skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and have a general distrust of public servants and the environment they work in. There are No repercussions (in my locale, NLD) for breaking the law as a public servant. Even when the statutes are quite broad (like knowingly infringing on a law or the constitution by a very senior public servant or knowingly holding money for public benefit that shouldn't be held / restituted) there are literally zero prosecutions of these events.

And I've gone quite deep even contacting the police agency especially created for such things (they don't even track complaints against these statutes) and searching the public database with judgements. The only thing we do is persecute clear graft. So the worst thing that could happen left is one government office getting fined by another, which is somewhat disappointing. It's taxes afteral going around. All I have for my deep-dive is a professor agreeing with me (hey N=2 beats N=1).
Anecdotal, but another trend I see is that more women seem to leave SWE/coding roles and transition to roles like product manager, project manager, business analyst, or even some sort of non/semi-technical middle manager.
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Agreed. I doubt the schools wanted it this way. I think we, as a society, are allowing this to happen. Wish I knew how to reverse it.
If this is really the case Nintendo is vulnerable to a class action lawsuit. Any lawyers want to take the case?
> USB 3 connectors and ports were pretty much always blue.

I’ve never seen a blue connector and ports in most laptops are just body coloured like in MacBooks.
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I felt the same way as you until my laptop was destroyed by a third-party charger.
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You could...not read them?
It's pretty much an as open-and-shut of a clear violation of having consent and a right to process that data as you could come up with. They got off light in my view but then again, it is a first time offense so maybe not all that light.
You can drop the back seats and fit wood from the end of the dash to the back of the trunk. I put a movers cloth on the back of the seats to prevent it from getting messed up. You can use a hand towel on the dash to prevent it from getting scratched.

But you cant really fit a 4x8 sheet into the back of the car, truck rentals might work out. But honestly if you have a buddy with a truck, just ask, and if they say yeah, fill up the tank for them when your done with it.
> I like this idea, but I don't like how they target Facebook and YouTube, and not Twitter, Instagram, and Google Search.

They are targeted because those are the companies hoovering up all of your data to build and sell marketing profiles. Microsoft should be on this list too but they are too inept to monetize the data they have... and they make enough from Office, Windows, and Azure that being a data broker isn't a pressing revenue need.
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An Analogy for Multi Tasking
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Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments [pdf]
Even today, new desktop mainboards have 6-8 USB-A ports and zero or one USB-C ports. So it is not surprising that accessories (especially ones for desktops) are offered with USB-A connectors.
Ransomware attacks will often wait after getting into systems, so that they can also encrypt live backups. Air gapped backups from sufficiently long ago will work, but not only is restoring to those usually a pain in the ass, but would also come with significant business cost... which may be more than the ransom. That's the goal, anyway.
It would be friction for me to decide to move to a competitor.
The metadata for cross-chain swaps are stored right on the blockchains for everyone to see.

The same time-locked hashes which make atomic swaps safe, permanently tag both sides of a completed atomic swap transaction with a unique hash making it easy to link them together.

Atomic swaps are not designed to prevent tracking of funds.
This explains why there are so many "no charge" Nintendo Switch in TronicsFix videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xix7qzbOT6Q
I love the blatant lies and propaganda by Firefox where they say the following:

Privacy = Freedom
The Firefox browser is built to protect your privacy at every turn - because that's the fastest way to free you from slow loads, bad ads, hackers and trackers. We get the worst of the internet out of the way so there's more room for the best.

I have a couple of problems with this statement.

1) Firefox is not private out of the box. It's default search engine is Google and on the initial opening of FF it sends all kinds of data back to Firefox HQ.

2) Firefox sends telemetry data by default unless disabled. Telemetry data is made up of two data sets: interaction data and technical data. Interaction data includes information about your interactions with Firefox such as number of open tabs and windows, number of webpages visited, number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons and session length, as well as Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals.

Technical data includes information about your Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates and safebrowsing. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs.

3) Firefox Android app it includes 4 trackers plus the default telemetry data collection mentioned above;
-google admob
-adjust
-google firebase analytics
-leanplum

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.mozilla...

I really have to wonder, how Firefox has the stones to make such an outrageous statement concerning it being a privacy browser, when the truth is that it is not.

If you want a truly private browser based on Firefox you have to choose for Android; Privacy Browser by Stoutner

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser....

... and for Desktop "LibreWolf"

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Please Firefox, stop with the lies. You are not a privacy browser.
Glad she died...
I've tried my hand at hardware hacking a few times only to hit dead ends. Most recently I wanted to dive into a minor security vulnerability and some other oddities I found in the web interface of a cable modem by trying to get OS access. The details were a bit fuzzy, but I easily identified a UART, however sniffing it wasn't giving me much. There didn't ever appear to be a shell and mostly it was just outputting diagnostic info like channel bonding attempts. I couldn't manage to figure it what exactly it was running. Some things pointed to a stripped down Linux, some pointed to a custom OS (including a strange Chinese github repository that was probably less than legal) and some very weeks hints pointed to something like VxWorks, but i don't remember the UART ever given any sort of boot information. I tried to use a bus pirate to dump the flash a few times but always came up with a bad image. On an interesting note, this was the first time I saw a real life MIPS device though.

There were also what looked like a few different UARTs but only the one had any data coming off it. Eventually I got a little to liberal poking around with a multimeter and shorted something, killing the device.

I'm just really bad with this stuff in general I guess lol. This was just a cheapo cable modem, so if I ever want to pick up again I just have to order a new one of the same model and try to remember the tools. I do have other devices I need to investigate however, that would be expensive or near impossible to replace if I killed them. I'm mildly worried about doing much with those for the time being.
There's also the cable between the charger and PC, and the capacity of that matters too. It might not be the charger, it might be a limit on the cable's power capacity.
A dictionary of n-grams does, which I think is what he is describing.
It's in the making :)
Feel free to contribute your own stores.
I feel like what this list is missing is how so much of our industry is patching holes created by previous applications of industry.

For instance, with agriculture: industrialization has provided food for billions. It’s also created the monocultures that encourage disease, pests, and the ever-escalating need for more “inputs”.
It's a breach of GDPR, which is not the same as being a data breach under GDPR. And by "not the same" I mean like 99.5% disjoint.
Accumulating value in a vague currency/credit system that some freshly-minted airline MBA dingdong can reset at any point in order to make the quarter's financial report look a bit rosier, over and over again--what could go wrong?
I'd rather spend the time I would have spent on loyalty programs on something more fun and/or lucrative.
Everything is normal, according to some definition of normal. Did you mean with a normal definition of normal?
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The Magic of Python Context Managers
One less person on earth...
JAMstack vs. WordPress: Which Is the Future of Web Architecture?
Working fine for me on Win 10 and firefox.
> If it was bijective, any possible string of bytes could be decoded

Is that true? Couldn't it is also just have a different output domain. For example the function:

f: non-zero positive integers -> even non-zero positive integers
f(x) = 2x

is bijective.
I want to do some kind of shelf where my TV hangs in front, and some kind of pulley system to lift it to access what is behind on the shelf. I think that would be a clever use of limited wall space. But I have not found anything like it online and it feels quite complicated to construct from scratch. Any ideas?
After Betelgeuze blows, we should know more about what to look for.
> The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is issuing this advisory to highlight the sanctions risks associated with ransomware payments related to malicious cyber-enabled activities. [...] Companies that facilitate ransomware payments to cyber actors on behalf of victims [...] but also may risk violating OFAC regulations. This advisory describes these sanctions risks and provides information for contacting relevant U.S. government agencies, including OFAC, if there is a reason to believe the cyber actor demanding ransomware payment may be sanctioned or otherwise have a sanctions nexus

> OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations based on strict liability, meaning that a person subject to U.S. jurisdiction may be held civilly liable even if it did not know or have reason to know it was engaging in a transaction with a person that is prohibited under sanctions laws and regulations administered by OFAC.

I've seen this argued a few times, but the first time I've seen an explicit government statement about it.
At the same time, in a big enough forum, there will always be many people who have already intuited what most psychological scientific studies are about, and had it confirmed by their own experience many times over.

I’m equally irritated when people label an idea invalid until it’s been scientifically confirmed and peer reviewed. Science is often about confirmation, not about creation. Many people are likely to have realized something long before a team of scientists got funded, figured out how to test the idea, analyzed results, wrote papers, published, and officially confirmed it.
Or spring for a monitor with thunderbolt on it, and ditch the dongle or move it to a permanent location behind the monitor.

I am currently waiting for thunderbolt 4 support to upgrade my other monitor, so can have a hub in there somewhere instead of some devices plugged into each monitor.
A sad day for portable music players. I got a used last gen for my son last year and the UI is light years ahead of any other player. I was pleasantly surprised how many iOS like features they included - voiceover, double and triple click shortcuts for the home and side buttons, many of the iOS touch gestures are there as well.
Unfck yourselves, Mozilla!
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I believe crunch is used to line-up your ducks in a row and add polish - not to take part in highly creative work that is usually done up-front in the project.
> What you see online is not what your across-the-aisle uncle does. Hold advertisers accountable for misinformation by sharing the political ads you see to a public database.

I'm sure this has never been tried by Facebook which they later claim is fucking the internet.

Surly with a company as biased as Mozilla there couldn't be a bias or conflict of interest...
... and I am using VGA, maybe we should be categorized as protected species ...
> Thousands of students are all trying to get a low effort contribution in to have an extra line of "experience" on their resume and a T-Shirt from a western Silicon Valley company as signaling? Judging by the poor quality of the contributions, and the fact it's on GitHub, maybe folks studying IT?

Well, not exactly. There are a lot of people in India who are very passionate about open source and who actively try to get others to participate. So they organise events teach others how fork a repo and submit PR's. Batch-mates are either forced or join after seeing the enthusiasm. Unfortunately, these are not moderated and things go downhill soon where a PR is sent for the sake of it.
> So after more than 5 years, USB-C is still too expensive and "overkill"?

Yes, if you already have a working design that uses USB-A and you don't want to mess around with the manufacturing process.

Also three are a log of people out there with no USB-C ports on their machine or existing USB-C chargers so you end up needing to provide at least an A->C adaptor (OK, these aren't expensive, but it costs >$0 to include one) or if your device charges too slowly off non-PD ports then you need to provide a wall-wart where you otherwise might get away with being cheap and not.

Furthermore, I know some people who are actively avoiding USB-C (seems odd, but true) as they already have a pile of devices/wallwarts/batteries/cables that are based on the older connectors.
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