skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was PayPal trying to verify your identity or that you know your recipient's identity (who's coincidentally your mother)?

I'm surprised if PayPal expected you to know your recipient's birthday, but
"What's your mother's birthday?" would be a common question to verify your identity. They should have moved on to another question if you had a moral objection.

On the other hand, scammers will often ship goods to a nearby address and pick them up off the porch, so verifying that you know your recipient might actually be a fraud countermeasure.
Funny - the European Commission told its staff to "Switch to Signal messaging app" in Feb 2020:

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-to-staff-switc...

I wonder what changed.
> And smart people will package them as "one click installers" for people who aren't tech-savvy. This is already happening.

Any projects I can follow? Because I haven't seen any one click installers yet that didn't begin with "first install a package manager on the command line"
Been a long time since I've used the sage theme, but this new product makes me wanna try and build something with it!
I don't understand your metaphor.

> E2E can be explained to an 8 year old.

Can.

Also, the main problem here isn't explaining the tech itself (although the quotations in the link indicate this is also a problem), but rather explaining why it's (a) actually good, and (b) impossible to prevent even if it wasn't good.

But even if it was the tech itself, most people don't have maths skills and fundamentally don't (care to?) think logically.

When I was a kid, I couldn't understand why the adults kept joking about why it was so hard to stop the VCR from flashing 12:00 when I found it trivial.

(I think we're getting to the point where you could run an image detection process on the display itself, totally circumventing any encryption. This will have a lot of consequences that are totally obvious and yet it may be done regardless).
This sounds like an incredibly obvious observation?

Modern liberal democracy comes from the revolutions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Greek poleis were at most an inspiration, like the ancient Olympics for the modern ones.
You think the Mac version of Messages was ported via Catalyst two years ago and it’s a dead end? I don’t.
I like that "Spy Cameras Mall" and Spy Camera Small" work as ways to read the address.
This also happens to a machine that's left on overnight. Something Happens and it reboots - I lose my RDP connection - to this awful dialog.
Not from what I have seen. Prices are the same. Perhaps it depends on what international flights one is after.

I do understand the strategy of just going after the cheapest flights and I know younger people who swear by it. But these are often the same people who will not pay annual fees for credits cards, so they have never tried these rewards programs.

Also, if a customer has accumulated a large quantity of points, then she may not want to use the points on the "cheapest" options. She might want to choose more expensive ones since she is using points.
I have nothing against local, artisanal production. I just also realize that small scale production doesn't actually work by itself if your objective is feeding humanity.
Many companies are trying to do the same? This is a fairly straightforward project with many online tutorials available. I have built a small app for my personal use in Python.
Indeed I seem to have misread the answer, and have answered poorly. Thanks for pointing that out. My point is that understanding taste, grinding and extraction will take you a long way. One of the keys for extraction is fixing the variables. If you for example have a steel grinder that does not grind evenly(and burns or heat the coffe with friction) the resulting extraction is a result of hazard. You will have both overextracting and underextracting.In the same way not having consistent ( enough) pressure will give poor results. There are ways to compensate but you are going to have «errors» in the taste. I have trained as a barista, trained with scent kits, and have been given enough home coffe brews (supposely espresso) by coffe fans made with home machines that I lost hope in any of those machines. Really experiencing taste while limiting the method is more benefical in my opinion.
And kust to be extra clear I am not saying that an aeropress gives you an espresso shot.
from the title, I thought these would be ads for third-party products. it actually is just prodding to install/use ms's own stuff, so it's a nothingburger.
I can confirm, it does change. As of now, it displays one of higher quality: https://www.cerebras.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Scaling-...
> Students aren’t writing because they’re “motivated”, they are writing because they have to. It’s a grade.

So what? That argument doesn't really make sense to me. An educated populace is generally considered to be a good thing and teenagers for instance aren't always sufficiently self-motivated to learn how to write and think. Exercising your thinking and writing muscle for the sake of getting a grade is not necessarily a bad thing.

I suppose your claim seems to be that mandatory homework and grades are generally useless. And perhaps you are okay with a future where - when most cognitively demanding jobs have been automated - much of of humanity as been reduced to mentally incompetent beings dependent on AI. Does not seem so desirable to me, however.
U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022
Eating more != eating significantly more meat.

I used to be an elite racing cyclist, I know what it is to need fuel in a 200km bike race

Besides, riding at conversational slower pace only need a fraction of that energy. When I was commuting 75km a day myy food intake may be at worst marginally higher than a day off.
As a former (and not great) CX racer, this sport should not be talked about, as it's a cruel beast to those who dare and try.

(Kidding, of course, it's a wildly entertaining form of racing)
I apologize. I edited the previous messages to come across less snarky; that was not my intention and is why I quickly deleted my comment about being a marionette. I genuinely value open dialogue and the exchange of ideas. However, I must point out the irony that while we both claim to be interested in constructive conversation, this discussion has yet to delve into the substantive aspects of the issue at hand:

"One is my government, one is a hostile government."

Instead, we find ourselves focusing on peripheral points and accusations.

This situation brings to mind the tactics employed by the CIA to discredit truth tellers like journalists and academics. These tactics often involve diverting attention from the core issues, creating distractions, and undermining the credibility of the individuals presenting the facts. Engaging in this behavior we inadvertently contributes to a climate of misinformation and confusion, which hinders productive discourse and prevents us from reaching a deeper understanding of the issues at hand.
was said about computers only 50 years ago, it's worth thinking about (tho probably too speculative at this point)
That's a single article with an agenda.
We're always sure to get the pseudoephedrine. We call it "the meth stuff".
This representative is just tanking Apple's reputation for his own gain, that's what it looks like from the outside.
Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) [pdf]
I think that's in the Apple News "Business News" section at the bottom. I'd never noticed it before myself.
It's already well on it's way imo. If I don't fire up the desktop app for a few days, when I do I'm greeted with an update, then a bunch of Nitro ads and other such cruft/nags added to the interface.
It's just the result of a people-oriented state.
Ah I see what you mean now, I think I misunderstood what you were saying a bit.
Sadly it still doesn't support vector graphics. A TeX-killer must also include a replacement for something like PGF, Tikz, Metapost, etc.
Steam, EGS and GOG are stores. Ads are expected in stores. The OS that runs my computer is not.

I would expect ads on Windows when I open the built-in app store, but not on the Start Menu.
"Progress" is that now also ops gets to throw half-functional operators, underdocumented CRDs, and pluggable CRI/CNI/CSI all not quite configured to work together properly back over the wall to devs who have no hope to debug anything anymore!
Fair. He actually had the more radical idea that "Western" democracy owes a lot to pre-Columbus America.
Money is a convenient means of exchange and valuation, I don't see the reason why my membership in society (node or cell in larger organism) should require that means of exchange to be imaginary- and I disagree that intrinsic value does not exist, though it may vary in the eye of the beholder. If I approach this stone-age tribe from your example and attempt to trade with them they will not accept my dollars for their goods- to them my dollars are kindling at best. Very little intrinsic value. But a physical commodity perhaps they would accept because it has some actual real-world use to them. Why should one party trade actual useful goods and services in exchange for imaginary numbers? Wouldn't it make more sense for trade real goods for real goods, provided one party's goods are viable for monetary use and can be reliably used as a means of valuation?

I won't argue that imaginary units of money are a powerful tool, they certainly are. So powerful in fact that there is no human on this earth who can be trusted to administer it without rampant abuse. The history of centralized planned economies speaks for itself, and I don't think further consolidation under CBDCs with more 'granular control' is going to improve its track record. The physical limits that constrain the use of commodities as money are what make it a viable as currency, it's a feature not a bug
For me, it's the extra security and convenience. If the website doesn't use Shopify/PayPal, I'm trusting them with my credit card information and who knows how good their database security is.
One of the very few times a police force appears to be doing something effective when it comes to cybercrime. I wish they'd do a lot more honeypot operations - a lot of cybercrime is very low-level perpetuated by kids with no/poor opsec - establishing honeypot presence on the major hacking forums where these kids congregate would do wonders. Not only will it yield actual leads for more serious cases, but would reduce crime to begin with if the markets become saturated with honeypot services in such a way that finding a real, "legit" one becomes impossible.
> This is definitely unscrupulous.

However it is not unscrupulous. Business and making money in this way is not unscrupulous. There is nothing to guarantee also that if the domain were not taken by a registrar it would be available to purchase at a nominal registration cost. It might not be for sale at any price.

> It would be illegal if domains were a regulated market.

Why does that matter. It's not a regulated market. That's like saying 'if it was illegal it would be illegal'.

> Domain searches are not public info.

There is nothing to indicate other than someone says something on reddit that the registrar front runned (what is being implied) even happened. As typical someone says something and everyone assumes all the facts are correct (ie someone searches and registrar says 'oh I will now grab that domain someone wants it!'.)

> Domain expiry maybe, depending on how the expiry is handled (open auction where registrar bids vs registrar getting a unfair advantage and buying the domain before it becomes accessible to anyone else

Except we don't know that is what happened here.
TAKE. MY. MONEY. NOW.
> Sure. You want to update your bitcoin prices what, hourly, to make sure you are charging what you meant to?

That's one way to do it.

The other is to charge in USD just like you normally would. When the customer opts to pay in Bitcoin, they get sent to Coinbase which will convert the price into Bitcoin immediately and tell the customer what the balance is in Bitcoin. The exchange rate won't favor the customer, as it will include some amount extra to cover the possibility of the value dropping before the transaction is confirmed.
Thanks for the posted paper. But if SVB was able to borrow against the mark to market value of their collateral, I don't understand why they couldn't remain solvent. Because they had plenty of assets, even at mtm value to cover a 50% run. Even all the way to nearly a 90% run, it seems.
Evidence of destitution in England? The basics are very cheap, even the "poor" there just want prepackaged food.
just give me the NSA putting backdoors in my chips rather than this two-faced nonsense.
> You may trust untrusted hardware with your encrypted content

Couldn't someone still capture them from the untrusted hardware, wait until quantum computer technology is available, then decrypt them?
Credit cards are commonplace, aren't they? They offer buy now, pay later any consumer product already.

But sure, it's exploitative, they want a piece of that already existing cake.
I think paracetamol/acetaminophen is fine, as long as you realize the dose you are taking. However, this is harder than it sounds, as (at least in the USA), it is included in all manner of "night-time cold medicine" and "cough syrup", as well as in prescription narcotic pain killers. So if you take it by itself, and then take one of the all-in-one medications that includes it, you can exceed the maximum dose.

I think a first step should be banning mixing paracetamol/acetaminophen with other medications, so the people have a better chance of monitoring their dosage.
When businesses buy now and pay later, it’s smart business. When consumers do it, they’re being taken advantage of?
no intel mac support? :(
Security researchers confirm Microsoft patch fixes Snipping Tool exploit
Haven’t read all the threads, but during the tuning phase, one of the samples had screaming and dog barking in the background at the end, with the voice just kind of making a panicked “ummm, ummm”

It was creepy af considering that the recording I used had none of those elements (no background noise at all).
Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership
While I love Nim, another reason for Rust's success (aside from its type system, general good language design, and zero-cost memory safety) is that the tooling is ridiculously good, probably the best of any language I've used, sans maybe Java. Nim's tooling is improving but still has a ways to go - I still occasionally get orphaned langserver processes, and while the langserver itself is pretty good, it's nowhere near the level of what rust-analyzer can do. Especially with error messages and (automatic) refactoring.
Microsoft brings GPT-4-powered Security Copilot to incident response
Also discussed in this subthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35344437. My take (having been there two weeks and done all the tours and seen all the things) is that you'd need (less than?) half of that income requirement for a normal comfort level that I also have in my home country (currently Germany).

It's not a cheap country but 7k/month as "minimum income" is not a requirement out of necessity or kindness.
This is honestly disgusting predatory behaviour which seems to be rampant in Fintech right now. The majority of people they are targeting for this service shouldn't be put in the position to have this available to them.
Interesting, can you describe what is for you a good espresso shot?
Wells Fargo, too.
This is false, we do not monitor customer searches nor do we register domains that have been searched on our site. I've said this before and I'll say it again here, if anyone cares to prove that this actually exists and someone within our company is registering searched domain names I will give them a 50k reward on the spot.
So the performers are following some learned patterns of what they need to do with the written score to make it sound not-terrible to you. I disagree that's only possible for a human to achieve.
Personally I never see these ads on Windows even though I think they sound terrible. I must just have the right group policy settings or something.
It's about paypal acting on behalf of and as an agent of the US government.

If it were just paypal they absolutely wouldn't care about the subject so much as to match random characters in descriptions, wouldn't give people zero recourse, etc.
Sure, computers are, but the really important ones - the ones that can perform the biggest calculations, make the fastest trades, mine bitcoin fastest, and now run the heaviest AI models - aren't. Capital always gives advantages, many of which are sizeable. There's a reason that the new AI hotness has investments in the billions.
If you have a real business, you're still increasing value in the equation or breaking even. Deflation means you might have to lower wages, but your employees are still getting the same value paid. It means you might have to lower prices, but you're still getting the same value sold. It also means your costs are lowering, so as long as you have a value-adding business you will beat deflation. If not, then you shouldn't be in business.

In today's inflation economy, there are tons of tons of businesses that on paper make a profit, but in reality don't create value because that profit is worth less than the numbers tell. And what's worse: Individuals are becoming poorer and poorer without realizing it, because the nominal value of their pay check might be higher, though the value of the money is probably half of what it was 10 years ago.

And as individuals adapt their lifestyle and spending to circumstances we arrive at the ridiculous situation of today, where most young people after maybe a decade of working and advancing their careers still don't own a home, still don't have any children, and don't dream of splurging on luxurious hobbies.

Thank God there is a huge trend right now with workers of all "collars" saying "fuck it" and doing what they can to change companies, change careers, change cities and change countries to get as much as possible for themselves instead of continuing to be exploited.
On other hand we are currently hitting limits or at least we see them. And we have some picture how much resources is required to train and run these models. So I think we could draw some conclusions with spending let's say 1000 and a million to run one or have one available.
Ah yes, that's another major problem. I couldn't see anything on the screenshot. So far I always assumed the poster uploaded the wrong resolutionm.
And this is gone too now :( no more reddit on the phone
I'm pretty sure the identification will be by IP and possibly email address, similar to how bittorrent seeders are identified for copyright infringement.
Cool! Is this the same aperiodic tiling problem Fraa Jad solved in (Neal Stephenson's) Anathem?
I think you just encountered a real "climate skeptic" in the wild. A once abundant species, but a rare sighting in 2023.
I mean... I applaud your honesty and pragmatism as to what are the main reasons why we'd want a working crypto currency system. It's refreshing :)
IPCC: Sixth Assessment Report [pdf]
> Yet, the people who use it (mostly gamers), seem to think it's all fine and the operating system is great.

I hate Windows these days, but the specific AMD video card in my gaming desktop has buggy drivers in Linux and reliably crashes the whole machine about once every four hours (or, much faster if I actually play a game on it—that's if I'm just web browsing and hanging out in terminals and such) versus my having had zero OS-level crashes on the same hardware over almost three years under Windows 10. So... Windows it is.

IDK, the driver may be fixed now, but the bug had been outstanding for 18+ months when I encountered it, so, I wouldn't bet on it. It seemed to have very little traction. And at this point it's really not worth my time to try, since the machine's working OK as-is, aside from Windows being crap.

Since all I do on Windows is game, having to avoid some ads isn't that big a deal. I spend nearly all my time on it in fullscreen programs anyway, hardly interacting with Windows at all.

So it's "great" in that it actually works correctly on my hardware, and ~all my games work just as they should. It's shit in every other way, but if it's effectively just a game launcher, oh well. I do anything important on other operating systems.
Same here. What an amazing content he makes.
Do you deny that China recently had a downturn in the real estate market?
... you know you can buy an Android phone, if that's what you want, right?

You can't get an ISP without Great Firewall in China. If you try to found such an ISP you'll be in jail.
From en.pinduoduo.com:

> Pinduoduo's core value is "本分" (Ben Fen). It is difficult to express it perfectly in English, but it essentially means to adhere firmly to one's own duties and principles. There are several layers of meaning here:

> Be honest and trustworthy;

> Discharge our own duties and responsibilities regardless of others' conduct;

> Never take advantage of others even when we are in a position to do so;

> Self-reflect and take responsibilities when problems arise instead of blaming others.

I guess the company's app developers never got the memo.
Not exactly the same, but from:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQdBiVyh5C2/?hl=en

Now that the cat is out of the bag, or, should I say the confetti is out of the… can?
What's sad to me is that highly-educated scientists who should know better often casually throw around the very powerful label of "Science Denial" when they're actually having a risk-management disagreement with somebody.

Normal people can't always articulate the reason for their opinions well, but it's perfectly reasonable and valid to think that certain vaccines may have more disadvantages than advantages, or that the results from trying to combat climate change will do more economic and social damage to humanity than benefits it provides. This is not science denial, this is a risk-management disagreement. Let it be perfectly clear, an objectively correct human action to some perceived problem is NEVER the result of any scientific experiment. Most of what is labelled as science denial is not that.

As far as "We never landed on the moon." goes, I even have some sympathy for that belief because known liars should never be completely trusted without verification, and the Feds are the worst liars other than the father of lies.
Took celecoxib after major surgery and I can confirm it works great compared to Tylenol.
We’re not “tourists”, we’re expeditionists, and Iceland has incredible off-road trails to see. Ridiculous.
Actually I am very frustrated by the advantages it does have, because I want to stay on 10 badly. But there are two nice ones -

- WiFi 6(e) 6Ghz band support is only in Win 11

- Direct GPU access from WSL2 for things like CUDA/ML programming is Win 11 only
What thought process? Here are some facts to back it up:

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html
The US is a very, very rich country. That's why so many people want to move to it.
Looks like really positive progress! Aiming to match (and surpass) GPT-4 is a great goal, iirc. I'm not sure there's any open source model that matches even 3.5 Turbo on benchmarks.

That said, I would've wished the demo allowed testing of OpenFlamingo-9B's language generation. I would love to see how it compares to what's available now.
Not an llm but this 1 click installer for stable diffusion is literally a 1 click installer. Impressively works.

https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui
A 200 and 2000 computer has power difference of a few times for example for gaming. And that is single machine where scaling is hard. With AI you can and actually have to throw more resources at.
Yep for sure. Was just a response of simple things they could do, if they cared. Obviously nothing they won't have thought of themselves, was really just pointing out that it's not the case that there's nothing that can be done about it, as the parent comment to mine seemed to suggest.