skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t a very useful discussion without reference to displacement, geographically and socially. When we compare our atomized society to others and note the contrast, rarely to we correctly pinpoint the cause of the atomization. It’s very obvious, displacement and cultural change are the root cause. Humans benefit from homeostasis. If they have homeostasis they will optimize culture for human needs and the common good. Disruption to that homeostasis brings a number of ills, isolation being just one of many.
Not sure why you picked July 2021 on a monthly index... easily the most misleading month in the last decade:

https://www.fitchratings.com/structured-finance/abs/auto-ind...

As soon as the government assistance I'm advocating dried back up we skyrocketed back to historical highs of subprime delinquency.

And notice how when graphed together, right on the timeframe I describe of 5-10, you see a massive divergence between subprime and prime trends even in your own article. Recovery rates tell you percentages, not absolute scale. (graph is a stunning representation of our current K-shaped recovery btw)

With cheaper repossessions the scale was what increased, and that's what Fitch is referring to with record performance.

We gave more people than ever who couldn't afford loans loans, and so while the relative rate of recovery didn't change, delinquency went insane, and is gearing up to get even more insane with the interest rate hikes.

> People who give out car loans want you to pay back the loan.

I can't tell if this is just a naive or at least uninformed take. At a high enough level the financial system wants people to pay back loans... but that's not what's being discussed here.

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There are dealers who want buyers to fail to pay. They're additionally enabled by both GPS trackers and license scanners to be even more efficient in their grift.

Additionally, you accidentally exposed an amazing example of what I described in terms of "we will subsidize it either way"

We don't provide a direct form of assistance specific to cars... but we did pay individuals to keep them afloat during the pandemic. They then had to take that money and pay subprime lenders to keep cars with exorbitant interest fees for longer, driving record profitability for the subprime market.

Now interest rates are spiking, those people are losing their cars. They're in a more desperate situation than ever, with less assistance then when interest rates were better. Used car prices fell, but not enough to cover all the ground they gained during the heat of the pandemic.

It's like this country just lets looming crisis walk up face to face without every trying to change course lest we seem like communists. To me this shouldn't even be a partisan issue, we can enable a smaller need for government intervention in the next economic slump by just not donating money to these lenders
Most adults stopped putting strange things in their mouths a long time ago.

But agree, Alpha emitters are a problem if taken internally, which is why i stated breathing/drinking tritium increases cancer risks.

there is not a clear line between "alpha exposure" and "rip-roarding tumour"... See "nuclear medicine", "radioactive tracers" etc for examples of where alpha emitters are intentionally given to patients.
Webhooks are notoriously hard to engineer, I'm so glad a service like this exists. I hear IsOdd.dev uses your service.
Another point is that in the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2002-2004 the Chinese government acted similarly:

> Early in the epidemic, the Chinese government discouraged its press from reporting on SARS, delayed reporting to WHO, and initially did not provide information to Chinese outside Guangdong province, where the disease is believed to have originated.[19] Also, a WHO team that travelled to Beijing was not allowed to visit Guangdong province for several weeks.[20] This resulted in international criticism, which seems to have led to a change in government policy in early April.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002–2004_SARS_outbreak

There was no BSL4 lab in Guangzhou and they didn't sterilize the market there right away, so in that case they were able to eventually track the virus to its origins--yet the reaction of the Chinese government was basically the same.

Americans have a fairly severe problem with assuming that other nations and people's will react with transparency to the US if they have nothing to hide. This is the same problem we saw with Hussein and the way that he tried to block the weapons inspectors and it turned out by his own admission that it was due to him not wanting to appear weak in the view of Iran and Hussein was preoccupied with Iran: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/02/saddam-hussein...
> Minhaj offered a reminder to people “touchdown dancing” about the lab leak theory: the energy department is one of nine intelligence groups that have assessed Covid’s origins. Two of those concluded a likely lab leak, five said natural causes and two said they don’t know. “And you know what? I personally side with them,” said Minhaj. “I don’t know what the fuck is going on. FBI says this, NIC says that. I’m holding out until the DMV [Department of Motor Vehicles] chimes in.”
Evasive action: Pilot pulls up as another jet crosses runway (Boston)
because they're the largest firms in the world with fingers in everything, to include media outlets.

plus there is a clear trade off -- someone is dying from it, but the world is benefitting via plastics goods, travel, imports, etc.
If we are using words then how is the scribble being used?
They allow you to call 911 (the designated emergency service), they don't give you a video of CPR. What's your point here?
there's a bit on this at the bottom of the post: it's free for the rest of the year, and starting in 2024 the teams-based features will be paid. similar to figma or notion
> Think of an IDE where a user is typing out code: the state is changing all the time.

That's easy mode. Mutability is often justifiable when one person is doing one thing to a computer at a time. Now extrapolate to multiple people editing the same document at once. Suddenly you're discussing CRDTs and other approaches. And now implement undo on top of that!

Likewise with git, or blockchain, or kafka. They're persistent logs so you can keep your head straight while figuring out what the current state(s) of the system can be. Even with git, when you do an in-place mutation (force-push) there's still an extra log (reflog) behind the scenes trying to keep the changes sane.
Why do you write "w/" instead of "with"?
>> * can’t access car during peak CO2 emission times because you got the cheaper monthly rate that uses a green subsidy to pay for the cheaper rate

This sounds like a feature that opens up a new avenue of potential financial engineering. If your car could enforce that it was in 'green mode' or didn't drive at certain times and you could get a subsidy or tax break for it, that might potentially be a good incentive to encourage more environmental friendly lifestyles and practices. That doesn't seem like a bad thing to me, I might not want to buy that feature but it allows for some interesting possibilities. The buyer would have to agree to some stuff at the time of purchase (or lease as it sounds like it would be) to enable this.

We should be mindful of potential unintended consequences of these things. There are some good frameworks in place though, despite what you're second point suggests, Ford has relatively limited liability in the case that their car is driven by a bad actor (cooperating the the police or not) the second that car starts driving on its own, for whatever reason, Ford has some liability.

I remember my grandfather being relatively upset at the idea of GM knowing his GPS coordinates when his Cadillac had onstar. Now there have been hundreds or even thousands of cases when OnStar has had a positive outcome on peoples lives after a crash or something, including times they've reported it before anyone else. His tune changed dramatically one time they remotely unlocked his car and remotely started it so he could get home when his fishing boat turned over and his car keys were at the bottom of a lake though.
The 'participating in iMessage' part doesn't work on any phone.
... not that Coke Zero has erythritol
I thought e-ink was fad, but finally broke down and bought an e-ink ebook reader, the battery life that lasts a month is amazing.
It's not really very expensive to issue employees a laptop (which costs a percent or two of an engineers annual salary) and tell them "All work must be done on the work laptop, no personal files/software allowed on the work laptop". For a little more money, they can add active management of the work devices, but just keeping work and personal device use separate would have prevented this.
I know, I'm enjoying the excerpts too. This whole thread seems to be split between readers of literature, and those who want to most-fully embody Sam Bankman-Fried's philosophy that every book ought to have been a "6 paragraph blog post."

"What's the one-liner on The Scarlet Letter? It's 'adultery is bad,' right? I'll just assume it is and stick it in my Second Brain on Notion, and it'll be like I've read it."
If this scammer thought they were a high value target, I imagine they would have gone bigger than buying $500 GoPros.
Er, no.

* Intel pay cut earlier this month.[1]

* Amazon pay cut earlier this month.[2]

* 50% pay cut for new tech hires in India.[3]

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2023/02/intel-slas...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/amazon-staff-pay-50-less-expe...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64728508
A lot of people have forgotten that iMessage was really the original killer app for the iPhone, as a side effect of how terrible US carriers were in the late 00's early 10's. You used to get a handful of txt messages a month, basically no MMS messages a month, and if you went over you got an overage fee, and still had to buy the 20 message package. MMS messages were more than a dollar each! But WiFi had become common both in the office and at home, and there wer unlimited data plans (with no SMS or MMS) that could be bought for reasonable prices.

iMessage bypassed the carrier tax, It's that simple. That's why it became popular, and that's why the network effects working against Whats App, Signal, and others are so strong. And it's why there's skepticism towards the standards that Google and carriers are pushing for, because a lot of people don't remember the carriers' business practices very fondly.
hey we're imagining it similar to figma or notion - lots of individual and free use cases, and when pros adopt it there's a paid tier
Ive seen similar (maybe the same) red black eink screens at best buy in the usa for pricing labels as well over the last year, so they're not exclusive to north of the border. Far fewer labels than a grocery store though.
> Are there options on the table for dealing with this in a freedom-respecting way? Even if freedom were your only priority, the worse the problem gets, the more political capital the politicians have to shut it down. If it gets worse and worse, it strikes me as inevitable that encryption will be curbed, even in the United States.

What Apple was going to do with the on device hashes?
Are you really complaining about GDPR? The cookie law is a farce, but the protections that GDPR provides to consumers are by no means onerous to businesses.
Campbell’s Soup Sales Were Declining. So It Redesigned Its Iconic Can
Is it possible to create a very free demo with fake data that anyone can use without registering?

Which are the most difficult categories? I guess restaurants can go to "family", "fun with friends" or "business" depending on the day of the week and hour.
Scary, this just convinced me to turn off text-based 2FA and only have Google Auth App (+ backup keys). Thank you.
> degradation has nothing to do with any limitation by Apple or its API, but rather Tesla's choice to lock users out of two well-established mobile platforms

Tesla made no such choice. They built their own platform, and now Apple doesn't want to work with them. You can decide for yourself whether that's right or not, but that's the side-effect of reinforcing walled gardens. It's no different than Apple forcing developers to work with them proactively.

> Why do you feel like Tesla is the good guy here

Because Apple is the bigger company, but they still act like the little guy. I'll never buy a Tesla out of principle, but it's your fault for backing yourself into a situation where you see corporations as good guys and bad guys. Both Apple and Tesla worship the same dollar, there is no lesser evil to speak of here.
Interesting... I had something similar happen to me, with minimal outward, acute damage (e.g., running up bills on random credit cards). It is reasonable to assume my entire identity is compromised. Sorry this happened.

How do you know T-Mobile was the entry point, and not say, Google (e.g., Google Chrome, Google Ads)?
What type of phone did you have (e.g., Android or iPhone)?
What is your browser and Search Engine on your smartphone?

Thanks!
Beyond the Pandemic Origins Debate
I totally agree, but OOP said that they refuse to play the politic games. I don't see how you can be 1) a top performer, 2) refuse to politic, and 3) not work hard. I think that's a "pick two of these three" situation.
I worked for TMobile for 4 days in 2021. I don't usually apply to big companies but money was tight because pandemic and I needed a job quick. I was assigned to work on the config server (think in-house developed consul or etcd) and it was awful. "If this specific config value is being set by Service A then what is actually written should be twice the given value, but if Service B is reading the value, return 1/3 of the value as an HTTP form body instead of JSON." By Thursday I got a call about a new position and I left so quick that the recruiters black listed me. TMobile getting hacked is a "when" not an "if"
I had some fun with the ChatGPT prompt:

> Write a country song about a guy whose truck left him. The first verse starts "My truck done left me and my cellphone said I'm broke"
data (startptr), endptr & capacity?! Memory might be cheap enough to waste, but more derefs do not help timings.
Radar filters out objects with small profile because otherwise noise makes radar useless. Make the balloon + payload smaller than this size and/or augment the small size with stealth techniques to minimize footprint.

The balloon payload can be an origami-like foldable structure that unfolds into something much larger than its collapsed size to cover a larger surface area than its initial radar profile. This is common for things we launch into orbit.

The turn radius of a hypersonic object is very large, so you signal the balloon payload to unfold in the general region the aircraft will pass through such that it can't turn in time to avoid that region. Boom.

Alternately, the balloons themselves could explode just before the craft passes through that region and the debris itself gets scattered with a certain probability of hitting any passing aircraft. The debris acts as shrapnel because of the aircraft's velocity rather than the explosive used to blow it up.
At what point do we reach "satellite saturation" such that any launch of anything into LEO is going to result in a collision?
> But more than anything, the playable demo has me largely convinced that this new gameplay formula is actually the right move for the franchise.

So Devil May Cry and a hint (or lots of) of Souls-like.

At this point they might as well just ditch the name too; the games are essentially unrelated in any way save for the title and a few shout-outs like moogles or similarly-named magic spells.
No silver bullet but many of these types of attacks would be mitigated, or at least made much more expensive and difficult for the attackers, if we had wider adoption of Yubikey, Webauthn etc. type otp solutions which are more resistant to phishing, keyloggers etc.

In practice, what are the barriers to adoption which folks are seeing, and what can we do about it?
I'm not even American, lol. I guess you dropped another ball on that one.

Quoting myselve again about having a conversation with you:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

- trump, Iraq, religious, ...
Show HN: Scan your code to see where user data is going
Hey everyone! We’ve been working on a static code analysis tool to map out where user data is flowing at the code level and catch potential privacy violations; you can check it out here: https://github.com/monoid-privacy/monoid/tree/master/monoid-...

To run it via CLI, use the Docker command in the README with a local directory, and the tool will scan the directory and print detected user data sources, sinks, and paths.

In short, the tool converts code to a code property graph (CPG), extracts the sources and sinks from the CPG, and uses the variable/function names to determine whether the sources could contain user data & the sinks could be sensitive outputs (e.g. logs, DB, analytics/marketing tools, etc.). The output is a list of potential user data variables (the scanning is fairly robust, so it detects everything from standalone variables to class attributes) and the outputs they eventually flow to (e.g. a "first_name" variable that makes its way to Segment).

The goal here is to “shift privacy left” and make it easier to find potential privacy headaches, like user data leaking into logs, earlier in the software lifecycle. The tool slots easily into CI/CD for privacy checks on every commit, and can also be run ad-hoc via the CLI.

This was also a pretty exciting build from a technical perspective; OSS tooling around code graph generation and static analysis is pretty sparse (though https://github.com/Fraunhofer-AISEC/cpg offers a great foundation), so we built out a lot of code property graph generation + manipulation logic from the ground up.

Feedback would be much appreciated!
Aviation industry can introduce new regulation fast. One example would be reinforced cockpit doors. Prompted by events in September 2001, new standards published four months later (January 2002), expected to be completed fifteen months after that (April 2003).

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/sept11/faa_001.asp
Saving millions on logging: Delivering savings (pt. 2)
Post 2/2, previous post at https://product.hubspot.com/blog/savings-logging-part1

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551290
I'm on an MVNO that uses T-Mobile. I recently got 100s of "verify your number" sign-ups from over a dozen services. Could this have been part of an (attempted?) sim swapping attack?
Hello Cubase!
No license, no code. Not much to go by except binaries and pictures.
If it's scalable to mass call a good chunk of the US population, I'm sure it's scalable to mass call providers to socially engineer a SIM swap.
Having only barely touched VBA in a single spreadsheet for a few weeks at a $B company I can relate. And don't remind me of the poor colleague tasked with re-implementing a simple searchable HTML table in SharePoint, who spent at least a full year on what would've been a couple of weeks in a reasonable CMS.
XML schemata to the rescue ?
As a KDE Plasma user on a rolling release bistro, I am happy I switched to AMD!

And yes, I realize how much of a niche I inhabit.
And who owns the brick of 

weed
heroin
 fentanyl in the wheel well?
Good that I'm using Xylitol for my tea instead.
On the other hand, if we are lucky and we go to covid-19 zero in a year everyone will be happy, but if we go to fossil fuel zero in a year everyone will complain that the electricity bill doubled.
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I guess the company that held his car loan.

It was not a scam, I know that.
AMC’s Apes Have to Wait
You've never seen such beautiful word choice and phrasing in a git commit
Lack of knowledge of vulnerability is not the limiting factor in this case. All a "free for all" would do in this case is make more noise in which malicious actors can hide in the logs.
Supreme Court to hear case that threatens existence of CFPB
Show HN: Collect and search robotics data with SensorSurf
We've been building SensorSurf and are thrilled to share our beta with the robotics community: https://github.com/SensorSurf/agent.

SensorSurf is an open source platform that makes it easy for robotics engineers to collect and search data from their fleet. You can define triggers for when to record data (e.g. emergency stop) and capture the moments leading up to the event with rolling buffers.

We integrate directly with ROS. Drop our agent into your system, and start collecting data!

=================

What prompted me to found this company:

> I was a perception engineer working on autonomous boats.

> I needed tons of imagery to build computer vision datasets.

> It was impossible to offload all this data over satellite.

> I interviewed robotics companies, and learned this was a common problem.

=================

Our beta enables you to:

1. Trigger recording on arbitrary ROS topic data.

2. Capture the data leading up to the trigger (rolling buffer).

3. Offload over a poor connection (set max upload rate).

4. Search imagery with natural language.

=================

Open source announcement: https://www.sensorsurf.com/blogs/were-going-open-source
A view from Crimea, the Russian-annexed territory Ukraine's hoping to seize back
This is news to me! I'm very glad to hear this. Renews a bit of faith in the patent process.
Which I think is a great way of doing things. Having a project that keeps breaking compatibility is very annoying. I actually think pandas changes way too much on each version. When you have millions of lines of code depending on a library, you want new features, faster speed, but you definitely don't want backwards incompatible changes.
I have tried them, and still use them when practical.
You find you can just stare at maps for ages and ages?

If someone has one on the wall I'm immediately hypnotised.
Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity?
> if you have an absolute basis for rights I’d like to hear it

Societies based on free men do far better than societies based on slaves. Armies of volunteers are much more formidable than armies based on conscripts. Economies based on free markets are much more prosperous than command economies.

I don't know what you'd find compelling, but I see a consistent pattern there. It's almost as if being free confers an inherent advantage. :-/

Anyhow, if you had a job where you are paid to work and could leave any time to get a better job, would you say you'd perform better at the job than if you were forced to work there and whipped if the overseer didn't like your work?
> I avoid using my actual phone number whenever possible and use a Google Voice number.

I do too. Sadly there are a number of sites/orgs that require you to use a mobile number. I don't really understand why.
Stories covered from the past week:

Tea with the Mujahideen, What Is "Hyperpolitics?", One Year of War in Ukraine, and a Murder at the Institute for Social Rejection
Given that code in editor is for human consumption I wonder why can't it be restructured for compiler to make it fast. (Or why compiler can't make it fast). After all - you could leave annotations re, for example structs so compiler knows what will be their size, so can optimize for it
> It’ll still do all the annoying things like disable the air con or make an annoying noise.

So, it will do what every Ford I've owned since the 80s will do...
Because multiple colinear variables like that would make the confidence intervals blow up because not every person in the study is obese much less the same degree of obese, and adjusting for colinearity is a basic part of data modeling.
Just like how smokers may partake in worse health practices in general, but not every smoker does, and not every smoker is unhealthy to the same degree, thus you can find an effect across all smokers, like O2 deficiency, even a health nut smoker.
I think it's a reference to the -o3 optimalization level in gcc.