skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. "This warrant authorizes the use of remote access techniques to search the electronic storage media identified in Attachment A and to seize and copy from the electronic storage media identified in Attachment A the web shells, used by actors to communicate with and distribute files to victim computers to infect them with malware, as evidence and/or instrumentalities of the computer fraud and conspiracy in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1030(a)(2) (theft from a protected computer), 1030(a)(5)(A) (damage to a protected computer) and 371 (conspiracy). This authorization includes the use of remote access techniques to access the web shells and issue commands through the web shells to the software running on the electronic storage media to delete the web shells themselves.

This warrant does not authorize the seizure of any tangible property. Except as provided above, this warrant does not authorize the seizure or copying of any content from the electronic storage media identified in Attachment A or the alteration of the functionality of the electronic storage media identified in Attachment A."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1386631/downl...
I'm curious: why do you care about aspect ratio vs. (effective) resolution? Seems like an odd thing to focus on, when it has nothing to do with how much stuff you can display on screen. Do you mean at comparable sizes?
Can't believe people are still spreading BS not checking the facts. Are they serious? (https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...)
I'm interested in the moral hazard this creates if this practice becomes widespread. If your servers are "too big to fail", and the FBI/NSA can reliably zero-day into your servers to patch zero-day bugs, that seems like a pretty good deal for skimping on some of your security budget.
Give me just the years I need to redo to get into a decent school, and I’d probably just do some other engineering field. It seems like it’s a lot easier to just lean on credentials and still get to work on cool technology.
I've encountered a totally different school of thought on job security in the early 2000s after the fall of the dot com era. Many jobs were cut. "Outsourcing" became a dirty word.

My good friend got a year-long internship in banking industry in early 2000s. When I asked him how the real world worked, he was taught to hoard as much knowledge as he possibly could and not share it. Sharing knowledge means someone could do his exact job. He had no desire to learn new skills. He worked with folks who had been with the organization for 20+ years and that's how the workplace worked. He and his colleagues were so afraid that their job would be outsourced.

We are not friends anymore. I bet he still works for the same organization. He may not be wrong about hoarding the knowledge and working in a slower pace industry: Doing so could be an easy ticket to gain job security for life.
One thing for sure is that there's an obvious increase in report of anguish. It might not lead to catastrophic events but it's for everyone to see. That said it can also be an emotional mirroring effect.. seeing people talk about how they're losing it might make you want to write that too.
The Signal UX for groups is truly terrible. It looks like a rainbow puked in there. And heaven help you if you use their crappy desktop client. It doesn't sync with your mobile client unless you open the app on your phone, and then syncs everything slowly, which messes up your group chats if you happen to send another message in between.
Being able to install whatever I want to install sounds pretty nice. Almost like an actual computer.
It is not a crime because they had a search warrant signed by a judge. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1386631/downl...
That is not ok. A law that purports to outlaw computer fraud and abuse should particularly prohibit the government from committing computer fraud and abuse.
gnome is the problem, they should have used a different base..

linux as a desktop died because the majority went with gnome
> What if servers that got “fixed” weren’t American? Would that mean the FBI went outside its jurisdiction

No, just as US law enforcement doesn’t when they arrest people overseas, but also, just as in that case...

> an illegal act across international borders?

Yes.
> It might be addressed with something like Stellar USDC but I really don't know enough about the MobileCoin design to know if it is possible on the MobileCoin network.

This would involve a significant overhaul. Unless they partner with a stablecoin provider they'd have to create a stablecoin bridge from another network. Keeping it stable would require an unbridging mechanism. Trusting the stablecoin and providing stable native currency rates is another matter.
In her case it was not cancel culture seeking her out to ruin her life. Assumedly no one doxxed her, sent death threats, or attempted to get her fired from her job and made a pariah so she can never support herself again. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

In before it's just holding people accountable. If you want to go that route there was no red scare. Joe McCarthy was just holding people accountable.
I deleted my Twitter and I feel great after doing so. I believe Twitter is a platform where San Francisco exports its social problems to the rest of the world. The result is riots, chaos and hate.
Why would it not be a valid warrant? The web shells are evidence of a crime.

Also, the typical remedy for a defective warrant is suppression of seized evidence, not criminal prosecution.
Yes, definitely. My proper awareness of these things doesn't really start before the 1990s, a golden age in terms of European expectations for peace, I guess.
This looks quite intuitive with multiple layout options. Neo4j integration is quite seamless.
They are now Bright Data, I’ve anecdotally heard sketchy shit can happen on their proxies. Scary stuff.
Electric cars have zero emissions, bitcoin has zero emissions ;)

Seriously, most mining farms are using geothermal or water dams generators.
For those pointing out all the "virtual cycling" experiences that already exist, or the "gaming on a PS5 while using an exercise bike", both of those massively miss the mark in effectiveness.

The goal of Playpulse is to engage the brain in games, and have the brain engage the body in achieving a result. A quarterback's mind isn't thinking about doing a tricep extension, they are thinking about throwing the ball to a receiver. A receiver isn't thinking about doing a 100 yard sprint, they are thinking about avoiding getting tackled and scoring. Likewise, when we engage the mind in games where pedaling affects the game, e.g you go faster, or your weapons charge faster, then people workout harder and longer because their brain is playing the game, not thinking about pushing pedals.

Virtual cycling misses the mark because cycling is not fun. Most people who would be interested in getting on a bike and cycling through the outdoors, and who could afford to drop $1999, have both a car, and a bike, and spend the weekends cycling through the outdoors. For everyone else, it's just not fun. Seeing some images of trees, that move slowly (terribly slowly) as you pedal along a highway, is just not motivating at all.

Peloton is just being shouted at to pedal harder. Your brain is more focused on the pedaling harder aspect, but at least some of us respond to being shouted at.

Playing on a PS5 or Switch is fun, but it doesn't engage the brain-body connection to co-opt the body into exercising. I am currently playing through Hades, limiting my time to only when I am on my recumbent bike, and honestly it is harder and sometimes I just stop pedaling.

All the suggestions for a device that interrupts your game if you stop pedaling, don't survive play testing. They've been done. Simplest was a device that plugged in between your controller and the console, and disabled the controller if you stopped pedaling. They suck. Humans don't respond well to negative reinforcement. "Keep pedaling or we'll ruin your game" is met by "Oh, look, I unplugged you and threw you in the trash".

It's not just about playing games. It's about engaging the brain in the game, and providing a physical mechanism (the pedals), and in game mechanics, that require the brain to engage the motor cortex and the legs, but without thinking about it.

I wish them good luck. My only concern is posture. I'm 190cm and not sure that this will be able to adjust to keep my posture correct.

I worked on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exertris
It’s not just robocalls, as it’s also spoofing numbers. I have received many phone calls from average joes who said they were returning a call from my number, but I had never called them.

I’d say 95% of the calls I receive are spam. It’s so bad that I rarely even answer my phone anymore, instead letting it go to voicemail if the number is not in my contacts.

Everything in life has turned to spam. My physical mailbox, my email, and my phone is bombarded by spam and there’s practically nothing I can do about it.
Then why invoke the "hundreds or thousands" point at all?

Seems irrelevant and sort of crass given the gravity of the other qualms you have.
Biology.
^ oops. I gave a bad opinion. :p
The warrant is actually quite specific, down to the exact URL paths of the shells to be searched and removed.

See pages 20 and 21 of https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1386631/downl...
> I'd be amazed if this doesn't lead to warrants issued that enable search & seizure on domestic individuals and corporations.

Warrants that enable search and seizure on domestic individuals and corporations are...the main expected use of warrants in the US system.

As endpoints of a slippery slope argument go, that's...kind of thr opposite of what you’d usually target.
This phenomenon is hardly unique to Twitter or social media. It happens all the time in schools. The local town newspaper could set off these sorts of things too (or national media).

I suspect it could happen in any case where there is widespread (relative to audience) information discovery of something and people who are all too happy to be mad at people.
There's still going to be riots, chaos, and hate regardless of if we have Twitter or not; the internet or not. Most revolutions throughout history have been accomplished via riots and wars have been fought over hate.
The registration is the easy part.

Explaining federation (it's just like email, but we put the @ at the front and a : between uncertain nods) and key management, especially with multiple devices is the hard part.
This is the right answer. I worked in clinical trials for a while, and they're required to submit a Statistical Analysis Plan before the study is even allowed to proceed. After all the data are collected, you just run whatever was originally proposed and you get the answer you get.

This really should be the standard for any meaningful science.
Ah so it's not actually this:

> In the USA they have a particular hatred of making tax easier to pay. There's a political affiliation whose goal is to make filing a tax return harder and more complicated to do so that people will complain more about it and hate the process. So that has created the tax return filing industry and associated lobby groups. So having sales tax need to be applied on top fits within this world view.

It's actually this:

> since the government could introduce new taxes without people knowing

Along with increasing gov size, increasing gov expense, and destroying another industry.

I'm all for increased competition in tax filing software, and you're starting to see open source competition here as well. But spreading opinion as fact, and in this case in particularly, is called "misinformation" or "fake news"
Show HN: Compress, Convert, Edit JPEG's online or with an API
Reminder that the Netgate folks have been very, very immature and unprofessional towards the OPNsense project, and are consistently crass and rude towards the pfsense community on /r/pfsense.

Think twice before giving Netgate your money.
> Giving end users control of their own computers is not a stated goal of GPL 2.

It is the goal of Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. Free software licenses are one of the means to that end.

Free software started in universities decades ago. The software was written for Unix computers, many years before things like trusted computing. The GPLv2 reflects this environment: it takes hardware freedom for granted and focuses entirely on software freedom. Tivoization was an unforeseen development.
> Do you really think the US could maintain dominance if half the nation went to war with itself again, in more modern times?

No, not really. But... I don’t really have any way of knowing. I just have to remind myself that, as ugly as it has gotten, it used to be a whole lot worse, and we survived and thrived, and so maybe we can do it again.
Yeah, it must be. I much prefer using monitors at stock resolution, without scaling, for that sweet real-estate, rather than having pretty displays where I can't see pixels just so it's pretty. I had a retina MacBook for a while, it was very nice, but especially for dev work... I couldn't bring myself to care enough that I'd want a 4k screen (that I'd have to run at an effective 1080p anyway) vs just a 1440p monitor of the same size I can use without scaling.
Of all of the problems America faces, robo calling is just not a priority for spending tax dollars on.
This was a real thing before 2007 and is the reason the "seccomp" syscall came into being with CPUShare/CPU coins (2005).

https://web.archive.org/web/20060118044349/http://www.cpusha...
We've also seen the 4 year moving average monotonically increase.
If every call cost 5 cents to originate we would no longer have a spam problem.
Hardly seems draconian considering GNU has a copyright surrender requirement, and most large FOSS projects have style requirements.
I am still using two 1600x1200 screens at home, since 2007. Samsung 204B, replaced capacitors once.

I didn't see 1920x1080 as worth the upgrade. Although I have recently had to tweak/mod a few games as they didn't support my screen resolution.

Now, I want 2x 4k screens:
- play games at 1080, I have not the money for 4k gaming at high refresh rates.

- and desktop productivity at 4k, with one screen portrait for reading.
It's bizarre to think that we should be bound forever more to only do the things that people in 1789 thought appropriate. But it seems to me that they followed the procedure outlined in the 4th amendment; they went to court and got a specific warrant to remove a specific bit of malware from a specified set of servers.

Madison deliberately left many provisions in the Constitution and Bill of Rights open-ended because he wasn't an idiot and knew that the founders could not anticipate everything. Had the FBI acted on its own it would be overreach. They went to court, got a warrant, and did pretty much the minimum required to eliminate the threat.
So the Dunning-Kruger effect, most often used as a sophisticated form of ad hominem to discredit some idiot on the other side of the interweb and give himself intellectual gloss, has now degenerated as scientific knowledge to the point where it can be used as an indicator of itself, right?

At the risk of replecating myself and getting a crisis, everybody with a brain like mine could have seen that coming.

Sigh...
Negatives are generally hard to prove.

For example, you can't easily prove that your comment here is not causing me to develop a blood clot if I develop one.

Which is why we try to prove positives: who else has developed a blood clot after reading your comment? Is there any correlation? Anything to suggest there is causation too? What would be the hypothesis.

You are right that vaccines are not proven to be perfectly safe (and to be honest, none of them are even with longer testing time). But you are still muddying the waters by throwing these "prove a negative" statements.

The risk with coronavirus vaccines today is that the risks are not fully known (unlike with other, more established, vaccines for other diseases). Risks of getting coronavirus is also not fully established, though we know it can be pretty severe.

It would be only natural to expect some similar immune response from COVID and vaccines causing similar issues in the body, but that's totally hypothetical until proven to be the case.

Data so far points that it's much less likely for someone to develop issues from a vaccine than from COVID itself (roughly 10000 less likely at least), so it's up to the individual to assess if they are less likely to contract COVID and get serious symptoms, or get serious symptoms out of vaccination.
Implicitly, this piece is making an argument for a return to gate keepers/taste makers of yore. I'm not sure that's better. For better or worse, would the BLM movement have the power and reach it does today if it were filtered through establishment news sources?
I agree with you its quality but what i'm saying is that didn't matter.

And to counter on the browser bit, Rust/Go/C/etc can be compiled into Webassembly and yet its not thriving. Similarly on the backends Javascript is thriving too.
Twitter is the worst of the social media. Messages that are at most 280 characters without any context are bound to be misinterpreted. If you're on it long enough, it starts to feel like the world is random, crazy and spinning out of control. For me, it was the easiest one to delete.
Caveat emptor if you choose to stay on the Play store as well
> If our goal as a society is to ensure most people stay healthy and alive, perhaps yours is not a good approach in all cases.

Most people are not under a risk, it has 99% survival rate
It took ~ ten days to convince my family to move from IE to Firefox. I was about 11 years old at the time. People do not have strong attachments to their web browser. If you show them a viable alternative with tangible benefits, they might switch to it.
> What even makes American [foreign policy] reliable any more? ...Why should Iran not be able to develop a nuclear deterrent?

I strongly oppose Iran developing nuclear weapons, but your logic is unassailable here. Our foreign policy with WMDs has been abysmal. Our leaders fail to take into account one simple truth: You get what you incentivize.

Ghaddafi and Hussein disarmed and ended up dead. Meanwhile Pakistan and North Korea get treated with kid gloves. Given that, why should Iran stop its nuclear program?

The United States should adopt a bipartisan set of criteria for when it will intervene re WMDs and when it won't, and stick to it across administrations. That is the only way to maintain any credibility.
PG himself is a good example. His equity stake in VC is very likely worth in the $1-10B range (YC didn't take outside capital, see footnotes: http://www.paulgraham.com/worked.html). But his ownership stake isn't transparent to Forbes.

I think a lot of VCs and real estate investors would fall in this category.
If you want a laugh, duck for the thread where the developers debate how to implement .epub format in Evince before ultimately deciding that Evince doesn't actually need to be able to open the most popular ebook format in the world.
I think the issue here is human socialization and not twitter or technology. People love to play the "did you see what so-and-so said?" game in all its variants, and as far as I can tell this has been true for millenia. It has nothing to do with a trending topics feature

I feel like there are many articles and books that attribute basic elements of human interaction to whatever platform the author was using to observe them. Technology does enable new ways to relate and creates some unique situations. But the basic beats of these social phenomena are the same as they have been for a very long time
It was filtered through establishment news sources.
So that was a thing, and it sucked. Negative reinforcement just doesn't work too well on humans. "Keep pedaling or we'll disable the controller" was a thing, and people hated it. "Keep pedaling or we'll disable the controller", is hostility easily met with, "Oh, look, I plugged my controller back into my playstation and threw this shitty device in the trash"
Says you. It’s rendered my phone basically useless.
Here's the constitutional language: "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." They got a warrant, specifically describing the specific places (web servers) to be searched and the particular things to be seized. Probable cause is easy, these servers were actively attacking government computers.
Using btrfs on a budget Synology model? Latest DSM update makes them unavailable
I never got on the twitter boat. After reading articles like this, I'm glad I never did.

However, why doesn't everybody else get off? People must like it enough? Then the cycle will never end.
Right, but not on social media. The OP's point.
You're incorrect, and underestimating the potential profit vs cost. 5c per outbound call, but even if the scammers get 1 or two people a day for $100 (and likely MUCH more), it's just a drop in the bucket to operating costs.
Assuming BLM is a force for good.
Unity had its own problems, mostly related to trying to be Mac OSX without being Mac OSX:

- Breaking alt-tab

- Moving window controls
Yes, and. Twitter being a nationally unified space of gossipy people, with journalists who actually write the narrative being addicted to the gossip as well...

There were multiple actual news stories about this stupid Alien tweet! Sure, they weren't front page at the NYT but this stuff is melting the brains of all the journalists, who then go on to melt the normies brains with it.
Apple literally was caught using software upgrades to make older devices perform worse.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...

But this about more than just Apple. It is about corporates in general. I don't think a "corporates are evil" mantra explains everything - or even anything useful.

Product Designers are humans, CEOs are humans, all the employees are humans.(Unless ... Aliens ... :-) ) Some humans are better at whatever task than others, but all are operating under their motivational influences.

Get enough people together under one banner, someone will do something poor under that banner's name.
Agreed. I took action and migrated my firewall from pfsense to OpenBSD and couldn't be happier.
> Left unsaid, of course, is that ‘the conversation’ at scale is complete garbage

Twitter is simply not a conversation platform. The medium is optimized for publishing small blurbs to as many people as possible. It's not designed for serious back-and-forth discussion. It rewards quips and got-ems, not nuanced debate. It's almost like a giant comments section with no subject.
Riots, chaos, and hate existed well before Twitter and even well before San Francisco.
I would love to be able to rent people's spare gpu compute. It's be a lot cheaper than aws or any other cloud service
> We're talking about people who have more than $50m in a big money vault.

"Those at the top" don't generally have that much cash. They have shares in companies, often ones they started themselves, which happen to be worth a large amount on paper. If you wanted to distribute that in a form people could actually spend (not just moving shares around) you would have to liquidate the companies those shares represent. In the process you would destroy far more wealth than you distributed and eliminate services and production capacity which were previously working for the benefit of the very people you're claiming to help.

People like to complain about public companies and their alleged focus on short-term gains, but that's exactly what this proposal represents: a short-lived and highly diffuse gain in short-term consumption for the masses at the expense of long-term capital investment and productivity.