skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's irrelevant. Again, there is nothing in this article nor in the e-mail included in the article that suggests they aren't being sent for the purposes of being present upon a search warrant being issued or consent being given to search the individual's property. This journalist just decided to take the worst possible interpretation of the e-mail and state it as fact.

You may not like the FBI, but to assume that they are malevolent actors or are intent on trampling on people's rights disingenuous and unhelpful. I'm all for bringing government misconduct to light, but this article is trying to make legal conduct seem illegal by distorting facts and selectively quoting information to fit a preconceived narrative.
Yes around 16%, 21k S and 18k 3 (according to the website).
Hmm, Xbox/Microsoft, Google/Android, even Apple/iOS... this will be interesting if courts actually back this up at all.
> Is it just me or does anyone else feel over the decades they've been divesting some of the best (long term) building blocks?

Staying at home, the best thing I found to play with is built "digital lego" MOCs using LeoCAD app + LDraw Parts Library.[0]

Seems like IBM CEOs, stayed at home for a long term, just found own "lego-like" game to joy ;)

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/AWESOME-LDraw
If you really want to go down rabbit holes, COINTELPRO was run by Mark Felt, who is better known as Deep Throat.
In case that wasn't straight forward -

"NextCloud, ownCloud, etc. ... comes with the friction of having to host your own solution"

NextCloud and ownCloud don't require you to host your own solution, however you can if you want, which is important.

"We are more like Dropbox, ... incredibly easy to install, manage, and work with"

Nextcloud and ownCloud are incredibly easy to install, manage, and work with.
This is a really great question.
Possible botnet spreading on Linux servers with SSH, check logs
You might be interested in F# https://fsharp.org/
Is it a probabilistic improvement, like over millions of iterations?

It does mention choosing tree paths at random... so couldn't that be an improvement by chance?
> Google search is barely political.

In 2020, the answer that google search gives to the query "Do masks protect you from COVID" is political.

Whether or not google search even works in, say, Russia... Or Australia is political.
How will the pandemic affect the sprint away from fossil fuels?
Alaska could already be hiding a Michigan or two and nobody would bat an eye. There’s two Michigans now, but how do you know there didn’t use to be more?
Furthermore especially in the early stages of any scientific venture, the scientific method basically necessitates trial and error. Is that really an optimal approach over agreed principles AKA the social contract? Im hesitant to jump to conclusions but just because things are a mess doesnt seem to me an adequate reason to totally throw away the current approach without a careful assessment of potential pros and cons
Firefox Containers ought to just let do such things:

1. Open every new website (the one which doesn't have a saved container for it) in a new random/untagged container - destroy that container and data/everything when I close the last tab of that site

2. Unless I tag/name that container for that website and then persist it the way you do - and give me one click operation to tag name and (maybe select an icon/colour for that container)

3. What about giving website favicon as an option to the container icon

4. Get rid of those "Oh you are opening this website B (container_B) from a website A (container_A) - do you want us to open it in container_B instead"? "Always"? Yes! Yes! Make it default or give me an easy options to make it default damn it - give me an option the first time where I can mark "always do this"!

5. Do we really need special container for Firefox and then for the rest? Why not ship with a default already set container in the Multi Container add-on that's Fb container?

There's an option "Select a container for each new tab" but it's not very helpful as it lets you just choose either one among all the existing containers, or "No container" and that is blocking pop-up.
On the note of terminal displays, I've been looking for a good e-Ink tablet that runs either Ubuntu Linux, or Android with access to the Play Store, and has a decent enough refresh rate so I could run an ssh client and code on it from time to time with a Bluetooth keyboard for eye strain relief, and for coding outdoors in full sun.

I have a couple of ideas:

A large e-Ink display connected to a Raspberry Pi

A Boox tablet

Are there any others I should consider for this use case? My biggest concern is refresh rate. I usually edit with vim. Greyscale syntax highlighting would be a plus.
I skimmed this, but this goes over getting banned from Xbox Live, the network service, not a system that prevents you from using the console
The article doesn’t state it as merely PTSD. To ignore a probable and possible cause of symptoms is unwarranted.
If I were in your shoes, I'd aim for maximum effect - find the person(s) at the highest tier of management who can appreciate the value this employee contributes, and who can do something about it; and emphasize how "priceless" such an employee is to the company and their clients.

It's something we need more in society, people like you doing a good deed for a good person. I hope the company is smart enough to acknowledge and foster it.
I have 153 tabs right now. All split into different windows representing "sessions". Personal, by topic, and a last one for breaks (where this HN tab is and it will be closed in ~6 min).
I have 19 such session windows at the moment. And my browser is set to re-open state on launch.
The FBI defines domestic terrorism as follows:

> Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

Now, a peaceful protest that spontaneously turns into a riot probably shouldn’t qualify, but when the same people show up night after night over 100 nights in a row to engage in premeditated violent and criminal behavior based on political and ideological motivations—it meets the standard, as does the plot against Gov. Whitmer and so on. It is an extremely low-intensity form of terrorism, but it is the illegal use of violence for political purposes. Check your facts yourself before making excuses for this behavior.
It's the difference between a smart TV and a dumb TV. They have different guts but the market is the same.

Major titles like Beat Saber or Half Life Alyx can be played on either standalone or tethered headsets. Facebook offers both under the Oculus brand and positions them together: https://www.oculus.com/compare/
This is ripe for abuse. I imagine if someone accuses a restaurant of racist behavior, Yelp will help them remove this alert with some paid mediation.
You easily discarded others' woes to some lack of self discipline. Rather than acknowledging how hard even one mistake in that condition could be. Miss out on a loan, oh pay some exorbitant penalty etc. Cycle keeps on going.

Rather than showing empathy you're saying that "it must be their fault they can't make it". Don't pretend to know everyone's story. And if you feel this strongly, why don't you make a paid browser product ? Half the people here won't even pay for it, let alone the world.
I hope this email finds you well.
Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable
Who at Facebook Is Deleting Donald Trump's Posts?
I don't really find the very reductive model of left, center, or right as that helpful. I find the most useful strategy mixing in some "non-mainstream" sources like RT, CGTN, Telesur, PressTV, etc., that are coming at the news from the a totally different perspective. Of course they have an angle, and sometimes it's rather crudely presented, but if your spectrum is Fox News to MSNBC they've also got a lot of shared assumptions you might otherwise not think about.

But this gets back to my point; you could think about it from different axes like geopolitical ones, closeness to military/intelligence sources, and so on, in addition to favored political party. Even if we're going pretty narrow, I think you might see pretty different ideas from, say, the American Conservative and the Daily Caller, even though they're both conservative publications.
I always wanted to play with Resourcerer
That is true, but it's irrelevant. Oracle is not suing app developers for writing Java code to run on an Apache Harmony based mobile OS. It is suing Google for proceeding to base their mobile OS on Apache Harmony after they backed out of licensing negotiations. As was observed during the hearing, everyone else who made a mobile OS was able to do it without copying someone else's API structure, so the idea that the API structure is essential to the functioning of a mobile OS is simply absurd.

There's a whole section in that opinion I linked above titled, "Google's Interoperability Arguments are Irrelevant to Copyrightability," that's worth reading for a deeper treatment of the issue. In particular, Judge O'Malley (quite reasonably) calls bullshit on the very premise that Google copied the Java APIs in order to achieve interoperability, pointing out that Google did specific things to prevent such interoperability (as an aside, we now know that their desire to do so, and Sun's unwillingness to agree to that, is a major reason why they could not come to terms on a licensing agreement), and was unable to produce any examples of a pre-existing Java program that also runs on Android.
I think not forcing Facebook login will speed up adoption of VR and will benefit Facebook in the long run anyway.

Source: my brother in law this weekend was going to buy an Oculus Quest 2 after I showed him my Oculus Quest 1. But the Facebook login requirement gave him pause.

There’s a lot of intersection between early adopters and people consciously not on Facebook (maybe on other Facebook properties but not Facebook itself).
Let me guess - you must be white ?
Just last night:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1314216315113009154

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1314031953146863617

These are not right-wing boogeymen: this is reality. I constantly hear "check your facts" in the face of clear objectivity. You're using classic "whataboutism" to ignore reality. In essence, you're proving the exact argument I'm making above.

Speaking to the point you're making, all I can say is: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. People want to LARP as revolutionaries and now they're learning what that means. That doesn't make it right, it's just reality.
q: wtf does this have to do with tech hackers?
a: absolutely nothing.
Agreed, 100%. The challenge with using the criminal statues related to "domestic terrorism" (and even "foreign terrorism") has to do with intent. Because there is a legal element requiring behavior that is in furtherance of "ideological goals", there is a pretty high bar to meet from a legal perspective.

This individual's criminal defense could easily argue the individual had no stated ideological goal they were promoting (unless there is specific evidence to suggest otherwise, such as leaving a manifesto explaining rationale). It's much easier to demonstrate probable cause and/or prosecute via other criminal statues.
Where's the list ? All your points are "assumptions". D'Amore made dubious claims at best and antagonized at least half the company.
> I wish I had a way to teach people to think more deeply and critically about what they read in the news.

Thinking deeply and critically about what we read in the news is a very good skill to have, but reflexively dismissing it because you don’t want it to be true ain’t it, chief.
Projects copying from each other is exactly in the open source spirit. Don't release something with an Apache License if you don't want people copying it with compatible licenses. Also, patents of open source software (to limit uses that the license would otherwise allow) and API copyrights are pretty strongly frowned upon in the open source community. As a note, the Apache license you released Lightning under grants patent lawsuit protection to anyone using your code under the license so claiming copyright and patent infringement on another Apache licensed project seems amazingly skeevy.

If this is the philosophical stance that Grid and Lightning are taking then it's definitely a project I'm going to advice people to stay well clear off. It's the worst flavor of commercialized open source software and potentially a legal liability to touch in any way as you seem way too lawsuit trigger happy.
Flipper Zero – Catching up on September progress
I think it’s that all the worlds were seeded by some sort of progenitor race millions of years ago. Also they can interbreed I believe.
> even though they are scientifically ineffective regardless of how you look at it.

Two words: New Zealand. COVID can't get a foothold in there because every time it shows up, Jacinda locks the whole country down.

The USA being literally the worst developed nation in the world in terms of COVID infection and death rate has everything to do with us playing slapsy maxie with a deadly pandemic and not having the political will to do what needs to be done to stop it from spreading.
accelerator boards/coprocessors for doing linear algebra
St. John's seed company's onions are too sexy for Facebook
I'd go further and consider just complimenting the person face-to-face and leave it at that. Help them understand their true value and that they should make sure they're not undervaluing themselves in terms of compensation or satisfaction.

That level of employee is either already recognized or they have idiots for managers. Praising them to an idiot boss probably just causes them more problems (jealousy for one or some point of praise gets twisted as them not following protocol -- maybe a report was late because they spent "too much" time with customers). If you go ahead, I agree with another commenter who said direct the feedback as high as possible to prevent jealousy or other backfire.

I'd agree with the manager approach if the person was so low level that it would be easy for their contribution to be missed.
Any thing that goes against the majority "creates tension". Doesn't mean we abolish it.
I see the server market skipping over and and moving to arm. The Apple silicon makes it easier for Silicon Valley Devs to use an arm ecosystem. That way dev/test/staging/prod is the same ish binaries.
If you enable wifi during Win10 installation (haven't tested otherwise), it requires you to provide a valid Microsoft account (Outlook, Skype, ...) to install Windows.

I don't see how this is different from OP.

Windows even tells you it supports local logins, but to put in a valid Skype account first or whatever so you can complete the installation before opting into a local logic.

I shouldn't need to give my Skype or Outlook credentials to install an OS.
I worked at a 501(c)(3) for a long time and my coworkers followed the IRS rules about politics in the sense of electoral advocacy. That does not mean that they refrained from airing their social views at work or saying what people, groups, or ideas they thought were good or bad.

Your advice would be great for people who are uncomfortable mainly about coworkers using an employer mailing list or chat to ask people to vote a certain way. Otherwise, not so much, I think.

My impression is that restrictions on 501(c)(3)s' political activity are grounded in something like campaign finance concerns.
I think the idea of configurable hdl modules could be very interesting. A game could load a physics core. Ssh could load a security core and so on. These could be updated similar to firmware or even could ship with the application. The only barrier right now is the long programming times.
> My reading is that the mere use of an API is a method of practice.

The problem is Google didn't merely use the API, it reproduced the API entirely and necessarily copied several thousand lines of code in the process. Code itself is generally copyrightable so it is difficult to argue that the specific type of code that makes up the Java API declaration is exempt from this.
Striking Workers on Brink of Shutting Down Western Europe’s Largest Oilfield
Wouldn’t it be more profitable to do calls on AMD?
The whole world coordinated doing identical SEO. If there was a clear path of proper incentive there may be a chance.
I pre ordered one then realized the fb login requirement and cancelled it. Wonder how many are in the same boat.
Will facebook censure my political speech on VR between now and the election?
I'm not proposing any specific implementation, I don't have one in mind, I'm only floating the goal. The goal is to get "some science" into the mix as a check and a balance. Not to have science take over or run things.

Just something that most of the time provides a very gentle nudge or advisory role, but in the case of another Trump would kick in a bit more strongly. It was a disaster this time, and even if Biden wins, in 4 more years we could a second Trump-type, then a third, then a fourth. The country will not survive that. We need to do something to fix the root problem, not just wait around until it happens again.

As for being hesitant to mess with what the founding fathers created this is a great commentary on that:
https://youtu.be/Ti8cMxzmWoA
>I'm not even sure where they are getting the "unconsented physical searches" and "physical surveillance" line from

>EO 12333 specifically authorizes activities for the FBI as they relate to foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities; the FBI may use unconsented physical searches and physical surveillance to support their investigations

You don't understand why they're saying they can do exactly what you say they can do.

The only hiccup you've introduced is that you don't think the Portland protests would count as foreign intelligence or counterintelligence, but they would only need a very weak link to some foreign agent to allow wide scale surveillance. Hell, a Canadian protester would fulfill the criteria.
I'm one of those people that really dislikes threads in slack, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask!
I've long ago assumed anything I type into a Web site text box could _potentially_ be pulled out of context and used against me in court. Constricting to have that voice in your head but that's just the reality.
Sure, but think of how much of politics in the workplace and elsewhere today is not about political campaigns and candidates.
Only to use non-Apple apps on an iPhone since you can only install things tied to the Apple App Store.
The Threadripper version of this series is going to be pretty insane I imagine.

It is really nice to have something lighting a fire under Intel's feet to drive advances here.
I’m not sure why this is getting downvoted. Apple isn’t “forcing Telegram to close channels.” The channels won’t be closed. That doesn’t make Apple’s move any less scummy, but it’s an important distinction for participants of those communities.
Or typing an irate and cursing message that they don't intend to send, deleting it, and then sending a polite message based on the first.
Further proof that the Supreme Court of the United States has been captured by right-wing ideologues who view every problem as having a solution in property rights. Why anyone in the US would think it's a good idea to change the foundations of the software industry — one of the few remaining bright spots in the US's sputtering economy — is beyond me. I guess in the end Americans will get what they deserve.
Judges are just as susceptible to biases as everyone else and are in some cases probably less charitable.
And should be addressed by the legislature, not the judiciary.
Geneva introduces world highest minimum wage of $25 an hour
I have been looking for something like this for years. I can't wait to give it a try on my next personal project. Thank you!
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gurumurthi/papers/asplos15.pdf is the latest study I can find. Some key findings; error rates per DRAM module and per technology cycle (DDR2, DDR3, and so presumably DDR4) have similar failure rates. Higher altitude has higher failure rates.

FIT (failures in time, or failures per billion hours) are about 20-30 per DRAM (18 per DIMM in the study) at a fault level, which may not rise to an error condition. ECC corrects many faults, if present, which don't become errors.

So expect a (4GB in this study) DIMM to have a fault once per 200 years on average. Of course, this is server-class hardware running ideal conditions.

This is, notably, in stark contrast to Google's results (https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/35162.pdf&) of about 20,000-70,000 FIT per Mbit, but closer reading suggests that there were a fairly large number of high-fault DIMMs affecting the mean and Google historically bought the cheapest hardware available. Even at this fault rate an average DIMM wouldn't fail in any given month, for example.

Personal gaming, browsing and light document work PCs do not need ECC. Video/photo editing/development PCs might be on the threshold for not wanting to produce or store corrupted work.

Multiply the risk out for any organization with many people doing the same kind of work where corruption on a single workstation could cause annoying trouble for everyone else.
The parent comment is talking about how it is politically dangerous to be seen attempting to regulate companies that virtue signal.
Grades help track progress.
Windows/Microsoft
I guess Rust related stuff is often ranked high at HN (and reddit/programming) for mainly two reasons:

1. It is a very interesting language. Personally I find it fascinating (coming from imperative languages). Some blog posts are really worth the high ranking.

2. It's an enthusiats language. They tend to be emotional on their subject. That's why Rust is indeed overpromoted compared to other languages. People getting their stuff done are often using boring tools like Java, C/C++ or Go and are not hanging around here in language threads very often.

Rust is not prevalent in the industry at all. People reporting how it's used by Microsoft and Amazon etc. are not telling lies, but often forget to see the big picture. Compared to C/C++ or Java Rust's usage is tiny. Less than 1%. I'd say even less then 0.01 % worldwide in terms of people using it, lines of code written daily, project budget spend on. But how often are people writing posts "Why we adopted Java" or "How we improved backend performance by 300% using C++"? Rust is kind of vocal, so the overall picture of it's usage is quite distorted.

Still, the usage of Rust has been going up the last 5 years. So it is gaining. And it's a great fit for certain tasks.
I'd say almost any approach may be appreciated, but it may have more of an impact on you than that person. It just really depends on the vibe of the company.

Years ago, I'd done phone calls to companies, asking for a manager (shift, dept, store, regional, whatever), and almost always they were... somewhat agitated/defensive. I expect 99% of phone calls they get were people calling to complain. I'd say something like "I dealt with person XYZ the other day and... they were phenomenal. This was some of the best service/care/etc I've had. You keep that person and/or get more people like them and you've got a customer for life". That sort of thing. In one case, the person said "ok, thanks." and that was it. In most other cases the person was generally pleasantly surprised to hear good news. Looking back, I'm pretty sure a written letter or email would possibly have done more 'good' for the person in some respects, but having a pleasant/positive conversation with someone talking up good points about another person was, for me, a positive experience in itself.
I like this post by Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-grea...