skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this in disbelief, picturing a uniformed INS employee drawing vials of blood in some poorly sanitized strip mall. It turns out US green card applicants are required to show proof of vaccinations and undergo a physical exam by performed by USCIS certified physician. For adults, the exam includes a blood test for syphilis. Source: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/find-a-civil-surgeon
I am really intrigued by the Codon project, which aims to be a JIT compiler for Python with Numba/JAX decorator syntax: https://github.com/exaloop/codon
Ask HN: What has been your experience with virtual assistant services?
Specifically the human powered virtual assistant services such as ChatterBoss and Magic
Same, I held onto Lastpass much longer than I would have put up with any less-essential SaaS product.

Finally moved to Bitwarden and couldn't be happier. Still trying to decide if I want to self-host it or not, but more breaches of cloud-based password managers like this one may push me in that direction.
The CDC was not the only institution that spread this anti-mask narrative.
Choice of language does matter.

For instance if you commit in 2022 to java/scala - you subscribe to heavy 20yo over-engineering legacy, whether you want it or not. No matter how fancy and eloquent your frameworks are, or how smart is your founding team — sooner or later this will catch your project.

The benefits may still outweigh the drawbacks for your particular case (though i never seen such cases except some external infra constraints like dependency on critical jvm service etc.) - but it is an important factor to consider that so many overlook.
>National ID was a core GOP platform issue post 911

which is funny since the GOP were so adamantly against a national ID when the Clintons tried to introduce it.
Your argument applies equally to North Korea. Should we accept them invading, say, Japan (or just to make it maximally interesting, Taiwan) just because they may have nukes? (and by that I mean the effective ability to nuke at minimum Seoul by ICBM)

I'm saying "may" because while Russia clearly has the ability to make Nukes, and ICBMs, that would have required constant heavy, maintained, spending on their military that they clearly didn't do for, oh, tanks, air defense, aircraft, new aircraft designs ... At best their Nuclear arsenal is one generation ahead of what the Soviets had, whilst the West's defenses have advanced 5 generations in the same time. I get that's a gamble, but ... Nuclear weapons require constant re-enriching of the warheads fissile material, and maintaining 7000 warheads requires running tens of gigawatts of nuclear power plants without getting any electricity or heating out of them. Not to mention: you need tens of thousands of highly qualified engineers to do it. Are they doing that, not just lying about it? I mean, I get that they're hiding this, but one reason we don't hear much of it could be that it simply doesn't exist anymore. I've never once read an explanation of how this infrastructure survived the fall of the Soviet Union.

Russia is vastly overplaying their hand. We can be sure of that, given the facts.

Second, the Russian economy will die faster than the European or Ukrainian economy over time. Time is not on their side. Russia is slowly losing the ability to attack even without any war, without anyone destroying them. Europe, and European states will gain more and more ability to attack over time. I'm saying whatever their reason was to attack in 2014 and 2022, they will have more reasons to attack as time goes on. This war won't end just because we force it to, it will simply move.

And all of that is assuming we DON'T move away from fossil fuels. If by some miracle we move either transportation or heating of of fossil fuels, then Russia is done for 10 years before such a move is complete. That will definitely kill their ability to support their military. I mean what do you expect Russia to do? Attack France when ITER declares success? Because ITER, and 100 other similar efforts, also are existential threats to Russia.

Russia has "lost", the empire doesn't exist anymore, and the conflict in Ukraine, even if they 100% win, doesn't change that. If their perception is such that if they lose they will use nuclear weapons, then it's unavoidable, and the conclusion is just the opposite of what you suggest.

The correct course of action if Russia will truly will chose to go out in a nuclear "blaze of glory" or if Putin has the ability to "commit suicide by World War 3", then the only option is for NATO to attack Russia, ASAP. For the simple reason that Russia, the empire, is done for.
Same here. It seems like a combination of both would be quite optimal.

Prepare some strips of paper like this guy does, and make notes on them while reading. But then, also always take pictures of the page, with your strip of notes in the picture.

That would solve both of the problems he mentioned:

> The downside of this is that in order to annotations to make sense, it requires a physical copy of exact same book. Another one is that it doesn't have automatic timestamps, which somewhat bothers my #lifelogging OCD.

If you take a picture of the page and the strip of notes then you get the timestamp for free. And by including the page of text in the picture you have that context preserved as well.
This is a compelling article, I feel more motivated now to reconsider my options. FWIW, my $0.02 feedback on pragmatism: as a user, it would be nice to have more what-to-do-about-it for non-security-experts. Also I didn’t love the parts of the article where you speculated about LastPass’ motivations and process (even if they turn out to be true!) The opening paragraph is making assumptions about the timing, which could backfire pretty badly if you’re wrong. You also speculated about the web site storing master passwords, justified by saying “they absolutely could, and you wouldn’t even notice.” They could do a lot of things, including selling passwords to the highest bidder. From my non-expert point of view, it’d be more helpful & pragmatic to stick to known facts and not whip additional fear into what is most definitely a bad situation.
let them. It's also about time to build open source license that specifically prohibit EU companies from using them. Bunch of rent-seeking moochers
Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
My understanding is that most of these scams use spoofed numbers (or legitimate forwarding numbers), so there's no "just ignore it" remediation. SHAKEN/STIR[1] is meant to address this kind of spoofing, but it's not a stretch to imagine that these kinds of scams mostly target older people who are less likely to have (or understand) Caller ID anyways.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
I'm not American, thus, using vacation time as sick leave is illegal. However, what really aggravates the crust of all of this for me is the fact that my manager would be 100% ok if she asked him if she could WFH while she's sick -he's allowed other people to do this before, but nobody is gonna force her to.
This is news about bad things, not low-quality news or a bad strategy regarding news.
I know you're joking, but you might not want to try that with a nuclear power.
Due to that whole lack of authentication I. The phone system, we get lots of spoofed numbers here in the US. I ignore most unknown calls but manage to answer maybe one a month that is an obvious foreign (usually Indian sounding) call center.
USA carriers should probably just block them like they do almost every Chinese phone number.
To be fair, the person who made that statement is the FBI's legal attaché in New Delhi. One would expect a person in such a position to say something like that, to smooth relations with the host country.

But yes, I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice and the victims receive some kind of recompense.
if they are paying, it's not volunteering.

Keep increasing the $ - you'll eventually hit a tipping point where people will fight over it ;)
> Think about it: when was the last time, since the pandemic began, that you heard about autism and the MMR vaccine? that began in the late 90s (with no scientific basis I might add) and persisted for decades. Now no one talks about, thinks about or cares about it anymore. It's completely off the radar.

I encounter normies talking (inaccurately, lack of nuance, etc) about the "vaccines cause autism" meme on a regular basis.
I love the fact that Cat API offers an Enterprise plan.
In Nord Stream Mystery, Baltic Seabed Provides a Nearly Ideal Crime Scene
I discovered this just the other day and could not believe it had been there all along!
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
GDPR doesn't require popups, it also allows for programmatic solutions. For some reason (lookin' at you DNT) online advertisement companies, publishers and browser vendors never came together to specify one after GDPR was passed.

Some sites like geizhals.de respond to DNT and only use the bare minimum, but that's the exception, not the norm (for some reason hint hint).

Usually laws don't prescribe some specific technical implementation unless absolutely necessary because they're often not optimal and go out of date quickly.
Notably, the article doesn't say that he did lose his license, or that that is even a possible outcome.

Also, I would like to point out that prisoners in the land of the free are still humans.
It's never an "Indian number," it always appears to originate locally or in the US. Either way, I just use good hygiene and ignore all outside calls unless on contact list. The only people who ever need to call me are family and PagerDuty.
This is hearsay, but I believe any cancellations due to weather are not subject to fines and fees from the FAA and the airline is not obligated to provide more generous compensation/accommodation for customers. So if there's any reasonable way to blame a failure on inclement weather airline companies will do so without hesitation.
It is likely both. Scheduling is quite easy when it goes normally. Scheduling becomes a more difficult task when more exceptions happen. That reddit post is by is some boots-on-the-ground employee, not someone who understands the algorithmic details of SWAs somewhat unique routing challenges.
Indeed, I think their goal is to perfect advertising to the point where you hand the money over yourself, believing it to be your own idea.
This vaguely reminds me of Rackspace's catastrophic failure a few weeks ago.

Both companies were owned by private equity firms.
Our local airport closed yesterday due to icy runways. Planes would circle a while then refuel 100s of miles away, then return to try again.

We don't often see freezing rain here. It creates a hard, bubbly layer of ice that cannot be scraped off with the usual tool.
> people are highly dependent an their current job

It is often voluntary lifetime debt slavery to have payments on the latest gadgets/car/timeshare/oversized house.

Recently train workers union had working conditions crammed down on them by no less than Biden. If the workers were not in debt slavery they could have quit. Biden showed a union they don't have a choice when their members are debt slaves.

Your protection will arrive when you change your lifestyle to get out of debt slavery.
It's hard to read the nuance in official messaging when the unofficial messaging has none. Welcome to the Mandela effect.
A software bug can destroy a company these days.
eBPF is great! Fantastic to see it used more for observability!
I have a DVD bought off of ebay. It's probably 20 years old, but never opened. It was a soccer-teaching video for kids that my girlfriend bought because she starred in it as a kid.

When we opened the package, we found that there are ~100 raised white spots on the surface of the disc, about 1mm diameter. They don't wipe off easily. We haven't been able to get the disc to play. I would love to know of a good way to clean these, and also what they are -- fungus hadn't occurred to me before but seems possible.
How about letting people discuss, even retarded arguments. If they are in fact retarded disproving them shouldn't be so hard right? The Streisand effect should teach us something, and when so many of the so called conspiracy theories proved to be likely and even true (lab leak theory for example) who are people going to look to for information?

The best example I can remember was a fact-check by Reuters on the claim that clinical trials were not completed. Their debunk started by rephrasing the claim to a straw-man that "trials had another year to finish", to debunking with: "No according to Pfizer source X it will be done by Y".

I did the math, and from article publication to date Y it was 10 months, so sure, technically correct, not a year. But does the straw-man of a specific date debunk the claim that the "trials are not completed"?

Tragic but that was the state of the discourse and it's ridiculous, what did they expect? This is going to take a long time to repair and how global it was makes me draw the most sinister conclusions. I don't want to but it's the only explanation I see.
To temper the potential for anti-indian rhetoric, US authorities work side by side with local Indian authorities to shut these down.

Mark Rober has a few videos dedicated to going after several of these scam call centers, and most recently 3 major ones were shut down and their owners arrested.
This is helpful. Would love to see KeePass and its variants on here.
Because there needs to be a baseline level of convenience in order to get less-technical people to even consider using a password manager at all.

If the alternative is using the same handful of weak passwords for every site, the risk of your password manager suffering a security breach doesn't look so bad in comparison.
Note that all my white-collar jobs with offices had actual offices, with closable doors and sometimes even openable windows. YMMV.

Edit: admittedly, as a student, I had one summer job with a cubicle. but other summer jobs had offices!
My Taiwanese parents have a green Tatung rice cooker from the 80s that they brought with them to the states that still sees regular use steaming everything from rice to pork to buns to eggs to veggies.
IANAL but, at the very least, you can't be charged with identity theft if you never actually use a stolen identity for anything.
If you read the Communist Manifesto’s list of demands, the US has implemented about half of them, so I therefore claim this has already happened.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...
> 600 yard range. It's also easy enough to cover the area with cameras

Really? The entire range all the way around the facility, with resolution capable of identifying perpetrators? That feels like a stretch.
Name and shame, please!

... so that others do not have to go through this experience ...
The page explains that Japan is ranked highly "masculine" because of how competitive the society is.

> What you see is a severe competition between groups. From very young age at kindergartens, children learn to compete on sports day for their groups (traditionally red team against white team).
In corporate Japan, you see that employees are most motivated when they are fighting in a winning team against their competitors. What you also see as an expression of Masculinity in Japan is the drive for excellence and perfection in their material production (monodukuri) and in material services (hotels and restaurants) and presentation (gift wrapping and food presentation) in every aspect of life. Notorious Japanese workaholism is another expression of their Masculinity. It is still hard for women to climb up the corporate ladders in Japan with their Masculine norm of hard and long working hours.
despite accusatory inferences, nothing in this suggests the data says whether someone worked with the US govt. the entire point of the project was to catalog the entire country, everyone got scanned at some point or another
>>Well we can disagree on the ethics for sure

From your comments you clearly on the camp of supporting government tyranny, I bet you fully supported lock-downs, mandated masking, mandated vaccinations as well?

let me ask then, are there any limits on government at all in your worldview or can the government exclaim "national emergency" and wipe away any an all limits to their authority?

>>the government does have the ability to seize most anything for the national interest. Both of these powers are well established and have been used throughout history both for good things and bad things.

that is absolutely incorrect, as the Supreme Court has shown more than a few times (see case law around the seizing of guns after Katrina for an example of government exceeding their authority). There has not been much if any adjudication around the ceasing of medical supplies during the pandemic, or the seizing of labor (i.e lockdowns) both of which should clearly be 5th amendment violation and require just compensation. I would love to see some lawsuits over that, if the ACLU was actually about protecting civil liberties they would be at the forefront of those suits.

>>are you pointing to his March 8 2020 communication

No I am pointing to multiple TV interviews
They transitioned to a more traditional b2b virtual assistant model. We used them at my previous startup to do a lot of data entry work and spreadsheet clean up. They weren't great for EA-like tasks that require more nuance. athenago.com was much better for that.

I actually ended up starting usedouble.com (GPT3 for spreadsheets) to automate a lot of the work Magic was doing, as it felt quite expensive to have a human do those rote tasks. It often requires less verification as well, as the assistants often can make mistakes because they are not culturally familiar with the target task. For example, we used them to categorize a bunch of grocery products, and would see mistakes like putting frozen naan in the bakery section (where in north america grocery stores you'd expect that to be in the Frozen section). So it's interesting how GPT3 actually ends up being more accurate for things like this.
It wasn't intended to be name-calling. It really did have the same style of something like ChatGPT.
That's a fair point, which may lend credence to the idea that this was vandalism instead of something more sinister.
There's no meaningful blocking here: the victimizing party is spoofing, or using a "legitimate" forwarding service. Carriers could just cut India off entirely, but (1) money finds a way, and (2) we're going to cut off service for a democratic country of over a billion people because of a few scammers?

The remediation here needs to be statutory: (1) anti-spoofing needs to happen at the carrier level and not just the terminating connection, and (2) forwarding services need to be subjected to additional oversight and transparency requirements.
I have been getting tired of node dependencies and not knowing what I'm running or when it will break. I make simple things for small number of users and started playing with just writing my own CGI in C++ or bash behind thttpd. This appears to be working very well so far and runs on a vanilla Linux install with deps just on system libs and gcc. With all the pain and unsafety of deps, this might actually make most sense. What new vulnerabilities am I inviting? Why aren't we still doing things this way? It seems... much easier, perhaps not to make it but to secure and sustain it.
I find that a majority of our incoming calls are scams. Surprised that Google/Apple haven’t fixed this at the behest of the government.
My dog has no interest in depictions of the moon or other celestial bodies as near as I can tell. Probably apes would be similar. I think we're more drawn to the (human) story around the exploration than the actual locations themselves. (Source: I watch a lot of space stuff around my dog. Come to think of it, he doesn't show much interest in landscapes around the world either.)
This is something you only see from indie FOSS developers nowadays. I used to do this, and my users were always delighted. They usually became pretty loyal to the project, and the quality of bug reports they submit got exponentially better as a result.

It's a great strategy all around if you take an hour to care about another person.
There are also many companies making "unique" chips that are sold as COTS - it's a false dichotomy. Aside from a few initiatives like RISC-V, I'd venture to say most are proprietary.