skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A low-volume replacement screen assembly, even with a bottom tier screen, will not be £5. Even just having the machine company receive the part and forward it on without any testing, further assembly, or anything would cost more than that in postage alone.

Plus the service fee for getting a service technician out to the machine (I imagine at least £100 a visit), plus the admin overhead of detecting failures and scheduling visits and lost downtime income would make that an extremely hard sell to a council. Hundreds of pounds per machine per year.

And then multiply by every other element that you skimp on, and the thing will be broken continuously after the first 6 months, while sapping thousands in parts and labour.
I personally came across some of these situations, they sell unlimited onedrive storage or google drive storage , which comes from EDU domains.
California (insert project / program) leads to massive fraud isn't a new headline.

Where's the vendor Xap in this?

Were they not obligated to deliver a application system resistant to obvious forms of fraud and abuse?
I know they're primarily an Education software vendor but this seems especially poor.
That's not possible. You can only get a passport if you are a citizen.

Edit: I meant in the case of panama but looks like I'm wrong which is good to know.
Like anyone else, I am not in the position of being able safely generalize from what I've seen to what is believed by 50% + 1 of the community. I can just make inferences based on what I've experienced and what it shows about the ideas the community is comfortable entertaining.

But yes, I've seen people suggest that photo-receptivity amounts to consciousness, that amoeba can feel sensation, that the human genome is complex and can be reasonably assumed to host its own form of consciousness, and that chemical exchanges between plants amounts to full fledged communication, without any limiting qualifications.

>"chemical exchanges between roots to full fledged "communication"" - without context it may have been a perfectly reasonable supposition.

Perhaps I can add your endorsement of this view to the list, and we can later see if your view is brushed off belonging to a small minority of nutters.
But this means you need to require anyone who wants to park must 1. have a smart phone of the appropriate type and 2. be comfortable installing an app (possibly one they only just now found out about and haven't had time to research). Since clearly this isn't reasonable, you'll still need to have those paystations (though less of them?)
one of the least recyclable/servicable products in history, can we all agree that this side of the device needs _serious_ attention.
Well done on landing the position but I wouldn't expect your transparency to be reciprocated from Deliveroo.

I tipped a driver £15 through the app the other day, he turns up and thanks me for the £7.50. Shows me his end of the transaction: Tip, £7.50.

I was so embarrassed I ran to find a fiver. I guess watch your contract and payslip eh.
Maybe not simply. But a hard choice is still a choice.
What's the incentive for the fraudster in this? The article doesn't really say, but it does link to one example YouTuber who demonstrates this fraud; he says this is a great way to get a free email account. You seem to suggest this is more about $5000+ than an email account; is the financial aid sent to students rather than the bursar's office?
I’ve found that the more people you throw at a candidate the higher the chances that _someone_ is going to find _something_ they don’t like about him/her and burn them in the end

I can't emphasize this enough. Successful interviewing is about pattern matching and what this really speaks to is more people means greater risk someone isn't properly calibrated on their pattern matching and their feedback negates someone else who's pattern matching is spot on.
I guess they are this kind (and the article is about research on the practice being not-so-good for the environment as these tubes are not collected/recycled):

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/24/trees-sh...
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> It's not that the aid is 'going to the wrong people',

In this case, it literally is going to the wrong people. These funds were designed to give students an extra financial boost during a faltering COVID economy (that didn't really happen) and the funds weren't infinite.

If fraudsters are showing up and claiming the money before actual students in need can get it, I don't understand how you think it's not a case of the aid going to the wrong people.

Again, this isn't tuition aid and it's not related to the cost of college. It was a stimulus/aid package targeted at people who were also students, but it was separate from tuition assistance or tuition financial aid.

> I don't really understand how this fraud happens- when I applied for FAFSA

Lawmakers rushed through a lot of new COVID-19 related aid bills and aid packages. Many of them were poorly thought out and implemented as quickly as possible, forgoing controls and verification to get them done ASAP.

The article specifically mentions COVID-19 related aid, which has been rife with fraud. It’s frustrating that some of these supposedly time-limited emergency aid packages continue to be handed out despite the booming economy and rampant inflation.
The problem is that moving things online/app means there's now an opportunity for "engagement" to creep in. It's only a matter of time before you need to create an account, agree to a privacy policy, share telemetry and receive "offers" (aka spam) just to be able to pay for parking.

The objective no longer becomes to be a tool to help the user pay for parking but to generate "engagement" in order to justify employees' salaries (and potential VC funding) and monopolize the parking payment market.

I just checked your website and indeed it's asking me to agree to ToS, privacy & cookie policy - I'd rather fight with the old-school machine. According to the privacy policy you're also selling aggregated analytics data - that's a huge downgrade from "insert coin to pay for parking".

The old-school approach, with all its flaws, just takes payment and no other identifying information and leaves no opportunities for marketing/product to mark their territory.
>Have a P.O. Box for correspondence.

In the US, the USPS required you to prove your address before they will rent you a PO Box.
Looking for a job while looking after yourself
I feel like it's an unpopular opinion regarding remote work, but this is a big positive effect I feel being in an office that only works when others are there too, hah.
Starlink: Wall Mount
Wouldn’t surprise me if the schools also get some central planning committee money and therefore are not incentivized and even negatively incentivized to do anything at all about it. They don’t care as long as they get theirs. It’s one of the many cancerous patterns that emerge from any kind of central planning/“communist” type system.
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Don't worry Means testing is in full swing today for all government programs.

We are back to making qualifying for aid, welfare, etc. difficult so people who need it give up.

They got lax during Covid, but not today.

The historical point of Means Testing is to dissuade the people whom need it most from applying. Every Social Worker can go on for hours how the powers at be make qualifying for any help arduous.

It's never discussed publically, because outright fraud is easier to report on, and the average Joe has never dealt with the welfare system, except maybe in college.

I had to lie about living independent in order to qualify for anything other than a Pell grant, and a small federal loan. SOL is up, and I paid my later student loans off completely.
You can move frictionlessly to another country. No visa hassles, no years long process.
Government Debt and Capital Accumulation in an Era of Low Interest Rates [pdf]
Based on my observation it depends on whether the conclusions support your ideologically motivated goals.

(I wish I was joking)
Oh, that Copenhagen.
Have you got some specific Australian examples of that? I feel like I should know one or two - but nothing is coming to mind.
The Library Ethos (2021)
This isn't about security or being weatherproof. This is about basics, like using a QWERTY keyboard that everyone's familiar with, and clear instructions that are easy to follow. I work in tech and each time I see one of these I'm glad I can pay by smartphone.
Happens all over the place. In developing countries, work as a porter can be lucrative, especially because of the tips travelers give at the end. It's common for the number of porters at the tipping gathering to exceed the number of porters who actually worked the trip. The travelers usually don't have time or focus for learning to identify all of the porters so it's easy to get away with. Those who only show up at the end for a tip are expected to share part of the tip with the porters who kept silent about this.
Hunt often! If you aren't in love with your current job, just keep looking. A good pace is to apply (to more interesting and overall better jobs) every month.
Not everything, just the thing that is fundamental to the ecosystem the site belongs to.
Import modules in C source code with ImportC in D
Trucks are just too profitable to produce and sell compared to other forms. And many of their buyers can rationalize their purchase easily: I need to haul things 2x per decade, it'll be safer, I can see more being higher, gas is (was) cheap, it projects my masculinity, I can go off-road, all my neighbors have them, etc. Few will check statistics around safety, especially for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Trials should be an option but not the only route. Multiple interview formats would be good too.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Travel by Wire (short story)
Yes. Literate programming is an incredibly useful tool, if you do happen to have the problem it solves, that is textual communicating with people with a very large difference in knowledge from yours.

But almost nobody has to solve this on practice. The ones that do have recreated the idea again and again (today's most common iteration are Jupyter notebooks), because it's a great idea. But they are always a waste of time for most people.
Come on now! You must be overcomplicating things if you are having challenges digesting CSS. Cascading Style Sheets are probably the easiest thing to comprehend on the frontend.

Team Treehouse is a great resource for learning frontend and backend stuff.
Lazy sunday morning; I've got 5 emacs windows open, 2 of those are always open "daily note log" files, 2 are related to "news file" where i save URLs I see and might want to dredge back up later, and 1 is the dired on my personal working directory, there to be ready in case i need to go look at something there or pretending i actually want to do something productive.

One of my "desktop+" setups for a complicated project had 36 windows, half of that was docs/reference.

I'd count the terminal windows as part of the "working on a project" screen print; 5 of those at idle and then several more if I've got something open.

I tend to use window manager work spaces to keep projects separated; it can be a total clusterfuck if a monitor blinks or something and blows the window arrangement.
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I have. Didn’t realize that it encompassed this. Thank you.

I’ll give that a shot for sure. It’s always been difficult to be sure if you were learning the right form or vernacular when messing around with language apps.
Did you have to solve a leetcode problem for the deliveroo interview?
that's all cool and fine, but can you unpack named tuple or struct (data class)? In Julia one of my favorite quality of life improvement in the 1.7: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/39285

Example:

julia> X = (this = 3, that = 5)
(this = 3, that = 5)

julia> this
ERROR: UndefVarError: this not defined

julia> (;that, this) = X;

julia> this
3

julia> that
5

this works with structs as well (in fact anything with getproperty() defined, so like dataframe column too)
>The level of business and client knowledge, as well as prices and policy understanding required for tech positions is high.

Whenever I read this advice, I get "indie game developer" vibes. Indie game developers wear many hats and need a lot of breadth for obvious reasons: they don't have a lot of funds, they don't have a lot of people, they don't have a lot of specialist work you'd need someone for full time, but they do have a lot of different things that need to be done.

Then I compare it to your regular corporate job, and it's the opposite in many ways. Tons of people. Tons of funds. Some people very specialized, some people somewhat generic for flexibility purposes. It makes me question why a developer in a corporate setting would need high levels of "business and client knowledge", or even "prices and policy understanding". Not because they aren't useful in theory, but because there's almost always someone with far more knowledge and decision-making power pulling the strings, to the point having such dedicated knowledge is more a waste than anything. The developer can't get to their level without sacrificing development time, or being with that company for a ridiculous number of years.

And we already know companies in general aren't optimizing around long tenures.
Nope, the only way to avoid US taxes is to give up US citizenship
>> sexy beekeeping.

Greenlit. 12 episodes. Where do I send the check? Do we see them being stung or is that CGI?
You dont have to get the vaccine. You just cant participate in global commerce without it. If you want to choose no vaccine, there are consequences, just like many choices in real life.
Ask HN: How to prepare for 100% remote job?
I'm reentering the corporate world as a software engineer after working for myself as a farmer for the past four years. My position is entirely remote. Previously I worked from the office 90% of the time.

What can I do to prepare, mentally, physically or otherwise for this new way of working?
Willingness to play fast and loose with other people's money in all contexts is a big problem for western society right now. You see it in both public and private sector.
This seems like an odd response. With high inflation, there aren't many great places to keep money.

Where are people moving their money to?
For cars, it mostly boils down to people's disgust at the mere thought of being even momentarily mildly inconvenienced by someone going slower than they want to go.

For pedestrians... Some people seem to feel threatened or indignant when they can detect that someone is going faster than them.

Anyone going slower than me is an idiot and anyone going faster is an asshole.
Personally I look at it in a much more benign way: Billionaires that are bored and spending their money.

It's not that they genuinely fear the future of American society, it's that they've run out of ideas to protect their wealth and getting a "golden passport" is the next logical step. It's a bit like a regular joe buying one of those "seed backup" (hunk of metal that you write your bitcoin seed phrase on) devices on Amazon.

What are the chances your house will burn down, leaving nothing except this indestructible seed phrase device? I'd say very low. The same can be said for the fears of these billionaires buying foreign passports. The chances of American "turning" is vanishingly small, but when you have money to burn, why not prepare for that scenario too.
There is an inverse question: If you have a cash windfall you want to invest, all-at-once or split it up?

I have seen a similar analysis (but can’t find it right now). Even if you invest at the all time highs, so the market drops right after you buy, you still win with the all-at-once strategy.

The general lesson: Get your money into the market as soon as possible. Maybe more memorable: Time in the market beats timing the market.
cloning will take over by then
Working in the sector it’s everywhere already even if you have multiple bank accounts or not. The banks are by far the least of your worries.
"Seems to me you’re more likely to see success with a radical life change. Moving far away to a different lifestyle."

I'm not so sure. People tend to take their problems with them. Changing external circumstances may help some, but even then the improvement tends to be short-lived until their demons come back to haunt them. Severe depression is rarely so easily cured.

"Many people cite stats about how previously suicidal people are glad they didn’t commit suicide successfully but it’s got obvious survivor bias from those that did and don’t get a say."

I've never attempted suicide (and if I ever did I'd make sure to succeed), but have felt suicidal throughout most of my life. Am I glad I never did it? Only to the extent that I'm glad I didn't traumatize or ruin the lives of people who care about me. If it wasn't for my reluctance to indirectly hurt people who care about me I'd be gone long ago. Best for me is to have never been born at all. I think a lot of people are only alive because they don't want to hurt people close to them.

I very much doubt a failed suicide attempt would change my mind on any of this. It would just have led to more misery for me and the people who care about me.

I've seen interviews with suicide survivors who regret trying, and they've tended to be people who just acted impulsively and didn't think through the consequences (teens are a prime example of this). People like me who've thought carefully about it for years or decades are unlikely to fail and unlikely to be glad they survived if they somehow fail anyway.
Crazy. But so far has remained isolated from the stock and bond markets.
(former hiring manager here) depends on seniority of role and candidate. If you are interviewing for an Eng I or Eng II role (or even more junior, if the company does that) at a large tech company you are likely going to get a 'blind interview' (where its yet to be decided which project you will work on) and then if you are successful, assigned a team based on need within the organization.

It's the reality of how large organizations keep their teams stable with employee turnover and also slightly grow them. Yes, teams will work to fill their roles directly too but often the team will show up for work on a Monday morning to find that they have a new member of their team who they've never met but is an 'extra bonus' or the headcount has been filled anyway.

If you are likely to be interviewing for Eng I/II you should not be surprised if parent's option 1) is the route you are presented with - I think it's wrong to say "you only want to spend time on 2)" as it's unrealistic for early career folks and they risk missing out on exceptional opportunities to get a foot in the door.
Can someone please explain in detail how the fraud works? The article doesn't fully explain how the is money distributed to the fraudsters.

With FAFSA, the assistance is all encapsulated away from the student- you apply for an assistance loan (requires SSN), an account is created for you, the college is hooked up directly to that account, so you never actually handle the cash. How does this specific fraud actually work?
It is possible. It is also possible that it was you. Or me. And in this case, equally likely. That is significantly different from the Yale case where someone with purse strings management was committing fraud.
I've tried to reset my password previously. Having a number associated didn't really help me.
Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.
"especially since google regularly warns you during login that this can happen if you don't add your number"

All of this is so that they can mine phone numbers for older accounts. Now they require a phone number by default.

It makes sense to add a way to recover access to your account if you fear that you may forget your password. It makes no sense to give google your phone number just in case they may out of nowhere decide that you look suspicious (for using firefox? moving to another country? something else?) and reject authenticating you despite being able to enter your password correctly.

"you should not have used their service for your whole life's activities anyway"

You should not do that in general as Google is extremely unreliable. I had given them my phone number for my account but this did not help. I posted about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30544030 a few months ago.
I can't speak for original poster. But in 2018 - fascism, authoritarianism and break down of political discourse were very alarming. Now in 2022, we see it is likely Roe vs Wade gets overturned. The basis of that argument works for throwing out civil rights, contraception and voting rights. There are already moves in some states to make abortion murder and so punishable by death.

And that's not even getting into the attempted coup.

I'd say that's all pretty terrifying.

I think I'd agree that in 2018, if you were paying attention, that the 'smell' was that's where we were heading.

Now we are here.
EU budget is far craftier than that

member state departments that are under its sole control are still funded by national budgets

the 2% is just the head of the snake
a country is not a startup. actually most things are not startups.

if things didn’t work out for you in the US that’s fine, just don’t assume you can see the future
Thank you for your enthusiastic and positive responses in this thread to constructive criticism. It's easy to get defensive about one's baby (software baby in this case), and it's refreshing to see someone so focused on getting it right, not on proving they're right.
This is the best answer... as toggle switches as input truly sucks!
Why?

If it is economically viable at small scale why wouldn't it be more so at a larger scale?

Google thinks their algorithms for suspicious activity is more important than their users data. Just removing access altogether.
It’s easy to say that poor people make (or are forced to make) terrible financial decisions. But that may not entirely be the case and we may be missing some of the advantages of those decisions. See for example http://www.businessinsider.com/check-cashing-stores-good-dea...
An online service to deliver Costco goods to home bi-weekly. Basically any service that can take out the manual chore for me.
I was thinking about Family law court (federal in australia), in cases where it's complex migration and custody matters and some of the scenarios haven't really been seen before but may be considered on paper.
Same is true of the phone method too. They ignored the fact that I had my second factor. I have no idea what google were thinking.

Now I use paid email services.
Interesting aside: Pierce College is where Kevin Mitnick took classes.