skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a classic example of an unintended consequence of deregulation.

Normally we could petition our elected officials and get something done about it. But lobbyists have come to so completely dominate our legislative process that whole industries have effectively coopted the government through regulatory capture.

On top of that, they've hoodwinked half the population into thinking that regulation bad.

At this point, we can all remain hypervigilant and snoop on our grandparents and get sucked into various private industry scams like identity insurance. We can play games with switching carriers within the duopolies in our areas when they let scammers steal from us. We can project loudly on social media when someone across the world steals right from out of our bank accounts, and haggle with our credit card companies to charge it back and rip off some merchant so that we don't have to pay. This is how scams metastasize into protection rackets and authoritarianism.

Or we could like, make this all illegal and charge carriers directly when it happens. But that would cost rich people money. So rich people run propaganda campaigns to convince us that fines just get passed on to consumers. Which doesn't make any sense in a free market, where we could switch to a cheaper carrier that didn't get fined.

Once we see this from that meta level (that political controversy is rooted in misdirection and lies) it just gets so tiring to watch the same debates over and over. Maybe we need some rich people to step up and call out this nonsense (dragons give up their loot so easily). Maybe we need to organize and start some consumer unions that dictate to vendors how much we'll pay for their services until they shape up. Maybe we should get back to our geek roots and start a free peer to peer wireless network.

Huh, writing out this rant, I just had a thought. Where's the keystone in this? Political progress can't be hacked, so none of our instincts around quick fixes work. In other words, the half of the population that has the working solution has to somehow convince the other half to go along with it. That can be a long and painful process spanning decades.

So what does the other half want? What concession to them would result in getting legislation passed to solve this?
Intrusively versus non-intrusively acquired? It's just a feeling I have and I don't think that I'm alone on this.
That's a surprising statement to read. All your examples allow for statically significant unique identification (of a person).

I think that's where the threat actually lies. I'm equally worried about traces I leave with my Visa/MasterCard than those I leave with my uncovered face or fingerprints.

The main difference being that I can easily control the traces I leave with my cards, less so the traces I leave with my ohone, and it takes a significant effort to lkit traces from my face or fingers.
HN's attitude on this stuff is pretty weird to me.

Articles about Canada's assisted dying program have been repeatedly posted here, and all of them seem to be quite clearly pushing a non-neutral agenda on the issue. The thing that most clearly stands out in this example is the heavy focus on anecdote and the underhanded use of context-free numbers meant to sound shocking, and you can see the effort working in the comments.

I'm pretty surprised, because I'd've imagined assisted dying programs would be one of the most embraced things by the "soft libertarian" sort of crowd attracted by this site. It would be nice to see articles that actually explored what was happening a bit more; there was a good example in The Guardian a couple of years ago that seemed like an interesting exploration of the issue, rather than a cart-before-the horse article like this https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/18/death-on-demand...
Starting from WWI western world is moving from what was basically complete freedom of movement to a corral. Think the best response would be something in line of go fuck yourself. No visa waiver - be my guest and have your tourism industry go belly up. Once tourism industry goes economic cooperation might eventually follow. Maybe this will teach our masters a bit.

P.S. Being originally from USSR freedom of movement was one of the things I've admired greatly about the west. After 30 years it is being vaporized in front of my eyes. This is insanity and is very sad. And we are doing this crap to ourselves. Osamas and Putins of the world must be having time of their lives.
It's interesting how easy it is to tell a piece of text was generated by chatgpt. It has its own writing style, I wonder if that's something easily varied? Like, you could ask it to write a response in a different style, but would it still come across as chatgpt to humans?
Yeah, and this is almost the bottom of the food chain, the only people below crimemarket are those too dumb to use internet forums.

Anyone can easily buy European bank accounts opened with fake IDs, or money laundering services where you're provided an IBAN and receive a % of the money sent there to your cryptocurrency wallet.

Want a fake passport good enough to travel with? No problem, will just run you a 1000 euros.
Incidents like this go a long way toward teaching corporate America that software shouldn't be some forgotten "IT" vertical on your org chart that you staff with random contractors.

Software is core to your business. If you don't invest in it, you're going to pay the price.
How would a state assign endorsements to an ID they do not maintain or control? How would they use an ID database they don't have?

The answer is that they'd have to rely on the federal government instead, and given the functional relationship between the states and the federal government, states just aren't going to voluntarily give up that power and trust them to do this for them. It is in the existential interest of the states to maintain as much power as they can, despite the associated cost.
Let's start with having the US register who lives in which state maybe?
Because it feeds into the "mark of the beast" thing. State legislators want to appeal to the fundamentalist crowd so they occasionally have to make noises to satisfy them. Since enough people in my state believe such a thing about Social Security numbers, there is a form that the DMV (who I used to work for) has for people who are against SSNs due to religious reasons (SSN required for driving & occupational licenses by Uniform Interstate Family Support Act [0]).

> It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. [1]

Sources:

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Interstate_Family_Supp...

1 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013....
Why arrogant?

The statement seems sensical to me until proven otherwise.

What are the proofs that someone unable to perceive anything from the physical realm can be conscious?

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Where I would disagree perhaps is the claim that a single neuron is not conscious.

It depends on the definition of consciousness. It's probably more like a spectrum.
Consciousness stems from physical interaction philosophically for me. So a rock, an atom etc, would also be conscious. It just doesn't process physical domain interactions like a human would do.

Just another form of consciousness.
Congratulations, and I really hope it catches on!

For my curiosity, why are the other courses not linked into the app: https://github.com/orgs/LibreLingo/repositories?q=-from-&typ... ? Even more mysterious, if one chases the codeberg link, it then deep-links into the actual course https://librelingo.app/course/french-from-english/

Also, you'll want to drop that .xyz link from the repo, as it's now a domain squatter: https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo/blob/main/README.md...
ChatGPT does not understand, I don't think there is any such thing as machine understanding nor will there ever be. At least not within the current paradigm of computing. My guess is that our kind of understanding requires a biological substrate and / or something quantum. Obviously I'm hand waving here as I'm out of my depth with this subject. My sense though is that there are things about the brain about its evolution that are eluding us, and which are significant.

Here's the thing though. Even on the current trajectory, we will produce programs that sure as hell APPEAR like they understand. This is really what Alan Turing was getting at when he said that the question of whether a machine can think is meaningless. It's like asking whether a submarine can swim. The fact is, dead machine or not, the outputs will increasingly exhibit, what look like, emergent properties of understanding, and even apparent sentience.

This to me is the truly stunning thing about ChatGPT. It might have limitations, but through mere statistics and 'auto complete on steroids' it can do way more than you'd think was possible with such an approach.
No. They can commute from Maryland or Virginia like everyone else.

Biden, when he was VP under Obama, commuted back and forth to Delaware on the weekends still.
> Ther is no reason a consumer oven should cook more than 5 meals a day. There is no reason a consumer toasteer should toast mpre than 10 times a day.

Consumer ≠ business/commercial. A home oven (or toaster, fryer etc) isn't made for such use, a commercial one is. You should really spend the monies in commercial gear if you're gonna feed such hordes of people.

Similar thing with SIM cards. Why would a normal person be making 100+ calls a day on a simple, personal line? That's clearly commercial use and as such, it oughta be regulated somehow.
>Also, fuck gift cards. Make them illegal

And when scammers go back to using Western Union are you going to ban that as well? When they ask a person to send them cash are you going to ban cash as well? Hell let's just ban all money to prevent this.
Yes, you're the only one. These are biometric data types.
The ePD/GDPR are not about technical barriers for bad actors, but about compliance for good actors. Technical mechanisms like DNT would be a reasonable way to get rid of cookie banners while complying with ePD/GDPR.
> Am I the only one that doesn't really consider "fingerprints and facial images" to be biometric data?

I would hope so. It appears that you are conflating 'biometric' and 'biological'.
Probably the most interesting part of this is if states don’t integrate by 2027 they will no longer be eligible for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). That adds a lot of friction for citizens of that state to travel to the U.S. for any reason.
We Need a Better Homeownership Society
Absolutely everything: car dependency, affordable housing and healthcare, hard drugs, the environment, corporate tax evasion, energy, money laundering, immigration, good pay for nursing and teaching staff, etc.

"We can't fix X because then sector Y would suffer trillions in losses and jobs so it's best to keep the status quo and kick the can down the road."
And you think obtaining a hair sample is somehow intrusive?
One question that always seems to be unclear and insufficiently negotiated is reciprocity. What is the US going to offer in return. If they do offer to reciprocate, it actually needs to be delivered before the deal is live.

That said, I think it is a shitty deal for these leaky, insecure, bad faith entities to be able to negotiate off to the side with our sensitive personal data like this.
> Private businesses can be just as inefficient but when they are and don't clean up their act they tend not to survive too long.

Or they just push the inefficiencies to wherever they screw the least profitable customers, which none of their competitors especially want either.
All music is.
> Like what do they do with the bags that are sitting on the plane for cancelled flights?

Eventually you send them back to the passenger's home address. I've had lost luggage before that turned up on my front porch a week later, some courier service had dropped it off.
Well if nothing else, allowing such posts to propagate and be reinforced has the side effect of legitimizing them. Tagging posts as misleading is certainly one strategy, but people also complain about that being censorship or a conspiracy against them as well. Also if the argument is we should be moderating less, not more, then you're just arguing to turn mainstream social media platforms into those less well-monitored corners of the internet. Let it stay there.
As a US citizen, I whole heartedly agree, and I assume our government would do the same.
That's just not true. You shouldn't take offense to this at all. People have busy schedules.
In the linked article, conservatives are objecting to a new legal standard which requires doctors to either kill patients themselves or find another doctor who’s willing to do it. This seems like a pretty straightforward argument for the conservative position; in just 8 years Canada has traveled from “people in extreme pain have a right to self-determined death” to “you’re a bad doctor if you won’t give your patients lethal injection drugs”.
The article explains that the Department of Labor has already created a new system for tracking available jobs, but the Social Security Administration isn't using it.
Private businesses being inefficient does not have the same moral concern since they aren't taking people's money by force like the government does.
How would the US react to the same request from EU's police? Would they give direct access to their people's biometric data?

Conversely, what would the EU do if that same request came from another nation instead of the USA? What about Brazil, Japan, China?
They'll accept and they'll give them the keys, oh wait, Microsoft already has it all
The idea of logging in is that you're no longer anonymous.

You can, of course, always use a private browser window if you want to limit everything to just that one tab.
It is possible that you are missing a developing new axis of powers forming, which is part of the reason why those policies are slowly being implemented. As a globe, we are being divided into spheres of influence and US/EU happens to be one of those.
I sincerely hope that the EU will give the appropriate but unprintable response to this request. At the time the biometric data was first collected plenty of people warned about this exact thing and we were repeatedly assured that it would never happen. Let's see if that is still true today. Never is such a long time...
It was over 20 years ago in college when I learned I had this ability. I was overloading classes in support of a double major and had far more work than I could handle. I eventually realized I could wake myself on demand within 10 minutes of a given time when I'd set an alarm to wake up at 3:30am. I kept waking up before the alarm.

Later in life, I did the same to wake myself up for work, and kept waking within a few minutes of my alarm going off. I eventually stopped setting an alarm and haven't used one for at least 15 years, even when traveling, having to get up an an unusual hour, or not having a consistent bedtime.

Even now, I fall sleep anywhere between 9:30pm and 1am, but wake up just before 6am on the three days a week I go to the office. This works just as well in the summer as it does in the winter. Other days I generally just sleep until I wake, which is usually 7:00 to 8:15am or so.
The particularly disgusting part is discussing savings to the healthcare system. They're not even trying to be opaque about it.

My fear is it becoming so normalized that anyone going through a bout of depression will be influenced by people online and the healthcare system to go forward with this. Truly breaks my heart.
Stopping the spoofing makes it easier to provide actionable reports.

Right now, an actionable report really needs a traced call, which is hard to actually make.

Certainly, it doesn't get you right to a chargable person, but it gets you a lot more than today.
Another example that bit me, flying from east coast to west coast. Storm in the Midwest we can easily avoid but that requires changing the route. Time to change the route with ATC + slightly longer flight time made the pilot time out, flight is cancelled and it’s the last of the night. AA refused to cover anyone’s accommodations because the problem was “weather”
It's a hosting service where you host your own copy of the code. It's no different than getting a VPS and doing the same thing.

If you have no access to the code then it would qualify as being hosted for you.
I would legit pay money for Google to pull that piece of junk from the Play Store, because it's damn malpractice at this point, given there are so many other options that don't straight-up swallow the TOTP keys
So what are the finable causes for flight cancellation?
only problem i have is with deliver or restaurant reservations

so i unpause the silence during that time

the hospital is def an issue, i don’t have a great solution there especially for unplanned emergencies.
> Hell let's just ban all money to prevent this.

You might be on to something here.
Europe's postal services: France reduces deliveries, UK and Germany now outliers
As with replying "unsubscribe" to spam messages, replying with "stop" to spam texts may just notify the senders that your email account is still active and being read by a human. If it's not from a legit organization which will actually respect your "stop/unsubscribe," just delete the message and don't reply at all.
Your link is actually a great example. It's readable, you know what each part of the link is for (unless you're tech illiterate in which case just the readable quality is enough). And so by clicking it, I know I'll probably head to some page called Dangerous to see virus.exe.

Contrast that to a link like "password-man-comp.tool.win". Which at first glance can be confusing to most where the TLD is and where the subdomain is. Or like the above person's tool. Either go with something readable, even if long, or go with something short and clever. Combining both winds up looking suspicious to most people.

Which I guess is the funny part, the ones most harmed by a badly named website/link are genuine people wanting to provide a service to others, whereas malicious actors will likely use more effective (and less easily blocked) means of phishing.
All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters
> > Its berfectly rational to trade speed for accuracy depending on the situation.

Sure but at that point isn't it better to have a lottery to establish who gets to be POTUS instead of going through the motions of campaign expenses and constant media coverage just to shove down people's throats the idea that POTUS is much better and more qualified of a person than all the other citizens combined?

> > One of those is to see which actors are in the movie. If you like a particular actor and know that there is a baseline level of quality, you are much more likely to choose that movie. This is a large part of the value that Daniel Day Lewis provides, justifying his paycheck.

You just described survivorship bias: Movie with Daniel Day Lewis is better because Daniel Day Lewis is in it.
These come across as very arbitrary. Why CamelCase rather than capitalize everything? There's no good reason; this is akin to saying there's only one good way to format SQL. Rubbish!

Too bad there isn't a cypherfmt tool (so far as I'm aware). That'd likely bring an end to any debate.
I don't know how the economics can or would work out for a modern drug company. It's agreeable that Western personalized medicine seems to lag behind Europe and Asian countries like China.

However, this Georgian phage producer does sell patentable boxed-up phages that consume common bacteria, like S. aureus, which has been discussed for its antibiotic resistance in academia a lot - https://phage.ge/products/pyo-bacteriophage/?lang=en. Years ago, I stumbled across some online stores that used to sell these products in Europe and the US, but now I can't find them.

This makes me think that a traditional distribution model for these drugs can work. But there is too much medical skepticism for phage demand. And phages are often slower to work than antibiotics, so the latter option is more practical in treatment... when it works.
Crazy idea: a red team for hire that tries to scam your relatives (but doesn’t actually go through with it). Seems like the most effective way to teach people what to look out for.
I use bearblog.dev, super minimalistic, markdown first, customizable...not self hosted but.. nice overall!
Nearly any other white collar, sit in front of a desk, job?
Then you are senior enough to know what “ then-CEO now-chairman Gary Kelly” really meant was “I haven’t funded our technology team well enough to have resources to test a scenario like this”.
To expand acronyms / jargon

IDL := Interface Description Language

TLA := linked article
> Delta had a similar outage due to a datacenter fire

They only have one geo-located data-centre?
That's even better than I thought... not just stuff in the browser, but everything put into context. One of these days it'll reach me.
The EN email note is somewhat kludgy. It was better before the last major upgrade. Before the last upgrade it was seamless to other EN notes. I suspect but don't know what broke.

BTW - they kept around the EN classic app because so many things broke. For a while I was going back and forth between the two.

The EN competitors want you to convert email to a PDF.
One of the competitors said they would have to have an email server to convert email to a note. They said this is hard.

I am OK that it is hard for everyone except Apple. Apple does already have an email server. Why are they forcing me to convert the email to a PDF?
Was this supposed to be sarcasm?

Because essentially any regular "office job" or "desk job" would work.
It's based on the power consumption of existing leading edge models such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, etc... These are very impressive models, but come at great cost. If these are just a starting point in scaling up our models we are going to have a large problem (I mean, we already do but that is besides the point).
One of the revelations I've had while designing my latest website was that design is much more like programming than I previously thought.

I used to think that designers started from a blank page and came up with everything magically through their sense of taste. But since I started using Penpot (a Figma like open source design tool) I realized the process is entirely different, you have a bunch of pre-defined variables which you use everywhere and it's through consistency that you achieve beautiful designs.

For example, you pre-define your typography (4 to 5 font-sizes/weights/line-height combinations, ...), you pre-define your color palette (3 or 4 main colours with a couple of shades for each), you define your grid sizing with a variable "x" which will control white-space. Once you define all these elements it all comes together easily, you apply them depending on the role of each element and the consistency of always using the same stylistic components and spacing makes the site beautiful.

This is my advice as someone who used to be terrible and thought I had no artistic bone in my body. It won't make you as great as a pro but it does make everything easier, and it makes things make sense.
Unlikely. Walled gardens already use their own search so what does Google care if they change the technology behind it. They've also made the conscious decision to be walled gardens so I don't see a federation play. Also, distributed search = incredibly slow search. Having to reach out to dozens or hundreds of backends for each query creates all kinds of problems (latency, reliability).

So that leaves us back at each walled garden needing to index web content in order to offer it alongside their own results. Large scale indexing is something Google definitely has a significant lead in, which would take many years to overcome.