skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would honestly most likely say "triple-one three"!

IME road number† pronunciation in England goes out of its way to avoid "thousand" and "hundred" – with exceptions, of course. Off the top of my head, I reckon I say them like this:

* one or two digits = spoken as the number rather than the digits: A three, M twenty five, etc.

* three digits = sometimes spoken as digits: A two-one-seven - but sometimes broken into two numbers: B one-eleven

* four digits = sometimes the number A thirty-one-hundred (never three-thousand-one-hundred!), sometimes digits B triple-one three, sometimes year-style B thirteen eighteen

There are probably more variations that I can't think of right now too. It's a mess :D

† and bus route numbers, for that matter
SSNs aren't a great source of identity mostly because they were never designed to be - they aren't unique, until somewhat recently they were issued in a predictable order, an individual can have their SSN changed, and since they are only 9 digits we're going to run out of them on a practical timeline, etc.

They became a defacto identifier for many institutions just because US citizens and permanent residents generally have one - but aside from convenience, they're pretty problematic compared even to something like a UUID/GUID.

If you were trying to design a true national ID number, you'd probably want to approach the problem more like a database designer would: you'd want something that had possible unique values far exceeding the reasonable number of people you expect to exist before the collapse of society, that was reasonably random and difficult to predict based on other known attributes about the person, that by spec was never shared with another person, etc.
Simple reason: every line of code in the Linux kernel passes many eyeballs in the open. Even if someone were to compel Linus Torvalds to commit a backdoor and he would comply with that order, people across many jurisdictions would notice this immediately, rendering the backdoor worthless.
Anyone that gets defrauded because they are using SSN/DOB/address as some type of identify verification/signature/authorization mechanism.

Which would include pretty much all consumer level/retail financial companies I think, but certainly is not limited to them.

When entity A defrauds entity B by pretending to be entity C, entity C should not be affected in any way, other than letting entity B know they were not party to the transaction.

In other words, it should be entity B’s responsibility to prove entity C engaged in a transaction with them before being able to affect entity C’s credit.

And that would solve all of this nonsense very quickly.
Coding in Indigenous African Languages
Can vouch for insomnia, have been using it for a long time now and it's been great.
It might have to do with the output possibly being a probability vector as opposed to a binary hash. The whole thing is thus differentiable and optimizable (if a dog image was incorrectly placed in the bad hash bucket it might only be on the border of it while the real CP corresponding to the hash is found at the probabilistic maxima of the hash bucket). Just guessing.
The sad truth is everyone wants to be around people “like us”. Sometimes realities like economic opportunity supersede but given the choice humanity is quite tribal.
Well, the government in the US functions just fine without the centralized ID System the OP is wishing for, even though stuff like this occurs.

There is literally no reason why Americans would trust the central government to be more secure than T-Mobile at this point.
> "but we have so much width now"?

We also have 16MB of L3 and smarter prefetching!
Perhaps, though maybe something simpler and readable would be easier to get people to use

name::string,number of legs::int,height in meters::float,date of birth::date(MM/DD/YYYY),email adress::email,website::url
joe,2,1.76,12/12/1999,joe@joe.com,https://www.joe.com
bob,1,1.84,12/12/1944,bob@vietnam.com,null
It clearly doesn’t, and it’s foolish to say it does based on the evidence.
up till late 1990s SSN and DOB were public information, as they were printed on never-secured student IDs in American schools, for instance, and who knows where those unprotected lists went.
What if you dont use the camera at all on iphone?
I've been exposed by a number of these over the years, will I be getting free "identity protection services" again?
How do you tell slope from one point?
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Are there any smartphones definitely made outside of China? I know that Apple has a new factory in India (or similar) but still does some production in China.
Croatia is significantly cheaper than Italy or Greece. Every meal you eat will be under $10 USD, good seafood too. The booze is stupidly cheap, bottled beer is like half the price of bottled water iirc and everyone was drinking openly everywhere on the street at all hours. Accommodations at excellent hotels were cheap. Getting around the country was cheap (we took a bus and stopped along dozens of cities along the coast). The most expensive part is airfare, but after that, it's cheaper than probably most of europe and certainly any city in the U.S. in terms of having a vacation. When I visited there were few Americans, but so so many Australians I couldn't understand it. I guess they know about it there moreso than the US.
> Chinese belt and road projects are notoriously opaque but often have China bringing the financing, labor, and infrastructure.

It's so opaque that you know who is funding, building, etc? Right. Also, who else is going to bring the financing? And as for infrastructure, hasn't china shown to be the best at it?

> Foreign companies are often largely left out.

So what? It's a china led project which the west is opposed. What do you expect?

> The people benefit very little as the resources and value extracted return to China.

That's true for everybody. The people benefit very little. Do you think "the people" benefited from Canada sending timber to the US or Australia selling iron ore to china for decades?

Why don't we offer a better deal? So using your logic, afghanistan shouldn't trade with anyone?

If china's deal is that awful and afghanistan is choosing them, doesn't it really show how even more for awful everyone else is?

Also, I wouldn't take anything by wsj, rupert murdoch owned and controlled propaganda outlet, seriously when it comes to china as his propaganda empire is peddling the most anti-china propaganda.

Do you think "the west" cares about afghanistan, africa or any nation involved in BRI? Do you think we are mad because china is ripping them off or that china is actually giving these BRI nations a good deal? My guess is the latter. Or we worried that china is ripping off afghanistan, a nation we invaded and brutalized for decades? Or are you worried because china is giving them the best deal? Be honest. Given how evil we've been for a few centuries now, which do you think?
VCs really like bottom up SAAS
I apologize for any amount I may have contributed to your negative perception of RV. I don't mean to overly defend the company I don't work for anymore, but I did respect many individuals with whom I was able to work. Unfortunately they are under the Jeffrey Hammerbacher curve in their output.
Prof. Mattias Desmet: Is the Corona Narrative Part of a Mass Hypnosis
As are most of these "laws". The idea isn't to do a conclusive, thorough examination of all things under the sun and render a statement that reflects that particular moment in time. The idea is to make an observation--perhaps true, perhaps false--that helps us maintain a healthy mindset when examining and comprehending things. It's not meant to be insightful, it's meant to encourage us to strive for better insight.
"mod cons" is probably British for "modern conveniences".
it's all about incentives, the modern academic system has the incentives all wrong for creating innovation and quality work. Replication crisis is just a symptom of the real problem
TypeScript has a slow compiler and horrendous error messages (especially compared to the Elm). Plus it is far away from the no runtime exception guarantees that Elm offers by design.

Also TS is just part of a potential solution while Elm comes with all batteries included. You still have to set up your code formater, liner, decide on a framework, state management library and so on and so on. With Elm, you just use elm-format. No arguing about code style, not arguing about how structure your code. There is only way to do it. It is not only a language but a framework. You get everything you need out need out of the box.
Yeah, haha, I'm a British and Canadian dual-national, so in the post-1983 world, I'm a British Citizen and a Commonwealth Citizen. I was using it as an archaic turn of phrase rather than referring to the specific status. You did lead me down an interesting rabbit hole!
An SSN is a username, not a password. We need an identity system with real passwords that can be changed in the case of a breach.
Most European countries have some sort of strong online authentication with two factor, so it is doable.
The space is already crowded, though (many of them being open source), for example Insomnia, Paw, Fiddler, Hoppscotch, and even Thunder Client (a VS Code extension). I suspect that the Postman investors are privy to information that warrant the investment (plus the economic climate being what it is).
The EU has a federated public key cryptography based identity system. The member states recognize identities issued by other member states, but there is no central system.

In any case, the private key is stored on a plastic ID, which acts as a smart card and can be hooked up to a smartphone/PC for identity verification and document signing online. The key is only released with a PIN, and the databases online only store the corresponding public key.

A leak of a public key without the private key is (relative to SSN) harmless.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS

Can we please have this in the US?
> VCs are throwing money anywhere they can

How do you meet VCs or find good ones? Do you hunt them down? Do you suggest a valuation for investment?
Fantastic. Instead of one location that can be properly outfitted with the best practices let's have 1000 shitty ones.
Can you explain more why you think this is a possibility?
Social Security eligibility contributes to retirement age, but real average retirement age is ~64: https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-retirement-age/

Many people who are retired can't financially afford to retire, but are more willing to make changes in their consumption habits than go back to work.
As always comes up, its not really identity theft, as that information doesnt help you do anything but defraud banks who are not taking time to properly verify who they are lending to. We just call it that so it's not the bank's fault. "Your identity was stolen, we couldn't do anything! "

Check a photo ID. Check a public cert. Take a fingerprint.
Sometime ago I came across a discord server(https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC). Going through their various channels, one stood out for me. The #hackathons channel that is meant for engineers to come together and hack on something interesting. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much activity. If we can use that as a starting point then we could find interesting projects to work on.
Can you imagine a private company giving you an account number that you can use to do things without needing to know a password?

Would that situation persist for decades?
That doesn't exactly follow. Knowledge of plasma has more applications than just nukes. Maybe it will help nuke design, and maybe that is even a goal of the project, but that doesn't mean that the knowledge gained is binned in "weapons" category and nothing else.

And most research fields are not practical at some point in their lifespans, that doesn't mean it will never be practical, or we won't (hopefully) learn things which make other energy technologies practical.
There are plenty of reasons you might want to stay - to try to change teams, to try to get better at working with imperfect teams, to get better at establishing personal boundaries (not owning every problem you run into), or your resume. I would likely stay in your position for at least 1 more month to give things a chance to change.

But a sense of obligation is not a good reason. You owe the company and the team nothing, your employment is fundamentally an at-will business deal, anybody who tells you that you're all "friends" or "family" is very confused or downright lying.

There's a pretty good chance the rest of your team has almost no emotional investment in the "success" of the team and couldn't care less if you leave.
Quality engineering must always be balanced against the reality of finite budgets. Sure, lots of amazing engineering can be achieved in theory, _given infinite funding_.

That never happens in the real world. One always has limited time to produce a viable product. There is always some extrinsic constraint to how much time can be spent taking your time and understanding what you're doing.

Moreover, if you are operating in any commercially viable product space, you're always competing against other firms for finite market share. If it takes x years to ponder and understand how to build and ship a masterful feat of engineering, while some other company ships a "sort-of-works" product with bugs and engineering flaws in <<< x years, the other company will usually win in the marketplace.

Your company usually goes bankrupt, and all the engineers will complain at their next jobs about what a wonderfully designed engineering system they were building, and how awful it is that nobody appreciates such things these days.
It's nowhere beafy enough for Gnome. It runs fluxbox, FVWM, and apparently i3 and dwm just fine.
Wow, requiring an interview to move around in the same company just sounds like the epitome of pigeonholing.
Key & Peele are great at bringing serious topics to the attention, but also just poking fun at typical characters we encounter in daily life.
> its got nothing to do with cloud scanning for images

Everyone else are cloud services scanning for images , cloud or on-device wont change the math, math stays same and here the math makes mistake

> A picture of someone’s children wouldn’t trigger these systems at all

The main post under which we are conversing , is about someone having generated a collision to trigger this system.
Interesting. Marc is a nuanced guy of course but I sense he may have shifted in the last while. I recall in his 1:1 w/ Peter Thiel he took the opposing side of this argument. Peter does not mince words re: the progress of "science". Perhaps Marc was just doing it for the sake of discussion.
> bottom up SAAS

What does that mean? Is there a top down SAAS?
The art is the installation.
My bet is that we will see self driving features in an emergency intervention, where you are still in control generally but if the system predicts a crash in a future time horizon, it will intervene.
A SSN should be useless anyway. It shouldn't matter any more than your mailing address being out there.
"At least two [!] U.S. officials stationed in Germany sought [...]and some [!] victims were left unable to work".

I'm not a native speaker, but two officials had troubles, and "some" of these two are unable to work.

"“There is no evidence about what happened to us, but it is striking that some of us had worked on Russia-related issues,” said the worker, who declined to be named."

So the weapon also knows on what people work on?

Or should we assume a perfect infiltration of the US intelligence aparatus by the Russians so they know what person is working on what? Or who is sitting where?

But not only that, but

"In some cases, the symptoms have persisted after the relocation, leading security services to believe that the people targeted have been tracked down to their new residence."

And the weapon can detect nationality (if not targetting appartments but the embassy), as

"Some 20 American officials in Austria have reported the mysterious symptoms—the largest number since Cuba" and no Austrian is affected.

I do think this is a really badly written article.
I've actually found it has felt bloated for a while now and switched to insomnia.

I'm not a full time frontend dev though so perhaps they would be more willing to pay.
The way they do it is quite obvious.

> virtually invest in any of the YC companies from W18 - S20.

> Be quick, the earlier you buy the better the deal.

Sound like a scam to me
The article mentions "names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver's license/ID information", but no credit card numbers in that list.
As an American... don't trust for a second that they will follow "best practices."

After all, how did the NSA's top-secret Vault7 weapons get stolen considering that they were following "best practices"? And then proceed to bring havoc to the world with WannaCry...
That makes sense, but then why not then advise the pet owner to flush the cat's poop down the toilet? Seems simpler than having a special container and a return trip to the vet.
One Month (YC S13) is hiring a copy editor
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Looking for a copy editor. Experience editing books, or long-form articles is a plus. Please submit 1) Your resume and/or your LinkedIn, and 2) your portfolio or at least one published writing sample to chris@onemonth.com
> Ok, so this feels like the crux of the matter. So how does the fact that V* is not isomorphic to V make the tensor product construction a more general concept than the linear function construction?

This doesn't really have anything to do with tensor products per se; it can already be seen with tensor products involving only a single factor, which are just vector spaces. Thinking of tensors only as functions means that, for example, one can never think of the original vector space V itself, only of its image in the double dual V^{**} (a fancy way of saying that you can evaluate a vector v \in V on an element v^* of the dual vector space V^* by evaluating v^* at v: in confusing but suggestive notation, v(v^*) = v^*(v)).

It's certainly true that you can do this, and, given the axiom of choice, you don't lose any information; you know everything about a vector v \in V by knowing its value on elements of V^* (which is to say, by knowing the values of elements of V^* on V). However, if V is infinite dimensional, then you are forcing yourself to carry around extra, possibly unwanted information: if you are taking bare algebraic duals, not topological duals, then V^{**} is inconceivably larger than V, which is to say that there are way more linear functionals on V^* than just those coming from evaluation at a fixed element of V.

You can fix some of this inconceivable largeness by knowing a little more structure carried by V, and by forcing your dual to reflect that structure—usually you know the topology, and ask that the dual consist of continuous functionals; and once there's topology, you start asking things of the tensor product, too. (For example, you probably don't want to take the vector-space tensor product of Hilbert spaces, but rather its completion in some suitable sense.) But, even with a more refined notion of duality, it's still only the nice spaces V that are identified with their double duals via the canonical map V \to V^{**}; the terminology is 'reflexive'.

(I think I caught all the asterisks that the Markdown parser ate the first time through.)
Is using an alternative Photos app and using something like NextCloud an alternative?
https://archive.is/929nR
Are there any kind of legal consequences for this in the US? Or is the reigning attitude basically 'if customers voluntarily gave the company that information, that's on them'?
>wasn't exactly the mindset of many American colonists

No doubt, but they also were encountering persecution so there were a lot of motivations.
Clarification: OC doesn’t seem to be arguing that these govt functions shouldn’t exist; they’re arguing that it’s wrong to trust govt with digital security more than we trust private companies.
Academia is a ridiculous racket at this point.

The ratio of people that can make a living doing research to people that are entering PhD programs is way, way off, which naturally produces a zero-sum hypercompetition "market" among PhD students that can only end in "success" by people able and willing to work crazy hard for no money for years on end - aka the already-rich, the desperate true believers, the delusional, or some combination of those three.

To make things worse, all the money in universities is being sucked up by the explosion of the self-licking ice cream cone of middle management catering to the "student experience" or whatever else.

Look up the absolute explosion of management salaries in universities in the last 20 years.
>> But in this case, it was the protected class doing the discriminating.

That's a Category Error. "Religion" is a protected class. "Jewish" is not a protected class.
That's why I left BIOT/Diego Garcia off the list haha - I've no interest in a mandatory visit to Gitmo shortly thereafter.
That makes more sense than the OP's suggestion.
No clue. I dropped Postman for Insomnia and haven't looked back.
There is seemingly less and less reason for identities at all.

Why should T-Mobile care who it is they are giving phone service to? As long as the bills are paid on time, it shouldn't matter. Here's my order ID and my password.

And before anyone makes the terrorism argument, it would seem that our country has deprioritized that initiative.
Canada has opened the flood gates - https://www.immigration.ca/canada-to-dramatically-increase-i...
> [cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko] was able to find about 1.9 million records detailing individuals’ no-fly statuses, full names, citizenship, genders, passport numbers, and more.

> “it seems plausible that the entire list was exposed”
They are reduced in the immediate local area, though. Which is something one can certainly optimize for.

Local road emissions are linked to poor health conditions like asthma.
I'm pretty sure it's both. The problem with a company being both is that it generally seems very hard for companies to promote to market value. This makes sense to a degree when you consider that the company has to be a bit discerning as to what it trusts in those negotiations. I can say I've gotten an offer for anything I want. I can say the going rate for my position is what I see being offered on the market, even if I might not be hired for those positions. There will most likely always be a tension between what a company thinks someone is worth and how they value themselves, so there will always be the risk that someone believes they can get more elsewhere. I'm not sure overpaying would even help this, people might just adjust perceived their self worth accordingly.
> So someone opens this CSV in Excel and there's garbage in A1?

Yeah, that's why I chose the “thing that looks like a text file—including optionally CSV—but has additional metadata after the EOF mark” approach instead of stuffing additional metadata in the CSV; there's no way to guarantee that existing implementations will safely ignore any added metadata the main CSV body. (My mechanism has some risk in that there are probably CSV readers that treat the file as a binary byte stream and use the file size rather than a text stream that ends at EOF, but I expect its far fewer than will do the wrong thing with additional metadata before the first header.
In this case it makes their "product" worse because search quality is bad and only focused on exploiting Google's user. Google has an incentive to remove these companies for their own benefit even if you ignore basic ethics
> completely captures every thing we could possibly do with it in a program

Yes, but this is far less than nature can do with it -- which is my point, that discrete computation is extremely limited.