skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer is disabled. Please call me
My dad sent me this photo of his laptop this morning: https://ibb.co/1QRKqsg ... It's a full screen window with all kinds of fun looking popups suggesting some kind of ransomware. I assumed the worst.

He'd clicked on a large "clickbaity" sponsored ad in his Facebook feed about measuring the length of your fingers. He wanted to know if he should call the number on the scam (it lists an Australian toll-free number).

Turns out it was just a pretty website .. a great excuse to reintroduce the basics of online security / awareness to an uninterested audience.

I understand how this stuff might get through some basic ad link checking setup, but serious question .. this is a stupidly low-tech scam. How does it end up in the main Facebook feed, almost working?
Native speaker (Brit in USA) here. Either one is fine, although they have subtle differences in meaning and implication (to me) in this context.

The first thing that struck me before I gave this any real thought is that "How" here connotes a little incredulity or even amazement (to me). There's an implied, rhetorical sense of unlikelihood of the fact. ("How are Rome's monuments still standing?! Shouldn't they have fallen down by now?")

"How" also implies (to me) that we seek an explanation of processes, means, techniques, or methods. It invites an answer that's somehow more dynamic and more detailed. "Why" is asking "for what reason(s)?" The "Why" version of the question feels more direct, but the answer space is broader and more abstract. "How" feels, forgive me, more concrete here than "Why" :)

How -> explain the processes, techniques, or workings. Why -> explain the reasons/causes. Obviously, there's overlap there, and the distinction is subtle, so perhaps some of this is only in my head :)

I found http://www.differencebetween.net/language/grammar-language/d... which seems to half-agree.
One pes, two pedes.

I don't get what you're going for. You think a three-meter protomillipede had only one foot? It's clearly segmented. And one segment of a modern millipede supports four feet if I remember correctly.
The exodus refers to churn. Resignations are high but hiring is also high.
Ironically, that code is the biggest bug in JACK1 (and is replicated, I think, in JACK2).
To be fair, I have a lot of similar concerns for Universal Basic Income.
No. You're describing a different setup when you suggest that hardware. Read the post again, "plugging the mac directly into shit" is broken now (for people that are using their microphone).
The more I look into DAOs, the more they look like companies that are:

1) registered on a global level instead of a local or national level

2) skirt US securities laws by allowing anyone to buy and sell ownership, whereas companies normally restrict that to accredited investors, unless they register with the SEC

3) often have a more democratic ethos of governance, although many seem to be based on one token = one vote, which sounds almost identical to how companies operate with one stock = one vote.

So, the main thing that I think they do that is quite different is giving people the ability to register a company on a global level, as there isn't a governmental way to do that right now. Other than that, what they seem to offer is a way to organize and collect money that goes around financial and securities laws.
https://archive.md/20211220222717/https://www.economist.com/...
More often than not, I hear managers pissed off that someone didn't bring up a problem as soon as they saw it.

It depends on the personality though. Some are continually improving and want more data. Some have too much on their hands and don't want more. To be safe, if you bring a problem, you should also bring along a solution.
Google just told me "OnHub regularly updates its software with the newest features, so it never stops working well." (emphasis added)

Google presumably financially benefits from me buying it's products.

I'd be shocked if there wasn't a valid fraud claim here (assuming I had recently purchased a device without being aware of the end of support).

This isn't just a question of warranty, it's a question of lying for financial benefit.
Ask HN: A Function Market Place?
Are you willing to use a function market place where people pay the developers a tiny amount every time they use the function (aws lambda, google/azure function, etc.)? What concerns do you have?
For example I want to add a payment gateway, I don't develop it myself and just use a function and pay a very very low price and the developer obviously makes money because of the economies of scale. Maybe a good side hustle for developers too.
It used to be the case BIOS were socketed.

Now, there's no socket, no header (not even the footprint for it) and of course no microcontroller-based flash method.

It would cost them literal cents to do, but they don't. It's a shame.
I think this service only applies to those open source projects, or personal learning project.
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
Google has been known to offer (on-site) therapy to employees, then go on to obtain records from therapy sessions to use in litigation against them: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/google-workplace-compl...
I read an interview with the original inventor of the 555.

He was actually embarrassed at its crudeness, and would have done it very differently at the later date.

I guess there was an attempt at an updated version, but it didn't sell.
> I would rather assume this as a strong sign that there are simply too many management levels in the organization, which makes managing the multitude of management levels difficult.

Turns out the flat structure doesn't work out either; you will have a hierarchy, one way or the other (that is, planned or emergent.) I think us techies underestimate the necessity of coordination, and yet we paradoxically chafe at meetings.
It's interesting how similar TOPS-10 is to MS-DOS. I know MS-DOS got the "/" cmdline argument specifier character from CP/M, and CP/M is the one probably based on TOPS-10, but MS-DOS later adopted "EXE" executable extensions, the same extension used for executables in TOPS-10, which weren't a thing in CP/M. So, I guess it wasn't a straightforward generational inheritance, but TOPS-10 influenced MS-DOS directly as well.
And it should be illegal for those people to have jobs themselves?
Maybe there's survivorship bias in that sample. Are ancient authors we still read more likely to be obsessed with legacy-building than the ones we've forgotten?
Stop treating written in rust as a feature.
Here you go: https://www.mredepot.com/MRE-Vanilla-Pound-Cake-p/aq0005.htm

Annoyingly expensive per-calorie, of course.
How is identity hysteria an attribute of late stage capitalism?
This is with the "Nowcast" projections on. You can disable them in the page, and this shows a measured 0.7% of cases (less than one percent) as Omicron. That's some aggressive projection model...
It's been 2 years. With the amount of people getting the virus, there is little talk of long-covid these days... Athletes, politicians have all gotten it and none seem to be worried about `muh long covid`.

Constant hygiene theatre eroding faith in institutions.
The effect is on oral transmission only, not inhalation or entry through the eyes... so not very meaningful.
Wouldn’t a global fund for any disaster in the world also be a form of insurance that covers me? I would be happy that there’s a global fund for me if my country goes down the shitter.
I assume most people who go out of their way to route their lives around Facebook are also the type of people to have an ad blocker installed.
They specifically end that warranty at a fixed point after the EOL date without regard to sale date.

If you buy a wifi router and you take it home and it cannot be setup because that backing services have been turned down, it is the retailer with whom you have a claim. They sold you a product that was not suited to its purpose.
It is possible they will add a type level resource release obligation at some point. It would not be anything quite like the Rust borrow checker but I think would be a big help. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
My wife is (and owned a business). As far as I'm aware that information is not correct. If I remember correctly in Denmark you have to pay mandatory social security (ATP), industry injuries insurance, a sort of vocational and training fee (AUB it's called I think), another labour market insurance thing with a triple letter name, and there might be another one if you have foreign workers. Denmark may still have lower labor related costs than the rests of Scandinavia and a somewhat more flexible system but it still has some of the highest labor costs in Europe and employers take a good amount of responsibility, and that's a vital part of the system. (and to note we never thought of it negatively).
The concept of addiction gets floated around a lot but I think it's important to distinguish between actual biochemical addiction and what's probably better described as obsessive-compulsive reward-seeking behavior.

Biochemical addiction seems to be characterized mainly by the alteration of the cell-surface concentration of receptor proteins for various endogenous substances as well as lower baseline biochemical production of endogenous substances, and is most well known and studied in opiate addiction. Notably not all of what are commonly considered 'drugs' result in such forms of physical addiction (characterized by physiological withdrawal with specific defined features, often life-threatening if not managed by a physician).

The other version, obsessive-compulsive reward-seeking behavior, has so many modes that it's hard to even characterize simply. Sometimes society rewards such behavior, i.e. working 80-hour weeks even if that negatively impacts your personal health and leads to a breakdown at some point in the future. Sometime society derides such behavior, i.e. playing video games 24-7 (with no compensation) or eating compulsively and becoming overweight. Frantically hunting karma points on Reddit might fit this profile as well as things like gambling habits. Regardless this kind of thing is more of a poorly-understood psychological issue, and lumping it in with physical addiction doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

To be honest I don't know which category caffeine fits in; even after drinking many espresso shots per day I'd find that stopping for a week had little physical effect as long as I drank lots of water, and perhaps took an aspirin or ibuprofen at times. This could vary from person to person however; some people appear to metabolize caffeine at much higher rates than others do.
I've been working on something that could improve privacy for websites like this. It's basically end-to-end encryption for websites, so you could have a chat with a therapist without the middle-man being able to decrypt the data. Of course the challenge is that these companies are selling or otherwise profiting off the data, so it's hard to see why they would use it unless you can convince them that the privacy is, itself, a big enough differentiator.
My personal plans for 2022:

Low risk: React

Medium risk: Android Jetpack or Flutter

High risk: OpenAI Codex
@ikskuh -I do not see any mention of layers or grouping in the specification (unless it went by some other terminology I missed in my skim). In the blog post you said you wanted to avoid having an "authoring" file and a "redistributable" version. I am far from an artist but have hacked out a few .svg sketches and layers/grouping are a requirement for creating new content.
There is this phenomenon, when people confuse upgrade over previous iterations, with the hottest shit ever.

I think this has happened with Java style OOP. It came in existence to fix some things, became "the way to do programming", but honeymoon is over now.

We might see it happening now with gradual typing. Dynamically typed languages are being upgraded with some static typing, and you can see comments popping on HN how this is actually the best way of writing programs.

Rust is in this category and a dose of skepticism is always welcomed.
No, it isn’t, I’m just saying what this piece is about
Alcohol is very destructive yes, I was just discussing the social mechanisms that reduce the harm
>I don’t pay taxes to help other people. I pay taxes to protect myself.

Helping people in other countries does protect yourself. Having stable regional neighbors for example is very desirable. Any money used to keep things this way is very well spent. Trying to stem the flow of thousands of refugees or dealing with conflict is hugely expensive.
Have any notable tech figures called BS on metaverse?
So far, the whole thing sounds like a modern version of going to milliondollarhomepage.com with a VR helmet. I'm an engineer - please help me understand what I'm not getting.
Probably no worse than the Imperial College London model that was used at the beginning of the pandemic to seed the response path we're all on.
Ah the venerable MRE. We had a nickname for these in the Army: Meals Refusing to Exit.

It was also fabled that the beans and weenies meal could transform any infantryman into an airborne through flatulence alone.
They're proposing reducing 2% a year each year, so that after 5 years, you will have reached 10% of military spending each year.

I missed that the first time I read that, and now that I see they're proposing sustained year-on-year reductions... it makes it even more of a daft proposal than I thought it was.
May his passing cleanse the world
Sounds to me like education would help. A large part of harm reduction philosophy focuses on that
By the time your country goes down the shitter the corrupt unaccountable bureaucrats who manage that global fund would have embezzled all the money.
Building MS-DOS from Scratch Like It’s 1983
I think they're going for one millipede being one one-thousandth of a full pede.
> They specifically end that warranty at a fixed point after the EOL date without regard to sale date.

TP-Link's warranty says otherwise:

> The limited warranty starts from the original data of purchase and is only applicable to the original purchaser of the product.

> If the defective product(s) are discontinued, end of life, or out of stock, TP-Link will issue a replacement with product(s) of equivalent value or features.

TP-Link is the company that made a promise to support its routers for 2 years from the date of purchase, not the retailer.

Edit: I do agree that the retailer has a responsibility to provide refunds for returns of products that are not fully functional at the time of sale or within the retailer's return period. But, that doesn't cancel the manufacturer warranty, which is separate and almost always lasts longer than the retailer's return period.
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The same Deutsche Telekom whose own data centers are powered by Huawei?
Deep neural networks are being tried everywhere, i.e. for things I didn't imagine they could be useful, others did.
The best streamable vector animation format was invented 20 years ago, called Macromedia Shockwave Flash. It was killed by poor mobile processors and Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash"
Stop invading spaces used by language x, evangelizing that x sucks and Rust is what everyone must switch to if you don't want users of language x to think you're a bunch of arrogant asses.
When I said armed, it's pretty clear by context that I was referring to firearms. And fair enough, the Wikipedia page appears to be out of date, as it does look like Alberts and Ibrahim were charged with having firearms on Capitol grounds. Although Ibrahim was a DEA agent who was charged for LARPing and doing a photoshoot of himself in front of the Capitol with his DEA badge and gun, so that's going to be an entertaining one for the government to explain.

Still, your characterization of this as an "armed group" is also false, as a couple individual idiots bringing firearms to a riot is obviously entirely different than an organized squad "storming" the Capitol. One shot was fired during the entire event, and one person was killed, and that was a rioter, not a cop or a politician.

I don't have much sympathy for that crowd of idiots, but it is concerning how this event has been exaggerated into 9/11 2.0, providing an excellent excuse to crack down on civil liberties just as the justification of Islamic terrorism has receded.
You're comparing one AAA to known massive hits. I don't think its fair to say its a trend just from that.

What is it about older games? Survivor bias.
Quite right. On the other hand, plenty of other dumb technologies have launched, been mocked, and sunk without a trace (or worse) because they were just bad.

As Carl Sagan apparently said "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

And even when the technology itself has merit, it's absolutely true that some of the people who have complained about the technologies on your list (or OOP, or Go, or Electron apps, or many, many others) were doing it because this new technology devalued their skills and threatened them. But it's also true that valid criticisms of all of those exist, and all of those have been overhyped and oversold at least sometimes.

"Some people are threatened that NoSQL DBs may devalue their knowledge of SQL" can be true even as "shady startups are lying about the benefits of NoSQL" and "NoSQL DBs are not a panacea and SQL DBs will remain vital and omnipresent" are also true.
Site had 27 containers installed, so maximum ~2MW delivered (really depends on configuration of inverters).

Implied by the installation is that the price of the batteries is a bit more expensive than Lithium batteries (risk adjusted price given the technology is less proven so perceived as higher risk). Vanadium batteries can do many more cycles before they lose efficiency, and presumably the liquid is easy to replace and recycle, so lifetime costs should be lower for Vanadium batteries in high duty cycle applications (as the article talks about).

About their cost: example 1: “The 0.5 MWh system would comprise two Invinity VS3 flow batteries, and was expected to contribute revenue [to Invinity] of approximately £0.48m, relating to the Invinity battery system itself, ancillary components and associated services.”; example 2: “Last week the company announced the world’s largest solar-plus flow battery project so far. The Yadlamalka project in South Australia will pair a 6-megawatt solar project with an 8-megawatt-hour vanadium flow battery. The project, worth 20 million Australian dollars (USD $15 million)”.

It is hard to know what else is in those systems (solar panels? inverters? support contracts?) so you can only infer the batteries cost less than those implied prices.

I am guessing another major advantage is reduced fire risk, albeit at 1/8th the density of LiIon. Nobody wants a Lithium battery fire like this 2MWh installation: https://spectrum.ieee.org/dispute-erupts-over-what-sparked-a... “[The fire] was initiated by an internal cell failure within one battery cell, identified as cell 7-2 on Rack 15.” “thermal runaway cascaded from cell 7-2 through every other cell and module in Rack 15 via heat transfer.”
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Sounds like you didn't read my post. There are network effects (family) and switching costs that prevent that. It's why Coinbase can charge exorbitant fees. Yes people are "free" to trade on a cheaper exchange tomorrow but in reality they aren't.
Dang, we’re in need of a better Heath information privacy law then.
The auroras aren't caused by the Sun's electric field impinging on the Earth, they're caused by actual charged particles from the solar wind entering the atmosphere and ionising air molecules.
You can pry TypeScript from my cold dead hands.

(Good) static typing is the single most useful thing of any programming language. A large, disorganized project in Java is far better than the same thing in Python or Ruby.
IntelliJ rewrote this awhile back...used to be more GUI heavy. As much as I love text, it's harder to manipulate the GET vars now :\
That depends on many factors.

What do you mean by "disabled"? Unable to work? As declared by whom? Merely needing reasonable accommodation? Is that a universal?

A chunk of familial diaspora is "disabled", but only on paper. Speaking frankly, they're just lazy and worked the system so that they could focus on their real passion: porn and drugs.

A climbing gym I used to frequent installed wheelchair access at great expense, because a lawyer was running around and filing suit against any business that didn't adhere completely to ADA requirements.

It's... a climbing gym.

If by "disabled" you mean "unable to contribute to society", since when? Resources are finite, and every culture has to figure out where it draws the line.

Socialized healthcare uses political power to determine who lives and dies -- the Prime Minister and his friends are guaranteed better care than your grandma.

Privatized healthcare uses money -- Jeff Bezos and his friends are also guaranteed better care than your grandma.

At least in the latter case, your family and friends can pull together to put more money into grandma.
"Warranties on products that are discontinued will be limited to a period of (5) years from the end of sale date."
No masks indoors?
> Actually you can't break down plastic at all. You can just grind it with your teeth.

I said most plastics. Some plastics have a ton of starch bonds or are vulnerable to HCl, and can be broken down by mammalian digestive tracts. I have good enzymes to break starch bonds, and I have HCl in my stomach, so I can digest e.g. TPS to a great extent or PLA to a lesser extent.

> This is where your mistake lies - if you can degrade plastic at all, then you can degrade it all the way to water and CO2. There is no partial degrading here, you either can, or you can't.

I think you're not understanding me. One species of bacteria beginning to digest plastic all the way to water and CO2 doesn't instantly remove all the plastic floating in the ocean, let alone removing it from the marine food web where it has accumulated. It doesn't even guarantee the amount of plastic in the ocean goes down: it's easy to imagine situations where the rate at which bacteria remove plastic from the oceans is lower than the rate than it is introduced.

Therefore, even after some bacteria begin to break down some plastic, plastic can still accumulate in other organisms in the ocean. The long term prognosis is greatly improved, but things are not guaranteed to improve much at all in the near to intermediate term.
I really don't know why people need to get so defensive about programming languages. I'm generally happy to live and let live and I really don't think languages matter very much. But when it comes to Rust people, there is a special kind of obnoxiousness among their community. The do tend to come along uninvited into non-Rust spaces and evangelise, and it is kind of grating.
I think the critical Apple enabler of flat orgs was size limits by division, preventing what you saw. (And I was a couple jumps from the top, nowhere near a bottom, which as size was limited wasn't so much a thing it seemed.)
Employers will pay what the market will support. People will accept lower pay (and even allow themselves to fall into a lot of bad working conditions) for making games because its actually pretty enjoyable a lot of the time. Not to mention the starry eyed kids that will accept just about anything to work in games.
That's my biggest reservation about doing this. I feel like the possibility of one finding out about the other would weigh on me pretty heavily. Not that I think it's unethical, mind you. I'd just be stressed about the worst-case scenario and the impact it would have on my career.

Would love the double income though, not gonna lie.