skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The espionage act famously does not allow for whistleblowing as a defense. Tulsi Gabbard [1], Rashida Tlaib [2], Ron Wyden and Ro Khanna [3] (and perhaps others) have tried to introduce legislation to change this. For example, Reality Winner was unable to make any public interest arguments in her defense [4]. Ed Snowden has repeatedly said he would happily return to the US to face trial if he were allowed to make a public interest defense. For example, in a 2019 NPR interview [5]:

> My ultimate goal will always be to return to the United States. And I've actually had conversations with the government, last in the Obama administration, about what that would look like, and they said, "You should come and face trial." I said, "Sure. Sign me up. Under one condition: I have to be able to tell the jury why I did what I did, and the jury has to decide: Was this justified or unjustified." This is called a public interest defense and is allowed under pretty much every crime someone can be charged for. Even murder, for example, has defenses. It can be self-defense and so on so forth, it could be manslaughter instead of first-degree murder. But in the case of telling a journalist the truth about how the government was breaking the law, the government says there can be no defense. There can be no justification for why you did it. The only thing the jury gets to consider is did you tell the journalists something you were not allowed to tell them. If yes, it doesn't matter why you did it. You go to jail. And I have said, as soon as you guys say for whistleblowers it is the jury who decides if it was right or wrong to expose the government's own lawbreaking, I'll be in court the next day.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/crsj-fe...
[2] https://theintercept.com/2022/07/12/whistleblower-espionage-...
[3] https://www.rcfp.org/espionage-act-reform/
[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reality-winner-espionage-act-60...
[5] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/761918152/exiled-nsa-contract...
I didn't say it is the best system though, I said that I think some characters are more accurate than others. The implied context being, casually writing Thai in English, to other English speakers.

But I do think that an intuitive system is better than an IPA inspired system, and that's purely because of the fact that only 1% of people will be using it and understanding it. The other 99% will be using other, random, variations. However an intuitive system will at least catch most people who speaks English.

Any romanization that is more than "close enough" is a waste of time though, when compared to simply learning to write in Thai.
Why would you expect your community college to feel like a "bastion of higher learning"? Why would you so stridently extrapolate your beef with your particular experience as somehow reflecting poorly on all colleges and universities in the US? I don't even think it reflects poorly on all community colleges, let alone full universities.
Ehh... Sometimes. I tried this modular approach with a project, some things worked very well, others not well at all. In particular I have a ton of EF interference noise in my audio circuit and no idea how to get rid of it.
You're claiming this with no evidence and calling me naive. What's more, there is a good explanation for choosing Hong Kong - it's the only non-US aligned country in the area with a history of free speech (well it was, back then). New Zealand or Australia has free speech too, but if he had gone there he would have been black bagged and sent on a plane to USA, Guantanamo style.
Oh I didn't even think of that--that sounds like a huge pain in the ass lol
Hehe, news section is honest:

* Loads of bugs
And useless. Unless customers don’t care about their data.
I have nothing but respect for Nikolaus, and SSHFS is absolutely a cornerstone of IT, but if you think the original project was protecting you from vulnerabilities.. I have a bridge to sell you.

I also don't really understand what your last sentence is getting at--I may be daft.
Meanwhile, OpenAI is apparently taking its time to develop the next version of its large language model. It’s hard to believe, but the company insists it has yet to begin working on GPT-5, a product that people are, depending on point of view, either salivating about or dreading. Apparently, OpenAI is grappling with what an exponentially powerful improvement on its current technology actually looks like. “The biggest thing we’re missing is coming up with new ideas,” says Brockman. “It’s nice to have something that could be a virtual assistant. But that’s not the dream. The dream is to help us solve problems we can’t.”
It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
I noticed youtube will detect too many downloads and start serving errors at some point. I could download one or sometimes two videos error free and then yt-dlp log starts spamming with 'unreachable' errors...
The BIN is not covered by PCI. There's no reason they can't provide the BIN for every card.
https://archive.is/ev22K
In the readme they say they use the unofficial API: "Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)".

Browsing quickly the source code, it looks like they maintain a pool of short lived guest tokens using magic constants probably grabbed while doing reverse engineering. Some code looks very much to be about the rate limits too.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f...

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f...
The one time I tried that, it worked.
Your experience and my experience vary a lot.

My background is CA & NYC. I am able to get same day or same week (if less urgent) appts by calling my primary (PCP). In the event that my PCP has no availability or it's late in the day, I'll consider going to urgent care since it's the only thing open.

I can understand other people posting how hard it is to find a good PCP (or even dentist frankly). I got lucky and found a good, local PCP that I've been seeing for years.
China dodges western 5G chip embargo with new Huawei Mate 60 phone
The fastest we ever travelled was in 1969
Amazing man
so, let me get this straight. why doesn't news come about a robber being arrested with a crowbar or a bank robber using a car as a getaway vehicle?
I'm in a similar boat so maybe totally naive, but this seems true. I think the software industry is super rich in tooling because software engineers understand software, and can build their own software (haha..). Non-software fields have crap software because usually their only way to get some is to hire a software person who doesn't actually understand the industry. Introducing a communication barrier like this massively dampens productivity. Things are much smoother when the person using the software can actually dig in and fix the kinks themself instead of filing a Jira ticket.
Apple could still potentially pay to get some say in ARM'S design decisions or be able to direct part of their resources to their needs.
“Cavendish had been the author of The Black Arts in 1967, a book which I still rate as one of the best general introductions to Western occultism.”

OMG, they had this book in our high school library and for some unknown reason I checked out and read it, interesting experience for a 15 year old! It was comprehensive and had excerpts from grimoires from Middle Ages on how to summon sprits. It had a strange green-black cover (https://www.chegg.com/textbooks/the-black-arts-40th-edition-...).

Haven’t thought about it in nearly 40 years and I see it on HN! Chance? I think not.
The clothing market for the middle seems to have shrunk. Massdrop was pretty successful in offering the middle, until they pivoted. I bought of lot of good quality interesting stuff from massdrop back in the day.
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway
I do see some entries like you're describing on Alibaba for bulk orders, but is there anything for consumers buying a single gem in this price range? I couldn't find anything on other websites that's as cheap.
I'm not suggesting lying about it, I've just never heard anybody show off their finger and say 'it's natural' and it didn't occur to me anyone would. One can just not do that, and as a bonus, seem more normal.
Adam Smith was also an advocate of free markets as the term is defined today. Wealth of Nations is replete with moral objections to suppressing the right to freely contract—even to prevent combinations he found dangerous, like industy interests congregating—and praise for less interventionist government policies like low taxes, etc.
Update on the Otter Pup Mission
Hong Kong is China and in 2013 the process to take over administrative control by the CCP was already well under way. But looking at it from a national security standpoint China was in control. Why would I look at it from a national security standpoint? Given who he was and what he was carrying it has to be viewed that way. Let's not forget that he was carrying information on NSA espionage on China when he landed in Hong Kong.

2014 - NYTimes: "N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat"
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-c...
> Tesla

Yeah, so Tesla AFAIU isn't even GPL compliant as what they publish is not the complete corresponding source code for their Linux/buildroot based firmware.
I'm talking way out of my pay grade here.

> If any government group should be providing guidance and best practices on how to air gap devices, maybe NSA should write the standards.

I guess this is a bad joke? It's hard to tell w/ the internet.

> This FCC proposal looks like a ploy to spend the ever-growing pot (reportedly ten billion USD each year) from the regressive USF phone bill tax instead of reducing the USF tax.

I can agree this is what it is under the hood [0].

> As mentioned in another comment, a plug-and-play home device which provides network isolation and filtering for IoT devices may have a market. I would likely be a buyer at home.

Here's the key - there isn't a market. Otherwise there would already be one (you are unique). That's the crux of the problem. IoT is a race to the bottom when it comes to consumers. Consumers compare "smart devices" to what they already have - a light switch, a light bulb - commodities - they don't think about security until it's too late.

So, that leads to:

> If any government group should be providing guidance and best practices on how to air gap devices

You can't have "guidance" and actually get anything done in the consumer devices space. Standards and certifications - rejection of devices that don't meet them.

When it comes to dealing with communications FCC is the 3-letter-agency, and there's no changing that.

I guess the question boils down to - mass spying on Americans with un-secured devices sending data to China or let the FCC handle the problem by potentially expanding the USF?

[0] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-65A1.pdf page 45
What Data Does My Car Collect About Me and Where Does It Go?
Adventurer’s 500km swim showcases an American river slowly healing
One can deal with any money on the public blockchain, like USD-backed stablecoins.
Don’t downvote me you cowards. Prove me wrong.
Commoditizing Your Complements in the Cloud Era (2021)
"Invisible" assuming you have javascript enabled and use a mainstream browser. The failure mode on these is worse than regular captchas because cloudflare won't even give you a chance to prove that you're a human, you'll just be stuck in a refresh loop.
"Which poses an interesting question: how do you create an API that should only be consumed asynchronously from a web page and never programmatically via a script?"

Web developers use JavaScripts to make HTTP requests to API endpoints. The data is being consumed by a script, programmatically. Unless Javascripts are neither scripts nor programs. Good luck with that argument.

There is a W3C TAG Ethical Web Principle that states web users can conusme and display data from the web any way they like. They do not need to use, for example, a particular software or a particular web page design.

2.12 People should be able to render web content as they want

People must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts or auto-played videos. We will build features and write specifications that respect peoples' agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf.

With respect to the JavaScripts authored by web developers and inlined/sourced in web pages, web users have no control over them short of blocking them outright. As such, arguably they are not ideal for making HTTP requests to API endpoints. Unfortunately these scripts can be, and are, used to deny web users' agency.
Upvoted. Excellent point.
what's specifically preventing it from becoming just that?
Total downloads: 374,697

Million dollar idea right there
It only records on demand, mainly cause it's on battery. Also doesn't control anything in the house.
The public are fine, come on.
The sad thing is, you shouldn't need it if only Microsoft would spend some time to make their own web-based version work on mobile devices:

https://vscode.dev/
In all these years I'd never seen this. Ironic, but not surprising, that according to this account Snowden did exactly what he accused the US government of doing: mass collecting data with no authorization or purpose and then using it to accuse someone he disagreed with of crimes.
Several years ago, I purchased a Unicomp keyboard to address ongoing wrist discomfort. While it effectively alleviated the pain, it introduced another issue that was far more disruptive: the noise level of the keyboard made it difficult for my colleagues to focus when sharing an office with me.

The noise generated by mechanical keyboards is an issue that requires a solution, unless you happen to be working solo from home.
require minimum supported lifetimes of 5 years or full open sourcing of software (device and server) in the event that support ceases prior to the required lifetime.

gradually expand that lifetime out to ten.
Before Snowden people thought you were a conspiracy theorist if you talked about it. Snowden's revelations changed that...
My most charitable read of that trend is the narrative that everybody is broken and traumatized and if they're not in therapy then they're in denial about their unaddressed issues, and a therapist is the only person who can truly fix you before you bring those issues into a relationship.

I'm quite confident that this isn't a thoroughly examined belief for most people espousing it, it's a meme that's supposed to show sophistication as a partner.
If that’s his interpretation of peoples concern, then he is living in a fantasy world.

There are partisan nutters on on Twitter peddling AI generated images of politicians engaged in things they’ve never done.

It’s not Skynet going rogue that’s the concern, it’s Peoplenet triggering nut jobs (regardless of ideology they proclaim to serve).
Interesting, I never thought about looking for the EOB symbol like that but it makes sense. I would guess that some blocks you wouldn't be finding with this are, e.g., compressed zeros, because there would basically be only two Huffman codes, 0 for repeating the last symbol as much times as possible, and 1 for EOB it might even be the other way around.

The overhead of looking for deflate blocks can actually be made arbitrarily small by simply increasing the chunk size because you only have to check the first ~64 kiB of the chunk for a valid start position. 99% of compressors limit the produced deflate block size to something below 128 KiB, that's why.

Of course, lager chunk sizes have their own problems, like decreased performance for "small" files and higher memory usage because at least one chunk per core has to be kept in memory. The performance improvements on the block finder I made over the one in pugz made it possible to reduce the optimal chunk size from 16 MiB down to 4 MiB and thereby slash the memory usage by 4. 1 MiB chunks might also be fine if you can stomach the ~10% slowdown.

The LZ77 windows are something that I skipped over in my other answer. They are a problem. In order to decompress at a position without knowing the LZ77 window, the idea proposed by pugz was to use a dummy 16-bit LZ77 window initialized with unique IDs. That way, you can decompress into a 16-bit data stream and in a second step, when the window becomes known, you do a one-to-one replacement of the 16-bit unique IDs into 8-bit actual data from the real LZ77 window that has become known at this point. Decoding to 16-bit instead of 8-bit requires to modify the decompressor or write one from scratch and it also adds overhead because more memory needs to be traversed and of course because of the second replacement step that now has to be done.
Make strict rules for all of them. As another commenter pointed out, the wifi-connected clothes dryer could be used in an attack to take down the power grid by having many of them switch on at the same time - causing a network overload.

Don't try to predict potential avenues of attack. Make strict rules for all IoT devices.
Toyota says lack of disk space shut down all of its factories
What's the etymology of the term "Snowden revelations"?

People seem to really like that term, and it makes sense. But someone has to have said it first. I don't recall hearing "revelations" used much before then, other than for the book of the Christian New Testament. (Is some of the appeal of the term to allude to an almost biblical impact, or saintly/savior aura around Snowden?)
This is likely the most telling premise of all Intel collection ever.

One should only operate on the premise that this is defacto
Buttons, Enter, and Space
Microsoft's version does not work on mobile. I have tried many times to make it work on Chrome on Android, but it just isn't designed to work on a small screen and is unusable. It's sad.

When I got out of jail all I had was smartphones I would borrow from friends and the only way I could end up developing sanely was to open a terminal to a Linux box and just use nano instead, which meant no IDE with auto-complete, syntax lookups, formatting and most importantly, debugging.
> how this link ended up in HN

the submitter writes https://resobscura.substack.com/ which is also occasionally featured on hn and is generally well received.
Acceptable Serial Speed Error in Asynchronous Communication – Robot Room
Thanks, it gets a bit tiring seeing people claim that any form of fair pay is communism.

Especially with things like medical workers, who aren't even state employees in most of Europe.
Recently fighting with bots in a different situation. I discovered you can return code "466" in nginx, which is a special code that completely disconnects the TCP session.
You are not wrong overall, but I am not sure if the opportunity is huge, at least IMO not enough to sustain a VC-backed company (or perhaps barely). As a benchmark, Altium has a market cap of 6B. The fundamental problem is that there aren't that many HW engineers out there (compared to SWEs and SWE adjacents like DevOps etc). And the existing players are super entrenched into existing companies doing HW design.

There are some interesting companies out there that I am watching, like flux.io. The problem there is that none of these companies are working on creating open-source tooling, so their endgame seems to be getting acquired by Altium, Cadence et al.

I fear a future where doing even regular PCB designs will be gatekept by the Cadences and Synopysyes of the world, akin to how IC design is today. At least we have KiCad right now, which is getting really powerful and is fantastic for doing PCB development work.
Let me point y'all in the direction of the people who can answer that question, but won't.

https://cccis.com/

Basically, they're the group that's been writing all of the API's that slurp up and compose info into the information corpus that automotive insurance groups feed their actuaries. Interviewed with them once, would not have taken the offer even if it materialized because the more research I did, the more ethics based stop points I found myself running into.
It may be my bad wording. All I am saying is that an archived and unmaintained project leaves the option of fixing bugs and vulnerabilities out. The hope is lost with no effort of fixing. And this is inevitable with current open source models.
Who cares?

He wants to provide a free service, which he is not obligated to do and costs money for him to do, for individuals to check their email. He never intended for bots to check a billion emails, and obviously doesn't want to pay for that.

That should be respected, and people failing to respect it is why we see the destruction of the open web with things like remote attestation as the only way forward.

Complaints like "but the open web" or "but my exotic browser" are honestly worth nothing against a potential solution for a real, pressing issue like spam requests and bots - if we want to keep the nice things we better start coming up with alternative solutions to the real problem, because corporations will decide the future for us if we don't. Ignoring it will not work out for us.
Allowing what you call “leeching” is a well-considered, purposeful choice on the part of the people who created these licenses. So yes, it should mean that, and if anybody doesn’t like it then they can use a different license. They shouldn’t use a license that is specifically designed for this purpose and then complain when it is used for that purpose.
That seems to be the only way to subvert the very compartmentalization that normally keeps people from seeing such patterns or systemic abuses that he exposed - no?
False advertising. Button says "Download for Mac" but then on App Store it is $3.99
>This has been posted repeatedly over time. The problem with the site is that it has the structure of a shallow content farm and Google hates those.

Yeah right. There may be some current changes in terms of what's considered shallow enough for Google to penalize it randomly, but have you used Google search for anything remotely popular lately? Top results are absolutely loaded with SEO-gamed drivel and generic content piled on top of itself and crosslinked. This is supposed to be somehow superior to what Google so often apparently penalizes? Please do correct me if i'm missing something here.
https://m.alibaba.com/product/1600612782670/Diamond-Lab-Crea...

Min order is 1 carat.
Really interesting article and details, we are in similar cases, I would definitely consider such implementation and we'll also look at alternatives to Cloudflare.

Thanks you Troy for writing and sharing your experience.
Apple Argues iMessage Isn't Popular Enough in the EU to Be Regulated
Indeed, it's really something that grinds my gears too, when people don't use socio-politico-economic terms correctly like the above commenter. It just makes it hard for either side to be on the same page when debating because they're essentially using different definitions from one another.
> This seems like an incident in the making

This is how every major tech company works today.
I think if you build a prototype first, then you will have people who may offer you funding.
Sony’s full-frame camera for drones has no screen or battery