skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not envy the Apply Pay team's challenge to have onboarding systems that span the vast disarray of bank systems (because I know some of my banks and how technically behind they can sometimes be, and I know mine aren't the worst offenders). It is probably a small miracle of engineering and patience that Apple Pay onboarding works at all. (And obviously it is complex enough scammers are using it as an excuse to scam, given the article contents here.)
Recent discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742179).
Without commenting on anything else here:

> “Rust Evangelism Strike Force” was never meant to be pejorative, and “Rewrite it in Rust” was never meant to be a joke

Maybe it's just been such a long time, but my recollection was exactly that: both of these terms were invented by outsiders intending to denigrate the Rust community, and became jokes inside the community as a means of recuperating them.

Okay, I will mention one other thing here:

> This article doesn’t mention Rust (that I noticed) and Go is still being measured up to Rust in the comments.

I agree with this in 99.999% of threads, this happens all the time, and probably shouldn't. However, in this thread in particular with the way that the Go package management story developed, including all of the drama there, I don't think it's surprising that Rust/Cargo get mentioned in comparison.
I mean, that is just an advertisement to reduce meat production and focus on starch based calories for humans rather than supplying to inefficient meat production.
If your comparing major metro areas it can make a huge difference - lots of people talk about moving from California to metro areas in Texas and (assuming they are trying to be homeowners in both places) their tax burden will likely actually be higher in Texas due to the higher property taxes (just the base percentage). And then of course if you own your home in CA for a long time you will end up paying a ridiculously low tax on a high value home (which is another whole can of worms)
Is this an instance of Betteridge's law of headlines in the wild? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines).
The other independent program that comes to mind easily is Ada Academy, but it accepts something like 20 students per year out of hundreds of applicants, so it's not a realistic option for basically anyone looking to enter the coding trades.
There is one simple rule: If your bank calls you for anything, tell them you call them back, then look up their number you have (or the one on your credit credit or whatever) and call them back. Period.

Even if your bank is really calling you they will still understand if you call them back on the number you have.
https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/BuildingAJIT1.html
I saw this sort of thing in american sitcoms as a child, and I was always mildly triggered by it. Here in Australia the landline phone system disconnects as soon as either person hangs up.

On the shows they would sometimes hang up the phone, then somebody else picked up a receiver and the call continued?? Phones don't work like that! Go try it on your real phone, and you'll see!

It never occurred to me that US phones worked differently than Aussie phones.

The fact I was so bothered by this probably says an awful lot about what sort of person I was as a child. Its no accident I fell in love with computers.
That is a completely nonsensical sentence.
Beat me to it! I have no memory of where I first heard it, but it was in my far-away long-lost youth. Despite that, I have never forgotten it, nor lost the ability to call it up instantly from my memory (unlike, for example, my wife's birthday.)
it was apparently written by someone named Leigh Mercer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Mercer).

(Just kidding, honey!)
TeX, though it's not interactive, has "HTML" (document structure), "CSS" (visual presentation), macros, and a standard library, though some people may disagree as to how well-designed it is. Nowadays most people use Lamport's LaTeX standard library rather than Knuth's "plain TeX" standard library, in part because it affords better separation of structure and presentation — journals routinely publish LaTeX stylesheets.
You have written a piece that has provoked an interesting discussion.
I think most people don't write it down, or publish it, even if they have the thoughts.

If you keep sharing, I'll keep reading :)
In the same vein, every corporate "security training" email I've received that's been outsourced to a third party vendor looks indistinguishable from spam and phishing, the exact things it goes on to train you not to open. I scare-quote that because they're universally worthless training programs used to tick boxes on compliance forms and not actual training, so I happily flag them as spam.

I've also recieved company-wide corporate gifts (like $5 digital gift cards) distributed through extremely spammy looking vendors with dubious looking links.

The same goes for the overwhelming majority of vendors, recruiters, and outsourcing companies that are cold-emailing me, it all looks like 50 shades of scam.
Um, wait. You want me to have concrete, helpful suggestions rather than just criticism?

It's hard for me to do this, because I think that your position is completely wrong. That doesn't make me a very charitable critic. But for me, my problem is that I don't think intelligence/consciousness is just an algorithm.

So for a reader like me, maybe the way to do it would be to start by stating certain presuppositions: Moore's law continues to approximately hold for GPUs or for the total compute available for trying to run an AI, algorithm is a major component of intelligence, and as the algorithm becomes more intelligence, it becomes capable of finding still more intelligent algorithms (with no asymptotic limit, or if there is one, it's past the point needed to reach a singularity). And it's fine to say that you think/believe those presuppositions! Then, from those presuppositions, you think that the following things follow. (Or, if you think you can demonstrate those presuppositions, they quit being presuppositions. But then it becomes a different article, and probably a considerably longer one.)

Then someone like me can say that they don't believe your presuppositions, even if they agree that the rest of it probably follows from them.

But maybe I'm not your target audience.
I think of this as the "30-years-away" problem. Strong AI has been 30 years away for some 70 years now. It's just that this time, Kurzweil, Bostrom, et. al. are saying "no, really, it is this time".
its worth noting that "overdose" in this context means you had some temporary psychosis and anxiety for a few hours, this is closer to "ate too much" or "took too big of a dose than desired" than "overdose"

maaaany people would think something else like you needed a bunch of tubes put into you or had to be resuscitated
I phrased it like it wasn't for me ( but it was! ). Love it!
Just FYI, this does not and never applied to mobile phones or any kind of entirely digital (SIP, etc) phone system.

Modern "landlines" when used with DSL or fibre are also no longer "true" landlines, instead the modem/router acts as a SIP client and gives you an FXS port to plug an analog phone into. While it could theoretically emulate this behavior (by keeping the SIP session open for a few more seconds), I don't believe any of them do - in any case it's trivial to test by calling a different phone that you control, hanging up on your "landline" and seeing whether the other phone hangs up immediately (it should) or if the line is held open for some more time.

If this is still a thing (I frankly don't see the purpose of it), it would only apply to real landlines where your phone is directly connected to your phone socket without a modem/router in between.
One of the wonders of the world is how much unnecessary data they collect - just because they can demand it - with nary a thought of how much of a liability that is.

Guess it will take a few years of getting slapped for it to filter down.
Very well said. I've also observed a certain irony that many of the proponents of a materialist/computational view on philosophy of the mind have a very strong faith-based bias to see the world a certain way, versus acknowledging the very likely possibility that our limitations as meat-things may make it very difficult if not impossible to fully grok the nature of reality or consciousness in a general sense.
That's not how the occam's razor work though... Also, we just didn't do GoF research or even had virology labs before the 1950-60s.
Waymo sues to keep autonomous vehicle emergency protocols secret
I mostly use it so that a 'goodnight' voice command will turn off the TV, no matter what source is selected or what is playing.
Maybe the advantages of a ubiquitous, conventional language that doesn't require its own bespoke input system become more clear when you're not just playing around.
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Straight up, you will be hard pressed to get 900mbps through a wireless router. Especially in an office setting with other people connected to the network or where you have any obstructions in the line of sight of the router.

It's possible in the sense that if the stars align and you only have one device connected that is rated at the latest WiFi standard and you have a MIMO router.

If you really really need those speeds, especially if you need those speeds sustained just go ethernet to the router.
>"study done with 59 people"

Well that's not a study at all. Next.
I'm 57 years old and I can't tell which is likely to happen in my lifetime first (or in fact at all) - true AGI or actually viable fusion power. I suspect it's the latter but only because I think its a more tractable problem.
I think the main point is that the experience is so different that its practically a different drug.

People just need to be objective about that. Smoking barely does anything to your tolerance to prepare one for it. While using edibles increases tolerance on edibles.
According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia produces 2.5 million tons of wheat annually, enough to meet domestic demand.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL08699206
The homepage and download page haven't been updated, but I can confirm that Disk Inventory X works just fine for me in MacOS Monterey (12.3, Intel machine)
Not sure what youre thinking of but older games have demos that are recorded games. Those would work well for testing nowadays too imo. Mostly performance testing but still.
I voted this year for the amendment to it basically that mainly involved inheritance - I do not have a huge problem with it for the first generation but when you get to things like homes inherited three times over and the grandkids are paying absolutely nothing on a home worth 4 million dollars then it seems totally ridiculous. The amendment though that passed seems to be a nice middle ground (for now)

The real shitty part about prop 13 for me is not the residential tax rates but commercial/industrial - some giant corporation owning a giant warehouse that has an insane value should NOT be paying a super low tax rate.
Why do you suggest that hasn’t been proved conclusively? It’s been more than two years no one has located the original pool (and we’ve been testing huge numbers of bat populations) or offered a plausible explanations for how the virus could be anything other than a bioweapon.

Essentially none of the virus’s main mutations are things that could have occurred without human involvement and certainly not on the timescale since its last common ancestor.
Yeah I agree using vector::at is a common and fairly bad anti-pattern.

So long as you make sure your program is correct you never need to worry about indices being out of bounds. Requiring bounds checking is a sign you need to eliminate the errors in your software.

This makes me wonder, why are people writing software with errors in it in the first place? Even master programmers seem to be too lazy and careless to remove the errors from their software. What gives?
It’s kind of obvious that they are cheating: 23,074,248th through 23,075,235th hexadecimal digits is approximately 500 bytes. Finding 500 exact bytes in a random sequence would take a very long expected sequence :-)

They do explain what they do: https://kundor.github.io/Cheating-images/
I have a friend who is an experienced senior paralegal. (Experienced paralegals are sought after because the best ones often leave the job quickly to go to law school.) She started work at a new boutique law firm founded by prominent litigators. She was to head up the paralegal department within the firm. She quit days later. Key to her decision, she told me, was the fact that their IT plan apparently involved using the building WiFi instead of setting up an internal wired network. She figured that this was such a red flag regarding the firm’s administrative competency that she was going to have a rough time.
The APs have great options. Cloud, local controller (their hardware device, software or a docker container), or none at all. If you want to start with a single AP you don't need the manager.

I bought their largest AP, the 660, attached it to a second floor ceiling, and found it covered my whole home and much of the yard. It supports 100s of clients.
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Yea the commercial properties is the real kicker - who the hell thought that was a good idea?
The *real* reason there was no Windows 9
I have no direct experience with classified information process in US government. But I highly doubt that anyone can un-classify something without paperwork trail. Imagine a situation when CIA sends top secret briefing to the Secretary of State based on sensitive information from a spy. Declassification of this briefing might result in spy being executed. Thus, I highly doubt that the Secretary of State can declassify this briefing just by herself.

Edit: even the president can’t just declassify docs and had to consult with FBI (and accept their redactions):

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-doj-declassif...
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Governments can ban whatever they like, it is meaningless. Bitcoin exists. As long as there is a communication channel, transactions will flow. It is a simple thing, and cannot be stopped. Every network level distribution can by bypassed. It is by design.
This is specifically the thing that I tend to find so exhausting about these discussions. People get so bent out of shape about their perception the rules are violated when they don't even put the time in to know what the rules are.
The HN discussion mentioned in the post is probably this¹, which has a number of useful comments on what other HN users think a README should be(fewer are contradictory than I expected).

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842191
Yes, this is true; I think the article is definitely making the distinction vs NPM and not Rust.
glad to see this posted. nginx has driven me crazy the past 4 days. After reading and reading and reading, and experimenting.. I have a feeling that when I ran lets encrypt certbot, it added some things in files that were needed, but became a problem when I actually made the config files that were needed to point to the new folders.. I'm still not sure actually.

I ended up just adding another domain name and configuring it from scratch to point to a matrix client folder, and then running the certbot expand.. and now it's working on a different domain.

Guides like this one posted are much more help trying understand the whole chain of things as opposed to a bunch of random pseduo answers via stackover and the like.
Hi! Author here, thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Counterarguments:

1. cost per FLOP (in both wattage and dollars) will be drastically lower in 20 years from now. I personally like to think it may be as much as 100x lower, but that's just speculation.

2. the brain manages to be sentient on just 15-ish watts, so there's no fundamental reason that sentience has to suck up massive amounts of energy.

3. I think trying to measure the brain's computational ability in FLOPS is a somewhat apples-to-oranges comparison. The study you link to does it by trying to measure how much it would take to simulate all the neurons and synapses in a brain, but there's no fundamental reason that sentient AI needs to be structured anything like the brain anyways.

Thoughts?
One aspect of Ethernet I do really like is that when a computer has, physically, no ability to do WiFi (as is the case on many desktop motherboards) you know through what exactly your device is connecting.

If your device has wifi capabilities, you suddenly gained wonderful features: like for example your smart TV using your neighbour's Amazon echo (or whatever the latest evil scheme is these days) to report your viewing habits to advertizers.

I've got WiFi for my "fun" computer: a Mac M1 laptop for the couch. For my serious computer (a high end Linux desktop machine with a gigantic screen) it's ethernet.
There is little difference in managing a bare metal server vs an AWS VM. Both can come preinstalled with your OS of choice. And you are responsible for maintaining the system either way. I'm not talking about colocating your own hardware in a data center. Just renting bare metal.
This is rather unsurprising.

Nearly every time I get sufficiently frustrated with a website to hit F12, I end up discovering security issues...

Usually they're 'minor' - things like a website letting me know more details about someone I'm chatting with than the UI shows. (Eg. Their IP address)
Gold is also a useful metal for jewelry and electronics.
> An uncaught managed exception will not compile, and an uncaught unmanaged exception might terminate your program.

While it's nice that uncaught exceptions stop the program from continuing with invalid state, it'd be strictly better to not have them in the first place. That's what languages with explicit error returns provide - can't have uncaught errors if you're forced to explicitly deal with every possible error. The resulting software is way more robust that way.

> _ := YieldsAnError()

This is a deliberate decision to ignore the error - the programmer needed to explicitly type this out. As such, it's not a problem at all. Even if it was, writing a linter to detect it would be trivial.

The real issue with Go's error handling is that you are allowed to implicitly ignore errors in certain cases. Most of them are caught by linters, but some edge cases remain and not compiling is better than needing a linter in the first place.
If you watch Jim Browning or some of the other people that investigate such scams you'll realize that it's not just a couple of idiots in a boiler room; those operations have all the hallmarks of a legitimate company including layers of management, offices, them having meetings to discuss new scam strategies/etc and the scammers being actual "employees" on a standard (low) wage + commission, so I definitely wouldn't be surprised if something like this would happen especially if they've already got a network of local accomplices to launder the stolen money that can easily be repurposed to sell products at cost (in fact that could also be used to launder money, win-win situation right there!).
Plus receiver size.
buccocapital puts it best:

"$1200 in revenue a YEAR per employee

These employees could wash cars by hand and make more money

They could babysit

They could have a bake sale!

Apparently, 90 of them are in sales? What is their monthly quota? 7 dollars and whatever is in your pocket?"
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Haha, maybe, though my original title got edited by a moderator (it was originally a much more overconfident "The Singularity Is Close"), so maybe I've been Betteridge-sniped?
This is https://cloudron.io . Has sso across apps
https://www.hackster.io/news/creating-a-3d-volumetric-displa...

This is from 3 years ago. First link in ddg for 'stacked transparent displays'

Also, here's a paper from 1999 about stacking three transparent displays to get RGB, maybe. Not exactly the same, but prior art for sure. https://works.bepress.com/peifang_tian/3/
Human beings evolved from single celled organisms. Why does the concept that dumb ai will help to create smart ai seem far-fetched?
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This is an offline, Windows content generator that doesn't use GPT or any GPT-like dependencies to create first drafts of different types of articles, reports, blog posts, etc. I introduced in it 2014 to help me complete my freelance writing work, and it's therefore currently available in the U.S. only. The ideal user is a U.S. freelance writer.

I'm introducing it here on HN in hopes of attracting some intelligence discussion around how it compares to other similar products (you know the ones...) -- with special consideration given to the actual writing process, legalities, ethics, etc.

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As soon as they ever compete against each other, it's the same as none existing at all.

That's the easiest way to dismantle that particular grand conspiracy.

The most pragmatic approach is to understand that they don't rely on voting to get their way. But they absolutely compete for resource appropriation and their special interest. It is better if they act like gods of their particular domain or sector, so they can exert control over just that and not compete. But it also reinforces that they cannot and do not coordinate much together.
Yea TreeSize is great - I may have to check out this new one though

I do wonder how they compare because I always found ( I think? ) TreeSize to be much faster than WinDirStat
it's still massively cool,

also, it's just a first prototype. as these things usually go, they're gonna be squishing these closer and closer together
> #1. Way too many people were rich on paper and with margin.

Isn’t this the housing market today? A huge portion of household wealth is the house itself and thanks to massive increases everyone feels rich because on paper it looks good, but it is all financed with ever increasing levels of debt.
You'll have to point to the regulation that declares that the Secretary of State cannot.

Wanton burning of intelligence assets is generally backstopped by the President firing an incompetent Secretary of State, not the law.

For offices below the Secretary of State, there are laws.
Hi! I'm the author of the article, and I'm pretty optimistic about fusion as well. I actually expect fusion will happen first, and that the price of energy dropping through the floor will hugely accelerate AGI research!
Now the domain is gone:

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;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
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;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;marketingreportoptout.visa.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
visa.com. 284 IN SOA ns1.dnsvisa.com. premiumdns.support.neustar. 2019108493 600 300 1209600 300
"Rightly" because one of the jobs of government is to enforce its laws. And yes, it is true that if crime is easy to do, there will be more of it. The payment part is key because getting paid is the key motivation for many crimes - those scammers from "visa bank" aren't calling you because its fun for them. An example is ransomware attacks - without an unregulated anonymous digital payment system the getting paid part of this crime would be much more difficult. Are they going to try and pick up a bag of cash?
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to read!
I sadly don't think the first part of your sentence is true, from what I've seen, but yes, definitely agree about the second part.
“That which can run Doom should run Doom” - Litany of Carmack