skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that may be true, we have clear and repeated evidience that the warrant process is not a "rubber stamp" because the police are just that good, but instead because judges have stopped reading or even caring about the constitutionality of the warrants they are issuing.

Instead putting the burden on the defendant to challenge them in court at some time later. Which given the state of Plea bargain's, public defense and other factors almost never happens
This is really a noxious idea. It's like saying that because we all breathe the same air, everything I do affects you. No, not in the vast majority of cases.
> Most of the regulations surrounding financial transactions are there to protect you.

Sorry but that’s not true at all. I have worked _more_ than a day on a bank environment and I can say that most regulations are weaponized by the US against their perceived enemies. Banks are dead scared of doing business with normal people from ostracized countries or activities and will not think twice before locking and banning normal people’s accounts to not provoke the ire of the US and aligned powers.
Looking at the current administration I can say with 100% certainty that the US government is lacking in just about every way possible right now.
I see it the other way around. (Almost) everything is political. The mission of the company is not disjoint from the society it is embedded in. Things have become divisive by being able to ignore and blend out the opposing views. By not talking and listening to one another.

This is just one more step in that direction.

Funnily enough, I think it has been extrapolated by Neal Stephenson in Diamond Age. We will end up having parallel societies which define themselves not by geographic boundaries, but by affiliation. A North Korean community could be your neighbour.
> The vast majority of employees prefer a work environment that is stripped of political conversation

While I generally agree, I think there is a tacit assumption that Armstrong's actions will work exactly as intended. 5-8% of workforce is...honestly I don't know if it's high or low, but is certainly non-trivial. These weren't strategic layoffs or restructurings, so certain business-critical projects might be delayed due to headcount issues/loss of senior staff. If we hear about another walkout at Coinbase 6 months from now, this might just look like a catastrophic management blunder.

Literally firing the walkout organizers would probably have led to a worse media cycle, but likely fewer staff quitting in protest (Google firing the walkout organizers seemed to have little to no effect).
Supreme court judges just do not have the conceptual framework to properly adjudicate this.

Justice Breyer's QWERTY analogy was pretty good.

Also, Google's lawyer is supposed to supply that framework in oral and the brief.
I think the QWERTY analogy quoted in the article is perfect. QWERTY is on typewriters, computers, and smartphones. Same interface, completely different implementations. And this is technology that everyday people are familiar with.
Whoa, please don't be a jerk in response to other people's work on HN. It's fine if you don't like it, and it's certainly fine if you have substantive criticism. But it's not fine to put down others, or their work; internet cultures can easily turn in that direction and we're hoping to avoid that here.

The Show HN guidelines (which also apply to Launch HNs) have a few things to say about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, and of course the site guidelines do also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work
2 good die is 5950, and I believe they will delay it for a few month like 3950
Vertical integration is high risk, high reward in that if each component in the stack is a market leader in their industry, the overall company becomes exponentially more valuable.

On the other hand if any component is non-competitive, the other components in the stack are still obligated to give that unperformant component their business. Which reduces the pressure to perform and causes the overall company to gradually become less competitive.

I think a good example of this would be Intel designing chips and also owning the fabrication plants. It's no secret that Intel has been to fabricate their chips for a while now.
I don't understand. They type important legal documents on typewriters? Why can't they rubber stamp a printed one, and what do the shipping volumes have to do with it?
That's what didn't sit right with me about the Coinbase stance. It seems somewhat elitist to suggest that the board are allowed to hire lobbyists and make donations to campaigns but the rank and file are not to discuss politics in the office.
Reddit is here, you seem lost: https://www.reddit.com/

In fact, being able to lavishly throw around internal capital and play with people's careers over their political opinions is the position of privilege. Leveraging multimillion dollar firms to hammer Cathedral dogma into people's heads is privilege.

Not wanted to berate people/be berated/get in political fights writing Selenium for a crypto startup is not privilege.
I am beyond sick of folks in the workplace who silently accept the status quo, so I hope this trend does not catch on.
Censorship (including deplatforming, algorithmic deranking, cutting off payments, jailing and of course killing journalists) is the norm for voices that are not deemed worthy of hearing and predates social media and internet platforms.

Modern censorship examples on social media:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/facebook-palestine-censor...

Attempts of censorship of famous celebrities:

https://www.lowkickmma.com/joe-rogan-reacts-to-spotify-emplo...

And jail time (censorship by other means) approved by the US Supreme court in 1917:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2776_(1917_film...

Independant American journalist allegedly on Obama’s kill list (censorship by other means):

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...

Australian journalist allegedly on Obama’s poisoning/kill/kidnap list:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8041597/US-plotted-...
It helps. Didn't MP3 patents expire recently? MP3 is far from obsolete.
>(Almost) everything is political.

I'm curious what your definition of political is, because my gut feeling is that (Almost) nothing is political.
Doing crimes involves making many risky actions which the criminal isnt really into. It might just be that making the crime using cryptocurrency might be seen less risky as doing it with some other tool.
Trump said he won't do it virtually (1), and Biden already has a town hall scheduled on ABC instead (2)

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/second-presidential-debate-b...

2. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-joe-...
I see people replying this a lot, and those who do must have missed what Brian said about it this exact thing in his original post.
>It can free us from the hidden taxation of inflation

It doesn't free you from inflation, it simply abdicates control over inflation. Sometimes that works out well for who already have money and the value of the currency rises. Sometimes it works to the disadvantage of the people with money and the value of the currency decreases. Either way, stability and predictability of the value of a currency are much more important for the long term healthy of an economy and those are areas in which the worlds biggest fiat currencies generally come out ahead of cryptocurrencies.
I'm looking forward to when we find some common piece of hardware like this that can also transmit.
It’s unfortunate that CEOs / Founders think it’s appropriate to dictate the culture of the organization vs. learning to nurture the emergent values from within the team.

It’s a sign of limited leadership capacity to attempt to install culture as a top down mandate.
My impression may be biased by the types of projects I typically do. Pretty much the only time I ever use an array is for const data.
Apple isn't going anywhere, there's plenty of future ahead for Swift. I wouldn't count on it catching on outside of their walled garden though (like web dev).
Where did you get the speeches from?
GE was a slow-mo train wreck for years (pun intended).

Recently read "Lights out", about their problems in the last ~20 years, fascinating read, heartily recommended.
Plenty of it. Going trough the transform hierarchy (tons of 4x4 matrix multiplications which definitely are vectorized) and then the physics simulations, and that’s just part of it.
I look at the reviews, the number of items sold, and don’t pick the cheapest one. The best is if there are reviews that show a mask cut open and you can see whether it has the required number and type of layers.

I’m not too worried about unsafe materials, but if you don’t feel comfortable with it, don’t order them. The safest thing you can do is buy masks from a pharmacy in person if they are available.
"This incredible range will be achieved through efficency improvements rather than just a bigger battery pack."

What an interesting statement! "Bigger" – compared to what? A Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD? That can do around 296 miles (EPA/Highway) – so the Mercedes-Benz will need to be 2,5x as efficient.

The drag coefficient is one area that could be improved. C(d) for the Model 3 is 0.23, which is pretty good for a production car. Lower than that and you are in experimental territory – which is probably how this project might end up for Mercedes-Benz.

Not bad, because these types of projects usually teach us something new. But not good, since this will be another "promise" broken, due to this inflationary PR-approach.
why would you work at a company that may never go public and even if it does, already has such an oversized valuation you’ll likely not make much from it?

it seems predatory and abusive to employees to stay private this long
Ok, but how is the press involved in all this? You think the press protects people against pressure from secret services?
Sure, but what's your use case? Strict data table where everything is a string or number? Great. Full fledged application where your table rows are actually selectable items that modify app state and cause rerenders elsewhere? Surely a slight performance hit in the table is worth the smoothness of an application.

For example, I have a workflow execution tool. You have a Table serving as a left column, and when you select a workflow (by clicking its table row), it populates the right column with the graph of that workflow.

I often feel as if arguments against SPA are constructed against the worst examples of the thing, when the UIs it enables are smooth, performant, and best-of-all not requiring user installs.
Companies aren't democracies. When you sign up to work for somebody else, the board and the executives have every right to make these decisions. Upset that you can't lobby for the rights of pink haired people in the office? Go start your own company and put murals featuring oppressed pink-haired people all over the walls. Until then, recognize that companies aren't set up as democracies, because no investor would be dumb enough to throw their money down a toilet where any muppet who can run a QA job or write a few lines of JS has equal input with someone who co-founded the enterprise.
> Has anyone come up with an ed with the advantages of a modern screen, so it shows the full file on the side but you can still run ed commands on it?

Unless I misunderstood you, it's called Vi(m).

> I am curious if anyone uses ed as their editor of choice these days, assuming an actual screen and such of course. If so, why? Muscle memory?

If I'm on a machine where the choices of editor are either ed or nano, I prefer ed.

Also, if I want to do some text processing on a bunch of files and it's simpler to do it with an ed script than with sed or awk, I'll use ed. It has happened.

If I remember right, I wanted to edit some upper lines when some lower lines matched some regex for a bunch of files. It ended up being an ed command like 'g/foo/?bar?s/baz/qux/'. Doing something like that with sed or awk gets more complicated.

> Edit: ... I was thinking of something a little less different, like literally just a command prompt on the bottom and a pane above centered on the line you just operated on.

If you stick to command-mode, that's pretty much what vi and vim are. You could run this in vim:

:cmap <enter> <enter>:

to re-enter command-mode automatically as soon as you leave it.
If it was train lines including rail ownership I can see why they would want to drop out. Logistically that's a nightmare unless it's totally private.

Then again around here the rail lines are mostly owned by grain/grass farmer groups who ship product by rail and can load from their farm directly. Passenger lines that share the rails wait for those trains.
This is great, thanks for sharing!

I had good results with genetic algorithms as well.
I would love to see IBM try to sue Oracle for the entirety of its history of database revenues over its use of their SQL API...
My point was that the existing system (the banks) aren't trying to solve the problem so it's almost completely ineffective.

And the argument is that there comes a point when the drawbacks of trying to stop it becomes larger than the benefits we gain, and we should therefore do something else that gives us more benefits.

You might argue that we're not there yet, which is fine, but others will argue that it's time to try something else.
Why the hell does Stripe keep doing things outside of their payments wheelhouse? It makes no sense, especially with regard to publishing a magazine (???). Is this the whole “Hoover up talent and pay them absurd amounts” applied to an extreme?
They've already announced it. You're assuming the retail availability will take a while?
Isn't it interesting that the crowd fighting for liberation & equity are mysteriously up against... the apolitical crowd? When the dichotomy is ethical realism vs. pragmatism, you have to ask yourself who's actually operating like a religion, who's actually a dogmatist in liberator's clothing.
I thought Congress only existed to appoint judges.
I have done a good amount of mountaineering, I've been a part of a couple of lawsuits, and I have done a ton of business deals. I think that this situation is not as clear-cut as other commenters have made it sound. I know everyone dislikes lawyers, but this attorney has a good point if they never left basecamp and a lot of other parties were able to summit at that time. On the other hand, a mountain guide needs to be able to be trusted and able to call off a climb.

This is a reasonable scenario for a lawsuit.
Webpack compilation of hello world projects are insanely long task. If new CPU can reduce this *hit in 20% I will be happy
I think it is just evidence that true believers exist, and some of them work in government.
Easily fixable with an amended copyright act if necessary.

Legislate!
Statesmanship?
Everyone freaks out about social issues with SCOTUS (which is understandable), but their real impact is on economics. The destruction they've laid on the labor movement and help for big businesses is immense.

Just look at the commentary around overturning Chevron deference and non-delegation. Absolutely apocalyptic.
As to your second question: Yes, Bill Joy did that in 1976 when he added a visual mode to his line editor ex that was itself based on ed. The mode was called vi (for "visual") and updated the screen as you typed ex commands preceded by a colon. All vi descendants have this feature, including Vim. :-)
That’s another contributing factor, but social media is amplifying the extremes.
It seems much more time-deaf to think that everyone wants to be involved in this highly stressful, chaotic game of identity politics. Some people just want to do their job. Personally, I want to focus on what I'm working on while at work, not have my boss preach their particular views at me. I bet the meetings/memos were not very tone-dead if you were there to work on what the company was doing.

My guess: 1-2% of those people are the loud, annoying group that demands everyone behave how they think they should, and the other 3-4% were people who saw an opportunity for a long paid vacation while they look for another role.
The comparison would be against TCP with no TLS, since the issue was mandatory encryption.
Angular 1 is ancient and terrible.

I've been developing React for the last 5 years, times change and "best practices" change with them, but my 3 year old model / graph editor seamlessly upgrades across React versions, even if my eyes don't love the code like they once might've.
No, it is not. Politics apathy is present across all races, all classes, all genders.

Those who are politically possessed like to claim that “everything is politics” and that “it’s a privilege to not care about politics”, but every Hispanic and Filipino immigrant I’ve known (which is not a negligible number) care about family, hard work, and stability: not politics.
> I am not invalidating someone's right to privacy.

You are saying that not having the choice to choose what to share is acceptable though. Privacy isn't about having something to hide, it's about having the same rights you have with your day-to-day thoughts; you aren't forced to shout every single thought that pops into your mind, you are able to pick and choose what you would like to express and share. Privacy and encryption aim towards that goal.
This looks pretty great, and shows progress towards becoming a replacement for my iPhone - but, one question - what are these apps? Am I missing the ability to navigate to a page describing each of these apps? I can probably guess what some of them are, but doesn't it seem a little strange to have a list of apps, but no descriptions for the apps available?

(On Safari, MacOS, in case its just an anchor bug..)
But you're completely wrong. Facebook does have Republicans at senior levels in their company - Republicans as in "Joel Kaplan, vice-president of global public policy at Facebook, manages the company’s relationships with policymakers around the world. A former law clerk to archconservative justice Antonin Scalia on the supreme court, he served as deputy chief of staff for policy under former president George W Bush from 2006 to 2009, joining Facebook two years later."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/03/facebook-...
https://popular.info/p/the-republican-political-operatives
That sounds like a win for RISC.
Along the same lines, this series of videos is one of my favorite things I've run across recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyiMfzmZKs&list=PLB3mwSROoJ...

It starts with using the front panel switches to load a program into an Altair 8800 and progresses into loading programs from external sources including audio cassette and paper tape; loading programs from a ROM; loading and using an OS; and using a paper terminal for output.
I hoped that it was obvious by my word “mostly” that I was trying to distill the idea.

#2 is objectively true, ask any historian.

#3 is making a whole lot of assumptions about the goals and beliefs of an extremely large tent.

There are absolutely viewpoints that aren’t allowed to be challenged at work. But what you’re getting close to alluding to is the flawed idea of all ideas being equally acceptable.

The idea that Black Lives Matter is not on equal plane with the inverse. Those against the idea over technicalities are on the wrong side of history and human decency.
The head of that government, an obese 74 year old with COVID, just declared himself to be "a perfect physical specimen" and "extremely young", so I think there's a decent case for the former.

More seriously, if you've just spent the last year working on a policy document, you probably are not inclined to say "by the way, this is all nonsense, really"; makes _you_ look bad. This wouldn't be the first time a civil servant has praised something which turned out to be silly.
It could use the STK (source address token), which it creates for 0RTT anyway, to identify which sessions to respond to. New sessions from a source IP which shows elevated rates could be dropped X-1/X times (e.g. X=5) because a legitimate client will retry and obtain an STK in, on average, X attempts. This would reduce the amplification factor to below one, assuming the client handshake is <X times smaller than the server handshake (which includes a cert).

Firewalls can't block this because then you introduce a denial of service vector. If I can block anyone on the Internet from accessing a service because the service's firewall blocks the source IP... this is why this isn't a solution for dns and other udp protocols' amplification attacks, either. Otherwise we'd block offenders and be done with the problem of amplified DDoS attacks really quickly. The problem is allowing legitimate clients to pass that look (nearly?) identical to what the attacker sends. The STK seems to solve this (in a similar way to TCP, while allowing for 0RTT after the client met the server once), so let's use it?

Edit: just noticed you posted another comment critical of QUIC. To be clear, this isn't "QUIC is amazing, let's use this STK and it'll be great". I don't know enough about it for that. Heck, I like the textual property of HTTP/1 and would be fine keeping that as well. I just noticed this security problem with HTTP/3 and would prefer to see it fixed before widespread deployment given how heavily similar services are abused.
Kudos! LimeSDR has found its niche in "hobbyist" radio astronomy. It's entirely within the realm of possibility. That a civilian using a low budget board. Discovers the next big meteor approaching our planet. Or even a faint signal from advanced alien life ;)
The problem with politics- and religion-like conversations is that it's like walking on the edge of a sword–it's quite easy to get into debates. Debating with your work colleagues about politics is something one would better avoid.
I'm much more excited at this point by conduit, dendrite is cool, but the goal of federation should be easy to install, easy to run, cheap to run. Requiring kafka isn't cheap or easy.
Is there any sense to the alignments across the row? or are they just all chronologically ordered or something. Ah just noticed the `Recent Fist`, `Oldest First`. So it's two streams side by side. Might help to avoid making equally sized rows in the two columns to avoid visually suggesting a pairing is going on.
Isn't apt-get, pacman, emerge, etc. more or less equivalent to an app store ?

I don't think there's necessarily a need for projects to be funded or paid for - giving back to the mobile ecosystem the same way we give back to the desktop ecosystem seems like a pretty fair way to go.
You, I, and Coinbase are all doing nothing to promote Joe Danna's campaign for sheriff of Harris County, Texas. Does that mean that we're effectively endorsing the status quo and the incumbent Ed Gonzalez? Or does it just mean that the Harris County sheriff's office has nothing to do with us?
Yup, this was of course meant as a general suggestion. Regardless of COVID, I would also not recommend taking this trip in late autumn or winter.
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But out of all the dramatically more contentious issues in censorship, QAnon is a no-brainer compared to so many other more delicate topics.

Kind of bored of these QAnon hot takes. They're truly out there in their level of insanity and outrageous denial of consensus reality. There's so many others tiptoeing gray zones; those would be much more interesting to cover.
if you leave after the initial cliff you're only losing out on future RSU / options vesting, same as future salary you haven't yet earned. Unless your initial equity has gone up a lot in value you're not really leaving anything behind as presumably in the new company you'd be getting similar or higher value grants.
I think it's not uncommon for years 2 and 3 to be the highest earning years though, due to the 25% cliff, and to retention grants you get in years 1/2.