skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how does this enable the fraud? Why would this not work with an empty return package?

E: I guess this is just one of many possible ways to force a carrier to "lose" a parcel, enabling the fraudster to use the same ebay account more times without attracting complaints from sellers.
The next obvious step in the escalation is a kriegspiel variant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
See the docs : https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/unique_ptr/make_uni...

For C++ < 20 replace `std::make_unique<int>()` by `std::unique_ptr<int>(new int)` (which with all explicit uses of `new` can end up not being safe in some cases (in that case, only if you've not enough memory to allocate an int which should not really be a common occurence...)

For C++ >= 20 you get std::make_unique_default_init which does that properly.
> The reality is you still have to free resources, so it's not like the garbage collector is doing work that doesn't need to be done.

This is quite blatantly false. The reality is that every single time your GC pass traverses an object but doesn't free it, it's wasting time doing work that didn't need to be done.
This is great. I am gonna try it today
Don’t call it that. It’s a Lambda.
it does work with an empty package but it just goes to another address. So the seller doesn't get any package. If the seller were to get an empty package they would have some proof to show ebay and so the fraud would be harder to stop.
Was thinking about why privacy is important, reading the Snowden post on HN this morning. And it stupidly occurred to me, the privacy is only important insomuch as it is related to power.

I say stupidly, because it is such an obvious thing, but one that might be ignored or forgotten, without a sustained reminder. In the face of such an understanding, the distinction between government or commercial privacy is meaningless. If that lack of privacy can have significant power over your life, the source doesn't matter. The content doesn't matter.
I am South African but only born in ‘82 so was unaware of this incident.

However, I recall an incident of a South African Airways crash in ‘87 [1] which unsubstantiated theories stated were carrying nuclear materials or something.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_2...
Yeah I agree that there's still room for a "better C". Just C but with a few modernizations would go a long way.

I think Rust has a different lane: Rust is for when safety is absolutely important. C is for when you want very little abstraction between you and the hardware, and you just want it to do what you tell it.
It still doesn't make any sense. What would be your proof in this case? A picture of an empty box? That's not a proof of anything really, or at least I'd hope it's not - if it is then scummy sellers would always say that you returned an empty package(picture of an empty box included).
I really enjoyed this book for RL. https://www.packtpub.com/gb/big-data-and-business-intelligen...

If you learn well from videos many rave about the free fast.ai courses which now use PyTorch I believe. Seems to start with image classification. http://fast.ai
from https://cyborg.st FAQ:
Q. What exactly is the surgery?

A. You can think "type these letters" and make your fingers type them, or you can route that same electronic message via bluetooth to the phone near you. This surgery is like going from dial-up internet speed to broadband. You can type much faster without fingers!
IMHO, you're making the common mistake thinking that meditation is about sitting still and thinking about nothing, or lazily observing your thoughts. Meditation has one specific goal: training to focus your mind. Meditation is when you pick a simple static object and try to visualize it in front of you with all details, with eyes open and lights on. Yes, that's right. The goal is to visualize it so well that it would be no different than looking at it with your eyes. There are many common difficulties there: the object will be disappearing, floating away, transforming into something else, getting too blurry or too dim. But eventually youll be able to visualize more and more complex objects, then switch to complex ideas and finally reach the state when you're fully focused at all times without effort. Meditation is more like yoga and it is pretty exhaustive if you bother to put effort into this and not just sit and stare into a wall.
>they would have some proof to show ebay

At first glance the empty box seems pretty meaningless, it certainly won't win a dispute for the seller.

I guess you're right though, now the seller won't even realize that they're getting scammed and won't report the buyer account to ebay.
This is a fresh, possibly more substantiated article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/22/blast-from-the-past-vel...

The interesting fact is that there is very little speak of any other nation carrying out a nuclear test. It boiled down to Israel and South Africa, or a sensor glitch/weather fenomena. Kind of fun that the two nations vere the prime suspects although officially "nothing happened".
> many people would rather use google to figure out which direction a station's trains are heading than simply ask the people coming out of the station

“Don’t ask a human a question that you could just google” is a social norm in many places, enforceable by linking someone to lmgtfy.com
More likely that keeping countries isolated maintains access to tax havens, cheap labour and various other benefits.
There's no "postcode loophole", this is just a polished empty return scam.

The trick described in the article just improves upon it slightly by making the seller think that royal mail lost the package. There's no dependence on this trick though, the scam works 100% of the time even if the seller receives an empty box.
How college admission scandal is promoting buy essay services
The article seems to imply both. The basis is that wave propagate signals throughout the fungal network. The signals are made of electricity, which acts in a manner where they assume it represents numbers such as 1. Then they define logic. This is to me a pretty safe assumption if the most we have to deal with is a two-state automata that takes in 0 or 1. We can observe from its natural behavior and physical shape from experiments that there's clearly some mathematical optimization going on for well-known computer science problems that define its characteristics. I think of this way: if it looks like math, its probably computing how it forms. If it exhibits a great deal of complexity that can just be because of how it interacts with itself like on a cellular automata basis or a Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction-diffusion basis. You can get a lot of complex and chaotic behavior from really simple rules. They tell you how fast the system works and its clock speed basically, so you can compare and relate that to your computer as well.

Nature is the highest programmer because nature can write pretty fluently in just binary. All nature needs sometimes is something activating and deactivating, which can be things living or dying next to each other. And when nature arrives at a proof that a method is optimal, it arrives at it in a probable amount of time/space. When programs are valid and the proof exists, we have that we find it in nature since it gives a natural advantage to its biological host. We do the same thing but way slower and it requires a bunch of chalkboards and silicon sometimes.

The author, has a number of publications that are biological computation models. You can substitute a computer made of billiard-balls for soldier crabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Adamatzky
X11 and its ecosystem of applications isn't abandoned by Wayland, because you can run an X11 server on Wayland. By all means, debate the merits of Wayland itself, but don't lean on inaccuracies and conspiracy theories.
You're mistaken with pipewire, it's a daemon intending to replace pulseaudio at some point, it's not a gnome component.
Screen recording is also available in wlroot based window managers.

The wayland environment is maturing quite fast now.
> Writing game engines in C++ without using destructors is just foolish.

Why? My understanding is that in modern game dev you're mostly traversing large arenas of structured memory, and you avoid freeing individual objects like the plague.
I think this is like making an observation that a serious runner has bigger leg muscles. That's a correct observation, albeit useless.
Such as myself, I found them rather fun to look at.
On UK rail most of what you’re paying for by upgrading to first class is a guaranteed seat. I’ve never seen the first class carriages full, but I have regularly sat in luggage racks or on the floor in standard.
But go to a neighborhood bar in New York City or a tech Meetup or an arts event or anything else and you'll find plenty of millennials mingling with strangers.

In the subway, people are rushing to leave and get where they're going, lots of people have headphones on and those who don't are wary of scammers and muggers. There have been jokes about strangers not talking in the subway system for decades.
What's wrong with those?
& DIY surveillance systems became affordable?

You're claiming that the presence of cheap surveillance systems increase the occurrence of theft?

City governments in SV don't seek to have property crime prosecuted here because they view it as economic stimulus.
I don’t follow, why would it be stupid?
We used to laugh at the tin-foil hat people. Maybe they were just ahead of their times.
I would go a step further and say the only completely free and unregulated market is anarchy.

Take a regular state and strip away all those regulations about consumer protection, environment protection, substance abuse, contract enforcement etc, and stop all this socialist stuff like public healthcare, public unemployment insurance, and public roads, and you are left with is stateless anarchy. If you remove anything less you can always claim there's regulation and no truly free markets.
I did a 10 day retreat after burning out working at a hedge fund and I can highly highly recommend it.

I must warn that it’s not easy. I thought a meditation retreat would be a great way to unplug and take it easy but the schedule is intense and meditating that much requires great energy and focus.

Highly recommended but know what you’re getting into :)
Except we all know that FB harvests every ounce of data they can get, of course we disregard their encryption. But Telegram hasn't been caught doing that and I haven't seen any reports of their regular encryption being broken. Not exactly a fair comparison.
FeOPy3
can't explain, but I can point to the discussion section of that paper, where that sentence is expanded and some of the mentioned cortexes (cortices? I don't know) are associated with presumed body/mental functions.
Police don't pursue by departmental policy set well up the chain of command.
> C++ has sum types as of several years ago with std::variant.

Haha, that's like saying that C has templates because it has the _Generic macro.
There does seem to be a spate of something... articles in which the solution is "A British startup, what3words".

They must be spending a steady amount on PR. The news seems perfectly constructed for the obligatory quote from their founder when in this case the answer isn't their system, but just that Royal Mail use the correct identifier: the post-code and the identifying information for the property (building name and/or building number as well as company name if applicable).
I was joking when I wrote it but it's no joke really. We're meat machines. And after thousands of years we finally start to figure out how our primitive meat brains tick.

Eventually some neural network will be able to sway one's vote by showing a cute dog picture at just the right time.

We better start thinking about what we need after democracy has ran it's course...
That would be like explaining C++ Concepts to an assembly programmer from the 60s that had never used a "function" as a way of abstracting code.

If you really want to know, spend one afternoon learning any programming language with built in support for that (Rust, Ocaml, Haskell, ...). ADTs is one of the first things one learns.

In Rust, the features you'd need to learn are enums, patterns, and pattern matching.

But be warned that using C++ variant and std::visit will feel like you are being forced to only write C instead of C++ for the rest of your life, knowing that life could be much better. Once you learn this, there is no way to un-learn it.
Where are the anti-HR movements I ask, only half jokingly?
Thank god you weren’t around when keras was released.
That’s so weird, part of the reason I liked taking the train is that they had cars with tables where you could put your laptop.

As a millennial I feel like I’m bothering people all the time and I really like having an “excuse” to be around strangers.
Headline whilst HN correct is misleading.

TLDR - fraudster orders good, returns empty box with tracking, tracking label is photoshopped to different property in post code. Fraudster knows that tracking only records post code not property within post code. eBay issue refund.

Problem is granularity of tracking nothing to do with post code loophole.
It works because the royal mail system doesn't include the FULL postcode on the tracking information, only the first portion, so for example YO1 which allows the fake recipient to be anywhere in central York. Since it shows as being delivered to 'broadly the right place', ebay refuse to refund, the '£3,000 camera lenses' in the article probably never even existed - the seller will have just sent some random junk that was vaguely the right weight to a co-conspirator in the same town/area.
Which typeclass are you?
The privatised gain is that a content producer who was previously licensing their content to a streaming service, and starts their own streaming service, makes more money streaming than by licensing.

The socialised loss is that fragmentation of distribution makes people less likely to pay for any service. By trying to take a bigger slice of the pie, they make the pie smaller.
I use Safari because it is lightweight, fast, and imho, better looking (compact, minimalist) than Chrome.

It uses WebKit, like Chrome, so it renders pages the same, but I simply find the app much simpler, faster, and comfortable to use.

Give it a try some time.
I assume you meant to say train was usually cheaper. This will greatly depend on the country: for example in Germany trains are fairly expensive, a well-ahead booking (say, six months in advance) across the country usually ends up having the train option twice as expensive as a flight.

That said, I don't understand the hate for easyJet. It's one of my favourite airlines, being straightforward, well-informing, and no more crammed than your usual cattle class option in a traditional airline.
Okay, so where does the money come from if the seller and buyer are co-conspirators?

Stolen money makes no sense, this kind of trickery would have zero impact on chargebacks.
Not OP but the most common reason I've seen is that this was an additional restriction that they imposed for their project. The standard library includes a perfectly working malloc. You override it so that you can't end up calling it accidentally, either explicitly (i.e. your brain farts and you do end up malloc()-ing something) or implicitly (i.e by calling a function that ends up calling malloc down the line). The latter is what happens, and surprisingly easy and often. Not all libraries have the kind of documentation that glibc has, nor can you always see the code.
> Yes, it is possible to have a bank account without ID.

Where do you get that from? It seems incorrect: "You’ll need to provide a valid, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver’s license or a passport, or a state ID card from the Department of Motor Vehicles." [1]

> Some states might have a law requiring ID for alcohol or cigarettes, but at least one definitely does not. Some stores actually violate their state's law with their store's ID policies.

All states require you to be 21 to buy alcohol. Which states do not require you to provide ID for that?

Seems like we might be splitting hairs here due to laws such as Indianas that "Indiana has a photo identification requirement for all off-premises transactions to anyone who is or reasonably appears to be less than forty (40) years of age." [3]

So yes, some liquor seller might be lax on enforcement or judge you to look over 40. However, that doesn't change the laws.

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/how-to-open-a-bank-a...
[2] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0388-alcohol-laws-stat...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_Un...
Not OP, not American either. The voter ID laws in India helps enormously in reducing fraud, if India can implement a system like that, Surely US should be able to as well ?
It does change slightly, ebay will consider a 'hey my box was empty' if it's coming from a buyer with a decent feedback. But since the royal mail says 'nope, was delivered' it never leaves the automated system that just assigns guilt to the buyer.
Ah, yes, quite.
Nice article, played with Icecast in the past, good to learn about LibreTime which uses it.
Not so weierd... Develop in secret. Once you have it your enemies knows in any case. And if you can maintain plausible deniability it is much easier to keep developing / much less public scrutiny, especially if you already are operating a highly unpopular apartheid state.

I remember that during the war with Cuba in Angola the South Africans deployed their nuke on the border, the Cubans knew this and as such the South African border was never threatend.
That’s a small pilot plant, I did ask at any scale.

I know I’m being sceptical but CCS has been talked about in the UK for a long time and we haven’t been able to move forward on it for some reason. I now worry that it is mostly a distraction from other technologies and changes that we know will work.
> The screenshot tool is just flat out not present when running under Wayland due to the above issue.

That's odd - it's present (and functioning) in my Firefox (69.0.1) running on Gnome-on-wayland

Firefox is generally quite crashy, however, which I'm guessing is Wayland-related
Enterprise-Grade Bank and Public Holidays API
Keybaseproofs
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nemo786; my proof: https://keybase.io/nemo786/sigs/IMSz5oN13t7k17sFFf348l9YnYeOQg1IHvS0Os3KFFc ]
> Technology will get us there!

Perhaps but not quickly. Decoding brain activity is still a hard thing to do.
In one word, nvidia.
My window manager won't work, my hotkey daemon won't work, my screenshot tool won't work, any X11 program that draws to the root window won't work. Xwayland is obviously not a working solution to fix the ecosystem problem. Who is inaccurate now?

> debate the merits

Wayland has no merits. That is kind of the problem. It is just a reimplementation of stuff that worked.
The buyer isn't a co-conspirator, someone in the same area is. The buyer is out the money they paid.

But it actually works both ways, this scam has happened on sellers and buyers.
More so as the onus and legal aspect (data protection) means that the receiver has no way of disputing this with Royal Mail, only the sender does. So if the sender pays for the basic service, this can happen, if they paid a little bit more for the tracking service, thats different.

Case is, you can send a letter - no way of tracking that, but if you send it recorded delivery, that's tracked.

So issue here is not the Royal Mail, more case of Ebay etc allowing people to send things using the cheapest untrackable way and allowing such abuse to transpire.

But then every system is abusable - you can send a recorded delivery item to a person, log into tracking and see a copy of that person's signature which you could then abuse in nefarious ways. But many systems open to such abuse. Send a cheque to somebody - they cash it. Then track via your bank and get the bank account details of the recipient. Heck send cheque via recorded delivery and and get the targets signature and bank account details, all legal like. Is that a fault in the systems and even if it is - how do you fix that!

Well, Ebay could insist that all postings are done recorded delivery - would solve this instance.
It is the seller receiving an empty box, not the buyer.

Ebay will always believe a "hey my box was empty", no matter your account history. They'll just ban your account at some point.
Maybe. Meditation can be about doing nothing. In fact, not even doing that. See: shikentaza, and a theravada monk advised just that to me last night ;)
In some strict sense that may be true, but in this discussion I think it is reasonable to read 'Content ID' as including YouTube's copyright strike system, demonetisation, and re-assignment of ad revenue to the claimed copyright holder.

These things are all very much extralegal, and used instead of the DMCA in many situations.
With the intersection between 96% with cellphones that need an ID and all the other places where an ID is needed the percentage without an ID will be much less than 4%.

For instance, it seem fair to assume someone without a cell phone is poor or very old. Such a person would utilize government services that require an ID such as foodstamps, medicaid or medicare or social security.
It sounds like early on the US government said it was inconclusive in order to not offend South Africa and Israel. But more recently, people have been saying it was a nuclear test.

> A December 2016 report by William Burr and Avner Cohen of George Washington University's National Security Archive and Nuclear Proliferation International History Project noted that the debate over the South Atlantic flash has shifted over the last few years, on the side of a man-made weapon test.[1] The National Security Archive briefing concluded:

>> A Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded that a mysterious flash detected by a U.S. Vela satellite over the South Atlantic on the night of 22 September 1979 was likely a nuclear test.

> The newly released research and subsequent report was largely based upon recently declassified documents in files at the National Archives of Gerard C. Smith, a former Ambassador and special envoy on nuclear nonproliferation during Jimmy Carter's presidency.[1][60][5] Smith had once said: "I was never able to break free from the thought that the event was a joint operation between Israel and South Africa." The documents cited a June 1980 U.S. State Department report where Defense Intelligence Agency Vice Director Jack Varona had said the ensuing U.S. investigation was a "white wash, due to political considerations" based on "flimsy evidence". He added that the "weight of the evidence pointed towards a nuclear event" and cited hydroacoustic data analyzed by the Naval Research Laboratory. The data, he suggested, involved "signals ... unique to nuclear shots in a maritime environment" and emanating from the area of "shallow waters between Prince Edward and Marion Islands, south-east of South Africa".[1][5][60]

> In 2018, a new study made the case for the double flash being a nuclear test.[6][7][61][62]
Journaling helped me realize things about myself that I wouldn’t have noticed without it ( that I was in love with the last girl I dated was one.) I’ve been told that just talking about your life is why therapy can be so effective and I feel like journaling is the same.

This summer I’ve been kind of depressed being unemployed and haven’t done it but it probably would have helped.