skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently looking for designers for my company when I came across an interesting profile on Dribbble. I reached out and quickly scheduled a time when we could talk over zoom. At the meeting time, in comes this person who seems to have a strange-looking, silicone-like face. I was using my Zoom account (I rarely use other peoples zooms unless I trust them), to avoid situations like this. One thing I noticed is that when the candidate touched their face, their fingers would appear to sink into their skin - almost as if it were made of liquid. Secondly, their face appeared larger, lighter and smoother than their neck. I got spooked an immediately let the candidate know that I was not comfortable moving forward.

More interestingly, what exactly are them mechanics of getting a deep fake into video call? How is it possible that a what seems like a deepfake could make its way into my Zoom? Is Zoom enabling external plugins that alter video details?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hf9c9kg52nxal0/Screen%20Shot%2020...
Yeah, he's mentioning discipline being part of your "ethos" which Jocko would have plenty of experience living the SEAL ethos:

https://www.nsw.navy.mil/NSW/SEAL-Ethos/

If "the logos" (fate) declared Jocko to be a warrior, then it is well within his nature to be disciplined.
This is no different than the complaint that coal miners will be put out of work by renewable energy. They sure will. We don't employ a lot of typewriter technicians these days either.
This is all much easier if you grow up wealthy. If you start life with a trust fund and people around you who know how to manage wealth, you have a huge advantage
I refuse to give my mobile number, or use my mobile number for anything. SMS auth, main contact, anything.

My SMS spam is almost non-existent, compared to others.

But one thing, beyond my desire to not give out my number... it is pointless regardless.

When I worked in office, I had mobile access. At home, a bit rural, my access is nil via 4g/5g. I just have no access.

My mobile forwards after 6 rings to my voip, so that works well. But for SMS auth? Hello! I cannot do that!

I have been an ebay customer for 21, yes 21 years. I can no longer log in, as they now insist I enter a mobile number to continue.

Gee thanks ebay.

(No, SMS won't work via voip, they check numbers, even ported numbers)

21 years. Years of thousands, even >10k spent reliably per year.

Gone as a customer.

Calling paypal support, results in people literally unable to understand ... anything. They repeat a mantra off their screen without deviation. Many cuatomer support people I spoke to, were barely paying attention.

I really don't get it. SMS is barely secure to begin with.

They are willing to throw away accounts, just for pennies on tracking.

21 years.
I agree. He tried to memorize his way through Algebra. It is hard to understand his mindset because of the stream of consciousness writing. But he appears to be confused with definitions versus equality. E.g., By definition (a+b)^2 is (a+b)(a+b). It is not just "equal".
Elon Musk didn’t actually inherit any wealth; he emigrated to America essentially broke and didn’t get rich until PayPal. Also, his father is still alive, so any inheritance hasn’t even happened yet.

Setting that aside, how does being the son of a guy who owned an emerald mine in South Africa explain him being richer than the descendants of Henry Ford or John D. Rockefeller? How do explain the children of all the other emerald mine owners?
I started using Neeva several months ago and, although this is totally anecdotal, I find the results much more accurate than what I get through Google even when using the quotes in my searches. I'll occasionally test out the same search on both engines and see the differences.
https://archive.ph/0wrOD
Probably a more robust test would be asking the caller to run their hand through their hair a few times. Maybe you could pre-render a few samples, but it would be trivial to request the person pass their hands through their hair in a specific way, or simply do it again after their hair is already messed up a bit from the first time. It could still be defeated by the caller having the same hair style (or wearing a good wig) as the person they are imitating, but then making someone look like someone else with practical effects has been a thing forever and it has not been a huge problem.
How about a shop vac with HEPA filter? It would get clogged quickly and need to be emptied, but that might be ok for twice-a-year usage.
Jobs or a habitable planet. Which to choose, which to choose...
We need to reduce global emissions by 55 percent by 2030 to avoid catastrophe. But even if every single (inc. trucks) vehicle were electrified, it would at max reduce emissions by 20 percent. At the current estimates for 2045 it's going to be like 5-10% reduced emissions, well after we go above 2 degrees temp increase over a decade before.

While we can cheer for EVs reducing emissions, it will do nothing to stop the actual problem with climate change, which is global catastrophe from runaway warming. Add to that the problems we are setting ourselves up for with failure to properly handle the coming EVs and the picture looks grim.
The Precision-Recall plot on page 17 caught my eye (Extended Data Fig. 3a). Specifically the grey area.

"...grey shading indicates the valid range between perfect performance and a random classifier."

What's with the diagonal cutoff at the bottom of the plot? I understand where the dotted line comes from, but I expected the grey shading lower bound to stop at the dotted line entirely.
>Now that solar panels are trending down in price it seems IMHO the real disruption will be when batteries similarly become cheap enough that homeowners may disconnect completely from the grid or at least make solar the majority of their energy supply.

I think we're there now. You can get "server-rack" LiFePO4 batteries for about $1500 for a 5kWh battery. You can probably get solar, inverters, and 30kWh of batteries for about $25,000 and this should last maybe a few days for most homes. Mini-splits instead of central HVACs reduce power consumption a good bit, and have better energy efficiencies.
This is something that I think has basically flown under the radar of mainstream understanding: you can now live "off the grid" and have many of the perks that used to be the domain of grid-connected living.

Not all of them... but "off grid" no longer means living like Ted Kaczynski. The popular understanding has yet to catch up.

You can have artificial lighting all night long (thanks to LEDs and batteries), computers (ideally you want to avoid the DC -> AC -> DC conversion), Internet access (although most satellite systems aren't really optimized for low power yet), running water (solar-powered pumps, cheap large-capacity plastic storage totes), etc.

The items that are still hard to get, because of their inherently energy-intensive nature, are hot water out of the tap on demand, and interior climate control (space heating especially). You need a pretty big solar array and battery system to run even a fairly efficient (AC or heat pump) climate control system. Lots of people get around this by siting their off-grid cabins in places that don't require AC, and making the interior volume small enough to heat with a small biofuel furnace (like a modern, efficient wood stove) that can burn locally-obtained fuel.
Root cause analysis of data engineering problems using binary search
Efficient Data Troubleshooting
Sometimes you develop a crippling drug addiction and go bankrupt.
My litmus test of someone being intelligent or not--among other such tests--is what they say about Shakespeare. This might anger the Brits, but Shakespeare is garbage--and the guy says: "I read .... most of Shakespeare."

One famous guy lambasting Shakespeare (Tolstoy) was only marginally smarter, because according to his "Confessions", he read it many times over (incl. in English) and STILL could not find any artistic value in it. I could not have put up with that--for me, it was the first few pages that I knew this was a waste of time. You don't need to drink the whole festering junk of a decayed meal to know it is not edible.

He also claims he wants to test the limits of his intelligence by tackling Mathematics once again--implying wrongly, as it were, that math education is fine and it is our brains that are incapable of learning. Not so fast: how am I less intelligent if the bozo teaching me does not know how to teach maths?

Citing Carl Jung does not help either, though he namesdrops to mitigate the shame of not being able to do maths...Jung was not as bright as is commonly believed as well. He once claimed that UFO's were all imaginary-- a sweeping generalization by someone claiming to be scientist-- whereas I for sure know that UFO's are real for I have seen one and to prove that I wasn't seeing things, I had a camcorder ready which recorded the space-ship going vertically up very slowly. I have lost the video though but it certainly happened 20 years ago and I still remember it.

EDIT: I see I have touched quite a few nerves.
> What's your story?

I went to Asia to visit a friend from university. The weather and living conditions were excellent, so I decided to stay 6 months. I was already working remotely before.

> what do you do if you work for a U.S. employer?

I say up a small company that I use for billing my employer so that they don't have to care about my current/changing address.
Sadly, I've gotten more upvotes on a nasty quip towards someone than I have on any technical subject I've put effort into writing on.
Depending on the type of MFA (sms, push, TOTP), phishing can get around it.
All that is going on is that hackers are learning about how telephony works and weaponizing it. No different than social networks and email. It is time to move off of email and SMS as 2fa.
The length of Earth's days has been increasing, scientists don't know why
Of course they're sophisticated if you don't regularly review SSL trust chains and secure DNS. And "funny looking characters" and all that. Which is most people on this planet. And Twilio had a lot of business and customer facing non-engineer users.

It's another story that will drum up support for another integrated authentication system. I say this as someone who was recently targeted in an attack.

It's peek-a-boo, I get that, but damn is it frustrating.

But they'll get what they want. They'll get their secure system.
What if it's your CEO? Or someone from the bank? Or a college professor? Or a political prisoner?
Using "mini" to mean a subset of the language rather than a version for small systems has precedent. For example in the Perl community, miniperl is a subset of Perl. It's mostly used to bootstrap builds of the full language, but in theory can be used separately as a restricted programming language. It's also the name of a module, ExtUtils::Miniperl, for Perl (https://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::Miniperl) that builds miniperlmain.c and perlmain.c files to bootstrap the compilation of the language system. This is not to be confused with the Raku project on Github called "miniPerl" (https://github.com/grondilu/miniPerl) which compiles subsets of Perl via the Lambda calculus to JavaScript output.

I'd personally pretty much always expect "mini" or "r" (as in "rperl", a restricted subset of Perl with C++ connections) versions of a language to be restricted subsets for some purpose (rperl's is to give away flexibility for performance while maintaining a good portion of the original language).

I've seen an "e" or "emb" prefix or a "small", "tiny", "micro" or "µ" (or "u") prefix to mean a small toolchain version several places, like SmallC or uclibc or Mikroe's mikroC (https://www.mikroe.com/mikroc). It wouldn't surprise me to see a "nano" version of a language tool either. Sometimes these are subsets as well, but to fit the size constraints of the target rather than for constraining the input for its own sake.
A nation-state reverse engineering the codes/ignition module is easier than collecting everything from scratch.

But the general thought is that NATO would have had to protect them (I don't buy it, but that's the theory).
Dude. This is not public database. This is for profit multi-billion dollara corporations spending more money on marketing than security and selling a product which promises notability based on publicly editable no-oversight database.

You defending thia is really just telling more about you. Amazon sits on a domain called "international" movie database where they don't have anyone to verify the biggest block-busters of the biggest movie makers in the world. With your logic you should be out on the streets demanding criminal proceedings against this "fraud".

Nothing else for me to say. Vote me down all you want.
Technology startups are naturally kind of like this. They have limited downside and unlimited upside.

However, in my life that limited downside has cost me a lot of money in opportunity costs over twenty years. I might be retired had I been able to work for money with the same energy and time I applied to my startup projects. But reality isn't quite like that, I would have been so unhappy doing that, it wouldn't have been sustainable (I tried working that hard for money for two years and it was horrible!) Those startup projects were so fulfilling and I learned so much on the journey. Even though I haven't found success yet, I haven't given up and the journey itself has been incredibly rewarding.
If you are keen there are some cooling mods that can be done to most XPS models to improve passive cooling.

Also, I found win 10 was continuously running the fan so hard I could use my 9550 for zoom or Skype because of the noise. I put some effort into quieting it but gave up.

But I put Ubuntu on it and it ran the fan heaps less and lower straight up.
Similarly, discussion is heavily skewed toward the first 5-10 comments on a post. If I think something is really interesting but it already has 100 comments, I usually don’t bother posting as I probably won’t get replies (which is the interesting part of commenting IMO). The sweet spot is a new article that I find very interesting with less than 25 comments. Then I often want to comment because I know it’ll appear close enough to the top that others will reply and discuss :)
My fav is https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium - very good videos about science
Another one is https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions
Bio-organic solar cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell

These things, in theory, could be everywhere. You can bend some of them, so you could wrap lamp posts with them, cover cars in them, put them everywhere. I am confident that within 20 years, we will solve power problems with renewables like this, and we will have a major revolution in infinite-power designs, like illuminated clothing, power generating and emitting roadways, and servers embedded into everything, everywhere, for every reason.

They are 17% efficiency, and they don't yet last very long, but the work is moving at a steady pace.
Not to mention the fact that a lot of people cannot just replace their existing appliances with newer IoT stuff just because, especially in this economy.
The NBA Is Turning to Wearable Sensors to Prevent Player Injuries
You can be a digital nomad within the U.S. Just travel around, work in interesting cities, move along when you're feeling it.

There's some rumblings about hotel chains or housing networks that will let you stay among their various properties, but I haven't checked into it.
I wouldn't make that assumption. I wouldn't order that. I would always pay more for the beef. I'm just not going to eat that other stuff.
I don't understand anything you just wrote
A different kind of 'Point & Click', but Her Story was rather enjoyable.
> Game Maker Studio is specifically designed for people who are NOT programmers.

This is not true in the slightest.
My suggestions as a T1D, Melatonin upregulates the insulin receptor so you need less. This also helps T2D. Second there have been spontaneous remissions after the BCG Tuburculosis vaccine, it some how stops that anti-islet cell immunity. Bonus tip. Have them calculate half their weight in kilograms, that gives the number of carbs a 100mg/dl blood sugar equals. This helps with adjusting blood sugar up or down incrementally. Finally serious low blood sugar often start with a bleek mood or motor coordination loss. The shifts in consciousness are the most emotionally and interpersonally hard parts of this. They should not hide their condition and should wear a bracelet with info, one can become blackout drunk like in behavior. The new constant sensors are amazing for learning and monitoring.
At least we will not be ruled by dumbasses like Trump! That's already a big thing.
So glad to see more companies do this.
That's strange, I've used Revolut as my main account for years and never hit any limits. I suppose there's ATM withdrawal cap but I don't use cash much.
Won't anyone think of the buggy-whip makers?
No. I'm welcoming Germany's [and on a wider level, the EU's] demise as their just desserts for acting as the US's poodle for the past several decades, instead of seizing the opportunity to create an independent and non-aligned Europe as a force for good in the world.

But, yes, my remarks are aimed at nations and what they stand for, rather than people.
Yeah, that is a huge problem in authoritarian jurisdictions OR if data is provided without warrant.
* Only if you go to Privacy and Security -> Location Services -> Systems Services (at the bottom) -> turn off iPhone Analytics, Routing & Traffic, and Improve Maps. Apple's anonymization algorithm for these significant location services is probably better than Tesla's, but it can probably still be correlated to which house or neighborhood you start sending location from.

And that's just the built-in location data exfiltration. As soon as someone installs a top app that requests 'always' location access it's gone, eg. Life360 (100M+ downloads on Android, you can expect similar numbers on iOS), Google Maps, Snapchat.

Of course, this should all be in the purview that people tend to have an individualized risk tolerance for their location data. Some people are fine with contributing to traffic data by allowing Google Maps, Apple, and Tesla (if they have a Tesla)/their car manufacturer to track their location while moving, but would react harshly if TikTok asked for persistent access to their location data. Some people are even fine with Snapchat and Google asking them if they can log and associate location history with their account [0,1], assuming they trust them not to sell or leak that location data.

0: https://screenrant.com/snapchat-plus-ghost-trails-feature-ex...

1: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979?hl=en
Now if only there was a way to make those plant burgers tasty

Have you tried Impossible ‘meat’? It’s nowhere near replacing a steak (yet?), but to me (a meat eater) it’s as good as the average burger. I will choose it instead of beef for that application nowadays.
I gave up on Revolut after scandals about its CEO and financial shenanigans; and the many customer service nightmares.

In banking, boring is better
Actually not even close. The proteins are completely different and one has a ton of carbs. Beyond burger is struggling pretty hard right now.
You just have to condition them appropriately, so that they happily accept their place. See Brave New World for the blueprints.
Go to multi day conferences about topics you like.

Many people will be there for the subject AND away from home so they are willing to talk your tech AND have time to spend time with you.

Sooner or later you will find the place that suits your needs, cultural, social and technical.
A crackhead never says "I have no money, I guess I'm not smoking any crack today". Instead, they will go to an abandoned building and strip all the copper wiring out of it. Don't let a crackhead out-hustle you today.
> Hard working and intelligent people are more likely to get rich.

> Most rich people are rich because they were born into it.

Both of these can be true at the same time!
You need to move to higher voltage DC which will present some challenges you don't get with AC, for example if you get an arc in a switch or a circuit breaker with AC it normally extinguishes quickly at the zero voltage crossing, whereas DC will just keep arcing until stuff starts to burn.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32386189
It depends on how you measure it and how it happens, but if each couple has one kid, and that kid inherits from both parents, after awhile the kids are inheriting a decent amount.

Or, all the excess "wealth" could be sucked up by the government/companies/large land-holders and everyone else stay roughly the same.
Answers to these questions can be found at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305
IANAL, but my understanding is that the DMCA makes it illegal to distribute information or devices that would let you break HDMI encryption. But it's not illegal to "tamper" with your own device.

For automobile manufacturers to use the DMCA in this way they would have to make a case for some kind of copyright infringement that would be possible if the cellular modem was removed. Not impossible, but it would be a stretch for now.
I really liked the Common Core early math curriculum. My daughter was taught to do calculations the way I had to come to them myself later on: break the problem apart into easier pieces. A simple example: If you are adding 73 and 29 break it to 70+20 and 3+9. Quick calculations takes the burden off on harder problems later on. Also, she learned to round and estimate and they did lots of practical math applications -- especially in probability -- so she's learned to think of math in a "common sense" way, for lack of a better word. It's easier for her to look at an answer and say "wait, that doesn't make any sense considering the givens".
> I still don’t really understand how c++ behaves with exception handling thrown in the mix

In my experience you normally disable exceptions when working on embedded code. No RTTI either.

> What’s debugging like?

What's with debugging? Not different to C at all.

> How do people agree on what subset of the language and it’s plethora of features to use?

You agree on the language standard to use, you don't pull dependencies arbitrarily and you keep an eye on the code size and memory usage. Some things might go into project style guide which is a nice thing to have anyway.
You're right and I agree with your proposed solution. Having no (useless) dailies at all is even better than having them midday. But I'm fighting an uphill battle here, especially as freelancer.

I'm always a bit amused when Product Owners are suprised that there's nothing to clarify at a daily since the team is constantly transparent towards each other about blockers etc.
Yes; the EU started out with nothing but a grand vision and a Coal and Steel trade agreement.

Notwithstanding the usual political corruption, it is a step in the right direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...
You need to have discipline in the first place to “just do it” consistently. For those who lack enough motivation, which is the situation the advice is supposed to address, I don’t see how it helps. If they were able to “do it” consistently despite lacking consistent motivation, they wouldn’t have a problem in the first place.

I guess that for some people, being told “there’s no way around just doing the things even when you’re not motivated” by itself creates sufficient motivation long-term to do the things even when they are not otherwise motivated. But for those for which that doesn’t happen, there isn’t much actionable advice.
Autopilot in my opinion is fine. It def is a bit confusing, but really it's just a fancy TACC. FSD on the other hand is 1000% false advertising.