skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obtain perhaps, but identify no. Identification requires a database of samples to match against. Way more FP and FI databases than DNA databases, so not much to use as a gallery for identification..
And with the Firenvim extension you can run a neovim instance in any text area! (Currently typing this inside neovim inside my browser)
Sorry what
> They way they target grandparents is surreal

My grandmother got hit with one of these, she has a weak heart and was in severe mental distress all day because she couldn't get ahold of me to confirm what the scammers were telling her.

I try not to judge others, but what monster can do this for a living?
I mean, 30 years ago you needed a supercomputer and to burn MWh of power to render anything remotely realistic, and now a phone can do it, using a fraction of a kWh. I'm not sure why we don't expect a similar leap here again?
These comments are easy to identify as ChatGPT because their style makes no sense in the context of a GH issue discussion. They're overly verbose and contain unnecessary caveats like "there may be other solutions that would be more appropriate depending on the specific needs of the project". Nobody who knows about the project they're commenting on would write that. They would mention what the other solutions are rather than being intentionally vague.

In another context, like SEO blogspam, this text wouldn't look out of place.
I disagree.

Both countries prefer a defensive posture in military deployment. If it isnt a threat to South Korea and Japan's territory, they will be reluctant to engage.

I don't expect either to risk escalating kenetic engagement with China for a 3rd party like Taiwan. This reunification glacier is moving in one direction and nobody in the neighborhood (except Taiwan) will be willing to stand in its path.
>Also, fuck gift cards. Make them illegal

Most of the losses (in $ terms) from these scams do not involve gift cards. They involve the scammers convincing you to install some remote desktop software and emptying your bank account.

It's already illegal to send people to open bank accounts with fake IDs, but the scammers have no problem cashing out the bulk of their profits like that.
They are, by virtue of not paying taxes due to losses.

It’s an indirect loss of the public and the publics money.
What was the court's reasoning for denying the appeal? This sounds terrible, unfair, and unjust.
HNers in the Washington, DC, area should be aware that there is a repair place at Connecticut Avenue and Macomb St. NW.
Just like any other big projects with government's help.

I live 20 km from a new nuclear power station being build. If my country can do these projects, why not others? You are right, we need political will but the political will comes from people wanted them to be built.
There was some British one I’d use to get primark jeans when working/staying in the city, it was kinda cool if you are a disorganised piece of shit but was pretty expensive.
Ori and the blind forest?
Thank you for pointing this out. In the UK the newspaper and TV rarely place our healthcare crisis in a wider context.

I'm in favor of the right to access a painless assisted death, but society should be able to make a better offer to anyone who is not terminally ill.
> It would not surprise me that their back-office operations are likewise economized and some things are just not done because "they can never happen."

Meh, it doesn't even have to be "never". It just has to be cost multiplied by frequency is less than the cost to prepare.

If they lose $100m every five years due to a system failure, and it would cost $30m/year to plan for those failures, they it's just cheaper to let it happen.

And I don't mean this in a judgmental, Fight Club-car recall speech kind of way. It's just business reality. At some point every business has to decide that the cost of planning for something is higher than the cost of letting it happen.
As a regular US traveler, I'm ok with that if the alternative is handing over EU citizens data to a known bad actor.
All of programming is moving data, the better you understand WHAT you're moving, the easier and cleaner the code.
Global Entry and TSA Pre probably saved me >100 hours of queuing in the last 3-5 years, and I imagine I’d also have missed a handful of flights had I needed to endure the regular checkpoint queues in order to make a tight connection.

It’s definitely a concern for me too, but like you, convenience trumps principle sometimes and travel is already unpleasant enough that “taking a stand” and making travel more unpleasant (including being an “Opt Out” at checkpoints and making the TSA do a pat down) isn’t something I’ve been willing to do.

Likewise, this will become a mandatory integration for states to participate in VWP starting in 2027, and there is a LOT of additional burden for those states citizens in having to apply for and be granted a U.S. visa over and above just using ESTA - paperwork, >= 10x filing fees, an Embassy or Consulate visit, then getting your passport (collection) after the visa has been inserted. Plus at the end of the day the U.S. is getting all the same information via the slower process.

I would guess most European states will integrate and this will be short-lived indignation (a “storm in a teacup”) followed by it being the new normal.
The point of the article is that even stupid humans can do lots of tricks that AI can't.
While the capitalist in me agrees with you that this is one the market can sort out (and believe me, I'm going to pay more to not fly Southwest moving forward, at least for 2023), I do think that this is just a case where people are bad at making that calculation. I suspect most people would pay 10% more for even a relatively small reduction in likelihood of this kind of thing happening at Christmas, given the potentially huge costs if it does (missed time with family, being stuck in an airport for days with children, lost payments for hotels and other activities, etc.). People are generally quite poor at properly factoring in low-probability, high-impact events into their decisions, and I think that's happening here.

Now whether the government should step in to protect people from that bias is entirely another question. I would argue yes, but I can very much see the other side that would say to simply let the market sort it out.
And most surprisingly HN falls into this.
The Turing test is a meaningless benchmark. So what if you can fool people? It's like saying if a magician can fool people then they really have supernatural powers. If you believe the magician really has powers to make stuff materialize out of thin air, then you'd be disappointed they couldn't just materialize you a million bucks, and if you believe some chatbot that passed the Turing test really is intelligent, then you'd be disappointed it couldn't help you make a million bucks in the stock market, or do anything that actually required real intelligence vs the faked appearance of intelligence.

Anyway, there's not even anything today that would come remotely close to passing the Turing test. I guess ChatGPT might fool some people into thinking it's an idiot who was locked in a box with a printout of WikiPedia last year and has no access to the outside world, but not that it's a normal person with access to, and able to interact with, the outside world.
Competition is slow to take effect when there is cost of transition.
Before bed, I consciously think about the time I want to wake, and then will usually do so just before the desired time. Once in a while I'll wake a few minutes later.

As someone who's been able to do this for almost 30 years at this point, I'm convinced that I actually peek at the clock in some semi-conscious state. I have no recollection of doing so. I wouldn't be surprised to find that other external factors are part of it. The brain is amazing at noticing with it thinks is important and filtering out other things (I once lived across the street from an elevated subway stop and didn't notice a weekend shutdown until Sunday evening). We may not be consciously aware of the signals that the brain is using to wake up.

That said, I've retained the ability regardless of season, location, etc. I can do it just as well on day one of a business trip in another timezone, which is one of the reasons I think I'm somehow noticing the clock. If I had to make a completely wild guess, I'd say that I'm somehow noticing the clock and some stress hormone response to that causes me to come out of sleep more frequently as the desired time to wake approaches.

I'm not sure what's healthier, but when I wake myself up vs. the alarm (on the days my wife sets an alarm earlier than I plan to get up), I'm generally ready to get up and go when it's NOT the alarm. With the alarm, I'm groggy, tired, and cold.
> Nope, I’m not American, and it appears neither does your source, because the link that should take you to the original claim goes to some other story.

Here's another: https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-director-data-suggests-vaccinated...

And more: https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1376925777397186560

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> Anything can affect women’s menstrual cycles [...] It's not really surprising and it's not necessarily serious.

Me: Don't make the mistake of saying fucking with menstrual cycles and covering it up isn't serious, as it will out you as someone who speaks to things they have no clue about

You: aight ima fuckin do it

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Besides that all your points are "your sourced claim is in disagreement with my feelings", which is hilarious coming from the "It’s very funny to watch [people talk about their feelings with no support]" guy.

Also flagging isn't an appropriate response to "this person disagred with me in a civil way" but you do you.
Looks like free tier for render.com static sites is 100G egress per month. While this is sufficient for a low traffic site, I’d probably want to protect myself by putting Cloudflare (or some other free CDN) in front (yes I realize that render.com has their own CDN network in front, but that’s still wrapped inside the 100G free tier limit it looks like).
A (perhaps) unconventional approach to password management, which I recommend to anyone. If you enjoy complexity, this is too simple for you.

No one can steal something that's not written down

Just like the Navajo code talkers in WW II had a system that was memorized, so even if the Japanese captured another Navajo and tortured him (which they did), he couldn't reveal the code.

Have some hints to yourself, and store the hints. Even if the file is stolen, the hints won't help the thief. Never, never store a "master key" of what all the hints mean. If you forget one, just click the "forgot my password" link.

I'm not going to even hint at the hints :) I use.
Agreed. The article is measuring the wrong thing: a company doesn't care about high readership of the initial bad news; it wants to get bad news out of the way as quickly as possible and have the conversation switch to something else. They are counting on short attention spans. That's why it's common to release bad news late on Friday or just before some event that the media will all be talking about. This article doesn't seem to get that and is measuring the wrong thing.
I am affected by this. We got halfway into our flight only to find our next leg was cancelled. SWA will not (cannot?) rebook anyone until the 31st. Our return flight was going to be Sunday, so we rebooked from our halfway stop back home on Sunday.

Here are some crazy things I have encountered.

Rental cars in our city are sold out. Same for cities within two hours drive. The websites will accept reservations, but when you show up, they tell you they have no cars. Because it's the holidays, busses and trains are booked and any flights on other airlines are crazy expensive ($1500 one way). When you are stuck in a city, you are probably truly stuck there.

Your only hope of dealing with SWA is waiting in line at check-in or a gate. The phones don't work. Online chat doesn't work. The lines are long and slow.

Luggage is hit or miss. If your bag was pulled off a plane, you might find it in baggage claim, but most bags are on a plane or on the tarmac. SWA told us it may be 30 days until we get our luggage. They won't pull bags for people, and the agents that we spoke with acknowledged and felt for people who may have had medicine in them.

The workers are as befuddled as the passengers. They have been very nice and as helpful as they can be, but their phones haven't been working and their computer systems have been slow.

On Twitter, someone posted a video of the announcement at Houston Hobby about no flights until the 31st and people keeping their receipts for hotels, etc. They said the same thing at our airport.

People in the airport are so mad. It's unfortunate because it's not constructive. But tempers are flaring, and frustrated passengers who finally get to talk to an agent end up slowing things down because they spend a lot of time trying to hear something they're not going to hear.

Ultimately, this is an operations failure. Companies talk a lot about accountability, but the typical way you hold people accountable is by replacing them with more capable people. It will be very interesting to see if any executives leave SWA over this. If not, I would say that no one was held accountable.

To close, my family and I are fine. This is but a minor speed bump in life. No one is dying, and we will see how SWA takes care of the extra expenditures. Some people aren't so lucky. They have meds in bags, or finances that don't allow them to spend multiple nights in a hotel and get Uber trips for a few days. Hopefully, SWA takes care of them, too.
TLA - the linked article
Why does a 95 year old in a nursing home make it any different if it is a national ID vs state ID? I'd assume the 95yo no longer has a valid license, but at that point the state ID is issued in its place.

A kid that can't get vital records is also going to have an issue with getting a state ID. So again, doesn't matter if state/national.
Or "we decided that the cost to plan for this is so high that it's not even worth testing. If it happens then we're fucked anyway and we'll just eat it."
Ironically, based on my experience working in consulting and with exec level folks, what most people need is something that turns long meandering emails into text like your example

Good emails are short and give only the most relevant info and "ask" of the recipient. Most emails people send get ignored or misunderstood because they expect too much from the recipient, who, unless it's a major priority, doesn't have the time to try and figure out what they're supposed to do from the email.

I expect this kind of thing will never get traction in most business applications, but an email shortener, definitely.
Also, Pine Ridge is literally the poorest location in America and the only way out of the poverty is to leave, which means leaving behind your family, your tribe, and your culture.

There's like 25 businesses there for a population of thousands. There's no good reason for people to drive through the reservation, a few handfuls of trucks, and the land isn't good for much other than to look at or feed some cows.
I think that the judge who had rendered this verdict should apply for disability themselves. Mental disability that is.
I bet it would, because it’s not so much the style as the overall structure. Every response sounds like a mini school essay. Intro, body, conclusion; authoritative, yet vague; perfect grammar and punctuation.
>Ok, but why are biological neurons exempted from this argument?

They're not. The neurons don't realize phenomenal consciousness purely in virtue of executing a particular program, but in virtue of certain (unknown) other of their many non-computational properties, such as their physical properties. This is the claim.
I'm sure somewhere in the world is an FX trader referring to "monies"..
you can think that creating incentive and opportunity for the state to kill people is troubling without a religious, or even conservative framework
We need more evidence than a handful of ancedotes to proclaim that the entire country of Canada has changed its position on doctor quality based on willingless to participate in MAiD. I get that this is an emotional thing but we're really talking to basically a mom who says she knows better than her adult son whether or not he wants to kill himself (regardless of whether or not I personally disagree with the son, that situation is emotionally totally fucked and I don't think its representative of the entire country)
Sure, why not? If the US wants to go isolationist I say we should let them.
> Both can be bad, but private businesses tend to be much less wasteful than government because you have to make money or you go out of business, whereas government can waste your money without any thought of profit and just tax you more next year.

Unfortunately there are numerous private businesses that have monopolies or abuse their market dominance to knee-cap their competitors. The result is, in my opinion, worse than the government because they do have a profit motive and will agrressively drive up prices or lower wages/quality.
It gets more terrifying. Soon whistles will be useless because scammer AI bots with synthesized speech won't be affected.
> The video is pointing out the name you call something isn't important.

Firstly, this is a misreading of the video. The absurdity of this position can be seen from extending your example through replacing every noun in your comments by "guacamole".

Secondly, "blind" is an adjective, and one that you use at every opportunity (except where you are looking up definitions - by the way, isn't looking up definitions an odd preoccupation for someone who doesn't see anything of importance in what you call something?) It is well-known that you cannot outright prove anything about the natural world by induction, but to lump everything that is not proven into the category of specifically blind faith ignores the epistemic value of evidence and just leads to what you call a stupid, useless, argument.
Plus left at a time and to a destination that you didn’t get to specify.

Compare the Uber (personalized, on-demand) transport to a private airplane more than a bus-in-the-sky.
seems to be a nosql dump, and further seems to be railyatri.in based on some investigation (threat actor did not clean up `.order_history[n].track_ref_deep_link` properly)
This headline is the definition of clickbait. And the entire article is clickbait too.

Article has nothing to do with Amazon it's about recycling.

And they're not burning packages they are burning a small amount of plastic contamination mixed into paper recycling.
At this point I don't consider email, text, or phone calls to be a legitimate way to contact me.

If you want to contact me, message me on signal.

It's sad, but marketers and scammers have effectively ruined the idea of people reaching out to me on the phone. It's sad, but it is what it is.
I signed up for their service, was assigned a virtual agent. I did some background check on the person assigned to me and found she had stolen cc details & funds from a customer of hers in the past.

Nothing you can do when you're in the US and the person that stole from you is in the philippines.
While this is humorous in that there are limiting assumptions like this baked into the system, I also have to wonder, who needs or even wants to book a flight a year in advance? I dread planning out a flight 4 months in advance and dealing with the almost inevitable cascade of conflicts this introduces of juggling and rescheduling things to make things align correctly. One year makes me cringe.
Honestly that's pretty amazing that it even ran at all.
Why, in that framework, should MAiD not be offered to someone in a major depressive episode who genuinely believes that life is pain and they’d like to end it? I understand the intuitive appeal of what you’re saying from a secular perspective, but I don’t see how this could possibly lead to a functional standard beyond a free for all.
These sorts of vague, slightly conspiratorial and cynical comments aren't helpful. "The system" isn't designed by some secret cabal of sinister tricksters who are intending it to fail specific people in specific ways.

"The system" is a hodgepodge of thousands of different laws, programs, agencies and organizations under a multitude of federal, state, county and city jurisdictions and operating under rules and budgets that were approved over numerous different sets of elected and appointed individuals over decades, each of which had to strike compromises and try to work within the existing system.

If you don't do enough to prevent fraud, you get a lot of fraud (see recent issues with covid payroll protection and other related measures, or homeowners insurance issues in Florida after hurricanes). If you do too much to prevent fraud, you get legitimate cases not getting the support they need.

No matter what the system is, you're going to have some amount of both "false positive" and "false negative" outcomes from it.
One of the great difficulty of tackling that problem is often FOSS projects are averse to design decisions like that made by someone relatively fresh to the project - even if the problem is incredibly obvious to the designers and not the core development team. You would have to spend a lot of time gaining trust to then be able to present an idea like switching domains.

The duality of putting off design decisions until later, and also feeling like your current design is extremely personal (I've seen some projects where the maintainer immediately disregards a lot of proposals design wise because it's "good enough", as if that person just called their baby ugly), can make trying to make any progress on FOSS project feel horrible.

It's a very interesting problem space I feel. There's so much room for improvement.
See also related submission from today*:

Running Windows 7 on a 5 MHz CPU with 128MB of RAM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34143197

(133 points, 84 comments)

* imho, using virtualization is cheating :p
If we cannot find a way to dispose of plastic without damaging people and the environment, perhaps we should stop producing it.
similar story for me a year ago. grandpa got a call that i was in jail for hitting a car and the driver was pregnant. lost her baby. they even had “me” talk to them briefly which really got em believing. he went to bank and mailed $9500 in cash, to what ultimately appeared to be an airbnb

was v sad because he felt supreme humiliation over the matter.
Well, most practical ML algorithms (liner/logistic regressions etc) should be in the wheelhouse of most engineers. I read a comment somewhere "Its much easier to teach data-science to an data-engineer than vice versa" :)

I think, if we data-engineers can step up the conversation from frameworks/databases to end-to-end use case, we will get more respect (and everything that comes with it like budget) from the rest of the org.
Humans add structure to unstructured data, the AI models we have just make flawed replications of structure we feed it, that is the difference. ChatGPT didn't even figure out the structure of basic math which is the most salient logical structure humans have. Even idiot humans can learn to count and compare quantities without being hardcoded to do so, they learn it from just words and pictures. A language model that failed to learn this when it was trained on the entire internet therefore can't have any understanding the way humans understands things, and feeding it more compute or data wont get it there either.

Example of a question a typical human idiot can solve without ever getting it wrong, but ChatGPT can't reliably: Is 7 dollars enough to buy a thing costing 7 dollars? ChatGPT can usually solve this, but it sometimes gets it wrong, getting that sort of thing wrong ever means that it doesn't understand, it just uses dumb statistics.

Edit: I'm not saying it is impossible to make AI models that understand these things, just that the ones we have today don't.