skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For a legal warrant you have to have probable cause that a specific person committed a crime. You can't just search everybody and see what sticks, that's blatantly unconstitutional.

Sure, though it’s worth noting that nothing prohibits the police from walking down the street and asking people. Those people don’t have to talk to the police, but…

Google will fight warrants like this. AT&T doesn’t. Other companies have varying policies on this.

Obviously, one can’t assume data is not available to law enforcement merely because the police would need a warrant to get it over a possessor’s objections.
> You can get to net zero carbon emission by shifting it to someone else or dumping it somewhere it isn't measured or is a temporary sink that will eventually re-release.

Often referred to as tragedy of the commons.
Vary with what facts? You haven’t specified what facts they aren’t responding to, which makes this conversation very hard to have.

Secondly, the vast majority of people I’ve seen commenting on this phenomenon have been extremely minor social commentators, who have very little to gain in terms of personal power one way or the other. Myself included; I won’t be any more or less important if the traditional sources of cultural power and influence succeed or fall.

You don’t have to trust or like VCs, I certainly don’t, but I wouldn’t declare a commentator to be invalid or untrustworthy because a VC really likes their book. That’s straight up guilt by association, and not terribly persuasive.
Could be worse. Could be u/sanj who tried shutting up u/cperciva with a Putnam reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

(they've both been gracious about it since)
The dollars can keep going up through collusion with Google, to give just one example. Or by smothering existing uses with even more ads. Or by charging more for ads. Or all of the above at the same time. Dollars and users are not directly proportional. Particularly the low-RPU foreign users responsible for whatever non-creative part of this growth that exists, if any.
So I just took a few minutes to lookup for the picture of an "N2040" (or various random low cost laptops, N4020 seems more likely if it's about a Celeron CPU, but I actually found one laptop model named "N2040") and they have bezels clearly thinner than what Apple shows for the laptop PC picture.

Ironically, during my research I also found this marvelous few years old MacBook Air https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/2076960204/portabl... , which is not too far.

So I'm not really convinced that attempt of an excuse makes any sense...
There is also the fact that the new nests ... kind of suck. We humans have evolved to live on Earth - with its 1g gravity, an ozone layer and magnetic field to protect us from the worst of the sun, relatively oxygen rich air, ... etc.

Life on say, Mars, would be kind of unpleasant after the novelty of "I'm on another planet!" wears off. The sky is yellowish-red most of the day, it's nothing but rocks and sand as far as the eye can see, there is no outdoors without a space suit, ... etc.

It's a freaking dead lifeless planet. You will never see a flowing stream ever again, squirrels running up trees, nor birds flying through the air.

P.S. Maybe it's the depression talking but I'm not completely sold on "humanity must survive at all cost" frankly ... I mean so what if all of us die? We all die eventually. The universe won't care. 99.9% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct, we will just be another drop in that ocean.
without net neutrality this could be useful for future billing arrangements
Paying to become a co-op member is optional. Not required for listening.

The latter seems like an issue though. It would be great to be able to convert a listener account into an artist account, or to have both under one account entity.
"show bluetooth in menubar" checkbox in bluetooth prefs also works as it always has.
Ask HN: Why does my camera turn on briefly when accessing google.com?
I actually learned how to use Subversion in university and it has been useful. Concept of version control transfers between systems.
> I think healthcare in the US is riddled with ways to "accidentally"* spend the entire accumulation of your wealth, leaving absolutely nothing to the next generation.

...

> * - I personally don't think it's an accident at all, I think it's very, very intentional.

Its extremely intentional wealth stealing, and it's even worse than just lost generational wealth transfer. Filial responsibility laws mean that your illness and long-term care are your children's financial burden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws .

In the worst cases, people estranged from their parents for decades end up bankrupted. Depending on what state your grandmother lived in - your mother may have been on the hook even if she hadn't chosen to keep working to care for her mom.[1]

The idea that paying for elderly parents' expensive (intentionally or accidentally) care is a choice only applies to people in less than half of the states. These laws make the only choice "pay the provider directly now" or "pay the provider costs and late fees, etc via the courts". So anyone who wants to claim that the people who care for their parents are chosing to do so is claiming wrong - if your parent spends their last days in one of 26 states, the parent is chosing what your wealth is used for.

[1] I hope that didn't come across as suggesting your mom was only making a financial choice, or that she didn't make her choice out of love. I'm sorry you lost your grandmother and I hope your mom enjoys her retirement.
In all seriousness, there is an app for macOS window management. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?mt=...
Still no MST.

Is this a hardware or software limitation?
Jury Clears Oculus Founder, Facebook Unit of IP Theft
Oops. Typo, meant 11. Edited.
Submitting a Twitter link becaues the only article seems to be a paywalled article: https://www.law360.com/articles/1430910
Various leaks over the years have showed us how when programs doing icky stuff are revealed, they are "shut down" only to be recycled as new secret programs with "new" mandates doing exactly the same thing.

After Snowden, it'd be naive to assume that the US government isn't still vacuuming up every possible source of data that it can.

It is also naive to assume that the various data brokers doing the same thing for commercial purposes aren't also open books to the various 3-letter agencies.
The fusarium fungus fact is truly useful info. Thank you.
How very rude.
No.

Next-generation games will be made on the platform. Current-generation and last-generation games no longer have much support / developers, and no sane company will spend precious developer time porting over a year-old or 5-year-old game to a new platform in the hopes of a slim set of sales. (Except maybe Skyrim. Apparently those ports keep making money)

Your typical game studio doesn't work on Skyrim though. They put in a bunch of developer work into a game, then by the time the game is released, all the developers are on a new project.
I've done big spreadsheets over the years in product management and other roles. But they've never been especially complicated--certainly not in the stereotypical complex models sense.

Honestly, anyone who goes into the corporate world and, outside of pure creative roles, thinks they never will have to deal with big spreadsheets associated with budgets, sales forecasts, and the like is going to be very disappointed. But that doesn't mean most people need to deal with anything that's complex mathematically.
My friend often is having issues with flying, because his name is written as Maksims, and old booking systems think Ms at the end means missis.(he is male)

Crazy shit everywhere in these old systems.
Taxicab Geometry
authentication and tracking of the device
My camera has a light that indicates when it is on. From what I can see no other websites trigger it to turn on (unless they obviously are using the camera).

It appears to turn on briefly and then turn off again. This seems to break my understanding of the browser security model as that domain is definitely not allowed access to my camera.

Any thoughts?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...
Write a spec and seek funding :)
Right. Today, video game streamers prefer to disguise their identity behind 2D anime style virtual avatars ("v-tubers"). Same reach, but their irl persona gets shielded from trolls ;)
>Mobile OSs have been rather successful in getting rid of this implementation detail.

Dear God, the lack of proper file management on mobile is absolutely awful and makes so many things harder than they need to be. I really hope desktop OSes don't go down that path.
> Process is nearly everything in performance/watt.

ARM has consistently beat x86 in performance/watt at larger node sizes since the beginning. The first Archimedes had better floating point performance without a dedicated FPU than the then market-leading Compaq 386 WITH an 80387 FPU.

A lot of the extra performance of the M1 family has nothing to do with node, but with the fact the ARM ISA is much more amenable to a lot of optimizations that allow these chips to have surreally large reordering buffer, which, in turn, keep more of the execution ports busy at any given time, resulting in a very high ICP. Less silicon used to deal with a complicated ISA also leaves more space for caches, which are easier to manage (remember the more regular instructions), putting less stress on the main memory bus (which is insanely wide here, BTW). On top of that, the M1 family has some instructions that help make JavaScript code faster.

So, assume that Intel and AMD, when they get 5nm designs, will have to use more threads and cores to extract the same level of parallelism that the M1 does with an arm (no pun intended) tied behind its back.
I find the comments in the forum thread from back then to be very entertaining. Little did they know it would resurrect the company's fortunes utterly.

I wonder what other things we will also offhandedly dismiss that are destined for big things. I personally was very dismissive of TikTok when it first came about - "Ohh it's just a vine clone..."
They don't? I love DDG, and that page tells me that I'm not alone.
It's not, I just don't want to name them for reasons that should be obvious. There may or may not be enough info in my post to figure out what I'm talking about, you'll have to use your best judgement.
> at least 1.5x as much free RAM as the input .osm.pbf file size

Ouch! Is there any plan to reduce the amount of ram or it's impossible?

I'm currently building a tile server with Europe's map, the PBF is 28GB, I have 32GB ram.
Because we're not writing instruction manuals here.
> Well, I think "can this be held in memory" can be a stupid question.

Why's that? If I'm sure the answer is always yes, I can quickly write something to solve a user problem that is way faster and less expensive to run.
An unpaywalled article popped up in the Twitter replies. Feel free to replace the link with this: https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/tech/jury-hands-victory-to-f...
> I loathe Fb as much as anyone, but their stock is the biggest 'buy' on Earth.

Obviously has never heard of Crypto.
Yes. Spotify. Ahem. That's why I use my VPN... cough cough.
Where is the data for this stored? I was inspecting and didn't see anything in Local Storage, Session Storage, nothing on the network tab. Hit refresh thought everything would be wiped, but all my data was still there!
Just finished watching your video on it. I'll be curious to see how the quality improves on the production units. I don't think I'll need 2 8TB drives for it lol but this seems to be one of the better RPI NAS form factors so far.
Jury hands victory to Facebook and Oculus VR founder in Rift ownership trial
One free option for Mac: https://rectangleapp.com/
I suppose that depends on what actually happened. Which they have not released any information on. So it's too early to make a judgement call on that.
Your own examples cover a broad range of social and political issues that even the savviest state governments struggle to navigate. How could anyone possibly moderate for such delicate and complex expectations?

100,000 moderators? Perhaps our demands for censorship are what is unreasonable.
I’m totally stealing this idea.
> pagination or other ways of rendering only things that would be displayed at the time for the user

Well, yes, those are alternate ways to deal performance problems, but they are not necessarily any easier than adding a bit of memoization.
Submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28993752
Synology 420+ ticks all of those boxes. I have one and love it.
Install ShiftIt - customisable shortcut keys for almost all window layout options.
I'm impressed by the extent to which people actually believe media narratives match reality.
>- A database to support a web development project.

What language, frameworks, modules and how do you store and present it?
I have been somewhat obsessed with the idea of floating greenhouses. The economics are different than operating a farm on land but with automation it could be possible to deliver superior produce directly to coastal population centers at lower costs.
Often you want page numbers so that you can refer to them later in the text (“See Figure 1 on page n.”) I think at one point I knew how to do that in markdown but IIRC it was only an option in pandoc, and 2) it only worked by printing to pdf via LaTeX, and 3) I may have needed to implement it in LaTeX anyway.

“Pandoc lets you achieve X by embedding latex in your markdown file” is a lot different than “markdown supports X”
Maybe but FB/google and Apple are in the cross hairs of the DOJ and it’s likely we will see a Microsoft level ruling come down on all three of them.
Buybacks?
That is a shame. Although I did not much like tomatoes until I was an adult, I certainly adore them today.

But it is a trade-off. Apparently I got "tomatoes taste good" in return for my "cilantro tastes toxic."
Their webpage suggests replacing Dropbox with a self-hosted cloud service. I am not confident enough to put all my personal documents on a home NAS server which runs 24/7. It's basically open for hackers in the whole world to scan and eventually put ransomware in it.

I feel I am more comfortable with saving my documents on respected cloud service.

I do have a NAS at home but its not open to the internet and I don't put my documents on it, just media files.
The only objection I have to this post that I have is the notion that there was a democracy there to begin with. Before Julius Caesar attempted (unsuccessfully) to monopolise power in the Old Republic, there was already a ever widening chasm between the farmers that made up the bulk of Roman citizenry and the people in the Senate.

All Caesar had to do was harness this growing discontent of the masses through his fake populism and having undying loyalty in much of the army helped as well.

It took just one generation after Ceasars assassination for the establishment of the Imperium and the dissolution of the Republic.

Trump might or might not be reinstated but the beginning of the end of the American experiment has already been set in motion.

The only way to save it is through a radical reorganisation of power to counter the one to come but the establishment want to keep returning to the supposed Utopia that was in place before Trump - missing the obvious fact that it was their "utopia" that lead to Trump in the first place.
Yes, and all of those not-primarily-software industries haven't yet caught on that unconditionally using SaaS is not a good idea, while at least some software companies are realizing this now. In SW land the pendulum starts to come back from SaaS-all-the-way, outside SW land it's still in full swing to SaaS-all-day-every-day.
MetroPCS looks to be the most private cell provider.
The transaction behavior is fine, it's more that I've had people delete function declarations from scripts while never cleaning them up in the data warehouse and then you end up with old functions kicking around in prod. My use case is mostly warehousing, not application stuff, so I don't care about full blown migrations. Just "these are the functions that we have declared for use, no more no less".

It seems like with DBT we're getting to declarative table construction, but I'm looking forward to declarative maintenance of other data warehouse aspects.
Well... Intel not having 5nm is entirely Intel's fault. They used process to their advantage and, well, when they messed up their process cadence, the advantage evaporated.

AMD could, but they seem to be very happy where they are. They also have to decide on which fronts they want to outcompete Intel and, it seems, process isn't one of them.
Software. My 2012 MBP can do MST fine in Boot Camp, but the feature isn't implemented in the macOS drivers.
I am against the idea of holding back for newbies.

If you think bit hacks are bug prone, needlessly complex, and not worth it, don't use them. But if your only argument is "junior may not understand", then no.

Newbies need to learn, if they always face newbie friendly code, they will be newbies forever. So yes, it takes time understanding a new technique, but it is an investment.

Later, when not-junior-anymore has to decide on an implementation, he then can chose the most appropriate among the many he saw, including bit hacks. It doesn't mean bit hacks are the best, or that he will use them, but because of his experience, he will make a more informed decision.

Note that I assumed code intended for professional developers. The situation is different if you are targeting non-specialists (ex: macros for end users) or if you are making example code.
That motherboard has two NVMe slots.

That cheap-ass cooler isn't that bad. It's pretty middle of the road. Personally I'd have the Hyper 212 Evo for $39 because it's not that much more expensive, but that plus a ~$60 case and a ~$20 keyboard and mouse still isn't $400.

The main difference between the plain keyboard and your average "gamer" keyboard is what, RGB LEDs? You can pay the money for that if you like, but there are no RGB LEDs on the Mac.
> also your pricing page doesnt actually give a sense of cost at all? 9 plays per what? 5 euro? 10 dollars? .0000005 eth?

This is a huge oversight.

Resonate is a good idea in theory but the majority of people who really care about independent artists getting paid properly for digital music (which seems to be the main purpose behind Resonate) are supporting artists by buying from Bandcamp, rather than solely streaming.

Its kind of telling that Resonate has been around for 7 years yet the database is 13,000 songs. In my experience artists and labels will upload their music anywhere that will get them plays/pays. Not saying that Bandcamp is perfect but it really resonates (sorry) with artists and labels.

Hopefully Resonate can get it right because we need more people to become comfortable with paying for music again.
This Twitter thread implies it’s related to his “siding with” Jacob Applebaum of the Tor Project, when he was accused of sexual misconduct. https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1452714046218649603?s=21
One major one that seems to have set its course for the ensuing years is its response to the infamous Charlottesville rally, wherein they attempted to argue that they now considered liberties to have precedence among one another. [1]

Their response to reforms of Title IX to restore the rights of the accused was to intentionally lift up the rights of the accusers over and above the rights of the accused. Their statement regarding it dishonestly claimed that they were balancing the scales, whereas anyone who has examined Title IX can easily see it leaves the accused without their constitutional rights to due process. [2]

In a similar theme, they inserted themselves into the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh, taking a clear side on the issue instead of standing for principles of legal representation and initial presumption of innocence. [3]

There are other recent articles on continued churning against their prior positions, but unfortunately they are behind a paywall and I do not yet have access to read them. I may be able to find other sources later. [4]

[1] https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621AC...

[2] https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1063456843706585089

[3] https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1046826766017466370

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/opinion/letters/aclu-free...
Wow, I've been a big fan of tiny / cheap / fanless "ssh+vim+ browser+chat"-machines like this for years.

At the moment I've got an Asus E203M fulfilling this role, but I'm annoyed every time I have to carry around, untangle and plug in the stupid barrel jack charger when I've got USB-C charging available on the sofa, in bed, in the office (and even in my car). I'm aware that there are USB-C -> barrel jack adapters, but c'mon, if I have to carry something around it might as well be the charger.

That alone would have sold me on this device.

But it's got coreboot! 8gigs of RAM! Backlit keyboard! Matte display, fullHD!
I've ordered instantly. Many thanks for the link!
In his semi autobiographies (surely you are joking mr. Feynman) he comes across very humble. I guess if you are under the spotlight and everyone interacts with you may be perceived by some people as arrogant.
You always have the trusty character map application available on Windows!

Great to find characters you don‘t even know the name of.
Thank you for your service.

I'm not an NR user yet but I've implemented my basic Home Assistant set up and plan to begin using NR extensively as I evolve my home automation beyond "Hello World".
i'm arguing that the situation is more complicated. we live in a world that is still somewhat e-communication naive, while the internet has completely rewritten the rules of the game bringing e-communication into focus.

when the us constitution was written, it wasn't written with the idea in mind that anyone in the world could anonymously participate in the local political process. that would have been crazy talk!

so i think maybe there may be some weirdness in terms of keeping the peace in the short term as more naive generations die off and more saavy generations come up. i also think that maybe some ideas we thought were principles were actually implementation strategies built for a very different world and that perhaps we'll need to look at what the underlying principles were and how they might be upheld in a world without information borders.

perhaps freedom of speech, which was written with the idea of preventing government from getting too powerful and controlling people, would need to be reduced to the idea of any entity amassing undue power by consolidating information capabilities to control people. from that, maybe you build up a freedom of speech paired with a required assertion of identity...

but honestly, i don't know. it sure does seem that the old principles were written for a different game though.
What's the price of this thing? Kickstarter prompts me to sign in before I can scroll down to see it.
I wish I had taken a picture of that shirt before it had been run through the wash a few times. It used to look a whole lot better!

But yeah, that video was epic, and it was spot-on, too. A company that has no idea how to deal with people is going to suck at making tools _for_ people.
Cartoon kids talk in hysterical falsettos, even third graders don't talk that high pitched in real life.

Adults mostly don't exist. Often the kids have superpowers that solve all the problems.

The only PBS Kids shows that seems to have kids in a normal relationship with adults is Molly Of Denali. Also just about the only one that shows adults interacting with each other.
Finally, you can FaceTime with poor people!
Yeah, but that particular observation is neither new nor obscure. Surely a different source for a similar quote would have been better.