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Ask HN: After repeated data leaks, why does US trust Experian with credit data?
Recall credit scores are quite new, first appearing in 1989[1]. Since its inception, credit reporting functions as a means of maintaining socio-economic hierarchies.

Companies such as Experian have made billions of dollars harvesting and leveraging our data to essentially decide our "worth" (i.e., our "credit score"). We have little insight into the data they gather, little power to proactively curate that data, and no power to properly secure that data. After repeated data leaks (e.g., [2][3]), our identities are forever under attack[4].

Questions:

- Why are we still trusting companies like Experian with our credit-based data?

- What options does US have to move beyond the credit score?

- Do non-US countries suffer this same level of incompetence related to obtaining and maintaining "credit"?

[1]https://time.com/3961676/history-credit-scores/

[2]https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experian-api-exposed-credit-scores-of-most-americans/

[3]https://www.techradar.com/news/identity-thieves-crack-major-experian-security-flaw-access-customer-credit-reports

[4]https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/06/mercer/
The years of the keyboard issues left a bad taste in my mouth, but I switched to a non mac laptop for my previous laptop and now I'm back again. The coupling of the OS and hardware really do make for a great user experience. I don't want to play games on my laptop, which is the only real use case where I hear valid complaints. I just need my dev environment and snappy research and communication.

A valid complaint from me is linux based container resource utilization. The only really good fix for that IMO is if apple did something like WSL2 or FreeBSD's linux ABI and had an efficient compatibility layer. For now I just run dev containers on my (linux) desktop.
Animals devour to survive. Humans (in first world countries at least) don't need to do that. We eat meat because we like it, not because we need to. And we have the choice to do otherwise. In fact, plant based alternatives are healthier for us (look up the China study), and for the planet (most Amazon deforestation is to grow cattle feed). There is no need for most of us to eat any animal products at all.
I don’t think VR will be a component of patient encounters, at least not directly. My thinking on VR in medicine is more AR than VR if we’re to differentiate, and I see it being used mainly in scenarios where visual inspection is more difficult or currently limited.

For example, giving diagnosticians and clinicians a much more economically viable COTS solution to reviewing minutely detailed scans of internal organs. Being able to use imaging data to go “inside” a patient to practice an uncommon, experimental, or otherwise high risk operation for instance.
> telling mypy to ignore some library that it doesn't understand

Such as?
I'm about 80% sure they'll come up with an USB-C -> Vision cable you can use to plug in to your Mac.

Or the power bank is an USB-C bank and you can just detach the cable from it and plug it in directly and use the laptop's battery + get a wired connection.
In reality, an important and large class of apps will hit the backend on roughly every click anyway, and having full control over in-browser interactivity is kind of overkill for those apps. Business apps with tables, charts, and forms, for example. You click the nav to load a new page, you scroll down or click a button to load more data, you fill a form and click submit, all those things hit the server.

For those types of apps, this 'backend-driven reactive apps' paradigm could be more efficient, because programmers don't have the option to build stuff like an inefficient network protocol or bloated frontend stack.
* From another univers (in multivers)

* From deep in Oceans

* From subterranean

* From millions of years in past

* From millions of years in future
Since everyone responding seems to be missing the point: are there electromagnets in this, or anything else that could impact brainwaves, cell behavior etc?
Agree that Java is much better than using raw C++.

Still, if you want to contribute to OpenJDK internals, they will only be taking pull requests in C++, not Rust.

So better learn how to build those seatbelts and airbags, for all the projects we rely on, including Rust's own reference implementation, that aren't going to rewrite their code from C++ into something else.
I'd say a combination of 2 and 3 is most likely, if it's not just a complete fabrication/mirage/misunderstanding (which is maybe even more likely...)
So Roger Penrose was right all along. CCC.

This[0] is a nice overview lecture by Scott. Lenny and Scott were exploring these ideas long time ago.

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Scott Aaronson: Black Holes, Firewalls, and the Complexity of States and Unitaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJdTtL3ajaI
That's plainly false, and there is no data to back up your claim.
Since it seems like the poster works for the company: the ads on this article are all semi-nsfw for me, more-so than the average GAd I see (is that something you can tune?). I reported them to Google but that might be a black hole.

Additionally, why in the world does a technical blog for a for-profit company need ads?
Why? This way their new stuff get a year or two of free testing and time to mature before widespread adoption.
4. Dust, misidentifications, radar ghosts. David Grunch is a liar.
It takes a person with an understanding of capitalist frameworks to notice that real user serving communities cannot truly exist for long inside a market.

Everything turns to crap when developed for profits. This happens all the time but no one realizes it because we're accustomed to think about the symptoms and not the sickness. "Micro-transactions this", "ads that", "censorship this", "privacy that", when in reality its just the natural development of platforms under capitalism.
> just because it doesn't solve literally all problems.

one would be nice. But I'm ignorant on how many untrained experts are de-humanaizing (de-crustationizing?) crabs to begin with.
Only within a very small domain was this ever reasonable.
I wonder if they come and prevent us turning it on, or if they let us, and nuke it once it destroys us?
The Power of Open Source: A Statistical Overview
I just hate not knowing what to believe... If it's real, screw all the politics, I want to read about the tech, biology, and origin. It's not about who's right, but what's right.
Same, but they don’t care. These posts are aimed at potential investors who care mostly about returns and financial track record.
> more or less sound

There isn't more or less sound. There's really only sound or not.
There's sightings all over, other countries are similarly secretive/in the dark.
>Neither of these are addressed by equivocating this to wild animals predating.

Yes, because the question is about how "cruelty" is defined. You can either say killing in the wild is cruel or not cruel. If it's not cruel, then how is industrial slaughter cruel? If it is cruel, then one can pose the question of whether it's possible to slaughter industrially humanely.

>I am only pointing out that there are real consequences to the current way we consume meat in a way that damages people and communities in a way that could be described as cruelty.

Umm... Sure, but I think avalys was asking about cruelty to the prey, not to the predator.
Reddit Laying Off About 90 Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring
Your first argument is that "boomers dont know / want to use excel properly". What is not really an argument.

Also it is common knowledge that MS tries to get rid of open spreadsheets - only allowed competition are google sheets.
If your Excel doesnt have array formulas - please get a newer version. Even 2003 had them.

I dont claim that Excel doesnt have problems, also it could be better - but there are ways to make more robust calculations.

On a side note Excel and the dreaded (obsolete?) VBA are one of the last democratic things that allow non-programmers to build things.

Personally I hate tables, you can in fact add some random crap in one of the random cells.

Lots of your criticism are valid, Excel could definitely be better. But now we dont have better.

As someone trying to learn SQL, the syntax of typical queries(one page long, not some basic ones) is horrible - the language is completely not designed for tasks when you glue 20 tables together... are those queries easy to understand / inspect? IMHO no.
"Well three and a half years is a long time in my life, it's longer than I spent getting my bachelors, or the two masters degrees I did at the same time. It's the longest I've worked at any job, and longer than most relationships I've been in."

Dickens himself couldn't do a better character introduction than these two sentences.
Don't see how that's relevant?
Too coincidental for pilot fatigue/shadows AND instrument malfunction to always happen at the same time in all of these cases. There are hundreds of reported instances in the past few years. This is simply not a serious explanation.
> Free energy devices and instant travel would decimate the economy that keeps the elite in power.

If free energy had that effect, electricity prices wouldn't sometimes go negative.

Also, why would instant travel (at what resource cost?) be any worse than e.g. telepresence robots for humans and just-in-time delivery for goods?
Thus the idea to make the user's eyes visible on the front screen.
This new law is irrelevant to these points. Vertebrate animals were already considered sentient in UK law. So sharks, dolphins, turtles, fish etc were already covered.

Your outrage comes several years too late.
There’s a number of indie devs who rely on https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb for fast persistence. The rebirth of NetNewsWire came with FMDB at its core (https://inessential.com/2020/05/18/why_netnewswire_is_fast). What’s not clear is if a project starts with, say, SwiftData, and finds it to be a bottleneck, how easy is it to remove unless one goes to great lengths to make a clean API between the 2?
People notice the difference of < 10ms in input delay on a command line. I am pretty sure humans notice stuff >= 10ms, <= 100ms. It is perhaps the expectation, that is different. People do not expect websites to react immediately, like when they are typing a command in a terminal emulator.
this is hilarious ... because it was almost obvious all along but voicing it had you labelled a conspiracy nut.

this was never plausibly on behalf of russia and no country would do sth like that without checking back with the states - whose president btw basically just announced something like that would happen on television.

sometimes what you need isn't intel but common sense and some unbiased knowledge of contemporary politics and history.
People that run 7B 4bit is probably because they don't have the memory for more. And there are tests showing that quantizing a bigger model is always better than running a smaller model full precision (i.e LlaMa 13B 4bit > 7B fp16)
I'd certainly argue yes.

Protozoa, aka "one-celled animals"?

Jellyfish which only have a vague "net" of nerves, vs. any real central nervous system?

Corals?
Probably a combination of 2 & 3 along with weird natural phenomena + the fact that human brains run on error prone wetware, are full of hacks, and make shit up all the time...

In short, given prevalence of aliens in popular culture + brains being predictive machines + existence of things that are hard to explain = it would be far more surprising if there weren't people claiming aliens.

Note 1: actual aliens would be really exciting, but Occam's Razor...
Also this whole thing leads to somewhat interesting moral questions from evolutionary perspective. Would we allow domesticated species or breeds to go extinct? Pigs might survive outside. But what about dairy cows, or various breeds of birds?

Should we just release them back to nature and possibly let them die out there?
> the first wave of supercomputers (I worked with Cray Y-MP models)

The Y-MP came out in 1988, sixteen years after CRI was founded, which itself was several years after the CDC6600.
Perhaps not the fruit as a whole, but the individual cells certainly do.
My comment doesn't have anything to do with AI per se but with the hybris and inhumanity of people in the AI bubble.
Awesome work. Now if we could just get those parts in a modern, modular laptop with replaceable components. Frame.work has raised the table-stakes for laptops.
It's called HSM and seems to be described starting around page 31 here: https://www.dmp.com.tw/app/webcamera/pdf/m6117d.pdf
Go engineer here, I'm not seeing the Sr Software Engineer on your site, is this still open?
Pedantic but that's not irony
The article states they happen all over the world and the whistleblower suggests other nations do have them. Give it a read!
I would think the "wealthy elites" would be dying to get their hands on the tech so they can turn it into a product that generates even more wealth.

Market forces are stronger than government forces.
I doubt it. I'm running 4-bit 30B and 65B models with 64GB ram, a 4080 and a 7900x. The 7B models are less demanding, but even so, You'll need more than an rpi. Even then, it would be a project to get these to control something. This is more 'first baby steps' toward the edge.
Google Issues Patch for New Chrome Vulnerability
A Friend Just Got a New VR Headset
It's a reasonable homework assignment for someone learning C, but I wonder why it was posted here.
> The original point of this thread is that they'd like to be able to get an M2 PC like that.

Not really. The point is that Apple's products are overpriced, and in particular the Apple Mini underperforms and simply isn't competitive when compared to today's alternatives. I repeat, a mini PC with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB HD on the market for over 700€ simply doesn't compete with miniPCs with Ryzen or Intel i7 or even i5 that ship with 500GB HDs and at least 16GB of RAM which can cost 200 or 300€ less.
Perma-shorts were definitely a thing for sysadmins back in the day, devops kind-of killed them off ...
I used to use dataclasses for value assertions, but have switched to use https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/. Its like the one tool you will need for 90% of the cases.
This is simply ridiculous.
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Now you're thinking with portals. This is probably the most important talk out there to start to understand wtf this Spatial OS is, I'd wager.
Yeah I had missed that. It's such a neat feature!
"Whats your point"

My point is that Nazis in the Ukraine isn't a new thing and you can't justify their position in the Ukrainian society by the ongoing war. They freely marched with torches on the streets of Kiev before anything happened.

"theres similar marches in Russia too"

Not really, Russian ultra-nationalists are suppressed under Putin, some of their leaders are in jail and their organizations are designated as extremist. There were so called Russian Marches, but no more.

"does that make all of them Nazis"

Yeah, people marching on the streets with torches and shouting nationalistic and supremacist slogans are nazis, be it in Russia or Ukraine. Doubly so if they carry the portraits of Nazi collaborators and perpetrators of genocide. Slogans 'Ukraine above all' don't help either.
MDN Docs as Man Pages
Very exciting!

Now, we just need a post that benchmarks the different options (ggml, tvm, AItemplate, hippoml) and helps deciding which route to take.
So far the blocker has been lack of alternative implementations of JPEG XL.

A big complex format implemented in young C++ codebase is scary to deploy. Additionally, everyone using exact same code creates a risk of files being "bug-compatible" with that code, rather than conforming to the spec.

There are now multiple alternative implementations in the works, including in safer languages, so hopefully it will be easier to deploy in the near future.
> I can accept that, but there's zero reason for me to torture a live cow and excuses like "well, a lion would have ripped it apart while it was alive" wouldn't justify my actions if I did.

TBH I just see it as false platitudes since there's it's very likely the burger I'm eating wasn't some ethically raised and slaughtered cow. Sure, I didn't do it, so clearly I'm absolved of all fault there.
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Yes, and you can calculate exactly how much time it takes (it was an exam question in my final exams for undergrad iirc). The amount of time depends on the mass of the black hole but it's definitely less than a minute.
That's kind of expected since GPT2 was already relatively decent at summarizing.
Are land animals around fire much? Humans have been around fire a lot more since a short time ago, but aside from that fire is a very rare thing for most animals to encounter.
I'd be concerned about that too. It's really easy to end up with big dry spots if you don't mix well enough.
And he starts by saying he has worked on VR for 10 years, so the title immediately stops making sense until you get to the very end :D
My old country had several smaller countries nested inside it, but no states.
> This energy would've been better at the time of peak-ICO, directed at the worst offenders.

Peak-ICO means peak resources to spend on legal defense. The best time is after at the end of a bear run.
Gen Z has it right. Labor is not a stable way to earn income. Companies ask you to invest your life towards making the execs rich. But the same execs will throw you away as soon as the share price is at risk.

They use techniques such as forced stack ranking to keep you on your toes. You could have done the best thing for the company but if your direct manager doesn't like it, you are screwed.

What kind of a life is this? Fuck it. Just save, invest and FIRE. Let these execs and managers do the real work themselves to earn money.
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Say you have a function in the backend, for example in typescript:

function handler(a: A, b: B) {}

With a suitable tooling, you can generate the type for frontend to call handler(a, b) in a type-safe way, which could be validated on the backend and frontend.

So you're just a "generation" step away from bluring BE/FE communication.
> Animals do not have intent.

Only if you believe they're automata. Which raises the question, are humans not automata as well? If we are, then we also don't murder as we also don't have intent. But if we have intent, what's the line that separates us (other than the obvious "not the same species") from other animals that renders them mere unintentional automata and us intentional non-automata?

Also, spend a few days with any animal, you'll see they have intentions. They're just harder to discern.

> Animals don't have malice.

Likewise some do have malice. It's just harder to discern as we lack the ability to communicate with them and they lack the ability to articulate to us what their feelings are.
Looking at how the banks who funded Elon's purchase are valuing their stakes, it looks like it would have gone to about $18.48/share by now. Fidelity is evaluating their shares on a $15B total value, so ($54.20 * ($15B/$44B))
> Eye Strain

iStrain. You're welcome.
> and the furries

Um, what?
There was a big stink one time when the file format changed, causing older model files to become unusable on newer versions of llama.cpp.
Lobsters get boiled alive, no? (+/- where Mother Earth is splashing her molten rock, and where the lobsters happen to be.)
Why is one dependent on the other? Why must we start with one, instead of tackling both at the same time? Why not use both my hands to hold the two watermelons at the same time?
Free energy is not real, you've been watching too much conspiracy material designed by said elites.