skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My understanding is that FISA requests data using warrants.

Your understanding is wrong. The classified (and, statistically speaking, rubber stamp) FISA court issues demands under the authority claimed by FISA Amendments Act (FAA) section 702, which is designed to target foreign surveillance subjects and thus under current public understandings would not require a warrant ("because foreign"). FISA surveillance orders are not warrants and do not require probable cause and are not subjected to any unclassified oversight.

However, the FISA court has a special, secret interpretation of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) that they believe entitles them to use it to spy on everyone without a warrant as soon as the data enters or leaves the US, even if the communication is by and between solely US persons. Edward Snowden gave this as the reason he came forward about the PRISM program (PRISM being the internal, classified NSA codename for FAA702 data collection).

The large tech companies process so many of these warrantless FISA spying orders each year that they have special interfaces for the FBI/IC to request and download the data. This is what was meant by the reporting that said "direct from the servers" [of tech companies].

They don't have root on the machines, but they have programmatic access to download data for any user without a warrant. It may or may not require an approval click on the service provider side, but, in any case, that doesn't much matter.

> It’s entirely possible that they never actually do perform geolocation on the log data, and that they scrub or anonymize IP addresses before storing them longer term. They state that they use such practices in general.

It doesn't matter whether they run geolocation on the IP logs; logging the IPs is collecting a coarse tracklog regardless of whether they store it as such or not.

Second try: Please stop calling me a liar, and I'd appreciate it if you'd stop replying to every single one of my comments on this topic to cross-examine me, which is explicitly against the site rules. I'm not going to engage with you any further; I request the same from you.
Because we have looked at the statistics.
I was also thinking it could be a contributing factor on the causal side too. I hate how this works, but it happens in many other parts of life too - if you look official, like wearing a uniform or having professional equipment, then you are treated better or given the benefit of the doubt.
Libertarianism changed a great deal in America in the past 20 years. It’s not what it used to be and has been usurped by the right wing and corporate types.
> NONE of those upvoters know what the company is or the context behind it

I'm one of the people who upvoted this story and am fully aware of Neverware's products. I've actually used their distribution on some old laptops.
It's a shame people don't actually read the articles because, assuming the article is actually insightful, you can have better discussions after the community has actually read the article.

And in the case where people don't read the article and just read the headline, many comments have nothing to do with the article, and end up discussing a less interesting misconception of the submitted article's title/headline.

It's great to be generous with our interpretations of comments here on HN. But I would like to push for a higher standard of discussion, which has always been the draw of this community, particularly for technical articles (and this is actually a high quality technical article!). So I don't think I'll ever be happy being generous to a low value comment that re-states an opinion from the submitted article without adding anything or even without adding much.
It's truly scary times we live in... It feels like the entire word has developed an authorization bend.

The United States has a sitting president who is attempting a self-coup with the majority of the legislatures in his party supporting it, or at least not condemning it.

It's just... shocking.
This may dovetail into some of Ben Thompson's stratechery posts into what actually is journalism in this day and age of zero friction and marginal costs to publish/disseminate information...the traditional definitions themselves are changing
> When your iPhone can present itself as infinitely many iPhones…

Apple already has a privacy-preserving solution for that:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck
The Current proposed legislation for the part you are discussing can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/proposal_for_a_re...

The actual legislation text (i.e. skipping the recitals) starts on page 43. "problems" here consists of reported illegal content, whether copyright violation or child porn. The legislation is basically an enhanced EU version of DCMA's safe harbor system, but with a focus on all illegal content, not just copyright infringement, and with more ability of the company to reject clearly invalid notices.
Fine.

It's very unlikely though -- google bends over backwards to do business in China.
Google accepted the anti-consumer challenge: on Android, links from Google Assistant and Google News feed ignore phone's default browser setting, and open in Chrome instead.

Not only has Chrome near monopoly, cemented by being the default preinstalled browser - they feel the urge to nip even the tiny insignificant competition in the bud.
Formal methods to verify AWS Over The Air protocol
not only that is has been cropped, but you instantly know that the button is in the upper right hand side
We almost certainly won’t. If anything is ruining journalism, it’s themselves, not this.
r.e. realistic - no idea

r.e. market share: one problem is developers - web-oriented devs who deal with node.js invariably must use chrome simply for the server-side devtools, and then stick with it, leading to 'only in chrome' sites and 'all the cool kids' / new developers using chrome..

would love to see a well-supported spidermonkey-based server-side JS engine, electron replacement, and corresponding firefox debug tooling
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Is it irony, then, that ChromeOS is based on Gentoo? :v
Yeah, companies should be allowed to do anything they want. Walmart should be able to control all the roads going in and out of a town, denying all non Walmart groceries, then require residents to submit their nudes in order to shop at Walmart.

It's all consentual because Walmart can get a contract, and no nanny state should be able to stop them.
They do, actually. If you look up the Halide camera app, you'll see a great example of this.
I would guess it's actually that HN has members who aren't from the major tech metros, and people outside of those areas tend to be more conservative (in a relative sense at the very least).

For many, this would be the main place they ever come across those people, which would make it seem unusually conservative.
Indian give? Jewed? Gyped?
Came here to say the exact thing. This article could have been worded better. E.g. "Discarded Masks May Start Entering into the Ocean"
Lightweight OKRs
I think what they're saying is that 17-21 days after is valid, after 21 is not "valid" but acceptable. So for example someone receiving a 2nd dose on day 23 wouldn't be counted to as part of a clinical trial but is not forbidden and no need for 3rd dose?
I haven’t seen anyone alleging to be a journalist throwing rocks and molotov cocktails. Can you verify this? If this is something we’ve all seen a lot of, then somehow I missed it.
> but we've also seen a lot of "journalists" throwing rocks and molotov cocktails on live stream and doing other criminal acts.

Have we ? Would you like to point out more than 0 ? Since it's "a lot".
> but we've also seen a lot of "journalists" throwing rocks and molotov cocktails on live stream and doing other criminal acts.

I'd like to see some evidence of that happening on scale. If there is no such evidence, I think, perhaps, your comment proves the parent's point.
Journalist is not loosely defined. FTA:

>While we recognize the importance and the rights of the private citizen who snaps a photo or video of an arrest, this site will only cover individuals who self-identify as journalists and have some track record of journalistic work.

Splitting hairs over the semantics of the word 'journalistic' is an attempt to discredit the study about authoritarianism being at an all time high in the U.S.

You have only to look at the numerous comorbid attempts to throw out broad swaths of democratically placed votes to see that it's not about "but are they a true journalist?"
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What do you mean by "non-institutional platforms"
Theoretically in the developer's privacy policy. In practice, nowhere.
It's a cool idea for a feature!

The idea/advantage to have the data in regular SQL database - is to be able to work with all the standard tools and analytics dashboard you have and familiar with (AWS quicksight, Google DataStudio, sqlite shell, etc...)
agree. it should be called truffle perfume oil.
She herself says that they were "indiscriminate" and that they didn't care whether she was media or not. You are trying to make a big narrative that your video doesn't support.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is based on Cortex. It is quite expensive in terms of operational and infrastructure costs compared to VictoriaMetrics [1] according to case studies from VictoriaMetrics users [2]. This may explain quite high costs for AMP.

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> The focus of the Digital Services Act is to create a single set of rules for the EU to keep users safe online, protect their freedom of expression and help both them and local authorities hold tech companies to account.

You can either have freedom of expression or safety online. You can't have both. And the second might be an impossible goal regardless.
I might argue that it’s their recipe to success. Their UIs, from Amazon.com to AWS are pretty intuitive and content-oriented. It’s their style and it works for them.
stonks = stocks in internet slang. Mostly via r/wallstreetbets
Surprisingly, cows are worse for the environment than cars. That sounds insane, and it took me a while to believe it myself. But do your own research.

I have had dairy-free versions of all of the foods above. Most are really good, though I have to admit that I don't care for the vegan cream cheeses that I've tried.
The point is that this particular site, which reports on police violence against journalists, is being somewhat conservative in how they define journalist.

That seems fine.
I don't know about my whole brain, but my programming brain totally is.

Now that I've been programming for a nontrivial number of years, it's happened enough that I no longer trust future me to understand anything clever that I do, so I spend much more time structuring code to require minimal context. Failing that, ample documentation, because future me will appreciate having an essay to read much more than current me wants to write it.
I was replying to a comment that said: "The EU is its citizens. So in a sense the EU did create its citizens." I tried to show that I was a counter-example.
>Masks don't provide 100% protection,

So 1% protection ?

>but nothing does. However, masks are important, because they enable people to safely perform essential activities like grocery shopping, and most jobs.

fortunately that the chance of getting sick from covid from doing those activities without mask are very very low.

infection is not useful metric because only small percentage actually cause sickness.

Masks: The Science & The Myths : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaBLKKXJt4
Being in favour of, or okay with, journalists being arrested for doing journalism is _intensely_ authoritarian, whether you agree with them or not. Especially if you disagree with them, really.
You hit the nail on the head.

If it's someone who has a shred of journalistic integrity, simply observing, recording and/or interviews regardless of their political stance, then I'm absolutely against their arrest. While I'm also against cherry picking journalism, oh well, they cant be targeted either.

If you're in one hand with a camera and the other hand a rock or molotov cocktail, you're not a journalist. Too many folks are claiming to be journalists when they're not and for me, that ain't right. This leads to governments being allowed to be authoritarian with, sadly, very good reason that will convince mass populations to vote against the freedom of the press.

How these two types of individuals are being confused, that's beyond me. Again, I think we should all just go back to being hunter gatherers and fight bears for blueberries at this rate.
For me this is the point that I feel isn't well argued against by GraphQL proponents. Why if I'm a Javascript developer with probably a similar learning curve I couldn't just whip up a simple stateless frontend (in Node since its the same lang) and write the query in SQL? More to the point the skills learnt by doing so are more transferable. You also give your data store a chance to be more performant (e.g. better query plans for a typical DB) using that DSL to query the data store and there's a lot less complexity (components, libraries) in your solution.

Also from what I've seen the approaches that may result in single ideal query plans in your database increase the complexity of GraphQL significantly with "GraphQL to SQL" compilers which still may not give tuned SQL especially with large graphs. Reminds me of using ORM's where often the generated SQL wasn't performant/slow. Even if it does work the complexity of your solution just increased - all for what? To translate one query language into another? There's also times where it may pay NOT to expose too much of your internal domain structure to public API's which I feel from a naive developer's perspective GraphQL could encourage (direct internal API structure to contract mappings).

It feels, at least to me, that it is another abstraction layer that solves a problem that could also be solved at the org level. If there's suddenly a use case that requires a tuned query/algorithm/index as well (happens a lot from my experience) then its easy to add as a separate endpoint and test for regression test against other endpoints/use cases supported.
Indeed!

"What" questions that calmly ask for a list are often really good because they are easy to answer if you know the information. And if someone doesn't know the answer, it prompts them into the good habits of:

1. Doing some work before interrupting someone with a question.

2. Writing down their steps as they do so.

Other good ones are: "What are some questions that come to mind" and "What are some paths forward that seem plausible?" to help those who are

1. At a crossroads.

2. Having trouble articulating that they are afraid of going down a rabbit hole.

I'm still looking for a good question for helping those who are totally lost without a mental model that lets them put words to the domain.
Tech cos will always be a few steps ahead of regulators. Cookies get restricted, so then OS fingerprinting gets rolled out. Cat and mouse game!
Not quite.

Is candy a drug?
Potato chips?

IAP is like junk food.
If there is no other way to get the app, the end user loss in privacy is exactly the same.
A personal Kanban which needs a cloud backend! E.g. Jupyter Notebook -> Google Colab
I got fed up with it, been somewhat a loner all my life(main exception was nightlife starting in the late teens, social life at work always messed me up, I have had very little interest in work ppl), I feel like there always had a lot of stuff I wanted to explore internally, intellectually, etc. Now though I feel like I've exhausted that and would prefer the unpredictableness of social life, and also feel more like sharing.. In a way now it seems egoistic to have tried grasping a lot of stuff to then just doing nothing with it.

My big thoughts are mostly the same, moving in the same rate when I'm cooking them up by myself but now in social situations I feel like I can crack some great jokes and mental maneuvers in trying to translate my philosophies to others.

I think being a true loner brings peace in that you don't need to think much about social pressures and such, on another hand though, it can feel a bit like you're some virtual computing machine entity isolated from everything else. Now I'm sort of looking at mental & physical exertion as a way to distract me from the boredom of 'not existing', maybe it was always that and I've been good at it, took skateboarding at 27, practicing by myself like some crazy person 6 years already, and now I started working on a game project too.. It's just weird to me how self-exertion and 'social fasting' go together. But anyway, I've exhausted so many interests already that I sort of crave of breaking off of it, I'd just take some 5 or 6 projects with me and that's it.
One of the most frustrating things about HN for me these days is going into the comments to read more about the content of an article, and instead being bombarded by people nitpicking the design of it.
I feel like this applies to every area of life. What happened to us all?
Perhaps it's a losing game for Europe because Europe isn't really a free market. European powers have constantly been imposing all sorts of taxes, restrictions, and sanctions on tech companies that make it an inhospitable place for tech companies to start out. Its telling that many of the European countries that have managed to produce successful startups are those which had to rebuild from scratch after WWII or after the USSR fell. Elsewhere government is too big for its own good and just seems to stifle innovation. America was successful in the 20th century largely because it was so far removed from large and stagnant European governments. Likewise, west coast tech companies are arguably successful today in part because of their distance from an increasingly bloated Washington. Regulations kill innovation.
It's weird how politicians never talk about regulating Visa and Mastercard. They too can pick and choose who they do business with (freedom of expression). There are a lot of middle-men with a lot of power who get ignored in favor of chasing the most popular target of the day.
I'm skeptical about this. Are we talking actual journalists, or "journalists" like people carrying smartphone cameras on the street during a riot?
I agree that a CS from MIT surprised me,

Like i said, if you can spare the cash, and want to do a bootcamp, it might make sense for you,

I wouldnt discredit all of the bootcamps as useless money wasters, everyone has different goals/aspirations reasons for doing a bootcamp rather than jumping straight into the workforce. The MIT CS guy did end up getting a great dev job right out of the program.
Pinterest pays $22.5M to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
While I love shooting in RAW on Sony A7RIV which of course the iPhone can't hold a candle to (except maybe in full right for non moving objects that don't need a shallow depth of field). That being said far more often that not, I don't have that camera with me, or the ability to grab it and take a photo in seconds when a moment is fleeting, so certainly use my iPhone camera very often since it's always with me, always on. And being able to get more out of those photos in raw editor that I would use for my normal mirrorless photos, is a great benefit. So while of course shooting raw in general is niche and shooting proraw would of course be more niche, certainly don't think it would be infinitesimal in any respect.
Most of them aren’t though. Portland has a ton of antifa kids running around with “press” signage who are also help organizing things, passing intel, or blatantly assaulting cops. Do that a couple times and “PRESS” means nothing. You should be upset with the rioters, not their victims.
How many of these are antifa dweebs that are complicit in misdemeanors and felonies?
As someone who has gathered this metric at several major software companies, you're doing well. I'm sure there are individuals that have higher "efficiency" but in aggregate all employees are much less productive.

Tons of people are saying "oh all that other non-coding stuf stuff is productivity too" but I think they're missing the broader context. Sure, Software engineers can write emails and status updates, but it's definitely not the most productive use of their time. We could also have engineers serve food at the cafe and empty out the garbage cans, but we don't because others can do that. It turns out many of the "work" things that are socially accepted can also be done by others. The one non-code thing I'm in favor of engineers doing is talking to customers and doing research. Most of that should be done by a PM, but for added context it's always useful to get some firsthand experience too.
Isn't mask compliance an important metric here that's not shown? Having a mandate doesn't really do much if people don't actually comply with it.
Well I don't know about ridiculously cheap, but I do think it's reasonable. That's not the point.

The point is that GP posted a free, offline first, cross-platform, good looking tool and OP commented saying 'well, this isn't what I'm looking for' like HN is their own personal wishlist, and then eventually finds what they're looking for, and it's not free, it's not cross-platform.
A record number of US journalists fail to support Assange or call for his release. The Bonhoffer quote is appropriate.
but, you don't need it since you are already there, and can just use $PWD (no need for `pwd`) from that point onward.
That's not a team!

I'll work with anyone (within reason) to build a better tomorrow.
It hits people at different points. Could be college, could be grad school, could be work in general, could be a promotion. But it will ultimately catch up to you.
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I am fine with being an individual with original opinions but I can empathize with insecure people who band together for reassurance.
> Anyways, is The Atlantic supposed to be a reputable website?

The Atlantic has been a monthly magazine for over 150 years. It is as reputable as, dunno, the New Yorker, Harpers, Mother Jones, etc.
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Brainaural: Working Person's Soundtrack
I don't think this is a real web server. There isn't enough RAM to implement Ethernet.
>The vast majority of these arrests occurred while journalists were documenting the historic, nationwide protests

So I'm guessing that most of these are various civil unrest (curfew violations, trespassing, etc) type arrests?

I would assume these are situations where they're minor charges / charges dropped type of situations?

Not to justify whatever given arrest(s) happened, but that seems different than say an arrest intended to prevent a story being told, shutdown a newspaper, or etc.