skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but like reading about cases like this. From what I've seen in other cases this would be a very strange situation.

They wouldn't specifically subpoena your password. A subpoena could be issued to you and you could be required to testify about things and potentially one of the questions could be to divulge your password. Now the fifth amendment protects against self-incrimination so your best bet is to simply not answer anything and invoke the fifth. Because that protects you from testifying to things that could incriminate you, and not just those things that will incriminate you. Of course once they have the password you never know what someone might find which is why you should take the fifth and not testify to anything.

Courts can legally get around your fifth amendment protection and compel you to provide the password and access but in doing so they must also grant you immunity against anything they may find. The courts have upheld that your testimony no longer can incriminate you so you can be held to testify accurately. If you do not you would be in contempt of the court. Generally in this situation they have an idea of the data or information that they want and you are a small fish and they are going after someone much bigger.

The other similar scenario would be instead of a subpoena for your testimony they would get a warrant to search your system. This is where it gets kind of interesting because when they have a valid warrant they are allowed entry into the device but they are still not allowed to force you to testify against yourself as in divulging a password. They can attempt to crack the password but they cannot force you to tell them what it is. On the other hand if you are using a form of biometric security because that is not considered testimony they can force you to use your fingerprint or face scan or other biometrics to open it up. This is a very important distinction when you're considering the security of your data especially against law enforcement searches.
> Prosecutors also charged the two executives with ....... and obstructing justice by .... and using encrypted messaging programs to limit scrutiny of their actions.

So, is using encrypted messaging illegal or not?

I get that if the court orders you to keep records and you take actions to avoid leaving records, that has been considered obstruction of justice. But the article doesn't say anything about them being ordered to keep records before their arrest.
I’m not sure Intel and Samsung are behind TSMC to the extent that switching to their CPUs would be, like, catastrophic. There’s a big advantage to using the newest node because people who buy iPhone want to be assured that their iPhones were made using the best, newest tech. But a 2 year old iPhone is not totally junk, it actually is still a much more powerful computer than almost anybody really needs.

TSMC has huge value, their R&D is hugely important. But if they vanished overnight, your G7 nation wouldn’t start to starve or anything.
"A law can bind only when it is reasonably possible for those to whom it applies to acquire knowledge of it in order to observe it, even if actual knowledge of the law is absent for a particular individual. A secret law is no law at all." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusa
Doesn't seem to have any mention of what they're going to do with this patent wise.

The one of the biggest points for Opus was it being patent free (and "good enough" audio wise), so anyone and everyone was able to use it legally.
Simple question, but the article doesn’t define this: what does “NA” mean here, and what do the does increasing NA from 0.33 to 0.55 mean? The gist I got from the article was “bigger number better” but I have no idea what these actually mean.
Since higher demand results in higher prices, you could rephrase that line as: is housing (and land) more desirable in states with higher or lower property taxes? I think it's mainly unrelated. Other things like available jobs, climate, amenities, and so on seem more important?

I've never quite understood whether the land value tax advocates wanted taxes to be higher or lower on average, or how they expect economic activity to vary with tax rates. They seem to expect tax policy to have large effects all on its own, though, and I'm more skeptical that it will make much difference.
Taking away the iPhone may have had some benefits, but it did not make anyone a better person.
Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts
China is responding to provocative actions of the US in Taiwan, the same way russia responded in Ukraine.

"The others are irrational actors, crazies. We are the normal ones" If you can't smell the propaganda you've been fed to believe this irrational racist statements probably you will enjoy the draft.
They do this to optimize user experience for 3G and 2G networks not LTE or 5G. A huge number of people are on those networks.
Eh sounds like lying to me. Maybe it sounds like marketing to people who develop software “we can iterate no worries” but I think rocket science has a higher bar for safety.

Reminds me of that failing nuclear startup that tried “fake it until you make it” with the US government.
Ok so let’s play it out. I look at a picture of a cat, and Apple receives a completely anonymized log saying someone somewhere looked at a picture of a cat. This log has no information about me and cannot be tied back to me. Am I supposed to be concerned this is an affront to my privacy?

People want big data tech, most people think this is fine and not a privacy invasion. Apple’s approach to privacy is leagues better than e.g. Meta or Google. If you want no record, no accounts, no logs for anything ever, don’t buy a smartphone.
Lua is pretty uncontroversial as the embedded language of choice and is actually made specifically to be embedded and play nice with the surrounding application.

I get why they chose Python for this and it's not all that hard to embed, well the interpreter anyway, compiled modules are another story.
Wholly agree and can't for the life of me figure out why you're being downvoted, other than people disagreeing with the tenor of your opinion.
I don't mind flying on a well-tested 777 (i.e. one that's been in service for years). It's a great design from before Boeing really went down the shitter, and is probably the backbone of most carrier's long-haul intercontinental fleets today.

But there's no way I'd fly as an astronaut on Starliner. I have very little confidence it won't have a catastrophic failure, considering how Boeing's been doing things lately.
While it's a great discovery, I'm concerned that this will be abused by plastic manufacturers as an excuse to produce more plastics and talk about "how harmless" plastics are as "they break down organically by fungi" anyway.
Dunno. Good point. Not my specialty. Perhaps require that some prohibitive number of blocks have been mined before the auction closes?
They're really going after the serious criminals right here. This prosecution will definitely help repair our society's belief in the equity of the justice system. 


I've got to wonder how much time, measured in average human lifetimes, has been killed from patients having to suffer through the medical industry's agency-destroying bureaucratic churn merely to find the correct "provider" bureaucrat-intermediary to approve access to healthcare. Never mind cleaning up the ensuing medical billing shakedown messes.
The Myth of the Nordic Rehabilitative Paradise
It is. I think their point is “10x fewer” makes sense if you imagine going from a denominator of 20 to 200.
Thank you for your service. ;-)

I'm a so called "scientific" programmer, and I use notebooks. I care about good programming practices, and have made an effort to improve my craftsmanship.

And I don't want to be a software engineer. I'm surrounded by SWE's in my work area, and their job doesn't really interest me. Division of labor. I'm glad somebody enjoys it.
That's why they source their wood in a country with shitty legislation and corrupt politicians. Because they are "working on it". Their wood supplier is operating on a loss, so no taxes paid to the state.
Of course, even 10x is possible. We all wish that was always the case.

I had this hilarious though I feel I should write down here but doubt it at the same time. ..

The best way to have a wage gap is lack of access to education or even books. Second would be to have access but not make an effort.

It makes me wonder is there is data on physical punishment. people say it is a terrible thing but I would love to put them in some loud factory conveyor belt job for a decade or so with just a few more bills than salary. To call me a sadist is to agree :p
We have some development desktop builds working. Is it something you'd pay for?
If I'm paying $100 a month already for internet services, the problem (if there is one) is one of distribution, not of payment.
Disenchantment (the term used to describe the loss of magic in the world) is a bit more complicated and started earlier. Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age is an excellent read if you’re interested in how (and if) it happened:

https://intotheclarities.com/2014/08/23/charles-taylor-on-di...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age

It’s a huge tome but one detail worth mentioning is that Taylor says disenchantment goes back to at least the Reformation (1500s-1600s), as that’s when “strong belief” became more important. Prior to that, religion was essentially on various speeds, with the religious establishment “believing more” and the rest of society believing at a less serious level, content to live in a world of mixed beings, magic, etc. Once the Reformation kicked off, it became much more important to clarify and commit to the beliefs - which also had the unintended result of many people analyzing their beliefs and not believing them anymore.

I can’t summarize the whole thing here, but I highly recommend it. I also think Taylor recently published a book about Romantic poetry, which is apt considering the blog post’s discussion of Coleridge.
I love the logged out experience in your app; super creative to display your app, just slightly dimmed. Super smooth and neat flow.
There are a lot of similar tele-health businesses which are really just prescription farms. I wonder if they'll all meet a similar fate eventually.
X is not a work environment
you would have to re-run script from the beginning - this is not productive in scientific experiments, where you need to re-run certain parts of your code and tune/change parameters, try different things.

if your calculation is long running you would not be as productive as could be in notebooks
It's absolutely hilarious that the author opens with an image of Socrates.

Socrates, as you recall, famously argued that writing was a detriment to thinking. The parallel that notebooks are a sign of lazy thought does not go unnoticed.
Some people have much stronger and more nimble tongues than others due to physical differences (e.g., tongue size, the length of the tongue frenulum, etc.). But this is the case for the hands as well, which is why people have different input preferences and different gameplay preferences.

Personally, I think I would prefer a mouth controller over a traditional controller. I am very prone to tendinitis in my hands, plus I have small hands and short fingers, and can't play twitchy games well because of it.
> I’m not sure Intel and Samsung are behind TSMC

Intel is trying to catch up but Samsung just has no idea. Samsung spent years poaching, merging and sniffing trade secrets to survive.

Problem with Intel is that most of it is Intel specific (still)
"Essentially every application on my computer is a silo."

So true. And so is every company. They have very little incentives to make your data accessible. Or is it "their" data?

You can also go "turtles all the way down"... and discover: the object oriented programming model. It also hides, eh "encapsulates" your data, you only get access through messages.

This is what operating systems are build on. And it works very well for Microsoft / Apple / Google.

I think Unix had the right idea. Make the data part of the outside and programs only process this data. Programs should be stateless.

Unfortunately Unix kind of got stuck in the text based world. Text is really great, because it's so visible. But there is no reason binary data can't be the same. You'd need to develop general purpose binary file format. That can be opened and edited outside of any application. Which would let you extract for example a single image of a video to edit in a paint app.

Then make all of this live update, so that the mouse for example is just a struct with position and other data you can use everywhere.

Then let us have history on all the data.
Does someone know if we can expect to see similar improvements for video streaming in the near future?
One limitation I have not seen discussed is LVT's self-defeating nature, and it's an important one to figure out if land value taxes are to succeed in practice.

An upside and downside of LVT, depending on your perspective, is that the imposition of a LVT would seriously lower land values. The inverse is also true: removing an established LVT carries a significant upside for the affected landowners. Property that had been acquired for cheap under a LVT would be freed of its shackles and allowed to appreciate again. Some of this would be immediate, as thousands of dollars in taxes shift away from land and back onto labour, enterprise, and commerce, and some of it would be gradual as people resume buying land because land value always goes up (which causes land values to go up). This creates a powerful incentive to undo any progress that a LVT campaign might accomplish.

I doubt that anything short of a revolution would be able to overpower the wealthy landowning class who like their unearned rents and inflated asset values very much thank you, but you don't just need to beat them once, you need to be able to hold their political, economic, and intellectual influence at bay permanently or we end up right back where we started in a matter of years.
It's clearer in the DOJ writeup at https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founderceo-and-clinical-presi...

"The indictment also alleges that He and Brody conspired to obstruct justice after a grand jury subpoena was issued to another telehealth company and in anticipation of a subpoena being issued to Done, including by deleting documents and communications, using encrypted messaging platforms instead of company email, and ultimately failing to produce documents in response to a subpoena issued to Done by a federal grand jury."
Numerical aperture. Have a breadcrumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture
This always seemed the right answer.

Prompt the user "App Foo wants to use calendar/pictures/location" and then you have options like "Allow", "Deny", "Allow with filtered data" (i. e. select just a few photos out of the gallery), or "Allow with bogus data" (generated gibberish that goes away after use)
We really still sure this whole decompression sickness thing was just a “simulation”?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-accidentally-b...
He's a man with a mission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture
third-party private businesses are fine. the problem is third-party private businesses whose business model is that you can only talk to your friends and family if you let them (the business) manipulate you and sell your private data.
starbucks isn't going to interrupt my conversation with my wife to try to upsell me junk food, or to try to manipulate us into fighting to 'drive engagement' from their other customers, and they aren't going to kick me out if i pay cash, or without explanation or appeal. if they did, it wouldn't cut me off from my social group; we'd just meet up somewhere less hostile

the problem isn't the amount of revenue fecebutt or slack extracts (mostly; parks are still better than starbucks if some of your friends are poor or struggling to eat healthy). it's the revenue model. apple's is okay. verizon's is great. comcast's is acceptable. level3's is fantastic. but twitter's is a tornado of diarrhea, and slack's is being literal ransomware
I’m not arguing ad hominem. In this case, the nonsensical thing they believed makes the statute itself nonsensical:

> The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.

The highlighted part just doesn’t make sense unless you believe in some universal, God-given “law of nations.” In this context, the supernatural belief renders the statute itself nonsensical, like a law setting tariffs on imported “faerie wings.”

I’m not using it as an ad hominem to disparage a statute that makes sense on its face. The part of the statute referring to acts in violation of US treaties is perfectly fine.
>Your colleague, if they did in fact do it, probably looked foolish.

The timeless conundrum of “more money and more favorable terms” and “looking smart to the people that are firing you”, who is to say what is more important
It's just a name, you're overthinking it.
Descent used a different trick, of drawing even-z lines (one division per line), which meant drawing diagonal lines.
But it sounds like it did? Why are you thinking it didn't, or are you meaning it from a different angle of some sort?
Paper books don't usually have many ads.

eBooks on Kindle, though...
NA is Numerical Aperture

https://www.asml.com/en/technology/lithography-principles/le....
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> The US saw putting semiconductor production in Taiwan and a way to reduce cost and challenge the Japanese

Considering AMD, Nvidia, Supermicro and many others are all headed by Taiwanese CEOs etc I think this has more of an influence than otherwise. The community and ecosystem was built way before anyone saw it as a thing.

Japan had no chance with the conglomerates like Fujitsu still stuck in their ways.
There's an active de-dollarization effort from BRICS. Unsure how effective it'll be with the LIO
It takes more time than doing nothing, so it's a waste of time unless I require it.

Obviously it's usable that way, I said it wasn't as simple (the hardware is more complex to initialize).

Using "megabytes of space" for "trial boots" sounds like a rube goldberg machine that would cause more problems than it would ever solve on a chip you can't OTA, but feel free to argue with me :)
Do you get the sense that the plastic manufacturers are limiting production in any whatsoever now?
> So, is using encrypted messaging illegal or not?

It depends what you're using it for. Several encrypted messaging programs offer the option of auto-deleting messages, in which case using that program and feature, or using that program without that feature but then refusing to divulge the communications when asked, while discussing certain business matters or arriving at business decisions, would be a violation of at least that state's implementation (if any) of the Uniform Preservation of Private Business Records Act. Many other state and federal requirements apply depending on the circumstances; for example, HIPAA requires retention of any medical information or information used in evaluating medical decisions for a period of 6 years.
IIRC, Nexus is using Iroh[0] instead:

> Starting with v0.3.0, Iroh is a ground-up reimagination of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) focused on performance.

Also see, A New Direction for Iroh[1].

[0] https://www.iroh.computer/docs/

[1] https://www.n0.computer/blog/a-new-direction-for-iroh/
Microsoft is a very different beast today than what it was decades ago.
I try to avoid Jupyter related things. Every time I encounter them, it seems worse. Point in case, an open issue from 2017 requesting "copy/paste" be (re)added to the right-click context menu, still open.

https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/3224
Exactly. If anything, they have every plan to increase production already.
Good thing that developers aren't elected lol.

Not sure if there's a word for a dictatorship, but you're totally able to just leave if it's not your thing.

Most of the real world ones tend to put up walls and guards facing inwards. Or hold your family hostage.

Which hopefully doesn't give Blizzard any ideas.
> The US saw putting semiconductor production in Taiwan and a way to reduce cost and challenge the Japanese, but also a way to imbed incentives into our foreign policy for protection of tenuous Taiwanese democracy and independence.

That's such a silly statement, and completely taking away the ingenuity of the Taiwanese. Taiwan(and Korea)'s semiconductor rise came specifically because the US hammered Japan's semiconductor industry in hopes of taking over their market share. It also happened in part, because the US massively attacked the RoC(Taiwan) nuclear industry, which left a lot of those engineers without a future, add on top of that a national strategy that caused two different strategies between UMC, TSMC.

This is a culmination of heavy engineering focus in Government, higher education and national support, along with a market gap created by clobbering the dominant player in the industry at the time.

What the US is doing right now does the opposite. It creates a market gap in the industry due to Taiwan being completely beholden to the US. The only reason for the rise in domestic semiconductor production and supply chain in China is specifically because the US tried to restrict China's access to these goods and in turn inadvertently created a similar situation for Taiwan that it did for Japan 1986. Leaders with cooler heads like the Mediatek CEO acknowledged as much and warned that this is what is going to happen.
> it isn't trivial to tell this tree from that tree

At such budgets, scale, and lobbying there is no such thing as "ooops, we didn't know where this come from, some lumberjack lied to us". You have folks in suits flying in private jets and arranging agreements (and cocaine and prostitutes as well of course).
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Not at all! what you posted was perfect. I was just adding a more general explanation for users who hadn't heard the principles yet. It's a nice case where the principles are unusually clear.
They should also hold prescribers accountable. As a certified physician you hold powers and responsibilities. In many countries these prescribers would lose their licence.
Plastics are a store of energy. They could be used to sustain life, once evolution catches up. That's why I don't feel particularly bad about throwing plastic into the landfill. I'm taking an energy loan out against evolution; eventually, evolution will recoup it.
depends on the form, amount and also income: https://www.litrg.org.uk/benefits/childcare/employer-support...

workplace nurseries are tax free as is any child care for lower incomes. other benefits are tax free up to a certain amount.