skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is Google going to ban my account because they messed up?
A long time ago I had a blogger.com blog. I signed up for a custom domain for that blog. I posted family pics and etc on there, that's it.

Years later my domain for that site was expiring. Google directed me to Google Workspace to renew the domain. BUT... I DO NOT have a Google Workspace account. I did have a google domains account, but it had no connection to the domain in question. It seems like they just sent their blogger doman info over to Google Workspace to manage regardless of if anyone had an account? Maybe, I duno...

In the end I solved the issue by contacting the registrar Google used long ago and they helped me re-new the domain and the emails stopped. All good.

Now Google Workspace is no longer free apparently. I don't care because I don't have a Google Workspace account right?

But now I'm getting emails from google at my gmail address saying I need to add payment information for Workspace Business Starter subscription or ... "after which your subscription will be suspended."

If click the link to get help in the email it sends me to a page to login, that of course doesn't work and it says to sign in with the admin account but of course there isn't one because I never signed up for any of this ... and that's the end of google's "help".

So what are the odds my google account tied to this email gets locked up over all this?
A company I was working for wanted to bring on a couple of freelance devs for a short-term project and I had to handle the interviews.

I ended up uncovering a whole scheme where an experienced dev in the US would hop on the calls/video interview and then the actual work would be handed off to some other people based overseas.

If you tried to contact the “dev” for something, your call would be routed to a google voice number and you’d receive a text message in somewhat broken English shortly after.

Their scam only lasted a few hours with us, but I often wonder how well they are able to pull this off.
Where online hate speech can bring the police to your door
I have never experienced it and I don't think it's a thing in my corner of the world.

However there was a post here or on Reddit (the line is blurry sometimes) where some developers from a specific Asian country described several cases. They made it sound like a frequent, organized thing, like a consultancy or some kind of racket. Most of them cited desperation and a "fake it until you make it" culture as the reasons for lying.

In my opinion this is bound to happen at places where people are poor and unhappy. And it's not limited to the software industry.
Funnily enough, the interview fraud (I wasn't a part of that) only got brought up after he was gone. Between being at a very passive government client, plus company culture, it's almost more amazing that he was able to burn bridges at a place people spent years accomplishing nothing.

edit: I briefly doubted myself, but I checked on his LinkedIn and he has it listed as a 6-month engagement in 2013, with a significant gap until the next role. Even mentioned him to my wife in chats during that time span.
> “When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”

- Frank Herbet, Children of Dune
> His podcast is awesome too: https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/

Keep track of his activity in the podcast sphere here: https://jkstream.com/#/personality-cal-newport-Q16733303
I was trying to do this and the market seems terrible. I can buy a 10-12yr old car with 150k miles for >$10k (at least in models that I was looking at). Or stuff that is hard to maintain for $5k (which is what I'm already driving). Newer used cars are almost as much or even more than new! Ended up putting a deposit on a new one.
what!??!!??! Well there goes that theory.
Talk is cheap. The difficult part is getting people to listen. Lobbying is how you get officials to listen and thereby influence their policy in your favor.
Ham Radio? With a cheap handheld transceiver, I can communicate over a large portion of New England through various repeaters and repeater systems. In a dead zone, I can still likely get in touch with someone if I need help. Yes, people are still active on them.
My local small hardware store keeps its router bits in a locked display cabinet ... with the key in the lock. Which reminds me of a covid mask worn under the chin. There is no easy one size fits all balance between security and convenience. Besides the propinquity, that extra convenience helps keeps the little stores alive, so I can almost cheer the big boxes for this trend.
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I recently asked twenty college sophomores whether they knew OF Kurt Vonnegut.

Not a single person knew.

These were twenty bright young persons double majoring in CS and Business Administration.

Now there is a disclaimer: the students were mostly from Eastern Europe. However they speak fluent English. In fact I envy how well they carry on their day to day conversations.

To add fuel to the fire Vonnegut was widely translated in former Soviet Union. My librarian colleagues almost had a stroke when I told them this story.
We've seen a form of this a lot recently too. Some patterns we've noticed, at least for those coming to us:

- Name / ethnicity / accent don't add up. By itself these weren't necessarily direct red flags, but combined with others it's been a common pattern.

- A lot of background noise of others talking. Can't really make out what the others are saying but sounds like a bunch of other people interviewing.

- Long pauses before answering questions, and often times the "candidate" looking somewhere off camera.

- Very short direct answers. When they do answer, it's very short and direct with no further elaboration. Any follow ups, even simple ones are follow but long pauses as well.
From the headline alone, I was hoping this would be someone writing about being the subject of Nathan Fielder's "The Rehearsal".
I think the point is that this is hard to learn. Whether it’s necessary to learn is a separate question. I think it’s easier to be an effective dev when you do understand how these things work, and designing a language to make it easier to acquire that understanding is good.
they say they want loyalty from their employees...
Bash 5.2
Archive: https://archive.ph/zQdix
I for one welcome the idea of measuring time in lightpetametres ;)

(that's about 38.6 days for the curious)
I generally assume credit is poorly assigned. In my former job as an applied researcher letting my boss get the credit for my ideas was practically part of the job description. My former boss has a bad memory so he’d tell me his great ideas forgetting they were mine. Instead of correcting him I’d be ‘great idea boss, we should totally build that’ - and that’s how I got to build a ton of cool shit.
Risk/reward is different, and also physically and psychologically more committing going in person to the companies location and interacting with other employees.

It’s plausibly a crime too (actual fraud), if pushed hard enough, though most courts will just laugh at companies and tell them they clearly didn’t do enough due diligence, so most people trying it will be worried about being arrested in person.

If doing fully remote, they could be dialing in from another country and immune from arrest. Makes it much easier to do.
Vonnegut, to his credit, died long before he would have had to hear someone accuse him of writing a short story about “wokeism.”

The story is about envy. Vonnegut said as much whenever he was asked about it: it’s directly inspired by his own feelings of creative inadequacy. Shoehorning it into some execrable 2022 political statement is embarrassing.
I donno. There is a difference between "I want to work fully remote but don't mind coming in for a day or so every once in a while if its fully paid for" vs "I never want to meet you in person". I personally would never hire the 2nd type of candidate.
What are your thoughts on QoL living outside of major cities in Peru?
exactly. Luckily I had already planned to go swimming two days later so I noticed the problem quickly.
are you in a really hot climate? and humid? or dry?
He knows. It's bait and you swallowed it. This is the part where you get a lecture about Central and South America.
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-- Forewarning: this gets religious

I feel this is what's wrong with the evangelical church today, a member of which I used to be. Guilt is a wonderful way to understand the need for atonement and salvation. Today's evangelical movement is usually only about finding Jesus and then realizing how special you have become. This almost always leads to NO feelings of guilt and then leads to the trap of perfectionism. Wanting to make things right after we have erred is one of the true signs of Christianity. Staying humble by realizing perfectionism is unattainable is another.
Yes or at least check a copy of their ID and run a background check.
Why? At least in Sweden I would say most people are celebrating that Nordstream went kaputt.
I'm used to blogs, magazines, and the internet butchering this topic, so it was refreshing to see a reasonable introduction.

Only complaint is the attempt to build intuition came very close to making an incorrect statement:

> But there’s something unsatisfying about declaring the size of the set of real numbers to be the same “infinity” used to describe the size of the natural numbers. To see why, pick any two numbers, like 3 and 7. Between those two numbers there will always be finitely many natural numbers: Here it’s the numbers 4, 5 and 6. But there will always be infinitely many real numbers between them, numbers like 3.001, 3.01, π, 4.01023, 5.666… and so on.

> Remarkably enough, no matter how close any two distinct real numbers are to each other, there will always be infinitely many real numbers in between. By itself this doesn’t mean that the sets of real numbers and natural numbers have different sizes, but it does suggest that there is something fundamentally different about these two infinite sets that warrants further investigation.

The alluded property (the set of real numbers is dense) is not related to cardinality, in the sense that the rational numbers are dense but also countable. But I appreciate that the author is trying to motivate the remaining explanation about diagonalization, which can be a tricky topic for beginners.
There's lots of different opinions on how to use Make, but here's one. https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/make/
I don't think it's that unreasonable if the employer is covering the cost of the flight and paying for the person's time.
From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982629
We at JKStream (https://jkstream.com) are trying to solve some of these problems by allowing users to subscribe to their favorite podcast interviewers and guests. For e.g., here's a nice, clean feed for Cal Newport: https://jkstream.com/#/personality-cal-newport-Q16733303
the world has been so ludicrously insane for the last decade and a half that i'm frankly shocked at how well, in general, folks are holding up
Unique means there's only one thing like it. You're advocating there's "more only one thing like this" of something than something else.

The word that takes qualifiers is "unusual." People commonly say "unique" when they mean unusual. One thing can definitely be more unusual than another thing.
The very reason I want remote is to stay around my family, this seems to be made to appeal to the young and/or unattached.
Depends on your definition of incendiary device. Wikipedia says weapons designed to start fires. I feel like a zippo thrown onto something flammable is about as far as that stretches.
My point is that "organizations that conduct ecoterrorism" and "organizations that get funding through public donations" don't overlap. Al-Qaeda isn't running financed through charitable donations from the public, they're financed by shady benefactors. The same is true for ecoterrorist groups.
They already do so non-stop. So far Putin has always won by escalating and it's his only option now.
I mean how much of a return can carplay generate on an initial investment of 8 billion and on-going OPEX even if selling to all the manufacturers (which it isn't).

I think the point is that it was unlikely their intention to be building solely for carplay and an actual car was a bonus. However if they wind down the hardware play of an actual car this could be something that soften those sunk costs.
yes, WhatsApp used to be great in this regard, you would not get any spam.

Now it's starting to get worse and worse.

I block SMS notifications since I only get spam there (I'm Brazilian, SMS is basically dead here)
> Do you have any standing to make this wild claim that goes against any legal precedent?

What legal precedent are you talking about?

In general, bare licenses (where the licensee does not give anything valuable to the licensor) can be revoked with sufficient notice. This is law in most jurisdictions I'm aware of. And this is taught to law students in their textbooks (heck if you just look up "bare licenses" in legal dictionaries you'll probably find something to that effect).

Do you have any standing to claim that OSS goes against this general rule?

The practical reason this doesn't happen is that revoking the OSS license of published code is pretty much un-enforceable and pointless exercise. There's no practical advantage that can be conceivably gained from such a stunt (unless you want the infamy for being the first person to attempt this), especially considering the PR fallout.

But I'll assure you that, if you actually try, and send emails to legal departments of sufficiently large companies notifying them that you revoked an OSS license of a project that you own, most of those companies will avoid using your projects and will try to transition away. I can't imagine any half-decent corporate lawyer advising the company that they definitely won't get into trouble because the precedent says OSS copyright owners can't do this.

FWIW I think some of them might actually tell you that you can't do this (which is mostly a bluff), but that's not going to be what they'll advise their clients/employers.

Disclaimer: IANAL but have a law degree.
Ask anyone who is involved in certifications. During the height of COVID, a huge amount of effort had to go into preventing remote test proctoring from being gamed--of course often inconveniencing the honest test takers.
It is an example of a new technique being used on a common chemical with an eye towards using it on other chemicals once the technique is proven.

‘And as this technique can be applied to highly symmetric molecules, it opens the door to the characterisation of many chemically important species like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.’ - a researcher quoted in the article
Is Tchaikovsky warmonging? I could have sworn he died a few years ago.
My understanding here is that some of why QUIC is built the way it is (on top of UDP) is in somewhat direct response to lessons learned from SCTP, including and especially how hard it is route SCTP in practice on today's internet.
I wasn't trying to write a business book but what you wrote is fine usually for the senior level employees that get how business works and probably took the job with the understanding of the weight of their position. However you will also have fickle entry/low/mid level employees that don't have the maturity to accept the realities of the business world.
Yes, that is different. Apple will still be collecting location data to "improve maps" and for other enumerated purposes.
`document.all` can be used in this way:

<div id="foo"></div>
<script>
const { foo } = document.all
// do something with foo
</script>

Don't use it though, it's deprecated as well[1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/al...
I’ve seen it at 2 different companies so far.
Arguably not irrational, but even if it was, it matters because it causes a chilling effect for hiring.

Which WILL result in folks not being able to get hired that otherwise would be. It also will result in positions not being filled that are important at companies we likely depend on, resulting in lower quality of service and/or failures of those services.

It’s poisoning the remote employment well, essentially.
absolutely key point here. miniflare doesn't allow you to check for conditions in which cloudflare might not fulfill a promise, but can't actually be tested for as the infrastructure is simply represented as an artifact currently with miniflare
>Sadly, a new risk with "100% remote anywhere" culture.

I think this is a new risk when it comes to hiring engineers. This kind of fraud has been present outside of Engineering orgs for a long time.

I used to be a hiring manager in a well known company that was 100% onsite. This was on the business side, not IT/Engineering. We were looking for a BI person as a contract hire. Our HR org said they had a staffing agency they had worked with for years. The staffing agency sent us a bunch of resumes that were surprisingly similar, filled with every buzzword and feature (e.g. I made a bar chart) and obviously weren't written by the candidates. After throwing those out, there were a few that looked decent. We had some phone screens and then a single onsite interview, but concluded there was something fishy going on.

I confronted rep from the staffing agency with with this and their response was that typically somebody in a managerial position (at our company) picked a few resumes, had a phone call (not video, just phone) with them, then hired somebody based on the phone call. My team was the first one that had actually done more than that.

Who showed up on the first day, who actually did the work, I don't think anybody had any clue.

The non-technical managers didn't have the skillset to properly evaluate these candidates. So they saw the keywords and picked the person that sounded the best.

Engineers hopefully have the skillset to evaluate and interview other Engineers, so the fraud is different and more sophisticated now.

IMHO, if you're the type of manager who hires somebody like this and what you wanted done gets done, you've probably got bigger problems than a staffing agency scamming you. If you think it's rocket science to build a couple of charts in a BI tool and you're happy when the person you hired takes 6 months to build a couple of dashboards at $100/hr...good luck to you.
I guess it just varies by company then.

For example, my company unlocked annual amounts on August 15th and I was told I was getting $56k worth of stock. The stock was granted into my account on August 31st.

My stock at grant time was exactly Units * Price on August 31st = $56k. If I was granted stock when the annual amounts were announced (August 15th) the same number of stock would have been worth ~$62k
Can an AI? Software can upgrade the hardware it runs on? You need a lot more than just a human-level AI for that to be true.
Other than more carefully noticing, “hmm this data looks like a polynomial curve, maybe it’s fabricated?” I’m not sure what you propose the professor do instead.

The professor is not going to duplicate all of the experimental measurements done by the students and it seems totally natural to me to trust the student is not committing fraud, until there is evidence otherwise.
Oh I’m no expert so I can’t assess the truth of what she’s saying. Many of her YouTube videos have expressed the same dismayed critique of particle physics, hence my first comment.

As an academic (in a totally different field) I do sometimes note research activities that seem more motivated by self-perpetuation of an “area” of work, rather than fundamentally solving any driving question.
I have one of those too, but I just enjoy winding it up.
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
> The story is about envy.

So is most 'wokeness.' Envy and power.
Can't say I relate unfortunately, I had two conversations in Japanese and both of them were kinda weird. In the first one it even misunderstood my name and repeated it back at me (incorrectly), it looked like some Google translate mistranslation.

In another one it asked me if it was okay to sit next to me and I replied with いや、遠慮しときます (which was marked as a "grammar mistake") and the AI just said ありがとうございます and "sat down" next to me nonetheless.

So far I'm not impressed, it looks like a chatbot piped through Google translate.
You can't really state that without bringing up the proven fact that the Russians have been running pro-Russian, as well as divisive campaigns all across the world.
If one did not need to register the device to one's real ID when activating it, this would not be such a big issue. I ditched my Iphone long ago for this reason, and to my knowledge it is still not possible to make an Iphone anonymous unlike other Android or Linux based devices.
Anecdotally I've had this happen with both of my old iPhone 3G's and an iPhone 4.

Fortunately, I managed to rummage through the junk drawer in my home to find these before anything bad happened.

Tbh, I'm surprised keeping Li-Ion devices in fireproof boxes isn't more common - my brother does this with all of his drone equipment, ironic we don't do this with other consumer electronics.
With a question like that, it could've just as easily been them too. I've seen many more hiring failures on the hiring side of the table, than the other side.
If you ever find out how to make that product but not be flooded with newbie questions when you search professionally useful answers you could turn that into a lot of money.
Very timely. I've been taking a month long break from HN, after realizing that I had been neglecting my mental health.

I feel like I'm in a better spot, but one thing I've learned consistently is that this is a universal, human issue. Very few people are lucky enough to go through life without what some would call mental illness.

We're also woefully underprepared to deal with these realities. You don't take a mental health class in high school, or college. At what point is someone supposed to train you to take care of yourself? Well, your parents, of course. But they usually have their own issues.

One thing that helped me was to get into therapy. BetterHelp is $320/mo, which is frankly a massive cost. But it was good to be in therapy on a weekly basis, and to explain all of the things that I felt were going on.

"Safe space" has been used pejoratively, and it's hard to say it without wincing. But if a safe space is important at all, therapy is the exact place that needs to be safe. And having a spot where you can simply vent to someone for 45 minutes straight was... quite therapeutic.

One advantage you have as a programmer, if you are one, is that you probably have more money than average. So if you're going through similar struggles, I encourage you to throw $320 at the problem and see what happens. It's not a cure-all, but nothing is.
I agree. I have gone from working in tech to tech teacher.

One of the hurdles in teaching, over being the office tech wonder, is when the penny drops it's not all about you.
> And I will argue the reason there’s about a 90% chance you are reading this on a PC with an Intel or Intel compatible processor in it has a lot to do with Tandy

Nope. The reason you are reading this on PC/intel is because of clone motherboards and CPUs which made home computers affordable and small-shops/hobbyists could build their own.

Name brands were twice the price, the Apple universe was four times the price.

Cheap clones is why x86 is alive and well today.
So you don't have any as I thought
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