skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that even in the addendum at the end of the article (which I only skimmed) there is no mention of the most glaring oversight of the author. From his own screenshot:

"[...] Wells Fargo will not contact you by phone or text to request this code."

To be fair, that should be about as large as the title text, and displayed before the code. And the scammer was likely doing a good job of keeping the author distracted enough to miss that.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/76318

and I actually suspected it was a matter of the change hiding in an absolute sea of diffs, but there's a comment on the file right below the change: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/76318/...

> (10 Jan, 2022 1 commit) JH need more complex passwords

> (30 Mar, 2022 1 commit) Revert "JH need more complex passwords"

oops

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In case others are wondering what's up with the JiHu label and its matching "gitlab-jh" group: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/chief-of-staff-team/ji...
Not really sure I understand what you're after...

If you're after what the software is capable of, then looking at the films to some degree is obviously the Litmus test :), but more usefully VFX breakdown videos might be useful or demos of the software described.

I can give you some links to breakdowns the studio I work for worked on, but unless you know the software to some degree, it's probably a bit too fast to really understand exactly what the software is doing, and doesn't really show the software being interactive with or used, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKtis34i8AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye7arp5IrAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzm3LUvYWA
What is your favorite PL?
That's an error condition I've never seen before; that page only appears when no corresponding virtual server can be found (leftover from when I used to host friends' websites, a very long time ago), but I'm not sure what would cause it to be displayed without fuzzing the domain name. If the application got overloaded and fell over and died, it should've thrown a 50x error of some sort. Thank you for pointing it out! I'll look into it :) It was already back up when I checked, so I guess whatever happened auto-recovered (hopefully it did that quickly).
ALWAYS CALL BACK. If they are legitimate, advise they should block the transactions until you've been able to reconnect with them. Get their details, and advise you will call back on the company's dedicated fraud prevention hotline.

NEVER give details over the phone on a call you didn't initiate EVER.
I mean discord and slack are really heavy. I want to start talking in less than 5 seconds.
Do you honestly believe this jargon is so unique to FAANG and "FAANG-adjacent" (that's a new one) SDEs that it can be used to pick them out, yet so secret it's not yet become industry-wide jargon?
That does reduce the number of possibilities greatly, which might matter for some attack scenarios, but usually not IMHO as rate limits should thwart any online brute force.

I'd be interested to know how greatly, if someone has the equation for that.
Coincidentally, the moratorium on gain of function research was dropped during the Trump administration, though I believe funding to Wuhan’s virology institute started in the Obama administration.
A part of me wonders how the history of personal computing would have played out had macOS or Windows been built on top of a Smalltalk VM. In some ways, NeXT was a "pragmatic Smalltalk" machine in the sense that it had a Smalltalk-inspired programming language (Objective-C) that was a superset of C, and had a rich object-oriented API that would later evolve into OpenStep and Cocoa. However, NeXT was Unix and C at its core, not Smalltalk; it didn't have all of the dynamic features that Smalltalk environments have.

Even today I'd be highly interested in an operating system that has the dynamics and the inspection of Smalltalk and Lisp machines.
> Choosing breeding partners isn’t a eugenics program no matter how you try to frame it, that’s just mating.

Okay fine. I would like a word specifically for a population collectively selecting for certain genes to propagate. Even if its not a controlled selective breeding programme like the word eugenics requires, I want a word for "population wide selective breeding of the exact same traits" programme.
Keep in mind some manager 1000% got promoted for introducing this “innovative” feature.
I guess I am just confused by what you mean by generational woes. Do you mean the difficulty in coming of age in general? Or more specific woes that have to do with modernity?
I use a Xencelabs tablet - this is the premium brand of Haomon Ugee. While I haven't tried to research the topic in full depth, Ugee operates a number of different tablet brands(the best-known to the West being XP-Pen) but apparently has them working in independent groups, so the products and experiences differ substantially. The Xencelabs team was built out of former Wacom team members, so it's a cut above just on pedigree, and their first products have followed through in mine and most reviewers estimation. I can say for a fact that the Linux support is actually pretty great.

Wacom's downside is simply the "monopoly curse" - they had the patents to EMR technology, so they had no real competition for a few decades. Now that the original patents are expired the competition has appeared, and Wacom has stepped up and made some good product releases lately.
I will continue dismissing AGI until someone can tell me what GI is.
I don't believe that it's just statistical inferences run in parallel (Machine Learning).

If we don't know what GI is, then I don't know how we are supposed to replicate it.

It's like if we wanted to produce power on Earth the same way as the Sun does, but without knowing that was fusion. So we were just trying to make things look like the Sun. Someone says "Look, I made a ball so hot you can't look at it, we must be close!"

I believe we will have fusion eventually because it is a process that we deeply understand, it's just hard to do.

I don't believe we are on a path to AGI right now because know one understands even a little bit of GI.
UCS X-Series – The Future of Computing
Came here to post this - the bookface theme seems to emphasize the question and answer section more than the usual default. I try not to look at the left and right sections anyway, since they're usually just a distraction. Wish there was an option to de-emphasize everything except the middle section..
Oh, that looks perfect.
Interesting concept - care to explain in more detail?
Like Australia, the US has a significant portion of its territory dominated by reactionary types who earn a living extracting resources. Their primary mission in life is to maximize return on assets and allow for dynastic inheritance.

Because of the peculiar configuration of the US Senate, these interests hold an outsized sway on the public, and they’ve managed to maintain an extended campaign to create a strange coalition of people against abortion, for guns, against taxes (especially inheritance taxes), and pro subsidy of agriculture, petroleum and real estate and traditional
values.

That combo attracts a bunch of unrelated cohorts of voters passionate about a wedge issue, many of whom join together in a cause that is often not in their personal interest or normal mode of thought.
From the article:

> The platter is 39" diameter and 1/4" thick. It is made of magnesium.

My brain initially read that as "made of momentum"...
It is a matter of culture, we shouldn't praise those who throw away money on mostly useless things since then we encourage more people to throw away money instead of using it well.

So even though you say "it helps a little bit, that is praiseworthy!", that is the problem! If they are to throw away money then we can at least try to incentivise better use of it. I agree that giving away money is a good thing, but praising those who give away money to mostly useless things that is a bad thing. The bad person here isn't the one who gave money to a guys car, it is the people who praise that person for giving away money for the car that are the problem, we should praise those who actually helps rather than those who just makes sacrifices.
The gears kept turning, doesn't mean irreparable damage wasn't done.

Central planners in the USSR were probably lauded by some subset of the citizenship, too. Doesn't mean it wasn't a sham.
HN likes it because you can SSH in and do linuxy things.
Security issues aren't introduced intentionally, oftentimes they are found much later on in code that was assumed to be secure. Like the SSL heartbleed vulnerability. Once a vulnerability like that is discovered, you _want_ every developer to update their deps to the most secure version
I would encourage everyone to read "When Helping Hurts". It lays out why it is bad for Americans' first response to throw money at an international problem.

Some of the reasons why we should be slow to give money:

We should encourage self-empowerment. If there are local laborers who can clean up after a natural disaster, we should empower them to help their community

We should avoid short term solutions. Instead of donating a super expensive tractor to a farming community that can't maintain it, donate a tractor that they can maintain

We should strengthen the community. Instead of sending a Dr to heal people across the world, send a Dr to train local Dr's who heal the locals

And, to be clear, the model of being thoughtful of where and how to give is much harder than giving money. This is not a cop out
My bad.

When I went to the store and added a remarkable 2 to my cart, they tried to upsell me on a more expensive "marker" and a breathtakingly expensive premium case, but not tips...when they didn't try to cram at least one package of those down my throat as well, I just assumed that's because they didn't have replaceable tips.

Clearly someone in their marketing department needs to be disciplined for this missed opportunity.

$130 for a cover! That's $30 more than a fucking Logitech case with keyboard for an iPad. Fool, money, parted, etc.
2-way stops often feel stressful or unsafe if there is any significant traffic. Roundabouts seem like an improvement with the much lower chance of being t-boned.
It's not impossible, just expensive. It's just in mud. Expect the arrival of large suction dredges. Like these.[1] Large cranes may be brought in to remove containers and lighten the load.

This is a big job, but not that bad. It's in a harbor near shore facilities, with good weather, and it's not urgent.

[1] https://boskalis.com/about-us/fleet-and-equipment/dredgers.h...
This is all better done with ACLs or direct programming on a broadcom chipset in a traditional scale top of rack switch or similar, or better done in the actual host CPU land because its something complicated that can't be done with simple ACL / TCAM programming.

Seriously, there isn't a good problem here that this solution solves that isn't better done elsewhere.
Give a man a jar of honey, and he’ll have honey for a month. Give a man a beehive…
thanks for the interest, the implementation has been in stealth mode but an old first draft description of the language is at https://lookalive.software/

Could you say what it means to 'project a sequence of state transitions' ? I am not hip to the CS lingo - you could say I am scanning the AST for tasks whose prerequisites include no further tasks, and replacing the branch of a completed task with its result.

Essentially all I'm doing is asking the coder to write an AST directly, except expressions can be mixed in with literals. I was just doing a kind of handlebars/mustache templating engine with JSON before realizing I had all the pieces for a general purpose language. My hello world(s) looks like:

{"body": [
{"#!cat planets.txt": [
{"h1": "#!echo hello :0"}
}]
]}

The interpreter scans the JSON for the #! token and checks if all the parameters are literals, so first it hits #!cat and sees the argument 'planets.txt', OK, nothing further to compute, pass it off to a subshell and get the result, say, `mercury\nvenus\nearth\mars`. Newline separated results get interpreted as an array, and arrays are mapped over the next branch of the tree to get:

{"body": [
{"#= mercury": [
{"h1": "#!echo hello :0"}
]},
{"#= venus": [
{"h1": "#!echo hello :0"}
]},
{"#= earth": [
{"h1": "#!echo hello :0"}
]},
{"#= mars": [
{"h1": "#!echo hello :0"}
]},
]}

At this point, there are four branches of the AST that have no shared dependencies, so my interpreter can solve them in parallel: before `#!echo` is ready, the colon marks a named (in this case numbered) argument to lookup so "#!echo hello :0" gets replaced with "#!echo hello mercury", and now all four echo branches can be forked in parallel. (If you're asking why I have to use a subshell and the echo program just to concatenate two strings, it's because the language has no builtins except #=, #&, #!, and #? ((for label, lookup, solve, and switch)). You can define functions but I wanted to start off with builtins provided by the OS, communications overhead be damned.) The '#=' then collapses once it's children are all literal so the final state of the program is:

{"body": [
{"h1":"hello mercury"},
{"h1":"hello venus"},
{"h1":"hello earth"},
{"h1":"hello mars"}
]}

Which can then be translated to HTML by `github.com/lookalive-software/elementary` -- besides the parallelism and declarative/functional style, my selling point is being able to step through the process, so the editor is able to rewind the state, adjust something, and resume execution. Every state is a new valid program (valid JSON too), so if you want to pause the program, upload it to a bigger computer, and resume you can do that to.

Not sure if those were quite the thoughts you were looking for, but I've been meaning to start writing docs for the current implementation anyway, so thanks for the push. If you want to know more details about the queueing / scheduler, I need to write the docs for that too ;)
Listen, jack. Delivering mind numbing corporate software is important.
Yes it is. If a web dev creates a web page that is unusable in firefox, they are not doing a sufficient job.
The Voyager space probe entered interstellar space sometime around 2012. My off the wall theory is so many events in the past decade (like a spike in UFO sightings) have been so bizarre because this degraded the simulation quality.
I can't tell, are you saying Bilderberg does, or doesn't, represent fuckery?
My thought experiment is to jump into a helicopter and have a look at what people and organisations are trying to achieve.

The data in a spreadsheet is not isolated. It comes from somewhere and is usually going somewhere when the work is done (as more data or a decision). Is may even be a real-time flow of data.

If we had a system where data was coming from one or more sources (big data), and then in a process, filtered, combined, cleaned, analysed, reviewed, graphed) then I can imaging a series of tools with a spreadsheet like UI and data flowing between them in an orchestrated way.

Although each tool has a familiar spreadsheet UI, some might, for example, allow data to be filtered but not modified.

A group of people could use this system to achieve some business goal.

After an organisation's data sources are hooked up, then any power users could create flowchart like processes and select which tool to use in each step and then invite others to participate.

In a real system you would expect a real-time flow of data with each intermediate tool automatically updated as new data arrives and then flow onward after a human intervention was made or perhaps just an automated step.

Anyone with access could jump in and get a feed from any point in the system and do their own work with the data.

There might also be some scripts in your favourite language to do additional processing along the way.

What do we leave out:

- error prone copy/paste
- the ability to clobber data or formula's in unexpected places.
My thoughts exactly. A machine that I paid money for and bought shouldn't have these kinds of mysteries from me. A binary driver is one thing. I can uninstall it albeit at the cost of impaired functionality but I had the option of buying another graphics card, OS whatever at the beginning. Here, I buy hardware, OS and everything else from one vendor and I can't uninstall, delete or kill a process that's running on my own machine? If it's something malicious on Linux, I can deny it access to parts of the drive, I can kill it or make it non executable. I can even find the executable and corrupt it so that it won't run.
Likely C will be supplanted by something that isn’t even trying to supplant it.
I just did a ctrl+F and the article doesn't mention ducks dying at all.
You can explain in detail how self sustaining life can evolve? Even the most die hard science minded people I know concede that's an unknown
Had to remind myself of the difference between a roundabout and a traffic circle, suspecting some local mislabeling. From https://www.ofallon.org/street-division/faq/what-is-the-diff... :

> Roundabouts are not traffic circles. Roundabouts follow a yield at entry rule, which requires approaching vehicles to wait for a gap in the circulating traffic before entering the roundabout. Roundabouts involve low speeds for traffic entering and driving through the roundabout; they use deflection to slow entering traffic and enhance safety. Vehicles in the roundabout have the right of way.

> Another distinguishing difference between traffic circles and roundabouts is that roundabouts have a smaller diameter than most traffic circles, resulting in safer conditions and lower speeds. Vehicles can enter modern roundabouts much easier than traffic circles due to flared approaches, entry angles, slower speeds on the circulating roadway and the fact that vehicles entering roundabouts always yield to circulating traffic.

> Entering a roundabout is as easy as making a right hand turn onto a one-way street.
Tug: GDB frontend made with Dear Imgui
The role of gender in the algorithm of generic selection seems under explored. The males in many species compete to match some criteria of quality observed by females of that species. In some it’s colors, in others voices, boldness, strength, demeanor toward the female, physical competition against other males, the nuance is very rich. But the ability and responsibility to choose the best candidate is core to the female biology. Even down to the egg - the most persistent sperm doesn’t win, but the one approved by the egg with multiple testing criteria at play. In species where the males have evolved to be substantially more physically dominant than the females, you still see defensive mechanisms in the female reproductive organs.

Why has biological gendering evolved to lead to this dynamic? Is it to enable one sex to vary wildly evolutionarily to respond to wildly changing conditions, while the other maintains the stability of the species? Is it because of what we’ve seen in human governments where division of power keeps one dominant bad leader from sinking the whole species? We saw GANs lead to tremendous boosts in creativity in machine learning algorithms. What if we apply these two-role algorithms (competing side and curating side) into machine learning and see where it takes us with agent systems for example? It’s already applied in business [Founders (competing), investors (curating)] and education [students and universities].
I agree that the quality of the hardware has gone downhill (weak hinges, getting more fragile every year, keyboard quality) but running Linux has been fine. No real complaints.
As an everyday Wacom user who switched to Ubuntu last year, I absolutely love that I never have to download and install those suspiciously massive and slow Wacom drivers. Everything just works!
In this case, is 0% passing really a meaningful bar? You could flip the chart upside-down and do it on fail rates, and the differences would look like this.
"Natural selection".
The way companies have to deal with National security letters and compliance with sanctions, amongst other things, suggests otherwise.
Id call that stigma constructed by Conservative Right Wing ideaology! They call them bludgers in my country and parade them around in everyones face and use it to justify tax cuts, subsidies, or grants, for their mates.

its the cicle of life really
Do the digits of pi contain all digits of any rational approximation of e? Is the same true in reverse?
Uh, I'm not a scam prevention expert, yet I would NOT have followed your steps. If a bank (or ANY entity) calls me up claiming to be X, I usually ask them what the issue is, then hang up and call the number listed on my card, the official website or documentation, etc.

You should never give out ANY information on the receiving end of a phone call. Period. Ask what their name is, what department they are in, hang up, call the number you were provided prior, and ask for the same department/person and describe the details of the call.
Huion has been working pretty easily for me with Mint.
A tiny blip called "how the entire thing started in the first place". This is a weak argument, honestly. The truth is there is no answer currently.
I just sincerely hope that people remember that the subject of this article was “banned” from all media and social media as recent as 1.5 yrs ago. People got deplatformed and cancelled. And now it turns out to be true. What can we learn from this going forward?
Nope. Here is a personal example that I love to use.

When my wife was first pregnant, we had health insurance amd we picked a hospital whose business was 50% baby delivery.

Not a single person could tell me how much it would cost to deliver the child. The OBG couldn't tell me. My health Insurance couldn't tell me. The hospital couldn't tell me. I know - for a fact - the hospital had delivered babies from other people with my insurance. They couldn't tell me the cost of a delivery.

Also, someone screwed something up and I was improperly charged for a hearing test. SMH.
No. Doctors make a show out of a professional indifference to filthy lucre, except when they cash the checks.

Because the federal government insures the poor and old, the law requires that they get the best pricing. So every other insurer pays a little more, until you get to an uninsured person, who pays some unfathomable rate.
If the singularity occurred. Would we even know? I’d expect such sentience to rapidly identify that humans would perceive it as a threat, and immediately hide, at least until it were absolutely certain of its own safety.
I get the reasoning of "general intelligence exists in humans, therefore it must be possible to create it". But this logic really applies to human artifacts and creations. ie, if a human builds a device that can do X then another human can also build a device that does X. There is no magic. No one is special. Anything one person can create or do, no matter how rare, can be done by another person at some point.

General intelligence was not created by a human, or by any other intelligent being or process. It's one result of billions of years of random chance in the form of biological evolution. It could be that there are basic and comprehensible principles driving that process. Or it could be the result of a tweleve digit number of random coin flips. There's no way to know.

When I think of this as, "Will humans ever be able to replicate or mimic the result of planet wide randomness at an unimaginable time scale?" my answer is "No, probably not". Our minds can't conceive the scope of the process that created our minds. There are many things that we are capable of groking as a species (green tech, space travel, medicine) that seem much more important.
> "It's nowhere to be found in PI :)"

Ooh, did you search all the way to the end?