skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3P mule accounts have been a thing on eBay for years and eBay has been very much aware of it since at least 2015 when Brian Krebs wrote about it.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/how-carders-can-use-ebay...

See also Confessions of a Nespresso Money Mule by Nina Kollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU

In 2020, I personally reported 150+ hijacked eBay accounts used to commit $160k+ in triangulation fraud against a company I worked for at the time - eBay did very little to help.

In February 2022, I collected about 80 reports from people who received 1099-Ks from eBay even though they had never knowingly created an account on the site - their PII (names, addresses, and in some cases even correct SSNs) were used to create fraudulent accounts that sold tens of thousands of dollars each with no vetting or verification of any kind by eBay.

And all of that is a tiny drop in the bucket.

I place a lot of the blame for where we are, and why this legislation ever came to be, squarely on the marketplaces.

They've known about rampant fraud and scams for years, could have put in stricter vetting and verification procedures, invested more in highly trained human powered Trust & Safety to deal with counterfeits and fraud etc. but for the most part they have done the minimum required to cover their own "assets" and nothing more...which still left room for a lot of consumer harm to be done.

While I don't think this will curb all of the fraud, like you said they will likely just jump to new accounts, having to produce actual documents to match the stolen PII may at least slow them down a bit.
Yes, it’s easy for a criminal to do that. However, then they escalate from simple marketplace fraud (which is very hard to prosecute) to committing wire-fraud which is not just a federal felony but also carries stringent punishment and is much easier to prosecute.

For evidence, see the trial of Elizabeth Holmes and SBF.
The Festivus Report 2022 [pdf]
Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be)
Please remember that Google strongly prefers to rank search results according to what Google's däa indicates the known-or-probable user seems to prefer. This can result in a "bubble" of search results, effects of which can include that user finding more of what that user already knows/expects, while another user performing the same search receives substantially different results.

To avoid this, one possibility is using StartPage.com or eu.StartPage.com (which use Google search results while presenting all users to Google as a single user). Another option may be duckduckgo.com (which uses primarily Bing search results in similar fashion). A new option is kagi.com, which I haven't used much yet, but offers ad-free search for erther a low number of searches per month or a monthly fee.
This is a great BBC podcast about the subject (and how the US abandoned France in return): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v99n
This is the first one that's actually a bad look for Twitter, the rest were a lot of noise over nothing.
> Is causing trouble not really terrorism?

Correct.

> What if the scale changes from 14,00 to someone taking down key pieces of the power grid

Still not terrorism.

> I’d want the authority in charge to absolutely treat this or any attack on infrastructure as terrorism.

Sure, but only until they determine what it really is.

Terrorism is hard to define exactly, but some required elements are that it be an attack on civilians (an attack on military or police is never terrorism). And it must have a goal of some kind, they must want to change something, by making people scared of another attack.

If you attack people because you hate them, that's not terrorism unless your goal is to change some law or reality (for example make them scared to leave their homes). If you just attack out of hatred it's bad, but it's not terrorism.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855453
So, someone really did call the fashion police.

ba-dum.
I get the same error.
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Author seems to conflate Sam’s comments about access to a technology and the flavour of politics said technology spouts.

Both valid things to examine individually but that just seems like a questionable leap to connect them so directly
Is there a way to make them come to a feeder? They seem to avoid one with peanuts despite everyone saying they love peanuts.
All notifications on iOS are opt in now. The problem is already solved.
I'll just pierce this thicknet and add a transceiver here...that's pretty good security.
I assume you’re talking about shipping origin? eBay lists shipping country and city of origin on the product page. You can even search by closest distance.
Do you wait around for a 30 minute build with a coffee rather than do something else useful? If not, then you don't need mold.

Do you not have automated unit and integration testing?

Do you not have code review and CI before code lands?

Do you not have distributed, cached, incremental builds?
> companies...paying for user accounts

So it seems my company is doing that (it's called "workplace from meta" now) and it's ridiculous as you get the worst of both worlds.
Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32362363

Good insight into the merchant side of customer return fraud.
I used to like the old slashdot conversations where someone would call shenanigans and a user with that name would show up and post. That and the lowest uid posturing where inevitably someone with a single digit uid would post. There's not so much of that kind of thing on HN, I understand it's a different kind of discussion but it's fun sometimes
I'm happy for you--seriously. You sound like a talented and down-to-earth person.

And it sounds like in your social circle $350K per year is average. That's great (again--seriously).

But I can imagine that, for the 80% of software engineers who are making less than $350K, saying "I really don't think its really hard to get a job at amazon" sounds at best clueless and at worst insulting.

I really dislike accusations of "privilege", particularly as a way to discount people's personal experience or opinions. I'm not going to wield that here. But at the same time, I think it's helpful to have a clear-eyed view of the world outside our personal bubble.
I had the same thought as OP. Not outraged or anything, I just find it interesting.

It reveals the bubble that I’m in more than anything, that the language stood out in the first place. I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinner I’ve been to in adult life has been boy-girl-boy-girl. If I was a mathematician this would never in a million years be the example I’d come up with.
I remember when our sales team sold a large customer with the commitment our product could run over IPX and let us know... at implementation. That was a fun weekend.
20K rev divided by 200 sales is $100/sale. We dıd about $200-$300 on an margin of about 2%, we got like $1K profit, which considering how much went into "capital" as in buying tools and learning how to use them becomes very negative value.

In fact we went into black on our third year. And now this.

Okay, fuck Congress. Maybe I'll buy it and fire everyone just like Musk did with Twitter. :=/
It's not 2FA if a secret comes from the same channel as the login one.
The minority of the historical left that were marxists replaced class struggle with identity struggle and found a much wider base to take over the current left. In that sense it is indeed the same left but in the sense that the cancer has metastasized and overrun the host.
I’m curious, do you mean consoles had code paths specific to current gen games for that console, or was this when they were implementing forms of emulation support for previous gen games?

Both impress me but the former is deeply fascinating to me. Though I think graphics drivers do this all the time?
DNS lookup tool using BSD sockets in modern C++
Maybe "obscured by time" is a better description. Generally they know something was there, but the details and memories are as buried as the remnants of the place.
I definitely agree with your point about it being used as a crutch. My criticism was more towards how the authors evaluated AI’s effect on writing secure code. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have student participants, but they should be fully representative across the skill demographics.

To me it’s comparable to a study where you make a general claim about driving ability with lane assist but then 2/3 of the participants only have their learner’s permits.
The file system and a good desktop search engine can go a long way. Allows using any app or format, provided its indexable. Its not a proper knowledge graph but it allows you to trigger associations in your brain as you examine query results
It might feel like a cosmetic nitpicking, but if I say they are "stealing our jobs", I'm blaming and vilifying the immigrants without wanting to understand their reasons for coming here and the unfortunate situation they are in.

On the other hand, my ability to negotiate with the powerful owner class is strongly reduced if there are people that are willing to be exploited or simply don't have another choice due to their immigration status and poverty. It could be argued that more people coming in results in bad working conditions for both the immigrants and the working class, whereas the rich can take advantage of the situation and amass a fortune on the misfortune of the poor (both native and alien).

Bernie Sanders, once a prominent leftie, said in one of his honest moments that the open borders is a "Koch brothers proposal".
You can't distribute linking AFAIK.

While I often do finish other development related tasks during longer builds, it doesn't make sense to context switch to something completely different during a 1-2 minute delay. I will build dozens of times a day while testing or optimizing functionality, so this can really add up.

That said recent versions of clang + lld + fission result in <20 sec compile+link times even on a multi-gigabyte executable, so the need for mold is significantly lessened. Users that are currently using gold will see a dramatic improvement.
Doesn't have to be, but if it's significant (death is significant) an evolutionary advantage is highly likely to be there somewhere.
https://sci-hub.se/https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/324165...
> It is always a game of trade offs. Safety/correctness, speed of development, […]

Where's the trade-off? If the result is buggy crap and/or a security nightmare it makes no difference whether it was "fast to develop".

Saying something like that is like saying that you could build houses much faster if you just didn't have to follow any safety regulations. If you would try that in the real world you would end up in jail sooner or later. But in the virtual world of software people really seem to think that such an "argument" is valid.

I'm eagerly looking forward to the EU finally (and hopefully soon!) removing the liability exceptions that are still in place for software. It's in the working. Than software products would fall under the same liability laws than any other products, and vendors going to be finally full responsible for what they ship to customers. The whole "I don't care about safety and correctness because there are no consequences" madness would come to a very abrupt end in case vendors would be liable and could end up in court easy for shipping subpar products that were manufactured not adhering to state of the art practices.

> […] performance of applications.

Rust and C are the same in this regard. So no "trade-offs" here.
My favorite feature of the $0.99 plan is "Hide My Email". I generate new emails for pretty much everything nowadays.
> [...] protected bike lane [...] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k6-AI_X1qE

Surely that's not a protected bike lane at all? What's it protected by, a few flimsy sticks of plastic? I assume that when people talk about wanting protected bike lanes, they're talking about concrete jersey barriers at least.

To call that bike lane "protected" is like printing "please don't shoot me" on a tshirt and calling it a bullet proof vest.
This is what I ended up using on my linux box. Lilypond is very powerful once you get used to it.
The one thing I couldn't make work right upgrading to windows 10 was the Microsoft webcam. You could almost force it but the quality became crummy. The one thing that broke in xp was my Microsoft joystick.
The annihilation of space: A bad historical concept (2021)
Countries with freedom of movement still have limits on how many people can stay. Those are more organic than dumb border controls though: it comes down to wether you can find a job and a pay a place to stay, and those aren’t infinite.

That’s where coming in to become homeless won’t be allowed , same way housing laws will forbid staying in places that are not adequate for residency (rooms with no windows, packing 12 people in one bedroom etc.). Same for minimum wages and taxation stopping a run to the bottom if too many people come in with no value to add to the economy.

Basically you’re free to come and go, but will need to find a spot you fit in if you intend to stay.
In my experience, your numbers are dramatically off. You haven’t factored in time at all, either.
You're welcome. I really should write a supplemental page for the documentation that brings all these into one place. Then I can just link to it! Thanks for the inspiration.
Why all the NixOS hype? Did we all forget about Guix?
I love the idea behind Fedora SilverBlue, and NixOS, etc but we never seem to hear about Guix. For me I’d rather write things in lips than in whatever language Nix uses. Has anyone used a Guix build before to get a working workstation? Thoughts?

https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon
I second to investigate into SQLite first.
Someone with no budget very rarely needs a DB that can scale a lot.
Beginning with Litestream may be an option.

https://litestream.io/
OK, I’m not going for cheap outrage points. I’ve read the Wikipedia article. I am honestly curious if there is a reason we still present the problem this way, or if we could just change it up a bit in its presentation.
BindView Corporation* took its name from the Netware bindery.

* the company for which I was general counsel; as outside counsel I helped the founder start the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BindView
That’s not criminal at all.

During different parts of my life, I’ve done real estate on the side, group fitness as an independent contractor and software development as an independent contractor (C2C) each time I went to nolo.com and registered an LLC that was recognized both by the state and federal government.

As I said in another post, I’ve set up a virtual mailbox for other reasons where all of my mail goes to. But they also sell business use cases. None of this is illegal. I had an EIN and reported taxes through it.
> my Friends don't post anything anymore!

Which is understandable, because FB optimizes for clickability and shows very few posts of those who rarely post (and whose posts really deserve attention imo) so after seeing no reaction from their friends ("are they ignoring me?" - no, FB just decided not to include your post in their feeds) they just gave up.
I'm hoping the changes will improve latency. I really liked neko, and wanted to use it for hosting watching parties with friends. For testing, I ran neko on a beefy EC2 instance to totally eliminate the chance that my CPU was making it run slowly, but it was still unacceptably laggy for streaming videos.
There are quite a few symbiotic relationships in nature.

There are several examples where small birds, mammals, fish, or even some invertebrates clean much larger animals. The exchange straightforward, large animal gets clean smaller one eats the parasites, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_symbiosis
Http?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty/

Ah, https
I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum. There’s not a lot of difference in the feeling of standing around and wanting to go somewhere further than you can walk. It’s really that simple.
Wrote a book covering this topic this year. You could live an entire life not being bored. There’s definitely different types of boredom and we are constantly distracted from the good kinds.
It's a Catch-22 - Any service trusted by consumers will inevitably be targeted by malicious actors. The ones cited as potentially "better" are generally too small to matter, hence they have not yet been targeted in a significant way.
Depends in its entirety on the specifics of arbitrary topic X… for instance, if X involves putting ethic group Y in to gas chambers, then send in the ministry, post haste.
you used to be able to walk from california to mexico through a one-way metal turnstile gate
> Do you hang out in the Mud Coder's Guild Slack at all? You might find it interesting

I don't, but I was named by name in "Playing MUDs on the Internet" :)

I have copies of Epic, SillyMUD, Phoenix, and now Kaos.
I'm waiting for the link too!
This sounds pretty cool!
I tried enabling it in Fennec (F-Droid "debloated" version with about:config available) and couldn't get it to work. It still downloads PDFs and prompts the system app picker for the viewer.

Did you have to enable anything else?
You don't get to tell another person what beliefs they are allowed to have.

For example you listed certain things that you think everyone must agree with.

But another person might think those things are unimportant and climate change is the thing no one is allowed to disagree about "because it's going kill everyone", which makes it easily outweigh your things.

> I have no need or desire to pretend that we’re having a mere policy disagreement.

In your mind everyone must agree with you, except on things that you define as "policy disagreements"?

What happens when another person feels just as strongly as you, but in the other direction? Is the only possible result a never-ending fight?

You seriously can not think of single argument against your positions? If you can't, then you are problem, not them.
At least they've removed letter grades for freshmen! I had 7 people in my MIT class commit suicide my freshman year in 2003!
Convert anything in the most popular palettes
I can’t confirm “befriending” crows, but I can confirm that you can make them your enemy.

A while back I had found what I thought was an injured bird. I captured it and brought it to a rehabilitation center for wild birds.

Turns out I had just capture a baby crow that hadn’t learned to fly yet, which explains why there were two other crows (parents) barking at me from trees as I tried to capture their chick.

After the rehab center verified I had not injured the chick during capture they let me return it where I found it.

Let me just say the parents were not happy with me when I let that chick out of the box they started divebombing me.

I had my own baby about a month later and as I was carrying my kid in from the parking lot I got dive Bombed by a crow.

I’ve always thought it was one of the parents retaliating.

From that point on every time they saw me they would start barking at me
Playing the game was what was draining?
You should disclose your affiliation when recommending a website, mate. It doesn't look good otherwise.
I didn’t notice linker speed before or after those improvements, hence, “non-obvious”.

… and I’m developing on macOS, re-linking a large project hundreds of times a day.
some languages distinguishes words or phrases between male and female. French for example is very strict about it. Thai as well. I don't understand why you are upset.
Person wasn't neccesarily advocating for the change, just wondering why it is the way it is. I don't think its an unreasonable thought and the naming of things and the history thereof can certainly be interesting discussion points.
Recently tried copilot for about a month or so. After the initial, “wow neat” couple days I general became annoyed with the suggestions. They are either sort of right, kind of right, or right. However in the time to read and determine I could have already produced the correct result.

I have it turned off at this point.
Not the GP, but it's not necessarily policing. Sometimes readers want to know if you're using hyperbole vs. speaking plainly.

Also: HN is a place for discussion and debate. You shouldn't expect any of your claims to be immune from scrutiny.
Everyone knows there are old sites there, they just discovered more of them.
“Along with their applications to etiquette and knot theory,…”
You are 100% correct of course.

Political discussions in the U.S. using the word "socialism" are basically meaningless, because people use that word to mean several completely different things:

1. Socialism as practiced in eastern Europe during the Cold War - basically the state is a prison, no one is allowed to leave, people who attempt to leave are shot and left to die, everyone is under surveillance, and dissent is punished very harshly. These governments were proud to call themselves socialist. In East Germany, they referred to themselves as "Socialism as it exists in reality" ("real existierender Sozialimus.") These are not governments that someone is now choosing to call socialist to give socialism a bad name.

2. Socialism as practiced in Europe these days, with a focus on Scandinavia. Somewhat higher taxes, reasonable universal health care, generally people are not left to starve in the street. I'm not sure if it makes sense to call this "socialism." I guess it's social-something.

3. Socialism as a scarecrow in American politics: Anything I don't like is Socialism. Any policy where the government provides benefits is Socialism. Any healthcare system where illness doesn't lead to bankruptcy is Socialism.

As a result, people talk past each other, and discussions tend to become nonsensical. Anyone who wants to have an informed opinion on socialism should just take a look at what happened in East Germany and the rest of eastern Europe from 1945-1990.
> Posting such a response is attempting to impose upon me time that I am not willing to spend on you.

You’re willing to spend the time to write 12 replies, but you’re too busy to define the terms you use? Defining terms (especially when they are highly politically charged) allows everyone to get on the same page. Playing games with your terminology to the point you admit they are tautological is the definition of disingenuous discourse.
"The real reason for choosing PHP or JQuery is you're already experienced in them and don't want to learn something new" is not what I would call especially flattering...
Can you come up with one? Given the specific problem, I find it challenging to come up with a different analogy for the same concept.
A comment like this shouldn't go without a reply. Saying "sorry for your loss" always seems inadequate, so here's a brief recollection instead. A few months ago, in one of the covid lock downs when social distancing was a thing, I was walking in a park. About 200 metres away I noticed a woman walking a small dog, possibly a puppy. The woman had stopped to watch the dog, something was going on. Then i realised the dog was playing with a magpie. The magpie would hop up to the dog then flap off when the dog bounded over. Then the magpie lay on its back and let the dog sniff it before kicking its legs and flapping its wings, making the dog bounce in delight. The woman crouched nearby watching. I've no idea if any of them noticed me. It went on for at least 5 minutes before i had to leave. A wonderfully surreal, poignant moment during the pandemic. Seems like aeons ago now.
Is https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edirectory-92/ what is left of NDS?
Also: https://jasonette.com/ (Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879179 )
> There are quite a few symbiotic relationships in nature.

Yes, of course, but unless such a relationship is already established the odds are very much against a random encounter between different species being mutually beneficial.