skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Secret Barrister’s tweets don’t contradict the comment you replied to. Defence lawyers can subpoena relevant material, such as communications with the accused person, from prosecution witnesses. That material will not necessarily be admissible before the jury, and the court may restrict the use of subpoenas for privacy reasons as long as it doesn’t undermine the defendant’s right to a fair trial. The Secret Barrister is talking about what the police must do whether or not the accused person issues subpoenas.

Police do have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of inquiry. If it’s a rape allegation where the complainant had a previous relationship with the rapist, and the critical issue is the complainant’s credibility, would it ever be legally unreasonable for the police to ask for the victim to turn over their phone as the first step in the investigation? And if this occurs, couldn’t that have a chilling effect on crime reporting, even if the fruits of that search would not normally need to be disclosed to the accused (or would at least be ruled inadmissible at trial, after being disclosed to the accused)?

Nobody wants unfamiliar officers trawling through their phones, but the law didn’t have to change to make it far more likely that victims of crime would suffer invasions of privacy as a side effect of a lawful and proper criminal investigation. We just started carrying around huge amounts of evidence about our private lives, including evidence relevant to crimes we might want to report, 24/7. We need to talk about whether that societal fact has changed the balance to be struck between the rights of victims and defendants in the criminal justice system.
"there is likely opportunity to auto detect cranky/racist/gaming behavior and we have some plans in that area."

Ask facebook and twitter how easy automated content moderation is...
The banner ads will likely not be in the new release, but for a different reason. The top-level screen where they are shown no longer hosts any configuration screens during default (Fedora Workstation) live installation and only two screens on network installation, which will also be soon moved to the previous "summary" top-level screen.

Due to this the "adds" might look out of place as the rest of the screen is empty. At the moment it is unclear if they will be replaced by some new bigger artwork or just by a bigger and more fancy installation progress reporting.
Imagine that someone is a victim of a sexual assault by someone they knew. Emails or text messages pertaining to that person certainly can be relevant, but all the rest of the persons emails, text, photos, and other app data?

That seems beyond excessive, and could easily lead to the police going out of their way or using automated mean to scan your entire life for other things they could charge you with.

It would be similar to having your car robbed while parked at a shopping mall, then having the police refuse to help unless they could search your entire house too.
I would bet photovoltaic. Lowest cost per watt, the process can likely be designed to tolerate day/night variations, and the plant can be located where the sun shines.
The point being made by GP is that the rules are already too broad; simply writing them down does very little (if anything) to address the worry about data intrusion. If I were to do something horrible to another person, they wouldn't have much reassurance if I said "here's a list of what I can (and thus can't) do to you, and when (and thus when not) I can do it to you".

I'm a very data security conscious person. If something bad happened to me the last thing I'd want is for the police to say that they can't continue to work on my case unless I grant them access to my device(s) and then trust them to not be (deliberately or not) "incompetent" with what they're doing. If anything this should be part of a policy in which victims elect to volunteer information when asked if there's anything that could help the case. I can actually easily imagine a case in which I've been sexually assaulted (and this has happened to me) and I would not go to the police if they had a policy like this.

If the police are searching on my phone, what if I have something illegal I don't want them to see? Something they might think is 'concerning' that they can write down and decide to pursue later? What if I'm a sex worker and they can find out through looking at my phone, and even gather proof that fact? And before we say that we can trust them to be competent, what about the other story here?[0] What about the myriad of horrible laws that are passed in England and Wales which restrain even private possession of comics?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785416
I'm seeing them more and more often these days on joggers and other people walking around.
> It's only two anecdotes. I may have simply run into rude people. But, they made me not care to ever speak French.

Oddly, my experience has been the opposite. Most of the places I have gone to in Paris spoke very little to no English but were trying to be very helpful anyway and I HAD to use my broken French.

However, I could tell that we didn't really hit the "standard" tourist shops (stayed just off École Militaire).

I will say that most English speakers tend to be VERY tolerant of mistakes. I think it's a combination of:

1) There is no single "native" English.

Think about how different people from different socioeconomic classes in the US, Canada, UK, India, etc. sound. And they are all native English speakers!

2) English is really agglomerative and absorbs neologisms readily.

Think about how quickly typhoon and tycoon entered the language, for example. Can you picture that kind of evolution for any other language?
I've spoken with people who are connected much higher up and the truth is that they could get rid of 70% plus and still bring in the same profit. The unsaid thing is that most profit is still from search ads, the rest of the spending makes it look, to Wall Street, like they have something beyond search ads and are not a one trick pony. So far they really are not and have become very bloated and inefficient, but Wall Street has been rewarding this behavior with a higher stock price....though the better thing may have been for them to just hoard the cash....especially if none of the other bets ever pan out. Some of this is the curse of being a public company and the skewed incentives.
Yup. By spending money, every 20$ you spend, uses up 1 hour of your life. If you want more time back, you need to save money.
I have an organic growth marketing suggestion:
- Laptop stickers.
Start with your own laptop. See if people come online and talk to you. If they do, ask them if they'd like a sticker too. Tell them that they can gift a sticker to a friend from the website.

- Also, a desktop app / plugin for Slack / Discord / something else. I don't pay attention to my phone when I'm working but I am on a few chats that I check on and off on my laptop.
My mistake, sorry. I got thrown by the parent's "durable".
> Actually, it’s the inverse, where currency fluctuations only start to have an effect when you have significant foreign revenue

I do think Google has had a "have significant foreign revenue" for quite some time now, otherwise they wouldn't have reached almost a $1 trillion market valuation, it's a strange thing though that only now they've started putting the blame on "currency fluctuations", a move which is usually made by non-cool businesses like retailers or copper-miners (to name just a few), not by Amazon and Google (at least not until now).

Maybe I'm just a little bit too cynical when it comes to how business is done nowadays, but in the case of those retailers and copper-miners I just mentioned blaming "currency fluctuations" it's just a way of not acknowledging to their investors that "hey, we didn't do our homework in terms of execution oversees, but let's blame it all on FX, it's not like even the central bankers know how this currency thing even works". Like I said, maybe I'm just cynical, but I see Google playing the same defect-the-blame game, especially as the Google representative repeatedly refused to come with any other details about this (presumably by the next conference call she'll be surprised to hear that FX hedging is actually a thing that most of the time works quite well).
+100000
I couldn't agree more. I saw some real interesting research a few years ago about artificial leaves. I really wish one of these billionaires would stop building giant rockets and solve carbon recapture first. Apparently, our government isn't interested in it.
Would be interested in this as well. I currently use Gatsby for a personal site, and the development server is great and for prod I just sync production assets to an s3 bucket and serve from there. It's hard to see how it could get any easier.
Often when children go missing the parents are responsible or complicit in some way. People write things down all the time -- a google account may contain incriminating emails, IM messages, or other documents such as journal entries.

I'm squicked out about the invasion like many are, and if I thought about it carefully I expect I would come out against the idea, but I can actually see the case for this invasion.
Check your email :-)
Weight + slimness (the primary drivers of unrepairable Mac designs) yield pragmatic benefits in laptops and especially in phones. There are superficial aesthetic qualities to slimness also, to be sure, but you cannot just brush away the benefits in ease of use and portability.
The "trouble" with Orkut was the large majority of those users were outside the United States. Brazil and later India made up the majority.

Those eyeballs weren't worth as much to advertisers, and I don't think Google valued the product highly because of it.
Doing "exactly that" but minus the legal mandate or adapter ban is like making "exactly" a cup of coffee but without the coffee or water. And then throwing the cup out 5 years ago, too.

Without the legal mandate and adapter ban, they might as well have done nothing. To this day, there are two common connectors for Android phones (Micro USB and USB C), a different connector for iPhones (Lightning), and proprietary connectors for most feature phones.
At the end of the day - does it matter where it came from?

They could be like Tesla and build a solar arm, or a wind farm, or do geothermal. You could pull it out of the grid and it'd still be better for the environment than pulling it out of the ground.

TBH saying the world doesn't have a carbon problem contradicts all of the people fighting greenhouse gas emission based climate change so I'm curious as to your logic behind that statement.
"Rebuild" is kind of a vague term that doesn't specify exactly what is done and what condition the engine was in.

Have you tried to find a mechanic who will rebuild a worn out engine and give a reasonable warranty on the work in your town? If a local professional can't make that work these days economically, it tells you something.

I see ads for cars that had a "rebuild" a few thousand miles ago and need serious work already.
It doesn't feel like the same situation. A better analogy would be running personal projects from your corporate servers, as you are using your professionally acquired access to resources you do not own for personal gain. There is little grey area there - unless you own the company, it isn't appropriate.
I agree. This is a technical discussion forum and we should use the correct terms.
> "Find easy ways you can come across better."

Listen, I know that we live in a world in which many things other than objective merit matter when it comes to success/relationships/upward mobility. I realize there's psychology involved, perhaps even evolutionary psychology (i.e., hard to change).

But I hate this advice. It reeks of elitism, with a nose high in the air.

"Want success? Look good and smile."

What about: "Find easy ways to be open and accepting of what others have to say, despite your instinct not to listen."

Might be overthinking this one, but this line of thinking is frustrating.
I fail to see the issue. Technologies improve, resource availability can improve. Automation... so many ways that this can be totally plausible, despite the cynicism.
Plus you spend post-tax money but you gotta earn pre-tax money. A penny saved is nearly two pennies earned, depending on your tax bracket.
This is me. I just tell people sorry, I don’t do Facebook.
If you already have prime, you are saying "no" to free money. It is like charity to Amazon.
They would almost certainly not have the jurisdiction. They’re a BVI Corp (a jurisdiction that tends to look the other way at corporate fraud) and I believe operate out of Hong Kong. Lately it seems the Chinese government practically encourages companies to commit securities fraud in the US so I can’t imagine they’d be much help either.

I suspect the likely outcome (eventually.. and if Bitfinex doesnt fold first) is the US government seizing their domain to prevent them from continuing to commit fraud.

Edit: missed a word
Put them in an tpu AirPod case and attach a tile.
Yeah, I don't think DMARC helps with that. jon@jrơck.us won't key into the corporate directory, though, so someone should at least think something is amiss. (I thought my screen was dirty.)
> there are no obvious improvements to learning tools that will address the fundamental problem: you need to talk to actual humans

When learning to speak and listen, you need to already understand perhaps 80% of what actual humans are speaking in order to learn the other 20% you don't already understand. If you speak to someone and only understand say 30% of what they're speaking and they you, you won't pick up any of the 70% you don't understand, assuming the native speaker even wants to continue talking to you. Interactive software tools must deduce what vocab and grammar you can already understand and speak only that plus the 10% extra it wants you to practise and reinforce. And those tools don't exist. Good language teachers who can do the same are expensive.

Reading materials are far better in this regard, but even there, most of them use a specific learning sequence as defined by national language testing and don't cater for most learners who learnt haphazardly and thus whose current knowledge is scattered all over that continuum.
> Avoid stuff that could have irreversible reputational harm or slow down a security clearance.

This sounds a little strange to me, coming from "Anonymous". Do they think there is advice here which could cause them irreversible career damage?

I suppose it could also simply be the desire to not have half the internet jump down your throat for a typo, as often happens these days.
Good riddance. Among other problems, Schmidt was one of the organizers of the "no poaching" scandals:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal...

He also wrote this, to make it clear that he knew he was doing wrong: [let's share this with competitors] "verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?"
Whether or not Google is effectively innovative is one thing, but statements like this don't offer much insight. Sure, Google can cut all the investment in R&D and keep the lights on, but that strategy isn't going to do much for the long-term future of the company.
Their pay has to do with it because they're not being paid enough to compensate them for having to additionally deal with people's snide and cynical answers to a simple question which they could answer politely and more straightforwardly.
Homebrew maintainer here. Yes, there have been complaints of poor communication back then, and I feel those complaints were justified.

But we’ve also said we’d improve [1] and I feel that the effects already show [2] [3]. We’ve been communicating changes earlier and more clearly lately. We’ve learned a lot from user feedback, and we’re nowhere near the end.

Sad to see you go though! Happy to welcome you back anytime.

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/142#issuecomment-214...

[2]: https://twitter.com/MacHomebrew/status/1119288776830926850

[3]: https://twitter.com/MacHomebrew/status/1119502934000029696
I think a more apt analogy would be if you would disqualify doctors who don't know the nucleotide sequence of the genes that code for the cytochrome p450 enzyme process from treating your cold or flu.

The left pulmonary veins are gross anatomy, akin to knowing what an 'if' statement is. Knowing the current state of the art in determining a minimum complexity for an operation on an obscure tree implementation is deep domain knowledge used by only a few specialists.
I'm mostly unable. It was musing about these questions that got me interested in really understanding the Legendre transform.

I can say that dynamical equations that try to generate spatial translation from initial data on a time-like slice, rather than time translation from a space-like slice like Hamiltonian dynamics, are doomed because there is no well-posed initial-value problem (except in certain special cases involving massless particles), e.g., you generically cannot infer what's far from a spatial plane even if you know everything that happens on that plane for all time. Related topics:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hyperbolic_dynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-posed_problem

Also, I would say that the fact that the Legendre transform is a manifest involution gives (quite) weak evidence that there are no other major formulations to find. Of course, it's possible to use a hybrid strategy, Routhian mechanics, with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations on different degrees of freedom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routhian_mechanics
> a security breach

Wasn't it a security vulnerability? IIRC they were returning data they shouldn't have for some calls, but didn't have conclusive evidence that anyone had ever made those calls because of log rotation policies. (Maybe I misremembered, or maybe you're talking about a different issue?)
> Why don't you try to make one? No, I'm not being sarcastic. The reasons you don't want to try are most likely the same reasons why some non-techie people will not be able to.

Money, yeah. Well, there's no getting around that. Someone has to pay for that server. I don't see how the industry can optimize away the need to pay a fee for the hosting without becoming something like Facebook.

> My guess is the biggest stumbling block for most people would be domain management.

Well, yeah, but you've already mentioned that:

> The only essential pieces of information you need for a forum are universal name/id of some sort (e.g. a domain name),

I was wondering about the "everything else", what the made-up bullshit that the industry refuses to optimize was. I think web hosts that specialize in forum servers already integrate obtaining a domain from their own platform and even using a subdomain from one of their own, so I don't see what else they could do.

> Also, the wast majority of non-tech people I know have no idea what PHPbb even is. So they would have to learn about its existence first.

Me neither. I just saw it mentioned when I googled "forum hosting" and it seemed like the most popular forum software out there.
I think his point is it possible to quantify what the NSA does and not reveal anything classified. Similar to how you can quantify how good a football defense is even if you don't know every play, or anything about their strategies, who is on there team, how many players were on the field.
As a middle-aged foreigner who moved to a southern city almost 5 years ago, this is spot on. I started talking to ladies on dating sites and some had only been divorced 6-12 months. Immediately they wanted to know the house, car, bank account situation. I wasn't even sure if my new business would succeed or if I would stay. Their way is not about love, it's pragmatism. No thanks.
Tantalizing Tantalum (2015)
Not particularly.

The issue with our currently large companies seems to have become that the goals of shareholders are not necessarily aligned with the goals of society.

And there needs to be a long conversation about that.
> Google could have made a much less obnoxious social network

Even today, I think YouTube has a great potential for becoming a better social network, than G+ ever was.
Cheddar, Free Streaming News Network, Acquired by Altice for $200M
I can’t believe that `now dev` was released after about 6 months? from now v2 launch.
For my experience in developing now v2, it was super insane to develop for the platform.
Any kind of code change involves minutes to just test, see the `console.log` result, which makes developing super painful. Everytime I think about Zeit’s now v2 is that it was rushed to launch for the new buzzword ‘serverless’.
I actually was impressed by the new architecture; but development was (and is... I didn’t check about a week or two, but last time I checked: `now dev` doesn’t respect `now.json`’s routing properly) painful.
Ultimately I just went to Netlify Functions :-(
(BTW... While I didn’t say anything about Now v1, it’s a mistake if you consider v1 as outdated; those two should be different products... and should not be deprecated but marketed as a different service...)
To learn conversational language, you really do need to converse. It is a much faster route to basic fluency. Apps like Marco Polo or even Zoom or Skype along with a native speaking contact are going to work more quickly than any gamified experience where you're only taking to an app.
If you want to do it with the JVM, I recommend Play.
Because once you hit the launch button your mouse cursors starts spinning.
Mail sent! (meeusdylan at protonmail dot com).

Yeah, always nice to see who you can run into on hackernews! I'm sure there's plently of us Belgians lurking on here :)
Direct link to pdf https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1901/1901.06623.pdf
How much do today's "carbon recapture" methods need to grow? What's the timeline on them looking like?

P.S. The first Google result for carbon recapture is titled "“Direct air capture” of carbon dioxide won't solve climate change"

P.P.S From Wikipedia with a cited source:

capturing and compressing CO2 and other system costs are estimated to increase the cost per watt-hour energy produced by 21–91% for fossil fuel power plants;
Google's market cap is 850B. The existence of some very successful companies in crypto does not mean that Google made a mistake by not jumping on that train.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713197.
Very interesting. Social media today is a much more refined offering than google+. Google feels like microsoft nowadays. It’s something for adults to get things done. Your personal stuff happens on DM’s, instagram, snapchat, tiktok... much more so for young people. Therefore keeping search and social separated was a good thing.
Bankruptcy doesn’t mean assets < liabilities. It means you can’t pay off the liabilities you have and are basically giving up on doing so in the future. As far as I’m aware, tether doesn’t really have any liabilities. They claimed that each tether was backed by a dollar, but didn’t say it was redeemable for a dollar. They don’t need to pay anything. There can’t be a run on the bank because this bank doesn’t give you your money back.

Why does the market allow this? ... I have no clue but I would guess that money laundering fits into it somewhere.
In my personal experience, the easiest way to learn a second language is to immerse yourself in a particular country/culture and interact with the locals, get a job, etc. Live there for at least a year. It worked for me, I learned English and it worked for my wife, she learned French.
Generally not. It's "legal" but the boards of most small companies would probably not approve that sort of use...
Behind Eric's back? A company that has tens of thousands of employees and you think the co-founder would have to hide a small initial implementation of a project he believed in?
Stableishcoin!