skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you surrender the goods and have a plausible reason for not knowing that they were stolen then you won't be prosecuted. You will be SoL on getting your money back unless you bought from the worlds most scrupulous fence though.

It's a risk when you buy anything from eBay or the like, but the overall risk is small enough that the savings are justified usually.
The NYTimes republishes a variant of this articles almost every month

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+wor...

The usual answer is "it depends"
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* not censorship resistant

* issuance controlled by a monopoly

Don't get me wrong, I use VISA all the time, but it's a different product.
I don't understand the take in this article.

I've done embedded work. I could do embedded work, I probably wont because the pay is mostly terrible compared with either traditional software engineering or the more data orientated stuff I usually do.

So, if there is a shortage of embedded engineers, it's because nobody really want to pay them properly. As to moving things up the stack... well that's always been a trend. But someone has to write the board support package and do all the hardware interfacing to the often broken and buggy hardware.
Bitcoin contributes zero GDP to the world. It is the equivalent of printing paper then selling it to the next idiot who thinks he can sell it to someone else for a higher price.

Whether the mining consumes renewables or non-renewables doesn't change the fact that the energy expenditure is pointless... even burning oil provides warmth... mining bitcoins?.. Nothing.
I'd imagine it's so you can check on them or adjust them from outside your home network. If you're leaving town for a week and forgot to switch off the air conditioning, you don't need to run back home when you're halfway to the airport.

I guess ideally they would utilize a more localized protocol when you're nearby and then fall back to control->remote server->device when you're not.
I guess I'm working lower than embedded, then. For the things I work on, there is no API, just a chip data sheet, and usually it is marked "preliminary" or "advance copy".
One thing that might help is to talk with a licensed clinical mental health professional. Helping people in circumstances like yours is what they do. Good luck.
17 a month seems really, really expensive for only 300 API calls. I think users prefer real-time feedback for this type of thing anyway; this API tries to be a one and done thing but users want assistance as they type.
Single Source IEEE 1588 cannot meet financial regulatory requirements
> Ineligibility for universities for opaque reasons happens in the west too. So does unaccountable public shaming - I don't think it being done manually rather than automatically makes it better. Knowing what information companies have on you doesn't actually help any - it means you know the inputs to their model, but not how they relate to the output.

In the West, are those things engineered by the government on a mass scale to coerce political support for the regime and silence dissent?
You may be able to save your marriage and your family and you sanity. Have faith even though contentment seems impossible now.

How's your diet? Do you work out? Take care of your body. Do you meditate? 15 minutes in the morning of sitting and watching your breath can be a transformation.

Have you seen a counselor? Do you regularly go on dates with your wife? Do you have guys nights out with your buds?

There's a lot of little adjustments that can be made. You don't have just ONE problem, you have a lot of interconnected ones. There's no way to fix them all at once. Even if you filed for divorce, moved out, and did freelance basket weaving you'd just have another set of problems. Better to fix what you have than destroy it, we're not cell phones or toasters, we're not disposable.

Stay, fix this one step at a time. It's like a hoarders garage, lots will need to go, some stuff should stay, and you gotta just start slowly at one corner and work you way through it like an infinitely patient monk.

You may also want to try reading the book "12 Rules for life" from Jordan Peterson. There's an audio book too. It's got a lot of well laid out and researched stuff for making life better.
What do they get back?
College - like a lot of things in life you get out the value that you put in in terms of work.
You can do all of that easily without paying though, and without having the two screens issue.
> And remember, cryptocurrencies are at their infancy, and we are already moving away from PoW.

Bitcoin and the crypto "space" is 10 years old. Its only use cases so far have been money laundering, child trafficking schemes, cryptolocker scams, pump & dumps, ICO scams, murder for hire, securities fraud, exchange fraud, and don't forget massive speculation. All while converting massive amounts of non-renewable fossil fuels into heat.

Sorry dude. The market has already spoken. Crypto isn't really useful for anything above-ground real-world. We've got fiat. It ain't perfect, but it does the job.
Can I ask what music?

It's been pretty good for me with new releases. I mean, it's not perfect but I listen to mostly indie rock and it's turned me on to a lot of stuff I enjoy, and it never suggests top 40. I also never use the thumbs up/down.
How much extra work was it to add in IPv6?
Because they will just hire someone else.
Stated with such confidence... Clearly you've never dug into the internals of OpenVPN.
I'm in the space as well. I've tried telling my
congressmen but they ignore me.

If you have hard evidence, forward it to the journalist or newspaper that broke a similar recent story, or whose reporting of that story you respected.

Maybe you can find a journalist you respect for their reporting on Cambridge Analytica, the Paradise Papers, Edward Snowden and so on?
Original link without the machine translation:

https://www.zdnet.de/88333709/daten-gau-bei-zyxel-deutschlan...
Actually university is fairly easy if you seize the learning opportunities that courses give you; many students attend neither lectures nor tutorials/exercises nor tutoriae and then complain how difficult it is to pass the exam.

This still happens even though older semesters will tell any freshmen that they need to attend courses and do exercises to make it. What kinda works are mandatory exercises.
What was your first clue ? Not all college is worth it, most of the degrees are pretty worthless and exist purely because of federal dole.
> I don’t think he ever even attempted to play our N64

Understandable, since the n64 controller was designed for people with 3 hands.
My Own Personal Nothingness
In other news, try using a stolen iPhone (since the last 6 years). I came across this article:

https://www.cultofmac.com/246755/why-ios-7s-activation-lock-...

Which in typical Apple whining style complains how the sky will fall due to this new feature. And then it didn’t.
"Customer sites routinely have IPv6 disabled on all their systems by their cargo cultist sysadmins"
Android – CardView and RecyclerView
"Free people" as in, attention high-jacked, rent paying, sugar'd up, Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires represented by purchasable politicians? What is freedom today anyway? We don't work for a company anymore, we work for share holders. We don't pay eachother for housing anymore, we pay banks. We don't choose what we eat anymore, we are seduced. We don't spend our time anymore, companies sell our time and attention for us.

At the very least freedom should come with "being well informed", however we are informed by commercials nowadays. Is this freedom?
That is unbelievable. I just emailed jeff@amazon.com about this scam.
Is it a cronjob?
How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Use?
Or it may be 45 percent worse. Or 200 percent worse.

Either way, I certainly don't trust a rightwing think tank like the Koch and Scaife family-funded Reason Foundation to produce anything like credible research on the topic. Or even to provide an intellectually honest interpretation of an external academic paper (as the article in question purports to do).
Ow social isolation transforms the brain
What does Bitcoin (et al) do for someone such as I, who cares not a fig for speculative gambling?

- edit

this was a sort of response to your statement below "Don't get me wrong, I use VISA all the time, but it's a different product", but I couldn't reply to it direct.
> What if 100% of bitcoin mining is powered by renewables?

Opportunity cost. What better thing could that energy have been used for? I can think of one.... not being used at all!
Embedded people will be extinct because of the salaries. Embedded SW I wrote runs on hundreds of millions of devices and anything from a single core small ARM to a multi-architecture SoC, but when I was last looking for a job--higher in the stack things like infrastructure / DevOps paid 50% more than embedded.
If I had an arrest at a protest that was expunged officially but still recorded by third parties, would that probably affect lending decisions?
Well, he's the heavy weight champion though (formerly light heavyweight, but heavy nevertheless). They, too, have weight divisions in the sport.
This massively misrepresents Tim Bartik's work on the topic. Bartik wrote a long thread here:Check out @TimBartik’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimBartik/status/996865804179263489?s=09
I may be in the minority, but I won't buy remote control devices that require access to the internet. I am not trying to control my devices outside of my house unless I take the intranet iface and expose it myself.

A bit off topic, but I am hoping one day the always-on in-home server takes off for the average user so that my ability to expose my in-home server to the public internet is no longer a minority skill.
> Sure, maybe a small portion of the banking system's energy can be curtailed with green tech, but what about the 24 hour ATM, the light posts at the banks, the AC units in each branch, the massive skyscrapers in which all of the banks corporate offices operate? and the energy required to build all of that infrastructure?

The point is, that waste is all upkeep. Something the system tries to minimize, as it bleeds money through it. If ATMs can be made more efficient, the system saves money. In Bitcoin, OTOH, waste is not upkeep but a feature, which the system tries to maximize.
It sounds like the person in this case went through the normal court system whose processes resulted in his release. Probably the biggest shame in this case was not releasing him on bail. Tell me if I'm missing something!
In my experience, people use VPNs as an excuse to push weak host security through review. Eventually, everyone dismisses all security concerns with "it's behind VPN". And then they connect to the VPN with their malware-ridden computers. People are also surprised that whatever they run inside supposedly sandboxed VM actually gets full access to the VPN. And then there are configuration errors that can lead to surprising effects like forwarding all traffic from one's home computer through company's network filter/sniffer.

For these reasons, I always recommend running everything with public IP address. No more excuses. It's public, so security is a must. No more surprising network flows. Cloud-based monitoring tools can access the servers. Limited access can be granted to non-core team members and computer-illiterate staff.
I think you could go back to the early seventies and make this same kind of video about gene sequencing, DNA, CRISPR, etc.

Just like we didn't know to what extent DNA changes can alter an individual, and what the repercussions of making those changes are, the same is true of our actions and experiences.

This video is a look at a nascent field that requires thinking and ethical explorations.

What are the ramifications of an individual who, through modern science, has the ability to not just alter their genetic makeup, but also their experiences and behaviors so as to achieve a desired outcome?

Where is free will in all of this? Does it exist? Will we all become beholden to our former selves who, making decisions with less information, made decisions we no longer agree with?

What about our parents? They make choices, sending us to schools, or acting classes, but they shape us in the same way.

...and where is the limit? As long as we're not very good at it (like right now), it's ok, but once we're accomplished a certain level of proficiency, is that when it becomes dangerous?

This is a thought-provoking video, but I think a lot of the issues expressed here are a reflection of the viewers, and not of the video itself. It even raises the concept of responsible behavior (it refers to 'stewardship').

Our current society values the concept of 'humanity', and the 'greater good', which gives me hope that we will take action and correct evolutionary unstable systems and behaviors.

To end on a joke: I, for one, welcome our new selfish ledger overlords.
I assert the expense of college is an awful burden to put on someone who must finance most of it through debt. It's a gamble. You can improve your odds of a happy outcome in that gamble by looking at the Student Loan Default Rate for any given major at any given college, and picking the best program for you (with the lowest default rate possible.)

But if you are a child of parents who can finance your college? Absolutely. No question. This is essentially a way to enforce Aristocracy.

I believe college should be free, and that colleges should limit their number of students in any given program to some sustainable number, where the graduates can actually earn a living.

Not to pick on them, but do we really need this many Art History Majors?

Veterinarian programs specific limit how many students they accept, because if they didn't, their graduates wouldn't be able to afford a living wage. Other majors need to catch on.

And then what if you don't get accepted to a program?

All I've got is Universal Basic Income. And progressive taxes to pay for it all.

Any other thoughts? I welcome honest discussion, because I hope it will inform my views.
The issue isn't that college is pointless, it's that tuition is too high and wages too low. You should support politicians with a plan to counter this trend.

Education is important. Raising the overall level of education in this country should be a much larger goal that it seems to be.
Is this a kernel implementation of WireGuard for MacOS, or is it one of the two ongoing userspace implementations? I probably missed it, but I didn't see a separate repo for it at https://git.zx2c4.com/ .

On that note, can anybody say how far along the userspace rust implementation is? How hard it'd be to port the MacOS version to FreeBSD?
Exactly. Just as Google (and everyone in it) has the right to express their thoughts freely, I have the exact same right to be express my thoughts about their speech.
I've rarely seen so much positive effect from a law before the date at which it would be enforced. My inbox is regularly visited by companies that suddenly feel that maybe they should obtain my content to spam me further in spite of me trying - sometimes for years - to get off their lists.

We'll see what happens after may 25th but for now I'm really hopeful that we will finally see some counterbalance to all this ridiculous profile building for marketing purposes.
Is there any alternative approach that would be more effective?
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reason_Foundation
Twitter thread: Let's talk about fundraising Suhail
Are you kidding me? We need these guys like you wouldn’t believe. Does anyone really trust that their bios / drivers are actually secure??

My job is to secure Web Applications, so usually
cleaning up PHP code. But literally everything I do is pointless if the lower level firmware is compromised (it probably already has been).
> Most of it comes from hydroelectric plants with very cheap prices.

Hyrdo isn't green energy. Dams block fish migrations and fuck up the surrounding ecosystem.
Great work bro :)
Don't be discouraged! The quickest way to learn is how you've done it here. Post something egregiously wrong, and wait for us HN know-it-alls to pounce. Don't worry about the internet points; they're cheap compared to new knowledge. Of course, HN would be tedious if it were full of this sort of thread, so the downvotes are certainly appropriate. I would have cast some myself had others not already done so.
Yep, came here to call out the source as highly dubious.
If they can do this before it is sold (eg: theft) and remotely prevent the device from working, how do users defend against having this done later for more capricious reasons?

Everything I've learned, is that for capabilities like this, the good reasons are the justifications, and then the owners migrate to less good reasons. The overall distrust I have with these kinds of systems are that they are Treacherous Software/Hardware. This capability is something that shouldn't be implemented. No user in their right mind would - but the companies that wish to retain ownership rights after sale do.

I would also object to this 'hacking of these devices' as violations of CFAA. Yes, the devices had lost chain of custody, and were reported as stolen. That doesn't allow any entity to then engage in more illegal behaviors exigent to the initial situation. If I am being robbed, I am allowed to defend myself and my goods. However I cannot stalk the robber, and then bash his/her kneecaps in after the fact. 2 wrongs, separated by time, do not make a right.
You're right it's not quite the fallacy in that there isn't any destruction going on. It's something adjacent though:

The whole point of markets is that people decide where to spend their money based on the value they can get for it. When 3rd parties subsidize services like Moviepass or Blue Apron, they break the pricing mechanism that's supposed to lead us to efficiently use limited resources eg seats in a movie theater or space on mail trucks.

If a company losing money is providing more value to the customer than it costs to operate, they don't need to be losing money and they should raise prices. Otherwise, you're arguing these companies have a beneficial externality of some kind, and society at large gains in the transaction even though the company is burning more value than the customer gains from its product. I don't think that's the case for Moviepass or Blue Apron.

It's Bastiat's idea of the unseen alternative, except we're talking about LP money channeled through VCs instead of taxpayer money through the government.

I'm not blindly against VC-, cross-business, or any other kind of subsidies. If positive externalities exist they're a good thing. Eg, Amazon was "losing money" or barely breaking even on its physical goods business for a long time, but that money was strengthening our logistics network (both internal to Amazon and in USPS, FedEx, UPS) so they could be profitable later at the same or lower price points. Healthcare probably ought to be a money-losing business because a healthy labor force has huge positive externalities. I just don't think leisure or mild convenience/lifestyle products are positive on the balance.
It's insane, right? You would think with their talent pool and billion dollar-sized budgets they wouldn't struggle with basic brand marketing. The insulting part of this change is that they are raising prices and further fragmenting an already half-baked service. Google needs to take advice from someone like John Legere and start building cohesive products.

https://www.geekwire.com/2016/listen-shut-f-tell-t-mobiles-j...
The article takes an exclusively financial look at 'worth it' and completely ignores both education and human connection as an aspect of going to college. I get that the author is writing about money and money alone, but the headline is deceptive.

Additionally, I do understand that a lot of people go to college for the purposes of getting a job. But that's not all college is, and pretending that the only reason anyone values college is the salary level afterwords is missing the most interesting pieces of the discussion. Things like,

-the arts are important for a society regardless of the financial profit from it (i.e., it would be 'worth it' to a society to not force each individual person to earn a living wage for their whole working life).

-college as a mechanism for meeting people, making connections, and learning about the world. Yes, some college experiences can be closed-minded, but that is not the norm.

-many other things. This author is so focused on money, they are missing the forest for the trees.
I get the feeling we have pointless products more often than not these days. All these advances, just to create a speaker that listens to you and helps you shop. And now this, there is going to be a whole lot more e-waste in the coming years because of manufacturer antics like this.
I for one love it. It's nice seeing Microsoft contributing to Linux and FreeBSD and other open source projects as well as open sourcing some of their own projects. Also their share price is way up since Satya took over as CEO. So maybe these changes will be around for awhile seeing as Microsoft shareholders are happy.
I may be late to the game but this is the first time I've looked at something and thought "yeah well The Terminator is about to happen"
Someone still needs to implement the frameworks that these so-called embedded engineers will be using! The article is right in that users of embedded devices now expect a lot more software support. I work for a semiconductor manufacturer supplying devices to tier 1 auto electronics companies and these customers expect a full OS port with drivers and middleware for the device (including a lot of graphics processing for ADAS applications).
The US has not done border-expanding territorialism like China has in a very very long time. Perhaps the US should, since everyone apparently thinks it is happening anyways.
better than no job!
By default, Rust compiles all Rust code statically, but the standard library depends on a libc. If you want to use MUSL, you can. If you bind to C libraries, you may need to configure it or not, it depends on how the wrapper is written.
it's already a shame that the answer isn't 100% yes, 100% of the time.

back in the 70s, tuition was payable with a summer job and job prospects were decent enough despite geopolitical and economic headwinds

these days, the same problems plague the job market, but every year of college costs 1 year of salary, unless you qualify for stackable forms of financial aid