skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. There must be quite an operation behind this then to make it viable.

Input: stolen credit cards, email addresses to send to, email addresses for opening a PayPal account.

Attrition: credit card gets blocked, PayPal email gets blocked, recipient doesn’t react or doesn’t send the money back, recipient won’t fall for it twice.

5 Euro per successful attempt — 200 successes per 1000 Euro (minus the cost for acquiring credit cards and email addresses) — sounds like a low margin business.
Wow, this actually sounds reasonable. Certainly possible
Same goes with current days comms, apps like signal, whatsapp, “”privacy first””, whatever are all should assumed to be honeypots, and I always base my comms around that. The only comms I trust are emails+gpg.

P.S. before some schmuck die hard fan for signal start defending it:

Why do you think still it NEEDS your phone number and relies on a broken protocol (GSM) to authenticate/ID (or even 2F), a protocol easily accessible especially and quickly by 3 litters agencies?

Why during the whatsapp (default app in so many countries made by the company who doesn’t respect your data), why during the down time of WhatsApp, Siganl was shilled so heavily on social media as if it was the only viable way of alternative communication?

Do you have access to the server-side of signal any time you want? How do you guarantee that there are no side loaded software at the server level with backdoors, or memory injected, non-persistent backdoors/malware? Even if it was audited, no guarantee it didn’t happen after, so you have to “trust” whoever is running that server. E2EE doesn’t encrypt meta data, contacts data, location, etc. and even that encryption with the physical access to the server side, theoretically can be broken.
I'm not sure I understand whether this is criticism or praise; isn't it a good thing for a company that has announced an upcoming product line to communicate transparently and frequently about progress and timelines for things like preorders?
> This is always the response

Because it's the right one.

> Some form of “tough break kid welcome to the real world”

Yes.

> There’s a pervasive “if you can’t beat them join them“ attitude about these antisocial financial and social structures.

The argument would be sound, if and only if others weren't making a business off the free to one side of the equation.

> We need more people to say “Here’s an alternative to that model” instead of just throwing their hands up.

You have no alternative until you offer free compute, storage, hosting, for reddit, Twitter, Google, etc., as far as I can tell, you do none of these things, nor will you be able to fundamentally break physics to do so.

> Stop excusing it. Start pushing for alternative ways to organize.

Pay me.
Interesting that 91% find it useful but only 8% of the code is generated by LLM. This is even with a LLM tuned on the internal codebase. This will give a mild boost but not replace anyone.
Not sure where you found that link, but https://solara.dev/api should work fine!

Let’s take that question to GitHub or discord not to go too much off topic here ok? Thanks!
Three chemical giants agree to pay more than $1B settle forever chemical claims
Perhaps only if he is the only judge so named, making him a Lone Starr?
Instead of warning consumers, why not do what regulators do and, well, regulate? Here, you have entities storing unsecured funds and doing god knows what with it. In the interest of the public good, a just government and a conscientious regulatory body wouldn't busy itself warning anyone. Rather, they would be bringing down the hammer on these entities and making them an example of what happens to companies that try to destabilize the financial system.
The dream I have, is for an LLM to commit to source control, every time I save a file and run whatever test I'm doing.

Me: Save -> run

LLM in background: commit "added function foo that does X"

Even for when my code doesn't work, squashing commits is way easier than unsquashing commits.
I remember a concept from sci-fi books I read when I was a kid. Anything a computer did on behalf of a person was that person's responsibility. The computer was considered an agent of the person. I was dumbfounded in the 1990's when business people claimed they were NOT responsible for things their computers did.

We need to change the law so everyone is accountable for the things their computers do.
Shouldn't the package maintainers for the big distributions be paying attention to things like this? RedHat was able to notice that the LibreOffice rpms were orphaned and drop support for it.

Perhaps the deprecation could have been communicated more broadly, but really, in 15 years, nobody looked at the release notes and thought to make a change?
now that zelle has adoption I don't even know what venmo adds anyway

I still use the old paypal for juggling payment methods, like when I leave a credit card at a bar and cancel it, I don't have to punch in a new one everywhere, just paypal.

but cash transfers to people have been bank to bank anyway so no need for extra services there anymore.
No, it certainly does not describe the mechanism. One is inconveniencing a business and one is murder. Please don’t get confused on this.
do it. I have no regrets
There's Khan academy which is free. (Online)

Are there advanced classes for her to take in your school district?

Then there's math competitions.

http://hub.wastudentmath.org/Competitions

Wish you & daughter success.
Twitter was never worth $45 billion. That's the price Musk bought it for and he tried to backpedal when he realized it wasn't worth that much.

It's a technicality that just adds to your point though.
Well, it’s clearly not a good strategy since it’s what allowed OpenAI & StabilityAI to get all the credit.
I log in every month to look at my monthly statement, and every time I do that, if my cash back balance is high enough that it will let me redeem, I do so.
I ran out of ports on the usb charger I was using to run my little cluster so I have a couple of the lower power devices daisy chained off of the higher power ones.

It does mean that some devices will power off unexpectedly when others restart but unexpected restarts are something you have to plan for anyway.
They told AI would take our jobs, but it created some instead! ;)
Guessing Sam was high when he mentioned a possible 1m token count this year.
I really don’t see how this comment is relevant to the conversation at hand.

None of this is about sandboxing libreoffice. It’s simply about a delivery method of getting a libreoffice on a system. Nix is absolutely 1000% not a mainstream solution that’s better than Flatpak for this.

If your hobby is tinkering with Nix and marveling at its supposed technical superiority, more power to you. It is absolutely not relevant to this conversation.
> It's just a 90s consumer-grade webcam.

The positions of the masked pixels are not stored in the resulting data -- it's not like they are just making some pixels black. The channel information is actually removed from the buffer entirely, and then inference is performed on that buffer:

> The camera stores the remaining unmasked pixel
channels in an array without retaining the coordinates of
pixel channels on the image sensor. In this scenario, an ad-
versary could not obtain a faithful reconstruction of the in-
put image. Even if the adversary could guess pixel channel
locations, the low resolution of captured data prevents the
adversary from recovering a high-fidelity image

Also:

> Their "partially-masked image" just looks like a noisy image, not a redacted one

The caption for the figure (assuming you're talking about figure 4) makes it clear that the figure is illustrative, since it includes the positions of the masked pixels. The pixel positions would not be present in the actual data that comes from this hypothetical camera. So what the figure "looks like" is irrelevant -- its purely illustrative.
If donations make a sensitive income flow, why switch to paid SaaS offering ever?
Keep your OpenSource as a non-profit and develop SaaS as another brand, separately.
Offer a premium proprietary product as a separate product under the same brand.

Let's talk if I can help you: https://calendly.com/ignatev/coffee-online
The defense (lie) is here: "These accounts are safe and transparent,"

Safe: No, people lose their money to these companies all the time.

Transparent: No, these companies stonewall people after stealing their money. They claim this stonewalling is legally required by AML laws or to deny information to criminals, but no matter which way you slice it, 'transparent' is a lie.
That is a bit of a stretch here for Twitter.

The chan boards fit more of this example you're talking about of this sort of behavior which predates Twitter.

No moderation, no blocking, just 24/7/365 of hate all day.

Yet, for 20 years it isn't erased from the web.

Twitter may be bigger, but I would say those chan boards that are smaller are much much worse.
The Websocket connection did stop updating a few times when your site was getting the HN hug.

You could push an updated list to Cloudflare KV every few seconds and have the front end poll it from there for cheap and near unlimited scalability.
In theory. I have a server running on a weird port, but with fail2ban just in case. I haven't had even a blip of an attempt on it.
sort of? Nobody uses OOXML Strict, including Microsoft themselves. Office defaults to its own dialect of OOXML Transitional, i.e. standard plus vendor extensions. This dialect also subtly differs between MSO versions.

i.e. Microsoft is still playing silly buggers with file formats, same as it ever was.
I see the Astro Slide 5G is 'NEW - JUST LAUNCHED!
PRE-ORDER NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE IN THE ORDER LIST!'
'£982.80 inc VAT'
'STOCK EXP. JULY 2023'

IANAL, but one might be interested in talking to the class of people who didn't get their purchased product from a company that is apparently mere weeks away from shipping the next revision of it.
The wrong meaning is the opposite of the right meaning
Well given that the brain has evolved from single-celled organisms into humans today, through all the stages in between, there have been varying levels of consciousness. You have things with just nerve nets, like jellyfish. Then you have ganglia, in things like worms and insects. Then you'd have what we'd consider the first actual "brains", in bilaterians ... things like flatworms. Then the vertebrates, with brains, such as hagfish and lampreys.

Somewhere along the line, between these types of things and human beings, consciousness developed, and it would have been on a sliding scale. These things eventually evolved into complex being such as primates and humans.

There is no "evidence" of this because I can't even prove that another human is conscious (solipsism). But I'm assuming that monkeys, lions, dogs, etc. are conscious even though that is lower on the spectrum of human consciousness.

The question remains as to where on this long lineage of things, self-awareness rose, and what exactly causes that? If the first life arose from RNA in the ocean (or whatever), I don't think RNA is conscious. But a hagfish? Well, it has a spinal cord, ganglia, and a brain. So maybe, yes?

What is it about that arrangement that causes it to occur?

Again, I'm mostly interested because the answer to that question can help us answer if machine consciousness is possible.

Right now, there are a few theories out there that could be applicable to AI if any of them are true:

- Integrated Information Theory
- Global Workspace Theory
- Predictive Processing Theory
- Orchestrated Objective Reduction (not as much with this one)
- Panpsychism (not really scientific)

It's just very, very hard (or impossible) to obviously objectively test any of these.
Not being a warmonger is a bad thing?

When war comes to your doorstep, yes, not being a warmonger is a bad thing. Bullies understand only force and violence. They will not listen to reason, and they will not return the favor after you come to their aid. Kissinger, who spent his youth being bullied by real, live Nazis, should have understood that.

And when your cause is just, you need to be able to count on help from friendly Western democracies, not debates over how much of your country should be turned over to your attacker.
Google “PayPal duplicate money trick”. People are actively sending money from their own account to PayPal, claiming it fraud and doubling their money. They don’t care if they get locked out if they make $500-$1000. Change the input from their own money to a stolen PayPal account. It’s a payday for them (that eventually comes back to haunt them)
Since this fire recall is for an ICE vehicle and not a BEV, it's going to get completely forgot about and never brought up again in a matter of days.
Covid-19 vaccination-related myocarditis: A Korean nationwide study
>Well this tells me nothing.

Well its certainaly not a non negative statement because its talking about being plussed, which is a positive statement, so a nonplussed person is truly chaotic-neutral.
I think it’s a combination of:

- good parents (e.g., if one or both of your parents are engineers/scientists, you may get exposed to that world from an early age). They may have taught you to be curious, to tinker with things, to work smart

- good enough money. With this I mean your parents didn’t struggle to afford basic stuff like good education and spending time with you. They sent you to a non-shitty school/university. They could afford to buy you a computer when you were a kid. You ate good enough food (so you developed healthy)

- good enough genes. So, you don’t struggle understanding basic concepts others may have problems with

With all of the above, you then “only” need to get lucky once or twice in life to get an opportunity to apply everything you know/have so far. But even in that case, you may still not come up with something that others would call remarkable.

It’s hard and usually it’s not under our control.
Art of Problem Solving & Math Olympiad have communities everywhere and she can hang out on their forums and start practicing past contests.

Get her a tutor from Preply (you can find incredibly affordable math tutors in foreign countries) and have them work through past contests.
The number of people I know who have been waiting to buy a Pi and actually get one has gone from about 1 a month to about 2 a week in the past couple months.

It's slow but steady, seeing more in stock notifications from authorized resellers on rpilocator.com, and the stock doesn't deplete for 30 minutes to an hour now, instead of like 5-10 minutes earlier this year.
Ask HN: How to keep up with repetitive work as a founder?
I have been working on my Developer Marketing Agency.

But I often fall into the rabbit hole of "developing more understanding" and building systems instead of just grinding and taking feedback from the customers.

This happens both in my personal life and at work.

The bulk of my work is to create, review, edit, or design blogs and social media content.

At this point in time I have templates and systems for everything. So it's pretty much repetitive.

Although I also sometimes get bored. Seeing the high demand for our services I am sure this could turn into something much bigger if I just "rinse and repeat".

I even tried building a SaaS on Sundays just to refresh myself and it helped.

Looking for some advice here.
https://mathcircles.org/
that's so cool that the corporations are punished, it will teach them! what about the people though, is any person going to jail
Honestly a man could act the exact same way if he had a child at 16.
The reason I use Linux and not Windows is that I like that it doesn't work in any of the ways you want your OS to work. I want my OS to treat me like a responsible adult, not like I'm an infant running with scissors.
You could do the same thing with hydrogen and make your own fuel. It is fully possible and is being ignored out of battery hype.
The line here is going to blur so quickly that this is a meaningless statement.

Google doc autocompletion and Grammarly already push that way, but the autocomplete is going to get more and more comprehensive and opinionated. Citations are going to be recommended automatically.

I mean fine, say someone is in charge, but "no AI here" is nonsense.
Yep, and they'd also prefer to never maintain anything ever and constantly change their own APIs on a daily basis.
I just remembered that my phone tracks app usage. It says I’m spending an average of 27 minutes per day.
I’ve had this business idea for ages sans robots.

Put pizza ovens on trucks and plan it so the pizza finishes cooking as you pull up.

I still feel that could be viable. A cook in the back and driver in front.

These guys seemed to want to over engineer everything.
So the regulator's solution is not to rein in the problematic behavior using their regulatory power, but to tell people to be individually responsible? It's OK for Venmo and PayPal to go on being predatory because why?
The seti project sent such a message.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call which points to https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf . Read annex B of that message.

We spent a night decoding it with minimal hints, which was reasonably easy. Basically, page 1 defines numbers as dots, binary and their own symbol set. Then they define math operations. This allows them to describe some physical and chemical relations, from which the metric system is derived. This allows them to create descriptions of physical thing which, combined with some crude graphics, let them tell about our home planet.

If that's possible, explaining qr codes should also be possible
LO has a multi-vendor foundation, The Document Foundation. Red Hat has been a large contributor up to now, about as large a contributor as Collabora by commits. There are several other vendors and a lot of unaffiliated volunteer contributions.
I also think it are developers familiar with Windows but didn’t want to start…with that.

I did wonder how even companies like Amazon came up with that approach? For example their own MP3-Downloader back then. So someone else has written “clamz”. Even Valve was on that train with Steam, first only shipped for Ubuntu until Arch and others nudged them and asked them “to allow redistribution.”. At least this shows, talking to each other helps :)
And now Valve uses itself Arch ^^
Same, have a 13 and cooling is an issue. It may be because I upgraded from an older case, don't know.
But the problem here isn't distribution, it's durable storage. Something along the lines of Tahoe-LAFS would be far more suitable.
Some of them are also not actual PayPal links they’re just phishing emails that’ll steal your credentials if you click through and try to sign in
Yeah, HN is awesome!
There's basically zero battery swapping stations too. We are trapped in an obsession with charging stations. It will be remembered as a form of tunnel vision. Hydrogen stations will exist in vast numbers once this tunnel vision breaks down.
Broken clock Trump. But what's the other time he was right?
If you want to go for Twitter, that is fine, I'm just saying you should go after all the sites that have 'hateful' content.
It's not written super clearly (though the article itself is an interesting and ambitious piece of technical writing) but the impression I get is that he's referring to the role of hash functions in cryptosystems: for signatures, transcript hashes, key derivation, channel binding, and things like that. Cryptographic hash functions are the glue that binds crypto protocols together.

But you can also trivially turn a hash function into a cipher and encrypt with it (apologies if I missed an explanation of this in the article). Just hash a key and a counter together to create a keystream and XOR your plaintext to it. That's how Salsa20 and ChaCha20 work. (Interestingly, the reverse process --- converting a block cipher into a hash function --- is where we historically get our cryptographic hash functions from).
You say it wasn't such a big deal, yet here we are in a thread discussing a mental health crisis that most of us agree is occurring. Maybe they were right and if we listened we wouldn't be here now.
It’s about providing relevant prompt content, which is a search problem. Most everything requires configuration…
It's confusing that the page's presentation makes it feel like an actual product. The branding of "Style Drop" and the copy makes it feel like something "you" the reader can use right now... and then you can't find a download or sign-up link.
Can you sell the whole thing and make another one? If everything is so repetitive then the ones computing the value of your company would probably love that.
All 3 of the major carriers have unlimited plans that would far outpace your DSL.
> all claiming to be censor free and all failing to achieve a solid following

Possible related?

People don't actually want censorship free.
One of the difficulties here is that simply verifying for accuracy isn't sufficient. If you're relying on ChatGPT to do research it can still mislead you. It's quite easy to find examples where it will withhold information it does actually know, because it thinks you shouldn't be told about that for the greater good i.e. it can go beyond mere hallucination and explicitly lie to the user in order to advance its own agenda, whilst simultaneously claiming it doesn't have one.

If you're a lawyer doing research for a case, that seems like a fundamental problem that simply reading over a draft and verifying claims can't fix. Without doing your own research by hand, you may miss critical information, especially if the court case is about a topic that ChatGPT has pre-conceived moral notions about.

OpenAI could probably fix this and in fairness to them, they seem to have made a genuine effort to improve the model's RLHF training since the launch in November. I've seen clear improvements in the neutrality of its answers. However, this capacity for explicit deception hasn't gone away and is deeply troubling. In extremis over-reliance on LLMs for legal work could lead to a loss of trust in the legal system as a whole, as people will suspect they aren't getting an honest defense if their position happens to be unpopular with the sort of people who train models.
I had Reddit Gold for over a decade for exactly this reason.

I've cancelled my subscription.
uh... also "free" is hydro and wind which people have been using for millenniums
a minimum of 2 weeks every quarter.

longer if changing employers, moving, or building interesting things.

it’s ok to perform mission critical roles for a business.

it’s not ok to let a business abuse your health by taking a hard dependency on your 24/7/365 availability.

just like with software systems: redundancy and failover. not easy. not optional.
One thing I do wonder is that if the issue was the ads, why wouldn't they just say that Reddit Gold users would still have free access to the API and charge the rest? Then app developers could implement more restrictions/paid access to non-gold users while gold users wouldn't directly be impacted at least by Reddit itself.
"More stable" in what way?

It's the only bank/money service I used that terminated my account. I didn't used it very much. One day I got an email that I violated TOS. (At first I thought it was fishing. lol) They gave me 180 days to withdraw funds, though. (Which is nice of them. I guess.) My last payment/money transfer before the ban was a donation to OpenBSD. That shouldn't be illegal.

My boss used Paypal for several years for odd eBay sells. (Commercially, but only three, four times a year.) When they suddenly wanted to see copies of bills and passports. He eventually gave up, with still around ~100€ locked up.
Do employees get to pick the time and date they get fired? No? Then the company can fuck right off.

The Supreme Court needs to not forget what the worker union landscape looked before NLRB. The only reason NLRB and federal union rules are relevant is because the workers have for now accepted that. That can change.