skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had other banks call for fraud alerts.

Once, I got a call about attempted activity on a debit card. The person gave the wrong last four digits of the card number, then the call dropped due to poor cell reception.

This was on Christmas Eve or something. I called the number on the back of the card, but they were an outsourced call center for card replacements. Fraud alerts had been outsourced to a different company, so they had no idea if the call was legit.

I went into the physical branch the next week, and spoke to a manager. They said it could be legitimate or not. I think we ordered replacement cards at that point, and watched the next few statements more closely than normal.

Honestly, the behavior of the scammer sounds more legitimate than the actual non-scam behavior of the last half dozen banks I've dealt with.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. If your neighbour's ap appears at your house, at 5Ghz, means that either you are very close or his house if basically transparent to 5Ghz (lots of windows maybe?).

There is no such limited channel selection in 5Ghz. In 2.4 sure, but 5ghz surely not, with over a hundred channels and poor material penetration.

Meshed 5Ghz is neighbour friendly, not the other way around. Is a saner way of doing wireless network in crowded environments.

Some equipaments even use proprietary protocols and licensed radiobands for the trunk traffic, thus alleviating even more the 5Ghz range.
> ... then we all go to heaven and/or the world ends because robots kill us all.

Scary and/or overhyped language aside, I don't get why is this such a hard concept to grasp for generally educated people. Humans were a singularity from the perspective of chimps (and various other animals). It doesn't mean we immediately hunted down every chimp in existence, it means chimps became irrelevant and only a few of them remain - mainly in zoos and reservations. I would've called it a "phase transition" rather than a "singularity", but the main point is pretty clear. It's about a new adaptive system taking over the task of burning through local resources faster than its forerunner.

Eukaryotes were a phase transition (better biochemical specialization), Multi-cellular organisms were a phase transition (better biological / behavioral specialization), Mammals were a phase transition (energy regulation, better brains, social systems), Humans were a phase transition (general-purpose language & culture, scalable coordination), and now machines will be the next phase transition (shedding the biochemical shackles & incremental evolution, so to speak).

BTW, humans were a phase transition primarily for exhibiting Turing-complete structured communication and imagination (there's a thesis around this topic called the Romulus and Remus theory of prefrontal synthesis [1]). In a way, we're living in a world that has already gone through a recent singularity, and it was us who caused it.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/166520v9.full
Somehow the world came to a consensus that nuclear weapons should never be used, and that genocide and slavery are reprehensible. Creating and/or modifying viruses to better infect humans belongs on the short global "don't do" list.
Creating a Game Physics Engine with C++
Yes true. And beyond that, the info that’s shared with other counties is vast.

Simply applying for a visa, even tourist visa, almost always requires sharing gender/sex.
> General Average is a maritime law principle requiring that the shipowner and cargo interests proportionately share in the costs associated with rescuing a vessel after a major casualty. When GA is declared, cargo owners are required to contribute to a GA fund before their cargo can be released.

... is what the article says. Is there something wrong with this?
> I could very easily interpret incorrectly one way or the other.

lets make it a bit harder for you :) - the approved EcoHealth NIH grant for the coronavirus GoF work in Wuhan had the "Human Subjects Included" checked.
> I certainly understand the religious perspective. If you believe humans/life is special, created by some higher power, and that the created cannot create, then AGI is not possible.

Well the created clearly can create. I mean, obviously humans (and indeed all life) can reproduce and create new living things... it's just a completely automatic process with a chicken and egg problem. (i.e. to create life you need starting ingredients that are already alive by some metric).

The question though from the religious perspective is whether or not living things have "spirits" or "souls" that causes them to be alive (as opposed to a bunch of matter with the same chemical makeup that is not alive). Because if they do, then creating artificial life would require somehow binding a "spirit" or "soul" into your artificial life vessel which is something we don't know how to do.
I've lived in Lexington for 22 years (two houses) and practically nowhere in it is dense by any reasonable standard. Other than a mere handful of apartment developments it's practically all single-family zoned, with larger lot-size requirements than many other towns nearby. I just don't know how that can seem dense to someone who used to live in JP.

What is true is that the 2.4GHz band can get a bit crowded, because every one of those standalone houses has multiple overpowered APs, plus other devices using (or interfering with) that band. On 5GHz, with more channels and less range, it's not so bad. With modern gear that can do MIMO and automatically select the least crowded channel, plus a wired backhaul between router/APs, those issues disappear entirely. It has been months since I or any other member of my family has noticed any issues at all with our wifi network, never any related to neighbors' activity, and we're in a completely typical part of town. You just have to use something other than the POS that Verizon/Comcast provides.

(In case anyone's wondering: Netgear Orbi, one for every ~1000sf, all connections via Ethernet except for one that's G.hn powerline. Before that I had Synology MR2200s on a wireless backhaul, very occasional bad moments, and then one fried itself.)
Are they still dialing home about your app usage though?
No, the gCaptain article itself gave a good definition of General Average, a fundamental maritime principle that goes back millennia to the Code of Hammurabi in 1755 BC, at least.

General Average is a maritime law principle requiring that the shipowner and cargo interests proportionately share in the costs associated with rescuing a vessel after a major casualty. When GA is declared, cargo owners are required to contribute to a GA fund before their cargo can be released.
The low latency is pretty nice, but ya the actual audio quality is nothing to brag about.
He was writing about the singularity before a lot of the people posting here were born. Maybe google him.
My city has a lot of roundabouts, some are quite big (~150m diameter) as they are used where two or more main roads meet.

When I first came here they usually had three lanes, with the idea that you change lanes as you move through the roundabout - this meant almost daily you would see a minor RTI on a roundabout, which would cause large queues of traffic. Some roundabouts also had three lanes where you enter and exit, but they were usually signalled.

A few years ago they reduced the roundabouts to two lanes, and all exits to one lane. The idea being that for the first and second exit you need to use the outer lane, and for the third or fourth exit you use the inner lane. That inner lane becomes the outer lane after the second exit, so you just stick to the same lane once on the roundabout. The only time you need to change lanes is if you miss your exit and need to go around again. There are clear signs before you reach the roundabout saying which lane you need for which exit.

Since this change was made, I think I've seen maybe one RTI on a roundabout - when somebody was being stupid and tried to overtake a bus. It's such a simple change, but it's crazy how effective it has been. They've also started adding speed bumps to some roundabouts to slow traffic, which actually increases capacity as it's easier to join with slow moving traffic.
Robot Made of Magnetic Slime Could Grab Objects Inside Your Body
what if there're those pesky quantum thingamajiggies which make simulating in silicon impossible?
The atomic bomb is a good contrast. In the early 30s we knew a bomb was possible (Szilard‘s patent was in 1933) but there were huge engineering problems to overcome (enriching uranium). But we knew that even if we couldn’t scale up isotope separation and we had to go there long way around, we could still make a bomb with enough time.

There is no Szilard patent for AGI: no one has any theory on how to make it work other then “make it bigger,” which as this article points out hasn’t paid off like we’d hoped.

I’d have a lot more faith that AGI is possible if we had any kind of theory or roadmap on how to get there. Counting on a black box inventing it for us seems like waiting for a million monkeys to finish King Lear 2.
Yeah, seconding this. I bought my daughter a beautiful 24" XP pro for only like $800. She runs Ubuntu and absolutely loves it.
i think wyden might be the only sitting politician i have an unvarnished admiration for
Obviously if you could remember everything useful for no effort, that would be ideal.

Roughly, Spaced Repetition Studying (SRS) is based around the idea of recalling something just before you would otherwise forget it; and that the time it takes to forget something can be increased if you increase these intervals where you practice recalling.

Anki is an app which does this. It's super useful for language learning (where you want to recall a vast pool of vocabulary, most of which you won't use frequently).

Though, if you're working with something frequently, you won't need to put effort into memorising it.
TempleOS and HolyC excited me way more than it should have. The fact that a single person wrote not only the OS, but the language, games, and applications blew me away. Few people have that kind of persistence.
Yeah. I dated myself with that reference.
Selling high-priced products to few people
What's the point of debating it? The press release seemed to give no information whatsoever that would clue us into motivation.

I would like to see the indictment, if it's not secret itself. There wasn't a link, was there?
AGI as a concept is almost certainly possible. However, it may not be that useful. That is to say, barring a true revolution in computational physics, it may not be possible to run human-equivalent AGI on a computer that's less than several orders of magnitude more massive than a human brain. Biology is unspeakably space-efficient. The brain of a dragonfly uses just sixteen neurons to take input from thousands of ommatidia, track prey in 3D space, and plot an intercept vector. Figure out a minimum artificial computer performance to do the same thing, then scale your requirement by the ratio of human brain to dragonfly brain. The numbers are not encouraging.
He could live another 30 years. You never know.
The us has over ten times the population of Australia. The concentration of power is much greater and the distrust of that power isn’t completely irrational.

What I can’t figure out is why one state out of the fifty can’t do healthcare. That’s how it stayed in Canada, in one province.
Maya, 3ds max, Houdini, After Effects, Nuke, Mari, Katana, Vray, Arnold, Renderman, Clarisse, Modo, Substance, Zbrush, Cinema 4D

https://www.technowifi.com/software/video-editing/visual-eff...
> The over-gigabit speeds are hyperbole

Certainly not. At home right now I'm getting 566Mbs, but my personal router is 2x2. At work, I get consistently 1.2gigabit on imac.
It takes decades of training to make new humans useful enough to participate in many subjects of research. Having AGI researchers means being able to duplicate any expert researcher at any time. Getting more computing equipment to run more AGIs costs money but so does training a human for decades. Even if the AGI is more expensive for some time, there will surely be research subjects that today have money to spare and not enough expert humans that will be able to explode in expert manpower through AGI.

>it will need to have power to act in the world

- Human researchers would bring AGI researchers into their teams and empower them to get stuff done.

- AGIs would be competent at making money through intellectual/remote work and have money to use to act in the world and get what they want.

>and not get sidetracked over-weighting any one of the multiple competing optimizations in complicated real world problem landscapes it will need to navigate to scale.

Humans face this obstacle too.
That's something she should make sure comes up in her future job interviews, especially if her firm deals in the tech industry...if I had an attorney with those sorts of concerns I'd feel pretty good about my legal council.

On a side note, I have no idea why pgp is not more common in that industry. It's completely insane. In some ways, you'd be better off sending your legal correspondence on a postcard with attorney/client priveledge disclaimer at the bottom.
In midtown Manhattan 2.4 GHz is useless. Webpages take up to a minute and sometimes multiple attempts to load.

More typical latency figures: https://hpbn.co/wifi/#measuring-your-wifi-first-hop-latency
Maybe a way to connect users to their HN profile?
> If people wanted to fight for it, stop using NVIDIA products, but do you see that happening? Not bloody likely.

I don't use Nvidia because of this, and I'm not alone. If you ask "what is the best graphics card for linux" on a linux forum you will invariably get a chorus of "not Nvidia".
You can also continue along the same lines:

“At the cabinet level, accepting bribes is a political question, not a legal one”

“At the family of the president level, accepting bribes is a political question, not a legal one”

…

Just wonder, where should we draw the line before we become yet another banana republic?
They've read Joseph Campbell and appreciate the analogy.
One thing missing from the present-day BOM: "grain-of-wheat" size incandescent bulbs (which "fired" to simulate near-TDC ignition).
Many years back I heard a radiolab podcast that touched on this very topic from a qualitative and scientific perspective. The podcast specifically addressed this issue:

What is it that happens in a person's mind at that pivotal moment, when they decide to Voluntarily leave a point of safety... And risk their life to extraordinary degree to save the life of another human?

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/how-b...

Turns out the more empathetic you are the less likely you are to do acts of heroism like this. And it's interesting as to why this is the case. I recommend people listen the audio or read the transcript because this podcast changed forever the way I think of empathy and morality.

It's very much inline with the vox articles conclusion that empathy does not fully equate with morality. But that's not a big deal to me. What was the big deal to me was people who lack empathy and their place in the world and the moral hierarchy.
There's a private school near me which doesn't do grades, which might be close enough.

If you're a parent and seeing your kids grades would distress you, you could choose not to look.
General Fusion is building their test plant right now.
You make some excellent points, thank you.

> like a max between an income-based tax and a wealth-based tax.

I'm not sure if you mean "mix" or "max" but I think my answer might be yes to both. :) What I'm proposing is that the rich continue to pay an income tax like everyone else, but above a certain wealth threshold they need to be assessed for paying a wealth tax. Any amount they pay in income tax can be counted towards their wealth tax, so they don't get double-taxed and don't have to worry about paying more than the median citizen (proportionally).

> I believe in the benefit of doubt.

The best philosophical approach to this that I've found is Rawls's "veil of ignorance"[0] thought experiment. While it is difficult to completely rule out the possibility of bias when asking someone to come up with a policy that has harsher effects on people who aren't like them, I feel confident that I would be willing to trade my current place for the place of a billionaire living in the sort of society I'm proposing.

> As far as I'm concerned, if someone is rich, they deserve to enjoy the fruits of their labor, not to a lesser extent than me.

What if the rich person became rich by inheriting money, or winning the lottery, or being lucky in some other way (e.g. finding oil on their property, or being born with the looks of a supermodel, or being the first to patent an obvious idea)? Societies do try to address these issues with different policy measures, but all I am asking is that the rich "suffer" the same amount as everyone else (i.e. as the median person in their society).

Paying a given dollar amount in tax obviously feels much hard if you have close to that amount in assets, compared to if you have so much money that it's literally uncountable and you wouldn't notice if that given amount were taken from you. So I think it is the poor that we should be giving the benefit of the doubt to when they say that the current system is unfair to them.

> I personally know lots, really lots of people who work much harder than me, and make more money than me.

And I know people who work much harder than me, and make less money than me, because the market doesn't value their work in the same way as it values mine. Sadly I see more people trying to protect the status quo for idle billionaires than trying to change the system so that the hard-working poor are rewarded according to their intrinsic worth as human beings, rather than how little the rich can get away with paying them for the value extracted from them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
good to learn. I've only ever seen people do panes in a very poor imitation.
You bear the risk that you’ll have to pay your pro-rata share of any cargo sacrificed to save the ship.

You can (and probably should) have your own insurance that will pay you in case this happens. The insurer can pay cash to the cargo owners ASAP, and then sort out the equitable sale of the actual cargo and distribution of the proceeds. Kind of like a bankruptcy for a ship’s voyage.

If they have to wreck some stuff to save everybody else, and that works, everybody else has to pay something. Fair-ish, but I suspect Insurers start to call foul on Evergreen’s repeated groundings.
Mnesia from OTP (Erlang)
You can handle it locally, I do. The only feature that doesn’t work with it off is automatic firmware updates. You can still update firmware, you just have to download and upload it manually. It doesn’t even nag about setting up a cloud account.

The only thing I regret of theirs is the router (TL-R605). It’s not bad, but the VPN performance is mediocre, and I always wonder if I would’ve been happier with pfsense. Every other piece of hardware has been great.
Yep, it’s just going through the gamma function.
I am currently working on a CLI that will allow you to query .csv, .xls and .tsv files and SQL tables via plain English.
Show HN: Globemallow- Create a More Sustainable Internet
I created Globemallow to be used as a tool to start conversations about web sustainability.

Look at Fact View to get an idea of the energy required during your internet browsing.

Look at Dev View to identify development methodologies that can help reduce a web page's overall energy consumption.

Designers use it to have conversations with developers.

Account Managers use it to have conversations with their clients.

I'd really appreciate any feedback you might have, and let me know how you might use it :)
Well, for some definition of "make sense" yes, any arbitrary positive decimal number can have a factorial, and even negative non-integer numbers, thanks to the gamma function. I wouldn't really say it makes "sense" though, personally.
3 quadrillion Saturn 5 rockets would be more than it would take to cover the surface of earth (standing up) - but would have less mass than the moon.

Sorry- this question blew my mind.
From what I could see (https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/1089997406/ever-forward-conta..., Wikipedia), the channel is not closed? Maybe operating at reduced capacity because of the need to keep a safety distance to the stranded ship, but they still can get around her.

BTW "She missed her turn" made me think of something different, it's "she missed a turn", as in going straight forward when she should have turned right or left.
> I realize I wasn't being very nice, and I apologize for that.

No worries at all: I agree with you.

More then just salaries, there's definitely a glut of people chasing the gold rush. More power to 'em (I guess) but it is a bummer for the rest of us.
If I understand it correctly, this is mostly about cargo losses resulting from voluntary actions, i. e. throwing containers overboard to lighten the ship to get it unstuck.

The idea is that the crew should not be put into a position where they argue which cargo to jettison, and the customers should not have to care about the position of their cargo on board. Averaging out partial losses makes everyone's interests align. If all cargo is lost, the result of following the process would be identical to everyone losing the value of their cargo.

Costs from environmental damage are excluded. Some of the salvage operations are included. Not sure if it's limited to the value of your cargo somewhere, but it doesn't seem to be a risk of unlimited liability.
You Can Safely Ignore Web3
Wow I've read pretty far into this stuff, but I've never thought of what you wrote in your last paragraph. An AGI could be perfectly OK with death.
Care to explain what you mean by that statement?
COVID.gov
I can't really fault the tech companies for this, it's not a great place to be in and there isn't an obvious solution.

For all of the box ticking, theatrical diligence and audit-preparedness work I’ve had assigned to me in my Devops career, and bespoke security “services” and “products” out there that merely exist to enable more box ticking in the name of “security and compliance”, I think maybe we should start.
Yes, this! I had an email from a 3rd party telling me about required training, click the link and use my employee credentials to log in.

Other training has been posted as a to-do in our individual HR account portal, and this was an external site, so it set off warning flags. Not only that, the name of the 3rd party was a legit company, but the site the email linked to was not that company's domain. Big red flag! Curious as I am, I run whois on both domains. Completely different registration info!

So, confident I've identified a phishing attempt and concerned it might have been shotgunned to many people, I notify the appropriate people. Was it a scam? Nope! In fact the person I notified was quite frustrated because a month earlier there had been an email that, sometime in the future, there would be $X training coming up. Yeah, a month later I had no recollection of a generic HR notification that (when I looked in my archive) made no mention that it would not be using the standard secure MFA HR portal used to link out to all other training.

This was all about 4 months after a similar required security training, which was accessed via the usual HR portal, and which listed about half a dozen phishing red flags that the new training violated. But not to worry, my workplace takes security seriously. I guess their seriousness is just very unevenly distributed. It's a good thing we're not really a high value target for hackers.
I go one step further and tell them I don't talk to unauthenticated callers, ask them for a reference number and an published return phone number that I can authentic using the usual methods (website, advertising material), explain to them that unaurhticated / cold calls are unethical, and then end the call.