skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone interested in the details of how these scams are pulled off might want to check out "scam baiting" youtube channels like Kitboga [1]. They use a virtual machine and pose as a computer-illiterate person long enough to observe all the techniques. They are also pretty funny sometimes.

I'm astonished by how blatant their techniques are. For example, in the "refund scam", the caller pretends to be offering a refund for some tech support contract. The steps are:

- Get remote desktop access to the victim's PC.

- Tell the victim that they must log into their online banking account to get the refund.

- Use "inspect element" to edit the banking page, making it look like victim got too large of a refund.

- Convince the victim that they can't pay back the difference by another bank transfer, but instead must pay it back in the form of gift cards.

It's outlandish. It goes beyond computer-illiterate victims. The victim needs to have a diminished sense of skepticism, which can come from age-related senility but also cultural unfamiliarity, anxiety, etc.

Unfortunately the comments include a lot of casual racism against Indians, with little awareness of the structural conditions causing these scammers to exist.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw
For anyone on the fence: These were fun to watch, but there wasn't much substance to them. You'd probably get a lot more out of a random 15 minute blog post on the subject.
If you think it's such a good deal, you're welcome to join them...
>You earn the exact same amount of points on every level -- those points are convertible to Bitcoin

>Edit 1: Regarding the term that you claim it's violating, we do not reward users for taking any specific actions. They receive loyalty points for playing. That's not a specific action.

Seems like a contradiction to me. From Google, "For all other locations, we don't allow content or services that facilitate online gambling, including, but not limited to, online casinos, sports betting and lotteries, and games of skill that offer prizes of cash or other real world value."

Most would agree redeeming bitcoin provides access to real world value.

>Edit 3: Google is hiring you might want to apply in the Google Play review department because you seem to jump to a lot of conclusions you'd fit in well there.

Aw come on, you're gonna make dang mad with these personal attacks. You should be paying me for taking the time out of my day to consult and provide this educational seminar. I take BTC: 1JRtfLaknTjzsLowQZYMLsanDx76rFhtER
You're kidding yourself if you think the meat you buy isn't the product of cruelty.
> We can see these effects in the economy if you look closely, the labor participation rate among men is declining, most new jobs (which are service jobs) go to women, millions of men are missing in our society due to this system which throws away human capital. For what?

Unless you think the declining labour participation is due to people being incarcerated I'm not certain how it's related?

I, morally, think that the only justifiable punishment for a crime is what is needed to prevent recurrence - either through the same societal member or from other societal members. The fact that murder is highly punished definitely dissuades some proportion of potential murderers from murdering. From what I've seen of the efficacy of restorative justice I'm excited - it seems to greatly reduce recidivism while also lowering societal ostracization and coming home from jail to find a community that rejects you can directly contribute to higher recidivism.

That all said, I also think that's it's pretty reprehensible how we treat criminals today - subcontracting out housing and care has been shown to greatly increase recidivism which increases costs in the long run. I think this stance is acceptable if you consider all criminals to be lost causes that are just running out the clock on their lives since they're defective, in such a case minimizing costs/day with the assumption that the term of punishment is fixed serves to minimize the cost to society... But I disagree strongly with the assumption that all or, even, most criminals are lost causes.
Tl;dr just do it, and buy headspace.
Wow. I cannot fathom what Charlie did to incur the wrath of the Illuminati like this. I remember commenting months ago when the administration announced these policies that nearly all faculty at the top five are guilty of this (racist, nationalist nonsense charge) by default. That's still true. However CL got singled out as an example is the real story, and I don't know the answer... Envy?
There needs to be felony-grade criminal liability for the VOIP providers who are giving the scammers access to the US phone network. It's funny how many things are a serious, unsolvable problem until someone is in danger of being perp walked in front of reporters, at which point it's easily solved.
You could open an Apple museum! I sometimes regret I threw away all old phones. I had a pre-iPhone smartphone with Windows and foldable keyboard, I however only used the stylus to type... I guess the iPhone was easier to use for normal people, and it didn't look like a geek phone...
Once wrote some firmware for a barcode scanner. Didn’t think of it as a musical instrument. This morning Twitter showed me otherwise: https://twitter.com/crab_feet/status/1222165813135720448
So, let me get this straight: This is a game that pays you tiny amounts of bitcoin to play, with a semi-complicated payout scheme?

That sounds to me like you're running a bitcoin miner on people's devices and taking a cut yourself. I'd very much consider that "deceptive" unless made painfully obvious in the description.

Gambling is a grey area due to the game not requiring you to win, but it really should be considered gambling due to it being a game that pays you money, teaching an unhealthy association for young players.

Plus, the legal definition of gambling do not matter here, only Google's definition in the ToS, which includes games that provide prizes of real-world value. That would include Bitcoin.
Most code, sure. But it's not an ideal to be striven for, or a metric to be used when evaluating code.
> There are in fact distributed transactions, and cross shard joins. You can in fact do full cross shard ACID transactions.

The Vitess docs explicitly say that 2PC transactions are not isolated and are not ACID.

Did something change?
Gonna be honest, it doesn't sound like you have a lot of relevant experience on the effects of incarceration.

I'm no expert either, but prison is a lot more than just making sure people can't commit crimes. I also think reasonable people could disagree about whether the treatment of some of our prisoners constitutes torture or not.
That everyone does it is hardly a justification. And companies have no divine right to analytics, especially not when it concerns PII and paying customers.
That is not proactive enforcement. Also, it has been done before, and is clearly too slow - they may arrest one or two people, while the other thousands can easily relocate their laptops and headsets.

The most effective place to stop it is at the "border", and that is what DOJ is doing here.
Sure, kids who need to figure stuff out will find a way, but the issue is that since the need for kids to figure stuff out has largely disappeared, the technical proficiency motivated by this has also disappeared. If some time ago we could implicitly assume all kinds of things that everyone "technical-minded" would know because they inevitably would have needed it as a kid, we now need to teach the very basics of how stuff works 'under the hood' explicitly without this assumption.
we reduce muggings by 80% of that individual's potential to commit muggings
Xkcd: 4.5 Degrees
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-video-games-jobs-...
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Yes, they do, in part because they opened up previously in the heyday of people building their own systems, and continue to engage deeply on the enthusiast asks right now contra-posed against their broader market understanding. Roughly, they figure out which enthusiast things will appeal to the larger market, and make it all work, fully integrated.

Per the curve shown in Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm”, HN exists largely on the left of the chasm, Apple is a trillion dollar company because it understood how to shift to the right of the chasm.

Visual explanation (.png):

https://smithhousedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/smit...
According to whom? The PRC might disagree with you.
if apple were to be a nation state, it will be one of the top 20 trillion dollar economy... insane and amazing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_club
This reminds me of a CGP Grey Video “How to maximize misery”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
Typing 4000 hex values printed in 6 point font from Byte magazine.
You can test run an awfully large K8s platform in there ...
Charles Marohn: “Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution”; Talks at Google
Ah, that makes perfect sense to me (both your wording and the conclusion itself), so thank you.
No surprise there. That hardware is overpowered compared to what Doom and Quake originally targetted.
Some ads now have links to sites where you can do mass opt-outs, like this one: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 I have no clue if they're legit, but they certainly look useful.

Some companies like Sift Science got caught not having proper opt-out facilities that are now required by law https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...

Now that the CCPA is in full effect, can't somebody just build a mass opt-out service to get out of Sift, Clearview, etc? Sift etc already have to hire a 3rd party to handle ID verification (yeah it's weird you have to send them your ID to get your own data, which is supposed to define your identity...).. No idea if it would be profitable, but if you've got the ID verification bit solved, then launching an opt-out service might be the way to make your product go viral?
Yes, it's a strikingly useless article and I'm glad I read it through archive.org instead of giving the actual site traffic for their ad content farm.
Side note: use 'nice' LED strip lights if you go this route. I did a similar project with a small 19" monitor, for the lensz etc, and grabbed cheapo home Depot LED strip -- it worked about as expected: not daylight/bright enough. I'd reel off specs but the LED strip had none on the box. :-)

Next, larger lens waiting at my brother's house will get a better treatment.

As an aside, it's a really neat project to do, my kids thought it was super cool to help with. Large one will go in stairwell.
Why don’t people complain that toasters aren’t expandable?

Apple builds appliances made from hardware and software.
A lot of educational leagues have refs and rules on attire. For instance, every rec basketball league I've ever been in banned shorts with pockets because of the risk of defenders snagging/dislocating/breaking fingers and had rules on finger nail length to reduce incidental scratches.
Calling this a bribe is adopting the language of the Trump administration. To Lieber this was just more research funding, which no scientist is in the business of rejecting. Faculty aren't paid as well as you think...
I really wish the OpenBSD team would consider rewriting some of these internet facing services in Go. It would be much safer than C.
It's interesting to see how these hacking-themed Hollywood movies have better reputations after two decades. When they were just released, responses from the hacking community were almost entirely "Hollywood is clueless". But after two decades, it becomes something different and gained additional historical values.
I think you're vastly over estimating the quality of those services delivered to prisoners, especially if they're incarcerated in a private prison where mold/maggot ridden food[1] is served on a regular basis.

Still, I think it's important to note that some proportion of these criminals turned to crime out of desperation - the system that squeezes the poor for every dime they can't spare is the same that profits from their incarceration and privatized healthcare is a super twisted kind of awful.

1. https://www.metrotimes.com/table-and-bar/archives/2018/02/07...
To their defense, a lot of academic papers even from native English speakers tend to have barely readable convoluted wording here and there. Either for the purpose of making it sound more complicated or to pad the length of the paper, I have no idea. But it is something I have been consciously noticing since a while ago.
Playing a game instead of watching someone on youtube play it for you.
My biggest pain point with Balena in my previous job was that it used Docker; it's unfortunate that most of the solutions in this space (including Deviceplane) seem to do so. It's not really ideal in a number of installations to be pulling down 1GB Docker images simultaneously from 20 devices when you push an update.

I'd be really interested in seeing a system based around Git and something like buildpacks instead. IoT definitely feels like the right space for pushing small diffs for deployments.
For me this is the only relevant reason why you don't want to do multithreading or alternatively why you want to structure your multithreaded application as mostly independent “processes” that communicate by means of message queues. I don't view “Concurrency is hard to get right” as a valid argument.
One really egregious and incredibly frustrating example of a walled garden by Apple is the fact that I can't accept an invitation to view a shared iPhoto library unless I accept that invitation from Apple Mail. I'm using a Mac, I have iPhoto installed, there's no reason other than consumer-hostile behaviour to not allow me to accept that invite from Gmail in a browser. Hell, make me copy the link and paste it in iPhoto if I need to. Forcing me to use a particular e-mail client is just ridiculous.
How about $10-13k in fees / mandatory education classes for a DUI in California? That is pretty punitive AND crippling.

The classes are given by for profit companies.

Also does nothing to stop the small percentage of hardcore repeat dui offenders. They still find a way to drive.
Implementing this was a huge pain, had to turn off DKIM to get it to work. Almost no documentation and when your mails bounce there is no information whatsoever what went wrong.
For profit prisons create incentives to boost recidivism
Darn, you are right! I need sleep... But first let me patch my boxes.
So you predict extinction instead of adaptation or rather speciation (new cell lines resilient in a new environment which form a distinctly new genome)?
OpenBSD errata and binary syspatches are already available for 6.5/6.6.

https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch

https://www.openbsd.org/errata66.html#p018_smtpd_tls

https://www.openbsd.org/errata66.html#p019_smtpd_exec

There is also a new portable release of OpenSMTPd - 6.6.2p1: https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@opensmtpd.org/msg04850.htm...
Udderly
New era for KEXP: How this radio station is doing top-notch live video (2014)
I get ~$200 in fees when I upgrade from AT&T

Ouch. Maybe it's your plan?

When I upgrade iPhones (financed through Apple) on AT&T, the fee is $35.

"Line activation fee" or some such lie. Why do I have to pay a fee to activate a line that's already active?
That doesn't work if the email address the service knows as you, is a fake proxy at Apple.
If you happen to be lucky and live in a country with a functioning health care system, the flu is easily managed.

There are vaccines, test kits and antiviral medications.

An anecdote: my daughter had some fever in Japan, so we took her to the doctor. No other symptoms. The doctor did a swab test which tested positive for flu. Next, a nurse came in and administered a drug that is breathed in by taking deep breaths. Next day, my daughter was all fine like nothing happened. No sign of flu.

(And I didn't have to pay a single yen. I looked up the price of the of the flu test kits and they will set you back at least $200 a piece in the US)
You're dreaming, mate. I'm dreaming too, that's a world I'd rather live in, but this will go away as soon as the media remembers that surveillance is how they pay the rent and replaces all these stories with more pro/anti Trump garbage.
I've had a few discussions with the author of that article. Not intending to put words in his mouth, but I believe he is effectively saying 2 things:

- The metrics Circadian Stimulus and Melanopic Lux are flawed

- We don't know enough to produce products yet

I agree with him on point 1, especially about CS. The author, and several others, have demonstrated a huge discontinuity around 3500K. The CS model needs improvement.

Regarding melanopic lux, the author says it is more a problem with our measurement and modeling tools. Most manufacturers won't provide a Spectral Power Distribution, but this is starting to change (we do). There is at least one clinical trial in progress that is testing this metric directly, and several experts think it shows a lot of promise.

With that said, new research on blue vs. yellow/orange opponency is coming out. Basically, we're trying to figure out contribution of the visual system on top of melanopsin. I'm not sure what to make of it yet, but I think we'll find out much more in the next 2 years. We probably need a better metric than melanopic lux.

On point 2, I agree that our knowledge is changing. But it takes a number of years for standards to be developed, much slower than the rate of technology improvement. We are paying attention to all the new research, but we based our design on our best understanding of the research to date.

We know that we can really only attract early adopters at this stage who "get" it, and that most people are going to wait and see until things are more standardized. But we are effectively able to do mini-experiments with our customers, which can lead to more insights/avenues of experimentation.

Case-in-point: f.lux. Research has shown that it is somewhat effective on its own, but combined with dimming, it could be quite effective. That's actually what we're doing with our product—controlling both the spectrum and intensity. And f.lux is able to run experiments with a portion of their users to advance our understanding.

Basically, my opinion is that we have to start somewhere, and we believe we have enough evidence supporting that our solution is "better than nothing." We were able to prove that there is enough of a market for these types of solutions already, even though our knowledge is still evolving.

(edited for a paragraph spacing typo and a 2nd time for a grammar issue)
I don’t know why the US government is entertaining a game of whack-a-mole here. Just make more than X reports per customer per year of connecting scam calls an instant non-trivial fine for the phone service provider, where X is some small value, and let the big telcos figure out how they want to stop it.
sustainability in fashion.

there's a lot of "greenwashing" in the industry driven by opaqueness and lack of measurable data.

step #1 is to get more brands on board.
step #2 make it easier to monitor supply-chain and have actionable and measurable KPIs built around data.
Note that this action does not target the individuals conducting the calls; this lawsuit targets VOIP "gateway carriers" based in the U.S. who carry the VOIP calls onto U.S. copper telecommunication (as described in the article).
Why should people be able to eat whatever they want? If people's food choices directly support cruelty towards another creature then someone has to speak up to defend that creature. Most vegans are not militant activists, but they also shouldn't have to keep silent. People will figure out much sooner how much cruelty is involved in producing their Popeyes Chicken sandwich if vegans speak up.
This is from 2016
Most dietary supplements don’t do anything. We spend $35B a year on them
Because Verizon also has the same fee.
Rite Aid and CVS disabled NFC payments because their POS terminals weren't configured to handle NFC payments and they didn't want to spend the resources on a store-by-store basis trying to work out the kinks.

Notably, CVS did not restore NFC payments until 2018, 2 years after CurrentC had failed, because that is when they had NFC-ready POS terminals in all stores. (RiteAid started accepting NFC in 2015, since more of their stores had NFC-ready POS terminals.)
turns out I was UDDERLY wrong!

Long day. I’ll be here all week!
> is up 37% and now brings in more revenue than the Mac or the iPad

But less than 1/5th of iphone revenue.

> And, for that matter, how services revenue is now a higher percentage of the non-iPhone revenue

And?

All you are doing is cherrypicking data. Are you saying wearables is why Apple's stock gained $1 Trillion? Good god, the paid PR-style activity on some of these posts are absurd.
Other than the FAA one I gave?

There are legal/regulatory limits placed on technologies that can

- create radio signals and/or interference

- reproduce some things (e.g. financial instruments)

- produce certain types of substances (e.g. nuclear, but also chemical)

- are primarily used for producing restricted things (e.g. some arms and armament)

- explode particularly well

- etc.

In some cases this will limit your ability to purchase or create them, in some cases just use. For many things you can do them as a corporation, but only if you subject yourself to scrutiny that you are playing by the rules - i.e. you will be audited.
Thanks for this, I take everything written about teenagers from the perspective of anyone >~20 with a huge grain of salt, because I'm not old enough to forget yet how completely and utterly out of touch adults were about my generation of teenagers when I was younger.
It's not a "game of skill" or gambling look into Skillz or World Winner you're not familiar with the terminology being used here those are very specific things.

The term from Apple you're mentioning came about because during the ICO era people were rewarding users for taking actions like downloading an app, retweeting something, etc. Our apps do not do that.

It's not a complicated scheme. You earn loyalty points for playing the game, you cash those out to Bitcoin.
I'm all for getting rid of threads, but what are you going to replace them with? Traditional functional languages may be the most obvious solution, but they're also among the most impractical of solutions. Is there anything else out there that can replace threading needs, without throwing out the book on programming? It seems like what we need hasn't been invented yet.
For profit prisons are irrelevant when the entire system is pay to play with bail bonds, plea bargains, attorneys fees, and so forth.
Unfortunately, that slows things down with iSH a lot. iSH gives surprisingly complete Linux environment, complete with ability to install most of the packages you'd want. There's even an iSH folder in the Files app that gives easy ability to interchange files between iSH and the regular iPad environment. However, the emulation layer slows the Linux applications down quite a lot. Depending on your needs, though, might still be good solution for some things.
I bet it has more to do with refusing to develop even a minimum baseline of social skills, thinking that being very smart can compensate for being intolerable around other people. The reality is, you gotta have both on at least a baseline minimum level.

And no excuses like "it has to be one or the other" are really valid, because I've definitely met people who were both extremely smart by any possible metric (even if the baseline of intelligence used for comparison is an average of other engineers), as well as extremely socially intelligent.