skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also had a run-in with "the Indian tech support". Weird thing is that when the guy on the other end realized I was running Linux and just messing with him, he became incredibly rude and cursed at me. Told me to "put fingers up my butt" and that I was a horrible person for wasting his time... Surreal almost.
The statement you objected to was used to demonstrate that a specific claim by LastPass ("As a reminder, the master password is never known to LastPass and is not stored or maintained by LastPass") offers no guarantees that your master password is known only to you. This, in turn, leads to the conclusion that, even if you followed all of LastPass's guidance on master password security, the prudent thing would be to take some action - something that LastPass explicitly denied later in the statement.

I'm sorry if you find this disturbing, but I do not see why it should not be said.
So, I realize this is a big ask - but can you please write this up as a story and sent it to a major news outlet? My cynicism is already high, but I would not have suspected this of all things, that telcos would allow the elderly to be victimized to the tune of $10B to make a few pennies.

Also, fuck gift cards. Make them illegal
Wow that site was trippy. It’s easy to forget what the dark side of the web looks like
I can highly recommend nobel laureate Sir Roger Penroses' take on AI. He argues that AI does in no way 'undestand' anything. He goes even further and uses Goedels Theorem to show that 'understanding' itself is non-computeable.

I am not sure about this, but after playing with chatGPT I can clearly see what he means by lack of 'understanding'. There is absolutely ZERO real understanding.... only correlations and probabilities of words....
The labor force participation rate, for one, still hasn't recovered to pre-pandemic levels, and has been dropping every single month since August.
This story is about my son and his girlfriend's experience, with a raven sort of wind-surfing off the front of their jeep as they drove down the highway:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/raven-dempster-highway-...

It kept going, and going, and going, and at the end of the video, he was feeding it cat treats.
These scam call centers aren't owned by glorious socialist warriors, they're owned by comparatively wealthy individuals that pay their workers far less than the profit of their labor and often hold them under terrible working conditions. Also, yes feeling bad for old people losing their life savings is the correct position (america doesn't exactly accommodate for people without money).
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>But after spending at least $250 million since 2012 to build a directory of 21st century jobs, an internal fact sheet shows, Social Security is not using it, leaving antiquated vocational rules in place to determine whether disabled claimants win or lose. Social Security has estimated that the project’s initial cost will reach about $300 million, audits show.

This is the kind of thing that makes it really hard for people to trust the US government with things like Healthcare. Some days I see the problems with healthcare in a much smaller country (Canada) and think those skeptics are right...
Can we change the link to the original sources?

> Romance-related frauds and ‘tech support’ pop ups, originating largely from illegal call centres and phishing gangs in India, have caused losses of more than USD 3 billion... in the last two years alone. [1]

> Daud said the FBI’s website for reporting internet crimes (ic3.gov) have registered about 8.5 lakh complaints in 2021 with estimated losses of $6.9 billion, and over 7.8 lakh complaints in the 11 months of 2022, accounting for $10.2 billion in losses. The biggest losses are on account of investment ($3 billion), business email compromise ($2.4 billion), personal data breach ($1.2 billion), romance ($1 billion) and tech support ($781 million). [1]

[1] "Illegal Desi Call Centres Behind 10 billion loss to Americans in 2022", Times of India, Dec 27, 2022: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/illegal-desi-call-...

[2] "Elder Fraud Report 2021", FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center https://www.ic3.gov/Home/EF https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2021_IC3ElderFrau...
> So if someone chooses to die, don't always look at that as a problem that could have been fixed with enough resources. Sometimes it's not fixable and we all need to compassionately accept that.

There are different forms of acceptance. Yes, accept that some cases are not fixable. On the other hand, we should also be looking at what led to it being not fixable. There is a huge difference between seeking assisted suicide due to deteriorating physical and mental health from medical causes and seeking assisted suicide due to a lack of medical, psychological, and financial support from the outset.
I know all of those things. It still doesn't matter. Informed consent must happen. We have a long and rich medical history of finding out what happens when that sort of thing is brushed off. "Hey, I'm doing you a big favor" doesn't matter, consent does.
Utter insanity
This is against the orthodox Islamic interpretations if you’re saying that a free woman can uncover her hair in public if that’s the social norm. It is quite well known what the limits of awrah are (the parts that need to be covered). If everyone is wearing bikinis, it doesn’t make bikinis permissible.

So if this is only your opinion, it is not an opinion based in sound evidence, or at least please bring some to support it.
> Plenty of such cases here locally.

I'd be super curious to hear about any local success stories.

>As for forcing Indian authorities: I've seen up close how corrupt things are there and I have very little hope that that would be a viable avenue to resolution of this problem.

Then you're left with education. These scams are very profitable and can easily afford resistance from telcos and banks.
An update to the node graph is currently in the works, some love is being shown (I work at Grafana Labs).

It's also too bad that they built their own eBPF instrumentation as the Cloudflare eBPF exporter also exists and is very good https://github.com/cloudflare/ebpf_exporter

Alternatively if what you want specifically are the integrations mentioned on the coroot page then my money would be on isovalent and cilium
Reminds me of the plot in the movie Being There, an absolute classic and highly recommended for anyone who has not see it:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/

It’s deeply philosophical, simple, and humorous at the same time.
US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]
US government demands direct police access to European biometric data. The "Enhanced Border Security Partnership" poses an unprecedented threat to civil liberties in Europe.

Talk is streaming right now https://streaming.media.ccc.de/jev22/hip1

https://digit.so36.net

https://pretalx.c3voc.de/hip-berlin-2022/talk/JYX7JA/
MongoDB provides MongoDB Atlas, our own managed service. which is supported on every cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
There are safety mechanisms for pneumatic systems, pressure relief valves are one way to prevent over-pressurizing the system.

You’d want to have a system like this installed by a licensed pipefitter and properly commissioned and tested before operating it, along with regular maintenance.
well I guess 5

1. Tap the year-month
2. Swipe to your year
3. Swipe to your year
4. Hit the checkmark
5. Tap the day of the month
For some reason "MacOS" appears twice for me in the "options" section. I'd love for some more options.

- Doesn't require a subscription

- Doesn't require a web login

- Allows local vaults
I've heard this theory before-- that a command could get cut off halfway and execute something really bad-- and tbh I'm skeptical that this has happened even one time in all the billions of invocations of curl|bash. It's just not worth worrying about, in the same way that a cosmic ray bitflip could cause a kernel bug that erases my entire drive but in reality I don't spend any time worrying about this.
Again this is 5% _of deaths_ not 5% of the population. So it's roughly in line with the number of people who die from random accidents in a given year.
"ability to evaluate and make nearly instant judgments in unique circumstances without prior training"

It could be argued that there are already ML systems that do what you describe (i.e. make instant effective judgements/decisions about something it hasn't been exposed to during training), at least for some contexts. For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning
Sounds a lot like Black Mirror. You could even keep it turned on after you die!
Indeed, I didn't notice that. Author says:

> zld is in maintenance mode! With lld becoming a superior alternative, and with a tricky change in Xcode 14 that I didn’t want to add support for, I decided that it’s time to throw in the towel
A lot of comments here suggest the Indian government is complacent in these types of operations, but I don't really believe that's the case.

The Indian central government is a pretty small and unpowerful entity. Beyond securing the countries borders, and keeping the currency spinning, the government doesn't have the ability or power to do much more. They are not especially well funded (taxes are seen as especially unwelcome culturally) and staffed by tenured officials who cannot be fired and have no incentive to perform beyond the bare minimum. The relative unity and peace holding the country together is not the lousy government, but really more Indian culture sticking together.

Police are also seen as having some level of authority in the country, but realistically there's only 1 police for every 1,000 citizens (source: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/business/worldbusiness/03...) and the country is heavily heavily reliant on private security who are generally just villagers who are given a badge and rules to enforce.

Outside the big cities, government control is very limited. How else could the crop burning choking Delhi every winter continue?

So do these call centers operate with the blessing of the government? Probably not. Do they have to bribe police to operate? probably not. The government is probably unaware of scale of the problem, the police have their hands full taking care of their own people, and the American government wouldn't dare try a diplomatic solve as India's agreement with many foreign policy situations is mission critical.

Maybe it'd be better if in America we could try to get support off of the POTS and try to better connect to official brand sites or apps? Or we have phone plans/email plans for the elderly that don't allow stranger contact?
Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Web
While that is definitely unfortunate, it looks like the system is working correctly. Aer Lingus is on the hook for millions of euros thanks to EU law, and then it goes after the IT provider to be made whole.
This article is so funny. I thought we as a society already went through this phase like 5 years ago? Toxic productivity as they call it. Also, I read David Goggins book and to my surprise it was much deeper and much more meaningful than what you would expect with all these productivity gurus misusing quotes from his book. If you can get past the vulgar language I recommend you pick it up.
That's a "beatings will continue until morale improves" message.
I understand the impulse to feel this way, but redistributing wealth through criminal syndicates who likely contribute very little real value to the Indian economy is not the way to go.
My observation of rental car companies is that they have figured out how to run on absolute skeleton crews.

I rented one earlier this month online. When I showed up they handed me a confirmation and told me to pick a car and drive, key was in the cup holder. They had a manned exit barricade to confirm the car you chose, but that was it. I'm not even sure they cared if I picked a car that I didn't reserve, the exit gate person scanned the car and reservation, so it probably would have just updated the reservation on the spot. I don't think it's even possible to predict with certainty what your inventory is going to be 2-3 days out with this sytem.

Just 2 people on the rental side, although I'm sure they have a cleaning/ turnover crew.
The pragmatic answer is that the government wanted to secure supplies for social services first.
It's not Google's fault. This is the rule for .us domains. Blame the US government.
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But that's not a Google Domains issue, it's a .us issue. All registrars cannot enable privacy on .us domains.
Only about a quarter of the 10k telcos covered by the FCC have adopted STIR/SHAKEN in the year since the deadline.

The FCC has started enforcement actions, in October they announced they are cutting off seven telcos who failed to comply. Only ~7000 more to go!
Try a moving truck rental, and rent a van. They're set up for one-way, and often have stock when car rentals are sold out.

Some of my ex-wife's colleagues returned from a conference in Denver back to the east coast in a u-haul van after all air travel was shut down on 9/11
So I don't really know the history but I thought British Army planned on mass call-ups either voluntary and then if needed by conscription long before WWI, as mass mobilization isn't something you can do overnight without prep.
I don't have a security clearance but one day in the middle of the night I accidentally ended up at the Belarus/Polish border due to a faulty bit of navigation software (Thanks, TomTom). I'm pretty sure that that had absolutely no effect whatsoever (I had no visum anyway and it's not like you just waltz across that border, nor did I want to) but at the same time if I would have a security clearance I'm fairly sure that there would have been some effect. When you are operating at that level you should be a lot more careful about who you are buddies with and where you visit lest someone decides that maybe it is time that you lost that clearance.
You’re right.

Secondary point, if you can’t make time to have coffee for someone for an entire month, it probably isn’t important enough to do, ever.
>My (naive) hope is that this might also discourage offshoring and/or reward companies employing Americans, if enough people do likewise.

I doubt that. Instead they'll probably start using a service like https://www.respeecher.com/
> This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up when receiving text or calls.

Yes, of course we do. Verizon and T-Mobile, at the very least, mark calls as "likely spam" reliably. Can't speak for any carriers as I've not been a customer of theirs for some time.
"The server returned an unexpected error."

Now GLHF!
"AI"... which AI? each AI solution is different.
It is meaningful, but maybe I didn't give enough context.

The service ingests data from a timespan T spanning M minutes. Before the next timespan T+1 is ingested, the service has to process the data from timespan T in <M minutes otherwise we fall behind. What I mean with "faster than real-time" is that it has to process the data faster than it is ingested.
Because JS had a very poor stdlib and attracted people that had little to no experience in best-practices in older languages

Hence left-pad. And this pet-peeve of mine https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#processargv (who cares about the node fullpath in argv[0]?)
Hey there! Creator of Kontxt.io here, which was listed on the site. Quick correction.

- It's actually free.
- Still under development.
- It has a CMS and social network to organize, share, and discover with others.
- Anyone can add the annotative collaboration features directly to their own site with a single line of code to boost engagement and sharing to grow their audience.

New feature:
Stylize your highlights and add a promotion to every share. Perfect for fundraisers and charitable donations.

Example:
https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/QNebKRiN9ghcqTb1U8StSZJEwlT...

Description:
I highlighted a site. Put highlights on their own page. Added a background. And added a clickable promotion (to donate to the Red Cross) with analytics to see views and clicks.
Seems very valuable for customer support emails. You could easily charge $50/month for this in that market.
>I think it would be more effective if I learned a Hindi curse.

When asked, just tell them your name is "Ben Chod". Gets em every time.
Any difficulty on understanding your types and discovering their sizes will make it harder to use the ABI. Any convention that you decide not to follow will break the interoperability of other software you may call over the ABI. And the C ABI doesn't carry information about memory management because people decided to build it that way, it could very well do it.

But if you want to define an "ABI" as strictly the geometry the data has on the memory when a function is called... well, good luck using that information on the other end to retrieve the data on your function; it's completely useless. But yes, I don't see any problem on it either.
Let me guess, was that search result an ad? Yet another reason to block them.
Maybe Elon doesn't think his stock dropping from $300 to $113 in less than six months is funny. Or maybe he doesn't have a sense of humor either...
Most of these scammers already have physical presence in the US. I feel the solution is probably to be found in more policing and prosecution than in creating tiny obstacles.
gnu-pass and bitwarden tick those boxes at least-

any other requirements that maybe you simply assume should be available (like browser extensions)
Yes, because they don't oppose war, they oppose a Ukranian victory. And by doing that they basically discredit themselves.
I learned this the hard way too. Not with Google domains, but another registrar. I was getting dozens of calls a day from Indian voices proposing to create a website for me. Switched the WHOIS data to private and that slowed it down but didn't stop it. This was two years ago and I'm still getting about one call a day. I've since learned there are caching services for WHOIS data that will sell you historical contact data. Obviously the Indian fraudsters are using these services.

The days of friendly WHOIS are over. Never register a domain without setting the privacy flag.
So do you believe the Indian government is complicit in such cyber crimes?
There are many aspects of right-wing thinking (just as left-wing) and the more capitalist-libertarian or anarcho-capitalist ones (that are some of the most popular) are much less bothered by assisted suicide than by social spending.
You're searching for purity when it does not and cannot exist in our current system. Of course a figure like Sweeney isn't some pure altruistic being, but the fact remains that due to his main goal overlapping with the good of the community, and his passionate position in the space, means he can challenge that. Unlike every Meta employee who sticks with the status quo and were the reasons Carmack left the company.
Hoax school shooting calls keep happening, and there's a pattern (October 2022)
I worked with a guy who used baby sign with all his babies. He swears by it because the baby is more able to specify what it is they want, instead of crying while you try 5 things before giving them the thing they want.

His kids grew up smart, which he attributes to baby sign. But both parents are techies, so it's probably more that. Either way, the ability to communicate more directly instead of playing the guessing game every time there's a tear and a wail is a blessing.
I find that radiant more evenly heats a space - there's no obvious warm air flow from a vent like you'd get with forced air. It's also near silent (except for your boiler) and doesn't blow dust about.
What a dystopian, terrifying prospect.

On a personal level I keep a referee's whistle handy in case I'm talking to a scammer live. They are usually wearing headsets and any damage I can do to their hearing with that may save an old persons savings in the following few minutes. Best technique is to speak softly so they turn their volume up then let rip on the whistle
>In other words, unless we are content to “bite the bullet” of panpsychism, then no machine, however complex, can ever realize phenomenal consciousness purely in virtue of the execution of a particular computer program.

Ok, but why are biological neurons exempted from this argument? I mean, aside from the obvious conflict of interest that the person who wrote this article is made out of them, and they would much rather not be ontologically dissolved into a soulless zombie.

I'm not sure you actually have to bite the panpsychism bullet either (or I'm misunderstanding what that word means). Adding a Putnam mapping to an FSA or giving you a book that maps Chinese characters to other Chinese characters doesn't necessarily make the FSA conscious or you a literate Chinese reader. It just makes the sum total of those things conscious. Likewise, each individual neuron in your head does not need to be totally conscious. Consciousness is an emergent property of your whole body, not just something attributable to parts of it.
yeah it sounds like recovering from this requires standing up a brand new organization in real time. I hope someone is watching the trouble ticket system, imagine that going down...
Thankfully that’s still easy enough to spot - it sounds like a better version of those early speech synthesizers we played around with as kids in the nineties - but I can see the elderly having trouble distinguishing it from a real voice.
Note that Croatia is joining schengen in 2023.
Google nuked an old email address of mine which was using a custom domain (free Workspace account). That email contained all my correspondence for a period of about 10 years. No way to restore it, no way to flag it to anyone at Google. I have been slowly removing Google services from my life, one of the last transitions being to Kagi.
I'm one of those software devs who don't do my own stuff, I happily pay services for good products, but I know it would be "better" security (probably) to have my own server in-home and all that. I don't just choose anything, but I don't want to deal with servers or technology debugging outside of my day job. I used to run my own servers and just got tired of having to maintain them; and even "fully automated" systems need maintenance.
> If we can make it harder to run a scam call business by changing things on our end

How much harder? If your changes increase the telephony costs of a scam call centre from 0.001% of revenue to 0.002%, you have not actually made their operations harder.

> and these changes do not impede non-fraudulent use, why not go for it?

Because these changes would not be free.
Poland bought for Ukraine more than half Starlink terminals.

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/ukraine-uses-over-11000...
Most airlines have schedules that are consistent day-to-day. It's the efficiency vs. resiliency tradeoff that's interesting. I'd probably summarize it as "don't fly Southwest in the winter."

That said, I flew Southwest from SJC to LAS for CES one year, connecting in SAN. Weather wasn't great, and they'd put you on the next available flight with an empty seat. They were even able to shuffle people without going up to the podium. Legacy carriers would have drug their feet, there'd be a line, and they'd charge for the privilege of changing flights.
The user is probably blacklisted due to bad past behavior. You can vouch for individual comments, though.
Nice idea but not feasible for me right now, for the sole reason that now my email content ends up in the hands of OpenAI.

Can't wait to see the same project using their own servers with their own text prediction models or allowing us to set up one at home!