skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the state, in many states the lienholder retains the physical copy of the title to prevent a fraudulent sign-off on the lien being used to sell the vehicle. In a lot of these states they actually don't hold the physical copy because the DMV allows major lienholders to use electronic retention. In this case, when you pay off the loan the DMV actually produces a physical title for the first time so that the lienholder can mail it to you. The lienholder isn't interested in having filing cabinets full of title certificates to keep track of.

That said, physical possession of the paper doesn't really matter to ownership---as electronic retention demonstrates. The owner listed on the title is the owner regardless of who has the paper, and the DMV's electronic records are far more important than the paper certificate (you can just get the DMV to print a new certificate from their records, but of course they'll charge a hefty fee and policy usually prevents doing so when there's a lien).

The physical possession issue is just around the ability to fake a lien release signature and sell the vehicle. For the same reason some buyers won't accept a title with a signed-off lien and want a new "clean" title printed by the DMV first, but others will just verify the sign-off. Dealers usually have direct access to query DMV records and can check whether or not a lien sign-off is genuine that way (relase of lien is reported to the DMV by the lienholder), but private party purchasers don't have such an easy way to do this and are more vulnerable to this kind of fraud. Multi-sale title certificates that have sales logged on the back are also regarded as suspicious by a lot of buyers, and they'll want a new clean one.

That said, I think the GP here is making a big assumption about how courts would interpret the situation. A lienholder has the right to repossess the vehicle as is, by sending a tow truck. Whether or not a court would interpret "remote repossession" as somehow changing the fundamental nature of ownership is an open question and I'm pretty skeptical. It's already not that uncommon for lienholders to install GPS tracking devices with fuel pump cutoff, in which case they have a more limited degree of remote control of the vehicle, and I've never heard of anyone thinking this changes the fundamental owner-lienholder relationship. I just don't think this idea about transfer of liability really holds any water.
Recently, I have come across some interesting developments in the e-ink space. Although I haven't had the opportunity to test DASUNG monitors myself, but I read positive reviews. It is impressive, these monitors have extremely fast refresh rate. Yes, they are pricy. I am intrigued if something has changed technologically?
Yes, we are training text embedding models right now. And also have plans to open-source some of them!
In addition, we train encoders for different modalities with retrieval purposes. For example, video data.
> the implications of bitcoin & cryptocurrency to let these systems grow & be harder to deal with has only gone up & up & up ever-more.

While I agree the implications are concerning, I think its difficult to overstate just how much of a stranglehold the US regulatory and surveillance machine has over the global financial system.

Trying to buy and sell things online without sharing your real name or address is functionally impossible for 99% of people (unless you are willing to break the law or learn how to use cryptocurrency). This is because the gatekeepers to the Internets finances (banks, credit cards, etc) are required by law to identify who they are working with.

This makes a sort of sense until you zoom out and see the scope of the problem. Because it is impossible in 99% of cases to move money around online without using those gatekeepers, there functionally is no financial privacy online.

I should not have to share my bloody name or address with anyone to order a god damn box of chocolate.

> Ultimately we're far more tracked by corporations anyhow now,

True, and thats very concerning and should be pushed back against. But when corporations collect data on you, the worst thing they do with that data (generally speaking) is not treat it with care and the data gets stollen / made public.

When the government collects data on you, the worst thing they do with it (generally speaking) is throw you in jail or kill you. The scope of the concern is astronomically higher.
That still doesn't fix the compromised employee problem. If they can match your identity with your phone number, and have full access to t-mobile they can sim swap. Sure, Google could have compromised employees, but I trust Google's security, especially their internal security, much more than T-Mobile.
Since I've been looking at mkosi for building Debian images recently, I would love a section which clarifies/differentiates features (and goals/non-goals) of linux factory and mkosi.
What is a User Reservation System? a system that reserves the username when you are creating an account?!
Rule 2 as well.
If I decide to pursue that I'll certainly notify you. Thank you once again.
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The security situation with these companies shows no signs of improving.

My hot take is to make many forms of hacking legal so long as the hacker reports their findings to the government. Let's have a free for all where every white hat and grey hat hacker gets to test the security of all companies, no permission from the companies required. Otherwise, it's only black hats that get to do the hacking, and they won't tell anyone when the find a vulnerability.

Everyone wins except for the companies who will be embarrassed they can't build a secure system to save their life. And they won't be able to legally bully someone for pressing F12 anymore.

This is important, it's a national security issue. Extreme measures like this are justified.

Some hacks, such as DDoS attacks might have to remain illegal. But otherwise, unless your proven to be stealing and selling data, let there be strong legal protections for those who responsibly report vulnerabilities.

And this is practical too. With vulnerability bounties you can solve the problem just by throwing money at it. But bounties can't be an opt-in thing, the companies who need them most are not opting-in.
Several years ago an employee at 'my' (the one for the UK county in which I live) county council rode in to protest the loss of parking spaces, over which they were told to use other means of transport.
If you have an encrypted vault file and the master password (or decryption key) you don't need 2FA, there is no known encryption algo that uses a rotating key like TOTP, the implementation of 2FA is always software-sided, and in the case of a vault file (like here), you don't need the software.
If it’s your only social outlet, yes.
HHS issues advisory on Clop data breach threat
Google's remote capabilities and control over your Android phone extend well beyond a "flag".

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-force-...
https://archive.is/DbQPv
We should just make a narrowband FM spectrum available for emergency use cases that cars can tune into.
Just ask chat GPT to write one. Problem is, its too late as its passed parliament and is now with the Lords.
I read an article where a software engineer was about to go on a long plane flight, so he downloaded a file of all english words and tried to write a spell checker during his flight, with no internet access, just as an exercise. And when he landed, he had finished, and his algorithm was beautiful, simple, elegant, easy to understand, and never something I'd have come up with in a million years.

It was actually a little depressing - it made me realize that some people just have a "something" that I'm not going to get through hard work or whatnot.

*edit: ah, found it. https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
How does this compare to https://stc.dudy.dev/
I'm looking forward to it. It would be great if they got into the cloud hosting space and compete with Microsoft, Google, and AWS. A fully functional ARM Linux that can run on Apple hardware makes that a possibility and is better for the environment. Fewer chips for the same work at lower power means less mining and less strain on energy infrastructure, and less cooling too.
> But if someone is trying to game the system to make corporate believe they get everything done in record time, they can control the system to fake the times.

I find this so incredibly annoying. KFC and McDonald's near me have screens up saying when your order is being "prepared" and when it is "ready to collect", except the "ready to collect" column is totally useless because they always put it in "ready to collect" long before it is actually ready to collect.
> Shouldn't an outbreak happen before the lab is shutdown instead of months later, during the flu season?

The shutdown was done on court order for the reason that the lab's security systems were failing. It is unknown for how long. Its possible that the leak happened before the government started acting.

> A lot of elderly that died is 3?

Thats the start of the f'kin pandemic. Not its entirety. Youre being disingenious here.

Its the disease getting out that's important.

> You're right, this "US lab leak" (kuch) is way worse than the one from Wuhan that infected the world with millions of casualties.

And now the jig is up. So you are very probably an American conservative, who just repeats the smears others for the screw-up of your deregulated, budget-cutting, 'innovating' government. Like that army lab 'innovating' with its security measures after your former president Trump cut all budgets by 75%.

> What are you even suggesting even? It's starting to get ridiculous. Oh yeah, your source was probably this

Dont be an a-hole. There are other sources there if you had taken two seconds to investigate. Covid was found to be in the sewers of Italy by september 2019, and in the severs of Barcelona by october 2019. They are congruent with the Fort Detrick leak.

And in regard to China: I'd take China's word over the word of the lying fcks of your establishment any day. The lying fcks who lied to the entire world about nonexistent WMDs for eight years cannot be the arbiter of truth, less, any authority about who is lying.

....

Basically its another case of your psychopathic establishment smearing others for its own f*ck up and you people are TOTALLY on board with it. They just popped this smear out 2 days ago. And you are literally screaming on top of your lungs like a religious zealot as if the pope of your church told you to do.

You have not learned ANYTHING from the Iraq affair. You people are beyond redemption. When the nuclear war that your establishment is pushing with these lies and smears come and you die in fiery plasma, you will have made it happen yourself. Nobody else.

There is no rational debate with religious, nationalist zealots. EVERY single discussion with an Angloamerican nationalist ends this way - by the person peddling the lies of its lying, backstabbing establishment.

This discussion is over. Good day.
I don't think it is just 'evil' China here. I think this is the US, China, and other world researchers who with NIMBY were doing research on coronaviruses and modifying them. Let's not use racism to mask the military-industrial-government complex as the true culprit. I do believe though that an accidental, not bioweapons release, of the virus occurred because people make mistakes. The coverup is why I think this needs to be vetted. It needs to be prevented, and not satisfy some stupid political ideologues. I commented elsewhere in this thread, but I lived in China over 7 years. I have been to Wuhan and the wet market there, and I have been disappointed at seeing tech sites in the US and China that don't live up to what people think when they hear a BSL-4 lab designation. Fauci and crew admit to doing experiments at the WIV, but argue the semantics "gain-of-function". The firin cleavage site on COVID-19 is very unique compared to other Corona viruses. It seems very plausible a lab leak spread to the wet market. We need to audit and call for more transparency so this never happens again, or it is minimized and can be attacked promptly and not when it's too late next time.
I can: Star Trek DS9 (DVD rips). I actually had forgotten the Shield was supposed to be doing AI upscaling since a lot of what I watched for a while was current.

I was midway through the series when I traveled somewhere else and used a Roku on a different TV - and it was instantly noticeable. When I got home, I plugged in a Chromecast Google TV to my TV (LG OLED) and watched parts of an episode.

The Shield TV made DS9 look significantly better.
> Two-factor auth wasn't even a commonly accepted best practice two decades ago.

Maybe, had you said three decades? But not two. It was already mature by then.

Two decades ago was 2003. Even consumer banking was online, and in many countries exclusively 2FA.

I've worked the banking space then and we absolutely had smart cards. Military and defense had them everywhere. Proprietary solutions had already gone away replaced by PC/SC. NT 4.0SP6 had support out of the box, because it was already a hard requirement for many customers two and a half decade ago.
It's not like they're showing you ads about shoes or kitchen utensils. It's a TV appliance so.. what else did you expect? A blank screen with just the Netflix icon? Are the Netflix recommendations ads too?
Crypto has been pretty unsuccessful at moving large volumes anonymously over a multi year timespan

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60462182
How do you plan on tackling anti-bot blocking?
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No it's more just an American thing. Greater focus on individualism plus nuclear families being the norm as opposed to multigenerational households.

It's made worse by the fact most households cannot afford expenses without both parents working, so children are naturally being left alone more than previous generations.
> Probably lots of game mega-companies (influencing GPUs).

Haven't ever heard of this.

> Arm had special JavaScript instructions for a while

Which is a design choice. ECMAscript is a standard, and the instruction seems to be a way of making certain conversions faster. From the release document [0]:

"Armv8.3-A adds instructions that convert a double-precision floating-point number to a signed 32-bit integer with round towards zero. Where the integer result is outside the range of a signed 32-bit integer (DP float supports integer precision up to 53 bits), the value stored as the result is the integer conversion modulo 232, taking the same sign as the input float."

It is not unusual for hardware vendors to include instructions that would make certain common operations faster. That does not mean that software vendors, and in this context, compiler engineers, dictate CPU design choices.

[0] https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture...
If I've been living under a rock for the past 6 months, how do I get started using ML tools in my programming flow?
Actually there's way more to it than loading /usr/share/dict/words into a perl hashtable and calling it done. A good spellchecker from scratch is still a massive engineering effort in 2023.
Yep. If you're going down the road of suggesting a private tech company that has nothing to do with medical health should be coerced into providing ad-free medical videos... well then it's perfectly reasonable to point the finger at a news site throwing ads at us. In fact, why can't I get to a CPR video through ed.nl???? They ought to be providing me up to the minute health streaming CPR videos just in case I go in to sudden cardiac arrest.
Agreed, but you still need to know a ton of things that seem hard when you haven't done them before. Even exporting the Gerbers, or the BOM for assembly, or any of those things seemed too hard to me before I did it for the first time, so I don't want to underestimate people asking "I want to connect a few components into a custom PCB, how do I do it?".
By the way, for the e-ink project I just linked in the other comment I ended up discovering the RV-3028-C7 RTC module. Idle power draw 45 nA at 3.3V instead of 110 μA for the DS3231 for similar functionality and ±1 ppm accuracy with an internally sealed oscillator. Awesome for battery-powered stuff and cheaper at low qty on Digikey.

I hope more of those little DIY/maker breakout boards adopt it. Pimoroni sells one. The one in my project is a free sample dev board that Micro Crystal sent me on request - which I guess is working out for them considering I just shared their product with you all.
Just a reminder: SMS is not a "Second Factor". Please everyone stop putting this into products.
I agree, ChatGPT needs a little coercing but it still stuns me with some of the results. While it won’t destroy StackOverflow’s business just yet, it has potential to be your new best pair programming buddy.
So I will admit that I don't know a lot about how elastic search works under the hood, but I can describe how ours does. Under the hood we use a large language model called BART which has 2 key benefits:
1. It has more "general knowledge", so it doesn't just search for semantic similarity between the text and tags you provide. This makes the tagging more accurate.
2. This model can be fine-tuned fairly easily for specific use-cases or on more recent datasets. For example, if you have your own taxonomy that you'd like to categorize certain text by - this is popular amongst advertisers who need to place ads on specific types of content, and e-commerce companies that need to categorize products on their site in an easily separable way - it's pretty straightforward to teach this model.

The synonyms question is a good one - so far, we've found that adding them here isn't really necessary as they'll all present similar scores.
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Which phone company does the hacker call to trick into believing they are Google?
Most farms in the US are corporate, and absolutely have shareholders and boards. Many are publicly traded.

here's a neat list:
https://companiesmarketcap.com/agriculture/largest-companies...

The era of the family farm ended 100 years ago.
Not the scummy low end of the auto loan business. They want you to pay for a couple months and then reposes the car. They are selling older cars, so just a couple months of payment is more $ than the depreciation of the car, and when it comes back they can sell it again. While they maybe have to pay you back for the value of your owned part of the car, they can charge repossession and detail for sale fees first.

They do need a few people who pay off the whole car. These are the case studies they use to shout how great they are for taking a chance on someone who turned their life around.
Got locked out of my OG ICQ years ago and can’t get access back because I can’t prove it’s mine with a copy of my id or birthday (obviously, not even sure I entered anything…)

My icq number is locked forever although I still remember it to this day.

For a while I had the icq incoming message sound for texts on my phone but that sound got obnoxious real quick, even though I had good memories associated with it. “UHOH!”
I have a badger2040, looping through a few different screens - one with a QR code pointing to my linkedin. The lack of integrated battery is annoying though - either you stick a potentially hazardous one to the back, or you're carrying around a bulky AAA enclosure.
Some of the comments here seem to argue that creating legislation that demands basic security baselines will not get the job done. In fact in a recent interview[1] Jen Easterly (head of CISA gov) fell into the same trap (assuming because she didn't want to upset tech company lobby groups) so her message was reduced to shouting into the void (asking vendors "please be-good"):

> Addressing these issues requires a long-term approach and not simply a new set of regulations or industry standards. Easterly said it will require the leaders of technology companies to focus explicitly on building safer products, provide transparency into their development and manufacturing processes, and an understanding that the burden of safety should not fall solely (or even mainly) on customers.

I'm right now struggling to get a bunch of US IoT companies to agree on a very basic set of security standards that would allow more interoperability. All we're asking are basic best practice to anyone working in security (e.g. ETSI 303 645). And the reason why I'm struggling is because in the EU these baselines are becoming the law as of 1st Aug. 2024 with the Radio Equipment Directive (RED). And in addition these same kind of guardrails will also become law with the Cybersec Resilience Act in 2025 expanded to the cloud and mobile apps. So this thing is coming and the US which has a lot better standards (thanks to NIST but lacks legalization due to power of lobby groups) looks like a total laggard here to a point where it becomes embarrassing.

Nobody in their right minds would argue there are unreasonable provisions in these proposals for RED (or the CRA). Yet all the US based vendors who do not sell into EU markets shout "bloody murder".

And it's hilarious how they're all grandstanding about "how dare the communist EU is telling business how to innovate".

Legislation works. Begging vendors to come up with better controls by themselves will not.

Anyone who has spent even a single day working in security in a company where security isn't part of their core value proposition (or isn't _the_ product) will know the only way to enforce even the most basic security and safety controls[2] is by legislation.

You want a unified charging standard for EV? Make it the law!

You want a single type of charger for all phones? Make it the law.

You want your coding standards to meet guidelines for functional safety? Make them law.

You want to eliminate OWASP Top-10 from production code? Make it the law.

[1] https://duo.com/decipher/strong-security-has-to-be-a-standar...

[2] entirely related: The Humble History of the Crash Test Dummy https://www.motorbiscuit.com/the-humble-history-of-the-crash...
Show HN: Bring the Power of ChatGPT to Microsoft Word
You're right that I do reject your implication of extending the ethics of human slavery to non-human life and granting it shared tenant owner rights to the Earth. I find it surprising that you struggle to respond to this idea because it is not a fringe one. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that it is the predominant View held by humans on this planet about their relation to the natural world.

As an aside, I also reject your claim that slaves were historically considered subhuman on factual grounds. For most of human history slaves were considered humans and subjugation was justified simply as a matter of having the might and means to do so. In a historical context, the idea of slaves as subhuman is primarily a New Philosophy developed in
the Antebellum South.
FWIW, the average electrician salary in Australia seems a good deal higher than in the US (by at least 50%!), and there's reportedly a similar shortage here. Supposedly it's largely due to a lack of students choosing such an apprenticeship. But why that is I'm not sure anyone fully understands.
Ooh yes that would be really cool - we experimented a bit with code generation, but found that it was a bit unreliable and fiddly since it required such precise prompting. Certainly something we'd like to expand into in the future, though
I see no reason why that wouldn't work with any phone, even an old BlackBerry. It's just using standard Bluetooth protocols.
founder here and YC W15 w/ my last company. happy to answer questions!