process to find and logic holes rather than expecting devs to invest so much time in context switching.
With how anti-consumer the recent Plex moves have been, Jellyfin [1] has gotten really popular among self-hosting community. It is arguably the best alternative to Plex in terms of features and the amount of freedom given to the user.

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I can confirm this 18.04 machine still gets some important updates like kernel upgrades and patched versions of Apache.
Casey was eloquently written, but relied on Roe for the existence of the underlying abortion right, without offering a more rigorous foundation. It still ultimately rests on Griswold’s “emanations from penumbras.”

Casey was the start of the self-licking ice cream cone the abortion right eventually became—asserted to exist because it was said to exist by a precedent nobody could defend.
Thanks for the tidbits! I'm a huge fan of electronics and computer and related history. Id be interested in any stories you have about your time there :)
There was a novel written in the early 1900s that said men don't commit suicide from heartbreak but from lack of hope for money.
Technical debt. Keep it minimal, and when needed, write a task for it to be looked in to later.

Coding standards. Don't submit code that has rando extra lines and things that will slow down the next dev from looking in to the past to learn what does what.

And most of all, make sure edge cases are covered, often via a truth table of all possible outcomes.

I often comment on a PR saying "blah blah, but not blocking" so I'll allow it but at least my entitled opinion was known in case that code issue comes up later.

My PRs take a long time, because I dig the F in.
As with most processes, the dilemma with code reviews is in figuring out how they impact your team and your organization.

In a huge org, with thousands of engineers that's already burdened by hours per day of interruptions and process overhead, and release runways that already involve six stamps of bureaucracy, mandatory code revies have very little downside (it's in the noise) but highly variable return (many people are just droning under the weight of process). The org loses nothing much for mandating it, but only certain teams will see a lot of value for it.

On the other extreme, a startup with five engineers will get backlogged with reviews (which then get shortchanged) because everbody either is under pressure to either stay in their high-productivity flow or put out some pressing fire. The reviews probably could catch issues and share critical knowledge very regularly, but the org pays a pronounced penalty for the overhead and interruptions.

People long for "one size fits all" rules, crafting essays and publishing research papers to justify them, but the reality of what's right is often far more idiosyncratic.
Plea bargains account for over 90% of convictions in the US. Part of the cause is prosecutors can and do offer deals that rational actors would have a hard time refusing.

As a trivial example: imagine you are charged with a misdemeanor you absolutely didn’t do. Assuming you have no previous criminal record the state offers you a civil penalty (ie an expensive speeding ticket).

Are you going to go to trial knowing you could be sentenced to a year in prison? Keep in mind just paying an attorney to represent you through the trial will cost several times the civil penalty.
One way to think about it is via the concept of body autonomy/sovereignty: your life is in your hands. IMHO dignified peaceful suicide should be a right granted to all free individuals. If one is free to live, why is one not free to die?
But that is too radical of an idea, and upsets all sorts of people (especially the money men)

Sometimes opting out is the only rational choice. If there is no support in society for an individual who cannot work and generate profit, if there is no support in society for an individual who is terminally ill (expensive palliative care aside), if there is no support in society for an individual who has "fallen throigh the cracks" (and the cracks are mighty wide), then what is there to do? Slowly die on the street?

This thinking can lead to all kinds of dark paths, such as the state being in charge of the matter (and abusing it, as they can already abuse it via the carceral system), but ultimately we have to confront the fact that as a society we often leave people with no way out, collectively shrug our shoulders, and then act horrified when they take the only viable option that immediately removes all suffering.

People who are uncomfortable with suicide are ultimately uncomfortable with facing the reality that they live in a society that encourages it.
Please continue to be diligent in your PRs! Garbage code belongs in the garbage.
I would love for the gov.uk source code to be public. It’s some of the best software I’ve ever used, let alone software in the public sector.
I was curious how often this happens. I couldn’t find many examples, and they’re all military:

In 2022 India accidentally fired a missile at Pakistan: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/indias-inadverten...

In 1970 the USAF accidentally launched a missile carrying nuclear material, and it landed in Mexico: https://unredacted.com/2015/07/13/usaf-accidentally-launched...

I’m 1967 the accidental launch of a rocket on board the USS Forrestal killed 134 people and nearly destroyed the ship: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/uss-forrestal-acciden...
It really depends on the code. To find a CSS bug, yes easy peasy. To find a logic hole in a payment integration of what someone has missed or should have implemented but didn't (eg webhooks), then this requires a lot more time and the developer basically has to sit down properly to work out exactly what should have been implemented / how they would have developed it, and then cross-check it against what has been done, otherwise you won't be able to easily find those logical holes which effectively are bugs, just not simple code bugs like a missing semicolon.
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> No no no. Enough of this 'both sides' nonsense.

No, not enough. The lack of 'both sides' is what got us here.

You want to know what the hell is wrong with the people who voted him in? They have felt alone, disenfranchised, and cut off by the coastal elite (both sides!) for decades. One party took their vote for granted, the other wished that they didn't have a vote at all. They got sick of being ignored and condescended to, and a freaky sociopath named Donald Trump realized that they were the key to "winning" his perverted game and he finally successfully courted them.

They fell over themselves for Trump because no one else spared them a second thought.

So no, I'm not going to be done with 'both sides'. The Left thinks that if they just prosecute Trump and get him convicted these people will just go away and we can go back to business as usual, but this populist movement has found its voice and it's not going anywhere.

The only thing that's going to stop this from turning tragic is for the Left to figure out that these people exist and have a vote and find a way to speak to them. And the only way I have to help is to cry "both sides". Trump voters are normal people with very real needs, and our only hope to avert catastrophe is to see them and hear them.
I think it’s consistent with the philosophy that States should curtail the powers of the President through constitutional amendments.

It’s a strict constructionist interpretation, where the judiciary shouldn’t fix problems that the people, congress and States have the power to fix.

In the example of the President (Commander in Chief) directing the military to thwart political enemies, I think a strict constructionist might say, the people freely elected that President, 2/3 of States failed to pass an amendment curtailing the President’s unilateral command of the military and the Congress failed to impeach and convict the President, so the judiciary is hardly to blame when the people, congress and States all could have intervened if there was a concern.

There are obviously counter arguments to this strict constructionist view, which the minority documented. The counter-argument is basically, yes there are those other options, but we have to use a liberal interpretation in this moment instead of a strict interpretation in order to prevent some potential disastrous consequences. And if the people, states and congress don’t like our liberal interpretation, then they can overrule us using the same methods of voting, laws, constitutional amendments, etc. that the strict constructionists advocate.
Yes, of course it depends a lot on context.

I've never had an incentive to read the Linux kernel code. I routinely find and disclosed cryptography library bugs, though usually mostly hobby projects like the "I thought it would be cool if there was a PHP implementation of GHASH" sort rather than like OpenSSL.
Are you a parent though? I'm non-US and I've seen their changing stations in the malls, they are pretty ubiquitous.
This is quite common. British parliamentary systems offer immunity to members in their official acts.

Why?

Because, and this is purely hypothetical (lol), an opponent could try and convict politicians with spurious charges to get them out of power.

Singapore’s ruling party loves this tactic. Political opponent is charged with defamation, and if fined more than $5,000, they are no longer eligible to run for office.

It’s a commonly used political weapon which is why most democracies offer immunity.
I don't think he's spreading FUD. It's a lot of trust you're placing in a 3rd party who doesn't have the source code to patch your system. Independent reviews and A B testing would help sway a lot of people, IMO.
I just try to avoid the situation you're in entirely. For one, keep cables with what their device. Like the garmin cable stays with the garmin in its own case with the rest of my outdoor gear. If there is no device that it goes with, I throw the cable away. I don't keep extras, "just in case". That's what my parents do (with everything) and it's why they need a 4000 square foot house, a large shed and storage building. Except for phone charging cables since they don't last and are basically consumables. I can't imagine needing 20 video cables unless I was running a pawn shop.