skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the name of the scam where they trick people into investing in fake platforms and steal their money.

The scammer starts first by building a romantic relationship with the target (this part can last weeks or months). Along the way, they start suggesting cryptocurrency investments on trading platforms that look legit at a glance but are fake underneath. They instruct the target to deposit money into a wallet, like any exchange, but the perpetrators just steal the tokens and show the mark fake figures.

It’s a long term thing that takes a ton of work…I have no idea how the scammers even pull it off at scale.

This site goes into more detail; https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Pig-butchering-sca...
Yes, because mass protests seem to do well to stop wars. I remember when there were mass protests in the US for the Iraq war and it was over in a month. Remember that time? /s
I know a few degenerates who would happily go to prison if prison labor was mining gold in WoW.
"take it all" - https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/
Of course I'll wait for reviews, but on first look this just doesn't seem good enough to replace the FP4.

It STILL has no headphone jack. It STILL seems to be oversized. I kind of doubt that it'll feel much better in the hand (but we'll see).

Maybe the camera is that much better, but why couldn't they have sold an upgraded FP4? Every new model muddies the supply chain making it harder to support existing models, after all.
All Microsoft applications such as Teams, Outlook now open links only on Edge, completely ignoring the default browser setting.
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The article explores the rise of Cryptocurrency Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), which serve as a bridge between traditional finance and the crypto market.
Perhaps not as dramatic, but this is not uncommon.

HBO is right now running the documentary series Telemarketers, about a US operation that is clearly a fraud, but it's protected by corrupt and bribed police union management.
Both, for instance https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/
https://www.businessinsider.com/ceos-taking-pay-cuts-prevent...
Which is funny because it seems misaligned with Google’s business model. Shouldn’t they be the cheapest option, and generating revenue by ad placements in 3rd party apps?

I suppose the ad value of static images in tiles is low, and there’s no way to ensure that developers honor JavaScript or other interactivity for ads?
No headphone jack. 100% dealbreaker and makes it seem like greenwashing. I might consider a Sony phone when my Pixel 5a either falls apart or becomes a smoldering crater, as they seem to support the custom ROM scene pretty well by open-sourcing their kernels.

I quite literally do not care about waterproofing or IP ratings or whatever because the few times I've gotten my phone almost seriously water damaged they've never died.
> Ah yes, the perfect recipe for fraud!

There are a few things you can do to dramatically reduce the fraud risk.

Take the video of the damage immediately and through your own app. Now you can confirm with decent certainty the where/when of the incident and stop double-claims. You can also refuse to pay for any damage unseen in the video. No more "I hurt my back" type claims weeks later - unless you said your back hurt at the time, it isn't going to be covered.

Next, you require the user upload all the receipts they are claiming before you'll pay them a cent. This means that users will typically repair stuff 'on the cheap', rather than using very expensive repair/rebuild services that they'd use if they knew for sure insurance would be paying.

Third, you either pay avery claim in full, or not at all. If you find any evidence of fraud, you don't do a partial payout.
Yes this is exactly ligature, I just became aware that it was possible to use wasm for them in HarfBuzz, if you want to see some wasm examples that is not possible with ligatures have a look at https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
The term was also new to me. From [1] I understand it is a class of cryptocurrency scams starting by building a cordial relationship via social media or dating apps and then suggesting financial investment.

[1] https://www.michigan.gov/ag/consumer-protection/consumer-ale...
My neighbors across the street (3 miles from downtown of a medium size american city) have chickens and most days I forget they are there. I grew up with chickens as well, and they really aren’t a nuisance. We also have foxes and uh, the time I did’t forget they were there was when I heard a strange yowling at dawn, clearly a chicken and yet so different from their normal noises. I assume that was due to a fox.
Microsoft is enrained in industrial and businesses because of legacy. Example is that number of industrial sensors need an application to configure their operating parameters, Often they only run on Windows OS. The need to run legacy prevents moving to an different OS

IT is often engrained in Microsoft's environments. It is by no means easy to walk away from Microsoft unless it is personal computing.

At least now at work, I was given a research ticket to find out which legacy Windows OS applications are viable to run in WINE. And how viable it would be move our main product application away from Windows.

PS. You have to pay me to engage with Microsoft and run Windows OS.
I'd say yes - I knew of several in the Germany (Berlin/Hamburg) area a few years ago. In my experience, actually doing agile works better in places with less middle management (just a theory).
It is a constant policy, from all "FSF-followers-free-software-activists" to try to discourage, on all public discussion forums, the use of the EUPL that is a copyleft license "other than GPL/AGPL". However, the referenced EUPL guidelines explain in full detail why using it is not "bad" or "wrong". The EUPL licence is 3 times shorter than the GPLv3, clearer, multilingual, interoperable and compatible with the GPLs/AGPL.
The FSF "strong copyleft theory" that linking propagates the GPL license was not (and will never be) validated by EU courts.
Microsoft prioritises itself, then its partners, then enterprise and then the consumer.

This aligns with that.
file it as a bug if it pops up when DND is on
The primary thing I don't understand about lab leak and bioweapon theories surrounding SARS-Cov-2 (And if you're an advocate of ideas in this vicinity I'd love a deeper explanation) is this:

If this disease has human origins, accidental or otherwise, why allow it to spread unrestrained?

We know the disease spreads through aerosol transmission. We know that it presents serious long term risks for people who catch it, even those who only have a mild asymptomatic case. Hazard ratios for most "scary" health impacts (strokes, heart attack, diabetes, etc) sit anywhere from 1.75 to near 3, even in broader meta analyses. We know that reinfection can magnify the risk profile of the disease. Estimates for pasc/long covid sit any where between 10 and 30% of all cases for at least 6 months after infection.

Community transmission, as measured by waste water numbers, has been at or above the levels observed during the delta wave for more than half of the months since the omicron wave. We've abandoned masking, destroyed testing infrastructure, indoor air quality is still not substantially better than it was pre 2019, and we have done nothing to bring ANY interventions back.

Isn't all of this just a failure? Or at least a contradiction? If you believe that this disease originated in a lab, why does it make sense to welcome it into your body without any protective measures? Every person on this subcomittee is talking about this lab leak while making sure that they take no visible measures to protect themselves from it, at a time when there's still nonzero community transmission. And now, of course, wastewater numbers are increasing and we are on the precipice of another period of delta-wave-level community transmission.

If this was some nefarious bioweapons play, isn't the response to let it spread and to give up on the disease a confirmation that that such bioweapons are a viable strategy? Why aren't rational actors that believe in these theories of covid's origins doing everything to ensure that they do not get the disease and in turn everything to bring transmission of the disease down to 0?

Someone, please, make it make sense to me.
I have seen Python in action since 2010 plenty of times, including the present. It's been a mess every time. My worldview is driven by F# and Elixir, namely the `dotnet` and `mix` tooling, respectively. So no, Python's tooling does not impress me in the slightest. The first thing you need to do is get agreement on all the different checkers, linters, formatters. For Elixir, there's one tool for each task. My worldview feels quite current.

Those other things you mentioned aren't relevant to tooling. They're distributions, libraries, and applications. But note that Conda's existence was basically due to the fact of Python's tooling being poor.
Well, when you make a new abstraction, that same PR will presumably also include changes to some N call sites to make use of that abstraction, right? The important thing is that N>=3. Anything less than that is, more often than not, premature. And in my experience, premature and/or leaky abstractions are far (far) more harmful to codebases than copy-pasted code.
The standard fix for this is to put the devs on call.

Recurring operational issues get fixed mighty quickly when J. Dev has to wake up a few times at 02:00 on Saturday.

Heck, design and architectural issues suddenly get a lot of scrutiny at the whiteboard phase and people decide they don't really need Kafka or Kubernetes or Mesos or GenAI anymore.
Seriously, who writes article titles like this?
If your insurance company existed in a place without laws and insurance regulators, that is a methodology you could impose on people in order for them to receive what they’ve already paid for. And good on you for ignoring the part about what to do about all those pesky customer questions, particularly the ones that come after a disaster you’re on the hook for.

The whole “why haven’t they considered that they could be more efficient ?” train of thought is tiresome. Admit that it’s a business you know literally nothing about and move on.
Yes, that changelog entry is basically "We will do the decent thing only when forced to."
People talk about this a lot nowadays, but what's your definition of a "fake user" or a fake account? A real human using a name other than a legal name? Hasn't that been the norm online since the late '80s?
Caste generally doesn’t work very well in urban areas even in India. It’s just that it’s so ingrained in many people they’re just not going to lie about it.
I would buy that argument if entire American industries in question weren't mired by regulatory capture making competition impossible
Perhaps not "true" Agile, but I strongly believe modern, corporate Agile with Scrum with nothing more than a micromanagement framework.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-google-launches-applicati...

> Google launches applications based on BreezoMeter acquisition

> BreezoMeter, acquired by Google last year for $225 million, develops technology for predicting environmental hazards related to air quality and its impact on health.
> The web is the last place left where developers feel they have freedom

Come on, we have excellent open computing platforms; it's just not where the money is right now.

Nobody can see passed their nose for profits though so we end up with lowest common denominator everything: which forces you to run a whole code interpreter on everything.

Apple said "no, you can't" and that's where the money is, so you had (and continue to have) a choice and your business chooses to use it.

So, you have to play by those rules.

I mean, I'm not taking a stand here; despite people believing that I'm defending apple. You don't get the sit around though and reap the benefits of the system they built (and developers helped build) while simultaneously trying to tear it down.

They set the rules, you all agreed to play by them; so why are we complaining?

If you actually care you would make programs on one of the many open standards platforms which in turn would turn them into more attractive platforms as the ecosystem improved.

But nobody does, everyone just wants the money now.
It used to be that way, but now Linux has really good application compatibility. You can run the majority of apps using wine/proton, and ironically old hardware tends to be better supported in Linux.
Instead of focusing on making a browser that people want to use, Microsoft keeps adding bloat and harassing users. It's really sad to see, because I liked the minimalism and speed of the original Edge, and I even used to recommend the Chromium Edge to friends and family as a less intrusive Chrome alternative.
I'd also be great if we collectively admitted that one person (no matter who they are) can determine the success of a large organization of people.

Today, we compensate them like they are doing the lion's share of the work.
Microsoft really needs to take a real hard look at Windows and figure out what its place is in the world.

I know very few people outside of gamers that have a full computer outside of one given for work.

This is one of the many reasons that my windows computer is solely for gaming (and I use a debloated Windows 10 LTS install) and never has anything sensitive on it. Any general computing tasks happen on my Mac.

I would love to ditch Windows and go to Linux for gaming but as good as proton is. I value being able to play my games without hassle more.

This is seriously disgusting behavior from Microsoft (and not the only example of Windows turning into an ad machine) but they also realize they have a stronghold so what is the choice for most normal consumers. It’s not Linux as much as technical people love to say it is.
Just another Russian cultural casualty caused by the Kremlin's war on Ukraine and The West. It's baffling at times. As Churchill said, Russia "is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma".

We're used to the Will of The People being something that matters (at the very least it's taken into account) in Western culture.

The more I pay attention to what's been going on these last few years, the more I'm convinced that Russia is simply a Mafia State with Putin as the Don. Might makes right, those at the top protect their interests, warring with each other when necessary, to the detriment of everything else. The people don't matter, and they've been beaten down to the point they just accept this as part of life. It's engrained in their culture now. To quote The Godfather "Killing him was just business".

This can't continue forever. This may not be the end, or the beginning of the end, but we're well past the end of the beginning. Not sure how this gets resolved, but many more Ukrainians and Russians will suffer before something changes. The movie industry is the least of their problems.
Context: this is a gross privacy negligence I noticed on OMNY’s site and tried reporting to them to no avail.

Joseph Cox from 404 Media did a stellar job investigating and contacting the MTA & Apple - it even looks like the MTA will re-evaluate their stance.

I predict/hope they’ll remove the public trip history page [0] soon. Forcing users to create an account wouldn’t make anything more secure as you could still add any other person’s card to your account… adding a verification of the credit card’s billing address would also be pretty ineffectual. Unsure of what to do (except not offer this feature).

See this past conversation (and detailed tech explanation) here some months ago [1].

[0] https://omny.info/trip-history

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698169
I was just wondering where that happens, since I'm being asked what to open the location with every time. Funny enough, I get most of them over whatsapp which is also owned by Facebook.
> My attempts to submit Pull Requests for much wanted features (fully working documentation with new integration tests all passing) often took months-a year to be accepted and merged.

Isn't this always going to be the case?

Honestly, are you signing up to maintain the feature long-term? Fix bugs? Update documentation? Review PRs with small changes to the feature?

The cost of accepting a PR can be much higher than the cost of creating the PR.

Even if you promise to maintain it! What if you don't? What recourse does the maintainers have?
They can't just remove your feature, since customers started using it and you don't want to announce breaking changes and scare everybody.

If you're building an open source product with lots of users, where compatibility is important. Then accepting a PR is a huge liability, you'll always want to be extremely conservative about it.

A PR is not always a gift, regardless of innocent it looks.
All "non-Safari" browsers are still just different skins on WebKit anyway.
First it was Kenyan academic ghost writers for hire, now AI putting traffickers out or business too? What's this world coming to....
Yeah. If Microsoft owns my account, they own the OS, they essentially own my PC. At which point do they become culpable to litigation on behalf of their users? If I’m a hacker, my defense would be this - Microsoft sent me a suggestion pop up that I clicked on, got infected with a virus, anything past that is Microsoft’s inability to protect my PC, my person, and others from malicious errant code.
The official white house website is vulnerable to being DNS hijacked or shelled.
You could try not being offended.
"The pig butchering scam is a type of fraud in which criminals lure victims into digital relationships to build trust before convincing them to invest in cryptocurrency platforms. Unbeknownst to victims, the fraudsters control the platforms and will eventually take all the money and vanish. "

I've taken it from the article here: https://www.aura.com/learn/the-pig-butchering-scam
Deductibles mean you can spend 0 minutes on those.
That's a fascinating wrong way to look at history. Python has no specializing. It always played strong on many popular fields.

From the early days, it had a strong leaning to science, after all that's where it came from. But at the same time it also had a strong stance in unix-areas and established itself as a good tool for sysadmins, competing with perl and bash. And at the same time it also had strong bindings with other languages, gave it early on the fame of a glue-language. It also dabbled early in Web-Stack and networks and had to many web-stack-option to gain that "one framework"-fame, like ruby on rails.

Python just was the language which allowed you to play on on all the important fields, with simplicity, even with some level of speed. This was something other languages lacked. They either were complicated, or slow, or lacking support for specific areas. Python just somehow acquired them all, and had a big impact on a broad area, which made it so popular, because for the majority of usecases it was a natural option.
I have always thought it was a good prototyping language. You can get something working fast then rewrite it in a better language later.
> protest at the UI/UX/managers

Remember, so many of them don't even use Windows itself. They're so unabashedly removed from the actual user experience that I doubt anyone working with them can change their minds.
I'm guessing that most of these scams are coming from large orgs as described in the OP/comments, this seems like a fairly expensive operation. I'm also guessing that for about the same cost they could use AI to cast a much wider net, making it more profitable even if the quality is lower. The paltry individual scammers will probably go out of business soon.
I Kinda sympathize with the stance that copyright should not be respected when the rights holder refuse to distribute.

We even see this argument on HN with regards to old games that are no longer for sale on any platform.
> In that sense trafficking victims are absolutely more deserving of those rights than convicted criminals.

Except the innocent but incorrecty convicted (non)criminals.

On the other hand, some of the victims might not be convicted but guilty of something. But even those should better be taken care of by the regular system.
Do you have sources to back up the fact that "it encourages and is often found coincident with real CSAM"? You can't just claim that it's common sense that an AI-generated image of a child is encouraging real child abuse. Generative AI hasn't even been around for long enough to be part of common knowledge.
You can just section off the bits that need to be PCI compliant.

It would be a good architectural decision, actually.
It's not. Obviously.

You're either misunderstanding or purposefully misrepresenting my point. Happy to clarify my position if it's a misunderstanding.
That's not the behaviour I'm seeing, might be a bug on your phone's end.
This, while being an apparently superfluous complaint, would be important for eventual enterprise adoption.

Other languages have failed for less visible reasons.
Are big cats prowling the UK? What science tells us
A bit like legitimiate workers minus the beating part. That's replaced by hazing, harrasment, gaslighting and bullying at the work place. Same end goal, worker control, for both types of businesses, legitimate or scam.
It's too busy with too many elements trying to get the user's focus I think.

Small tips: Remove the underline from the title of the "tip" and increase the margin between the tips themselves by a small amount. Maybe adjust the background color of a tip as well.

Would make it look like this: https://i.imgur.com/m1WqTBU.png
I installed Linux for my relatives and they never have this problem (or any other problem!).
Nvidia wants to distribute their proprietary driver separate from the kernel. GPL is a copy-left license, meaning any derivative works are subject to the GPL.

Currently Nvidia creates a proprietary driver that is not specific to linux, thus is not a derivative work. Then, they create a 'shim' layer that links their driver into the kernel. While the shim is a derivative work, the driver is not, thus copy-left doesn't apply to the driver.

I think many/most would consider the ability to write loadable kernel modules an "API". Google v Oracle decided in the US Supreme court that APIs are not copyrightable. From [1]:

> Supreme Court ruled in a 6–2 decision that Google's use of the Java APIs fell within the four factors of fair use, bypassing the question on the copyrightability of the APIs.

IMO, Nvidia doesn't even need a shim layer, they're just playing nice. If push comes to shove, I think Nvidia will win in court.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
Fast blockchains with sub-second block times actually fit. I agree that most implementations of blockchain are awful - but this just technically makes use of the nature of its immutability - and would showcase Ricardian contracts (600+ pages of text) versus smart contracts (garbled memos)
Microsoft want to advertise to users because it makes them money. That money will come from the pockets of the people you're describing, and not as a fraction of their income as with many taxes.
Python became the default teaching language—replacing Java in schools. For tech interviews, Python became the default (even if it’s not your main language) because it’s basically pseudocode.
I couldn't find the exact video I saw on YouTube. It's funny if you search "escape Cambodia," a lot of Gordon Ramsey's food videos pops up, but if you search "逃出柬埔寨" in Chinese, you find all these terrible trafficking cases.