skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had calls from my bank's fraud prevention department and, for me, they go down like this:

* A call comes in from a number I don't recognize, it goes to voicemail.

* The voicemail message says "This is the fraud prevention department at $BANK, please call us back at $NUMBER"

* I pull out my physical card, call the number on the back (which does not match $NUMBER). I go through the menu tree to get the fraud department and ask if the call was legit.

Interestingly enough, at some point the bank modified the menu system so that when you enter your card and the fraud department has called you they'll bypass the menu completely and transfer the call right to that department. Clearly I'm not the only one that does this and they don't necessarily want to discourage this behaviour.
Permanent hug-of-death?

> Lupinia Hosting Is Shutting Down

Original archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331074459/http://www.lupini...
It's more likely (imo) that humans are constrained by biological limits (energy, head size) than some true maximum.

A simple thought experiment is the same architecture of the human brain (whatever that is), but just with way more power to run at more operations per second.
Oh interesting. The way I read it it sounded like it was manipulating the cams. I have heard of mechanical fuel injection — pretty cool stuff but yeah very finicky.
It only took one early 2000s Audi for me to swear off German cars for the foreseeable future. I don't know that their questionable design choices are applicable to the rest of the industry's chip practices.

Story time:

Around that time they saved a few bucks by switching the thermostat housing from metal to plastic and not changing the design at all so that it could be a drop-in replacement. With that distinct lack of engineering effort, they were prone to splitting at corner-induced stress lines in the plastic.

In an ordinary car this wouldn't be an issue; thermostats fail regularly, so their housings are readily accessible -- kind of like how most cars make changing the oil filter a manageable task. In an Audi however, the process is to take the front half of the car off to expose the engine, take the front half of the engine off, and then replace the now easily spotted housing.

So anyway, I don't know of a better place for the thermostat housing to split in half (leaking coolant out faster than you can pour it in) than the middle of fucking nowhere WY. By this time mobile phones were pretty common, but I swear to God they were sharing a single 1Mbps connection across ten counties; only about every third Google search would succeed without timing out, and as a precursor to learning how to take apart my car it was quite literally faster to code up a crude strip-the-garbage proxy (paginating compressed text and nothing else to send back) and deploy that to a home server than it was to try to surf the modern web over at best a 1k connection.

In retrospect the coding wasn't necessary since speeds increased to something manageable in the wee hours of the morning when everyone else was asleep and since it was absolutely not a 1-day job, but it was a bit of a fun experience anyway.
If I'm understanding you properly, recursive lockfiles means that if I depend on some chain of dependencies A->B->C->D->E, and E has a security vulnerability that they patch in a new version, I have to wait for A B C D and E to all update their lockfiles before the security vulnerability will be patched on my system?
Diabetes drug linked to genital birth defects in baby boys
You’re hanging out with the wrong engineers.

But I hear you. You should move, at least do a six month lease somewhere and work remotely.
Here's my attempt at parsing it: it means that compared to Prolog, Python feels very limited; just like BASIC is a limited language compared to Pascal and Modula-2.

But I think this ignores that nowadays people just write custom DSLs embedded in a more general programming language, so for example you can use a logic programming library in Python. With it, one can use logic programming to solve some domain, but still use regular Python code for doing everything else (handling persistence, user interaction, etc)

Here's how such library would look like https://github.com/pythological/kanren - this HN thread discusses it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698718 (people implemented this DSLs embedded in many languages, not just Python)
One I can believe, two is stretching it, but three in a row? Something stinks.
What has that got to do with anything I said?
> I'm pretty sure that I understand what you're saying, at least, and that we're talking about the same things. I don't know what you expect, though, when the fundamental premises are in dispute. There's no way to just "yes-and" through disagreements like that.

If you start from the premise that you know everything, there's not much to talk about. The basis of such interactions is to try to learn from the other person, be intellectually curious.

> Is that a statement or a question? In any case, it's hard to begin to conceptualize what sort of misunderstandings about the relevant media could lead to either.

That the is the language of someone trying to fight - about document formats!
Well, only to be expected when people fuck with peoples livelihoods to the degree things have evolved, either thru gross negligence or explicit intent…

There's a lot of people in power all over the world who have made decisions these past few years and it won't be surprising when people seek retribution (some of which who will seek for it to be payable in such decision makers blood).

And it could be worse, if the aggrieved are not satiated (within or outside the rule of law), people may seek retribution payable by such decision makers friends and families… metadata trails left all over the place would make such easy at scale…
Thank you. That website and article were a train wreck.

I had no idea that ship was still stuck. I guess now they have to dismantle it in place? What's process here?
It’s not a parkour trick when it is understood :)
But I might miss out on a sweet extended warranty deal for my car.
And this is based on evidence from what healthcare systems?
I am really surprised that it is still stuck. The Ever Given was only stuck for 6 days in what appeared to be a more challenging situation.

This has now been 2 weeks. I guess that since it's not blocking anything they don't have to move as quickly.
That is one of those situations where the right move is to leave an uncomfortable silence so they can think about what they said.
"BECKY, PICK UP! I'm missing my show!"
> figuring out your dosage

If you're saying what I think you're saying, you certainly missed the entire point and it's not worth discussing this in the context of a straw man.
Imagine an Apple. Is that Apple material?
I would add that it wouldn’t tire or bore, wouldn’t make trivial errors, and wouldn’t suffer from poor recall.
If you think a little deeper about that 5min vs 3hrs between reviewer and reviewee, you may consider that the reviewer is likely to have a great deal many of reviewees to review. In the choice of initial friction and evaluation before human interaction, it always depends on economics. Engineers don't generally enjoy interviewing people. We want to solve problems. But once there is a candidate that has caught our attention, we love meeting our potential new work mate.
Lab leak events also happened several times. China had three(?) times of SARS leak events. So, what would Occam’s razor say about this?
They are a tiny company as well, yet they have employed kernel developers since the early 00s when Linux was far far from what we see today when it comes to software for artists. Keep in mind also that Wacom is more than just about artists, as they produce display/pen integrations for offices where customers need to read and sign agreements and tiny black and white LCD displays with pens for signatures.

All praise on my part, but it would have been nice if the blog post had used photos of people using their tablets with Linux rather than (at least to my eye) Windows. '^^
OMG it's an April Fool's joke.
Why would I suffer from mental health issues if my kid gets bad grades? I'll just do what I can as a parent to help them get better.
The only part that seems to contradict Jay-Z on is his need to leave his car, and adds that the police could "smell marijuana" to get probable cause.
Two comments from the lwn comments section:

> It's interesting that the rather lengthy list of "attributes" does not include anything about political views or affiliations.

> That's a desirable and standard omission, considering one common political affiliation these days is defined largely by hatefulness towards many kinds of people. [...] It's perfectly fine for certain political affiliations to be unwelcome.

1. Make up new words to describe your political opponent's beliefs.
2. Categorize those words as "hate" and put them in the same category as sexual assault.
3. Ban your political opponents from participating in open source software.

Literally no one is fooled by this. The only political affiliation that should be unwelcome is the one that comes up with these schemes to shut down reasonable discussion because they know they would lose in an open marketplace of ideas.
Technology is definitely not a core competency for most lawyers. With data breaches recently hitting several prominent law firms, however, clients are increasingly scrutinizing their law firms' data security practices.
Regulation is marketed as protecting safety and justice.

That doesn't mean it's what it actually does.
Heat death of the sun probably happens before we can reproduce the processes required to achieve consciousness-computations in real time at low power.
"I have a certain amount of ennui lately."

When exactly did that start happening? How do you know the treadmill is the cause?
Only with checked exceptions, which I think most of java has made an anti-pattern now?
Curious to know what software the high-end VFX studios use. I'd just assumed most places were using adobe software.
CS was "equally bad" to other not great fields in the aughts. It has gotten exponentially worse as enrollments have exploded.

CS is embarrassingly bad even relative to the already low standards.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that many computer/data science programs are 100% staffed by pure mathematicians who both have never done academic work in computer/data science and also have never worked a day in industry.

Find me a single mathematics department that offers a BS in Mathematics and in which 40+% of courses are taught by failed psychology PhDs. That's the state of CS at many institutions.

Again, I take your point that everything is not great. CS is a whole order of magnitude worse. Even at places that aren't great.
If the "non-material" is required to explain material phenomena, then it must be causally related to the "material"...but at that point what exactly makes it "non-material" at all?

"Non-material" just sounds like a bad label for material things we don't understand.

We don't understand how our cognition or consciousness works, but it seems silly to assume that because we don't understand we fundamentally can't understand.

People who push the mysterious interpretation of dualism are just trying to find a place for the divine that is separate from the material but in doing so they baselessly seek to circumscribe our capacity to understand.
Only via significant inflation. Tamp inflation down, nothing moves.

The outflows of capital from Russia, China and other places were not as prevalent in the 70’s, neither was the role of money laundering in the high-end real estate market. Maybe recent curbs on Russian capital flight will affect the upward pressure in some places. But the way capital is allocated and applied now is rather different than in that time, and homebuilding is also in a different state. I expect we’re in a distinct period with distinct dynamics and that it’ll be 5-15 years before there’s any real positive movement (real decline in home values), if it happens.
Supabase Functions on Deno Deploy
The first thing you should do when someone contacts you about a transaction you don’t recognize or with any kind of account concern is hang up / don’t email back and find a valid number for the company from a reputable source and call them back. If they are legit you’ll connect with them, if not you’re already in the right place to get the id theft investigation started.
"removing biological limits" is a big handwave. Biological hardware is tuned exceptionally well for intelligence, and we have a massive amount of it distributed worldwide. We already remove biological limits by building tools, computers, powerplants etc. Duplicating one AGI unit now doubles the amount of energy and resources it needs, and also creates a requirement that the system can somehow produce more of itself and all the supporting infrastructure it requires. It's not just a matter of being "intelligent" (im not even sure what "intelligent" means in this context either) - it will need to have power to act in the world, 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.
Blender has a large market share. Other tools like renderman are used. Painting software such as Krita and others but Photoshop and Substance Painter are still king (windows). Unreal engine is gaining a lot of traction in the VFX digital set space.
This internet of things future is frightening. I don't feel comfortable buying any new product.
That’s what experts in fusion have been saying for 50 years though… now that Moore’s law has ended, it might be a long while…
I hadn't considered that choice, you're absolutely right! A well summarized commit, and even a potentially detailed body, is absolutely within the realms of what i would review, and trying to anonymize by pull request title seems silly at best.
Back in 99 my mom was building a new townhouse. I had them run cat-5 everywhere. I also had them run a 3" stack down the utility wall.

The builder, who had done commercial, really hated the requirement. They were supposed to let me vet the cable before closing up the walls. They closed up half of them. The effing electrician stapled through half the exposed stuff. Somehow that was acceptable with phone wire and power... that's what he tried to explain. Guy also left maybe 2" of cable in the wall boxes, he had terminated it all as phone jacks, so just cut it back. Luckily the GC asked me what the stack was for before they put it in, they almost put joints in it in the wrong spots.

We ended up getting comped for the whole install and they fired the electrician (several other fuckups). Luckily the router -> gaming pc run survived.

I'm assuming builders know what they're doing with network cable these days. I'm glad I didn't have the electrician try and run fiber (that's what the stack was for).
Does your FAANG support you working remotely?

I moved to Vegas from CA and twisted some arms in upper management/HR of my company to keep my salary.

Most HR's has abusive practices to cut salary if you move to cheaper place but if you have personal connections and good relationships in upper management you can solve it.

Benefits are clear.
Should You Build Your Own Router?
> An operation is a calculation based on some inputs. Which operations are linear and predictable? Multiplication, it seems.

> Exponents (F(x)=x^2) aren’t predictable: 10^2 is 100, but 20^2 is 400. We doubled the input but quadrupled the output.

I'm struggling to find sympathy for this tortured definition. "Predictability" seems like such poor way to work out an explanation for linearity.
It’s well and truly buried. Something like it plowed into the mud at 14 knots, and pushed over a full ship length into it. It’s draft is typically 40ish feet and it’s in 20ft of water at the bow. So that means it’s buried 20ft in mud up front. The strength of the suction alone is staggering. I’m starting to think it might be there for a very long time. Maybe even salvaged in place.
NSPredicate dates from before when Objective-C had closures. Objective-C didn’t have closures because it was a thin layer on top of C, and C uses callbacks not closures.

NSPredicate is serialisable because you might want to include it in e.g. a schema. These schemas would be loaded from the app bundle so there’s no security concerns unless your threat model includes modifying the app bundle (which is more of an OS level issue).

The issue is that the serialization needs to distinguish between data that is serialized by the developer of the app at build-time, and data that is serialized at runtime.
The post I replied to was, in turn, replying to my post.

I do not live in a 3rd world country.
I’m sorry the citation is in the other direction.

Here is a citation in the direction that you want. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299858388_Roles_of_...
> you aren't putting food on tables (other than the shareholders)

And the employees.
I totally agree, President Xi.
I think when I had fraudulent charges on a credit card I was directed on where to find the appropriate customer service # on my credit card and the options to choose for a fraud issue, and proceed from there knowing that I was talking to the real company. Seemed like a pretty good way to avoid all sorts of scams like this.
I think something like OpenAI CLIP + Gpt3 "understands" English at a level comparable to a 7yo.

It can respond to questions and explain its answers. Sometimes it's wrong, but so is a 7yo and you can usually understand why.

Is it intelligent? Maybe it is.
The local news says: "She missed her turn."

Now, anyone who's been in the biz (4.5 years of sea time in the U.S. Navy here) knows that a vessel getting underway has an experienced pilot and a full navigation detail on the bridge while in restricted waters.

Looking at the ludicrous funds already spent over the last three weeks (we must be talking hundreds of millions by now, with no end in sight) and the ripple effects of closing the channel (which costs must jump into billions almost immediately), saying "she missed her turn" is almost a middle finger to the audience.

Was it a steering casualty? Were the radars operational? Was the crew qualified? Does someone want to craft an unsavory theory?

The costs involved were quite literally among the main drivers for creating the idea of insurance[1]. Tell me what caused her to "miss her turn". With stakes that high, such mishaps really need a full-on tsunami behind them for such a simplistic explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_insurance
This assumes that there is no free will however :)
So what's the question?
"Maybe the advantages of a ubiquitous, conventional language that doesn't require its own bespoke input system..."

You mean like the Almquist shell. If Python interpreter was faster and smaller than the shell, I would learn to use it for everything.
The selection method for algorithms/AI is solving better the problem it have at hand, not reaching sentience. If that was just evolutionary the inefficient intermediate path points would have been pruned far before reaching anything resembling a sentience. You won't get there by accident/random.

And at least for living things there is that whole inputs/interaction/senses and communication with your peers that is already optimizing the function towards a sentience. None of that is present in a similar way to what we have for AIs. You may have a process, and a refinement, but you won't end having something that we can recognize as sentience, it would be something qualitatively different.
Doesn't node have lockfiles? Cloning a project and running npm install would install the exact dependencies declared in the lockfile right? To quote the docs[1]:

> The goal of package-lock.json file is to keep track of the exact version of every package that is installed so that a product is 100% reproducible in the same way even if packages are updated by their maintainers.

[1]: https://nodejs.dev/learn/the-package-lock-json-file
New icq?
If I am understanding this correctly -- if I ship cargo across oceans via container, I am potentially accepting some piece of liability for fixing any accident that occurs? Is this true?

Or are they just saying, oopsie, your costs are your own costs due to this lost cargo, we will not recompensate.
Have any of that third put up any testable theories about that something? Or are there leading theories as to what the something might be?
Encrypted messages on HN?
>call back the official service number

I thought that was fairly standard in banking/credit card fraud as well. That's how I was directed to proceed when I got a call from my CC company about fraud: "please call the service number on the back of your card regarding potentially fraudulent transactions"
Everything is incredibly fast. Still blows me away that MS haven't implemented something like this in their search.
You guys are killing it with these product updates, I feel like I'm hearing about them once every few weeks, and I'm not even actively following you. My team is on Firebase right now and I have some mixed feelings about it; will definitely keep you on my radar.
It's an a good demonstration of F#'s expressiveness. It compiles to JavaScript here thanks to Fable.
Anything with much greater capabilities than us that would find our resources useful and that doesn't explicitly have our best values at heart would be a danger to us. European settlers were not good news for the Native Americans. Early humans were not good news for many great apes.

(It might be tempting to imagine this from a higher-level perspective and assert that each of these successors were somehow more interesting or had more fulfilling lives than what they replaced, and so therefore these successions might be ultimately good in the long run, but that's not meant to be part of this analogy. We won't have some genetic lineage with AGI; it will probably be more alien to our mind's design than actual aliens produced by evolution like us would be. The AGI might not build a world replacing ours where many of its kind have lives we would find fulfilling or interesting. It might care just about making the world completely predictable and safe, empty of outside threats and life, and hibernating in a place of safety. Plenty of animals live solitarily and might do this if they were naively uplifted into superintelligence. Humans and social animals instinctually believe in the goodness of friendship and society because evolution saw we were good at surviving in groups and molded our instincts to encourage us to do that. AGIs won't necessarily have that if we don't design that into them (or set up the process that designs them to do that).)
It's a site for people who carry out an ancient profession that has had millennia to accrue jargon and lore.