skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: Is this the latest "you will own nothing and be happy" propaganda spin? It sure feels like it. One can be critical of GDP as a meaningful measure without resorting to WEF "solutions."
Disclaimer: I’m totally against any normalization of the collection/sharing of biometric data. But just to play Devil’s Advocate:

Let’s say I’m a boring white midwestern HVAC contractor with a mortgage and 2.5 kids. Big Bad China acquires a picture of my face and my fingerprints. Also my DNA, why not, just for argument’s sake! I never plan to visit China. How does this biometric sharing affect me, my rights, my safety, monetarily or otherwise? Connect the dots for me because it’s hard for me to argue the privacy angle if I can’t even explain the danger of a simple scenario like this.
Yeah I'm excited about the possibilities of AI as the next HN-er, but this thing is dystopian as hell IMHO.
> methane (worse than CO2) and hydrocarbons are flared directly into the atmosphere

The word "flaring" in this case indicates burning the methane. Releasing it without burning it is called venting [1].

I question how significant the difference is in the C02 and methane emissions of flaring the non marketable methane directly vs running a natural gas turbine to power a mining facility.

> so their desperation results in many ways to help make mining company presence a sweetheart deal in the energy rates the miners receive.

It seems more like a a way to maximize the profit of or minimize regulatory penalties on the fracking operation, which is a fine business objective, but likely not a significant emissions reduction overall compared to the fracked gas itself. I'd like to see independent numbers comparing C02 and methane emissions associated with flaring vs BTC mining.

1. https://www.energy.gov/fecm/articles/doe-flaring-and-venting....
Google is also a trillion dollar company, as other have pointed out Soutwest is a low-cost carrier which most probably doesn't have the luxury of hiring FAANG-level engineers on 500k yearly comp in order to best simulate "black swan" events.
It may also be that they see this as a slippery slope of being responsible for moderating the content of phone calls, which is not a road I imagine carriers want to go down.
Testing rate is a meaningless statistic, because the criteria for testing vary between countries and over time. Especially after some places started testing everyone routinely every week, which made the number of tests artificially high and the positivity rate artificially low.

Comparing statistics between countries is difficult, because data definitions vary, old definitions may no longer be appropriate, and there are all kinds of measurement errors. However, if you compare multiple statistics (e.g. cases, deaths, hospitalizations, positivity rate) and look how they change over time, you can get some idea.

According to various per capita figures, Japan had the first nontrivial wave in August/September 2021. That wave was maybe half as bad as in the US and Europe around the same time. Then there was an Omicron wave in early 2022, which was bigger than the previous one but much smaller than in the US and Europe a bit earlier. Then, in August/September 2022, there was a major wave similar to the initial Omicron wave in other countries.

Contact tracing is mostly about public health personnel interviewing those who test positive and actively seeking out their contacts. And then using targeted measures to isolate those who may have been exposed to the virus. Apps may be of limited use, but as far as I know, they were not a significant part of any successful contact tracing effort (except maybe in China).

Infectious diseases spread exponentially before they get out of control. Measures used to control them lower the base, and there is a qualitative change around 1. As a consequence, if you look at any individual measure (e.g. mask use, border closures, lockdowns, contact tracing), it is likely to be ineffective. However, if you use multiple "ineffective" measures at the same time, the combination may be effective.
Can you please tell this to congress?
Europeans can trust the US government to keep this data as secure as they keep data on Americans

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chine...
the shift from paper to digital, has ironicly, removed a method of obtaining samples.

its amazing what you can find with HPLC and a gas chromatograph.
No. Self-hosting refers to running a service where you completely own the source code. You can run this on a computer in your room, or a rented VPS, or a serverless hosting option like Cloudflare Pages.

For example, if you run a Nextcloud instance and upload pictures there, then you are self-hosting your photos.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/Of0Yr
To expand a little on your point - I don’t think 2FA is relevant once someone has your vault blob. 2FA only prevents them from acquiring the blob.
Just to give you a possible cheat code. Despite them saying you can't when booking...

I've had great luck booking an enterprise rental car from an airport (this is key), and on the booking saying returning to the same airport.

After receiving the car, calling corporate and requesting a different city drop off. The only requirement being that it was dropped off at another airport.

Paid $75 a day for an SUV, from SF and dropped off in Bishop, CA. Reno was the same cost, as well but Bishop made sense. Did this a week ago. Worst case there's an additional cost but is it going to be $1,000 more... no way.
Thing is, there's other nationalities who quite frankly would probably be a lot more effective at coming off as convincing to potential victims, especially given the unfortunate effect this has had on the Indian people's reputation.

The fact that we haven't really seen anything near the level of Indian call centres tells me that this is unlikely.

I'm not saying that scammers don't exist in other countries, but that it's very rare to see anything with the level of sophistication and organisation that we see in India.
> 1. The driver’s labor, 2. The car and gas, and 3. Uber’s (mostly engineering) overhead.

4. Taxes/fees set by the city and the airport

> My airline ticket pays for ... All that for $99?

Well, if you'd split the Uber with a hundred passengers or so, it would have been a lot less than $149.
I believe Lord Kitchener campaigned for this in WWI until it became clear to the government at large that sustaining an army appropriate to the struggle they had entered was going to be an order more difficult than envisaged.
People complained. You just didn't hear it, for whatever reason. Musk has been a known idiot for years and years, but most people only heard the narrative he pushed and approved.
> It should instead be a credit, where earning income replaces the benefit $1 for $1, but if you earn over the disability limit you don't lose your credit permanently.

This creates a steep marginal tax rate (100%), which still results in a disincentive to work. It should be a more gradual phase out.
> Indian law enforcement is archaic, understaffed, and riddled with corruption...And tbh I don't blame them for putting citizen's problems over non-citizens. Thats literally what every country would do.

Not to mention consistently and effectively prosecuting people for this sort of crime takes two sides of law enforcement to tango (the perpetrator of the crime may be in India, but the victim is in the United States, as is the local police report they file, the spoofed number and the first part of the telco chain that eventually ends up in a normal looking office in an Indian city). Sometimes a relevant Indian police department may get that information in a form which is useful to both shut down operations and punish the operators, but even if the Indian police were incorruptible, a model of efficiency and particularly hot on white collar crimes committed overseas, I'm not sure their US counterparts are providing so much information that scammers wouldn't feel they could get away with it often enough to try.
That's one example, there's also the endless rhetoric which contributed to physical threats against journalists, threats to revoke broadcast licenses, harassment at borders. He even threatened to shut down social media a few times

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/863011399/trump-threatens-to-...
I generally agree, but on the other hand I think the situation here presents a clear case where you could draw the line - if your airline is canceling at a rate that's, let's say, double the national average, you no longer get to claim weather.

It's difficult to punish the kind of individual cases you're describing, but from a game theory perspective that just means that in situations like today's, you bring down the hammer in incredibly punitive fashion in order to make a single systemwide failure like this so costly that it's a no-brainer to upgrade software and keep slack in the system (particularly at high-traffic, high-importance times like the holidays).
it's becoming the same in rust. Here's the rust official docs

https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs

Follow the build instructions, then you get to `cargo build` you'll see this message

Downloaded 448 crates (44.1 MB)

448 crates for a static site generator!?!?!?! WTF!
After a hail storm comes thru, hundreds of calls from "roofers".
Maybe. Check your account's iterations like this: https://support.lastpass.com/help/how-do-i-change-my-passwor...

If it's 5000, you've got 20 times as much to worry about than if it's 100100.

2FA won't help. That controls access, but not decryption, and they've already got the encrypted data, so they're past needing to get access.

To be safe, start resetting your most high-value passwords immediately. Bank, email accounts, etc. Ideally, reset everything.
> many airlines still need to modernize.

Most of the travel industry runs on old software that would horrify a lot of people here, especially those who've never worked for a large, 30+ year old company. When I used to interview a lot of people I made it a point to mention some of the more "interesting" aspects so they'd know what they were getting into.

One example: ever tried to book a flight a year in advance? On a lot (almost all?) of systems you can't, because the underlying date format is "DEC27".

Edit to address a couple comments: logistics are hard and there are plenty of reasons why airlines wouldn't want to support booking that far out. However, the reason you can book a flight 330 days from now but not 360 days from now is almost certainly due to the date format. (I believe the windows used are less than 365 days because it's helpful to be able to have dates in the recent past. I remember seeing documentation for 360, but AA and United seem to be in the 330-340 range on their websites).
Among many others, it's easy to point out one simple example. I've talked to many many many many americans who are reluctant to even go to a dr for a simple checkup because they cannot afford it. That is barbaric, that you even have to consider your health vs your money. In most first world countries you can go to the dr any time for free.
> You can’t board a flight with it because there’s no photo

Exactly. When we discuss “national ID” we are talking about an identification document: a tool that allows authenticating a person; an SSN doesn’t do that. It is an identifier, not an identification document.

(We do have a actual national IDs, but they aren’t universal or mandatory, either in theory or in practice, though they are required for certain purposes and will be soon for more, and are increasingly common. Passports, state-issued IDs meeting REAL ID standards, Enhanced Driver’s Licenses, etc.)
I don't watch YouTube shorts, the UI is completely different. I avoid any video players that don't pause when you click on them or hit space. This is why I don't do FB videos, twitter, et al.
And it's not just the accent. The popular guidance on /r/scams is that if an email uses the word "kindly" where a native English speaker would say "please", it is vastly more likely than not that it is a scam.

Unfortunately, that use of that word is popular among Indians, but any half-measure guidance leaves room for an already susceptible mark to convince themselves that maybe this email is not a scam.
The form of hardball (that I'm aware of) would be blacklisting providers, which means good faith people get blocked along with bad faith people. That'd limit a lot of people from the US communicating back to India. It would be possible to block inbound but not outbound calls though, I believe.
One must do more than just denounce, they must denounce with precisely the correct language and tone.

Providing support to Ukraine (via starlink) is not enough. Proper denunciation speech is paramount.

(I am being sarcastic.)
dystopian would be if the receiving party is also using a LLM to summarize their emails.
Consider that many victims might be new to the language, new to the country, and know very little about the culture except that they absolutely must immediately and carefully comply with all instructions from US immigration regardless of how arcane and bizarre.

And as far as making gift cards safer, shouldn’t that be the responsibility of the gift card providers, not to mention regulators tasked with consumer safety? Why is it that the scammers seem to ask for gift cards rather than, say, banking details? (I’m sure there’s also some banking scams, but I have a feeling there’s non-zero recourse for victims in those cases.)

If it truly is somehow impossible to make gift cards safe to use, then I’m convinced society could survive without them. But I doubt it’s impossible. I suspect gift providers deliberately go out of their way to make sure victims have no recourse.
Ah, I'm sorry to hear about this issue. I have not encountered it myself nor have I heard about others facing it before. Do you have any suggestions on what I might need to adjust in Cloudflare settings? My SSL/TLS settings have not changed in a very long time. Thanks!
I have no interest in visiting the USA. It hasn't been "the land of the free" for a long time now.
How did that go with the bio-metric data you collected of the Afghan population? /s

[1] https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/afghanistan-biometrie
With ebpf-exporter it is not possible to implement complex logic, such as converting the PID of each TCP connection into a container name and the destination IP into a real IP according to the conntrack table.
Tesla’s Tumble Obliterates Half of Meteoric 2020 Rally
As others have said, doing maintenance before things get to the point of needing repair is also worthwhile. When I buy something that I want to last a while, I make sure to read the manual and also do some additional research to identify any scheduled maintenance that should be done, and I create a reminder in my Todo app to stay on top of it. That includes big things like car maintenance, and small things, like laundering a shower curtain before it get so stained and gross it can't be cleaned.
> The world is much much bigger than you think.

This is a condescending, ignorant, and stupid sentence.

> It might be shocking but

And so is this.

> PayPal

Ah yes, ecommerce, famously irrelevant to modern society.

> Twitter

I don't even know where to begin. We live in an information age, and this is one of the largest platforms of disseminating information there is. More importantly, the most prominent journalists in the world rely on Twitter for sharing information. Do you think the Saudis are so hell bent on infiltrating Twitter because it's irrelevant? Why do you think state actors spend so much effort trying to control narratives on social media?

And to the larger point: you're saying the richest man in the world and his attempts to mold modern society are irrelevant.
Anybody with a stop loss order at $100 care to chime in?

$112.78 at the moment, given the drop so far that's within reach, even today.
I hope we see some strong posturing from EU leaders. It seems like Europe is trying at least to fight in the right direction on this, while the anglosphere slowly becomes another version of China.
Question: I have been looking for a way to use htmx to build mobile apps. What I iterated too was just cordova + css framework of choice + htmx. How is hyperview better/worse? Does hyperview let me use htmx or does it just share the same htmx philosophy?
I live in Canada where they do this already based on how scary a gun looks (rather than their functionality) so maybe that's why I find it more palatable than being lied to.
All we really need is a sentient automobile --- seems easy enough /s.
I know those are all rethorical questions, but for any anglophiles here:

The answer to all these questions would be hard "No.", possibly followed by sanctions for even daring to ask them.
> I highly recommend to look at ORCH-OR (...) That substructures (microtubeli) inside biological neurons are taping into the state of the universe by going into superposition and collapsing.

Orch OR has been criticized both by physicists and neuroscientists who consider it to be a poor model of brain physiology. Orch OR has also been criticized for lacking explanatory power; the philosopher Patricia Churchland wrote, "Pixie dust in the synapses is about as explanatorily powerful as quantum coherence in the microtubules." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...
Given the US has army bases all in and around Europe, more than any European country, I bet the US wouldn't comply.

It's rarely talked about, but you gotta imagine, the fact the US controls most of the land and sea is a big factor in how diplomatic issues are resolved.

I don't think this is a great thing, btw.
No, the problem is bad developers pulling in dependencies for trivial functionally. If there was a `for-loop` npm package bad devs would be pulling it in instead of writing their own for loops. Padding on the left is something if it doesn't exist you write it in a few lines of code yourself. You don't add a package for such trivial functionality.
Tesla plaid is not a luxury car.
You can ask it to write in the style of a pirate or a 1950s movie gangster. I’m sure it could do a rudimentary Linus Torvalds.
It's hard to do right, because the mail format has to deal with MIME types, and all kinds of ancient kludgy stuff. They send mail in multi-part, and you see the part that your mail client wants to render. Sometimes they send only html, sometimes you get text and html. Sometimes it's a an image embedded in the e-mail message.

On top of that every mail service wants to do something different.
Cars are rented out with the assumption that prior renters will return the cars on time. If that doesn't happen, you will be told that they don't have a car for you.

The reservation system probably overbooks to some extent because a certain percentage of reserved cars are never picked up.

Many rental outlets are franchise operations. It may say Enterprise or Budget on the sign but it's Joe's Car Rental LLC running the place. They may be slow at updating rentals and returns in the system. It's not all one homogenous company.
You are asking the right & also complicated questions :)

Let me first say that we are just finishing up a version 2 of our whitepaper that can answer all questions regarding the cryptographic architecture including these scenarios. We'll announce that in the next 2-4 weeks when it's ready.

There are different scenarios here:

* If you install heylogin on a new phone, you will get asked to transfer your account to the new one. If you confirm, everything is cleared on the old phone, secrets are regenerated and date is re-encrypted.

* If you are using the team features of heylogin, your admin can disable your old phone (even if it's broken) and you can connect a new one with the help of the admin. The secrets are re-generated and data is re-encrypted. The underlying architecture is a little bit more difficult here and will be explained in the whitepaper.

* You can write down a backup code and use this for recovery (I like this method the least)

* We'll soon have a feature where you can add a security key as another method of accessing your data. This will also help in re-gaining access if the phone is lost.

* We'll also probably have a "social recovery" in the future, similar to the admin recovery flow but for private users.

Internally, we have more ideas to provide transfer & recovery flows. We'll keep on experimenting.

Since secrets are re-generated and data is re-encrypted, even if the old phone is broken, the TMP no longer holds secrets that are usable to decrypt the data.

Does this answer your question?
The Male Gaze (2014)
Whose DNA do they have though? Mine or my twin's?
> New languages like Rust/Ocaml/Nim.. if yes then which?

Completely irrelevant. DE is SQL, Python, sometimes Scala/Java.

Get really good at SQL. Learn relational fundamentals. Learn row- and column-store internals. Understand why databases are they way the are. Familiarize yourself with the differences between systems and why you need to care.

Get familiar with at least minimal Hadoop shit. Set up Spark from scratch on your machine, mess it up, do it again. Grapple with how absurdly complex it is.

Understand system-level architecture. Analytics systems tend to organize into ingest -> transform -> serving (BI tools etc)... why? There are good reasons! Non-analytics data systems have different patterns, but you will see echoes of this one.

Above all, spend time understanding the data itself. DE isn't just machinery. Semantics matter. What does the data "know"? What can it never know? Why? What mistakes do we make at the modeling step (often skipped) that result in major data shortcomings, or even permanently corrupt data that can never be salvaged? Talk to people building dashboards. Talk to data end-users. Build some reports end-to-end: understand the business problem, define the metrics, collect the data, compute the metrics, present them. The ultimate teacher.

(who am I? no one, just been doing data engineering since 2005, long before it was even a term in the industry)
> Never bored, and yet never really entertained or satisfied.

"Nobody is bored, everything is boring." -- K-Punk
Please deliver first the full biometric data you currently have on your own citizens. Then we can maybe consider considering it.
Write some anti-CCP stuff on social media, become randomly targeted by China's "Magic Methods". Whole lot easier when they have your biometric data.
EU has the same problem, ja_JP too sans the non-native callers part. Maybe just the US is most affected.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/12/europol-phone-...
Squirrels are cute, but they'll happily steal the eggs or hatchlings out of the nest if given the chance.
We don't know if they're charging less than it costs to run. They probably simply have to make investments this year in order to acquire revenue next year. Or at the very least it's a large factor.

They could choose to not grow, and instead realize it as profit, but it's not a long term good move.

It's probably a good idea to spend $4B (made up number) this year in order to be able to grow revenues next year by $11B. (some simplified arithmetic based on Q3's $6.868B revenue times 4 for the year)

And then next year $5.6B to acquire $15B the year after.

The nature of exponential growth (anyone who's started a growing company would know this) is that the investment that was expensive this year could easily be paid by the same company next year.

Assuming Google can avoid investing the $4B with current customer base, that would take them over a billion into profitable territory.

Again, have a look at how Amazon did this the last ~20 years.

You can't spin up a DC the same month you find out you need the capacity. It just cannot be done. You need to take into account the time axis.

I'm looking forward to the Q4 earnings report. We live in interesting times, though. The USD exchange rate due to the wider economy has significantly affected the earnings of multinational conglomorates as expressed in USD, lately.
( Which it already has, just not officially. )