skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except we also track the journey of sex trafficked victims.. and they mostly travel to regions with little law enforcement presence.

Unlike murder, we can just ask the victims.. which the UNODC does.

> More impunity, more victims: Countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia are convicting fewer traffickers and
detecting fewer victims than rest of the world. At the same
time, victims from these regions are identified in more
destination countries than people from elsewhere

UNODC Human Trafficking report, 2022
The fraudster creates new accounts on your service for each of these phone numbers. They don't care about verifying the 2fa code. They just care that you send a text to those numbers.
Without the shadow dom, though, what really is the difference from just using `<div>` elements? You can't use slots, you're vulnerable to bad `querySelector`s, events aren't isolated, and you get none of the performance benefits.

I've tried to find a workable solution using style inheritance, but it doesn't work everywhere. On code sandbox sites like codepen.io, the stylesheet is generated for you and sometimes updated in-place. You'd have to watch with a MutationObserver and then propagate the change to every instance of a custom element on the page.
You don't control the number. When signing up for a service or setting up SMS 2FA, you need to initiate the process by inputting a number. Attackers input numbers that are very expensive to route to, and since SMS is not a flat rate service, when this happens at volume it gets very expensive very quickly. I've seen really scummy MNO's costing around ~25 cents per SMS.
For infinite rounds in a finite population yes they will all lose their wealth. But if the population >> rounds this is not true.
It's sadly ironic that the West (mainly Britain and America) forced Opium on the Chinese for nearly a century, then within a matter of mere decades that knowledge was lost to history, and we brought that very plight to our own countries in slightly more synthetic forms.

China calls it the century of humiliation, what should we call it?
> Being forced to work against your will at Mcdonalds sucks* being forced to have sex against your will is rape.

No, being forced to work against your will at McDonald's is slavery.

> I also don't have a source but would you agree that the amount of people being forced to work against their will at Mcdonalds is much lower than prostitution?

Sorry, we've already agreed it's impossible to tell. If you'd like to admit that's a dumb belief, please proceed.
They're not toll numbers. They're regular numbers. Mobile networks get paid a small amount of money for delivering SMS messages. Let's say that they get paid $0.003/message. Let's say you're a small mobile network and I bribe you or make a deal with you: I'll get lots of messages sent to mobile devices on your network and you'll pay me $0.001/message. That's good for you as the mobile network and good for me since I get money.

So I get a list of numbers on your network and start filling them into any form that will send a text to that number.

There is no "don't send messages to scammer toll numbers" option because these aren't toll numbers. They're regular numbers. I mean, Twilio could probably easily detect this behavior themselves and prevent it. As they note, they often cycle through adjacent numbers and do it in a quick fashion. However, the numbers aren't scam/toll numbers as a category. You'd need to use ML/heuristics to find these.
From your same source

> Since April 2019, users of the Brave browser can opt in to the Brave Rewards feature.

I have used Brave for years. I've never seen any of their ads and hardly see any other hands since they have a pop-up blocker.
whenever something is devised [e.g.upvotes,javascript,thumbtacks] there are those who use it for the intended purpose, and those who find as many usefull purposes for it as possible.
Given that the credentials were stolen by locally running malware, and basically nothing to do with OpenAI, I would.be very worried if I were you right now.
It would be annoying to buy a separate device just to access my bank. Not annoying enough to change banks of course, but it could be the straw that broke the camel’s back if I was already inclined to switch.
This is one of my key takeaways as well. It's a shame they didn't include their magnetization measurements, even if it didn't confirm superconductivity. The first conclusive paper will have to demonstrate a superconducting transition in both electrical resistivity and magnetization.
Ah yes, let me triangulate myself with one point
Ah that's a good point. I had a similar experience with moving services (to a smaller scale).
This seems to ignore losses and credit risk entirely. Someone who pays off their bill every month has no credit risk and the fees earned are unimputed revenues. I’m not saying their analysis is entirely wrong, but I would expect unsecured credit losses to be fairly high in the consumer credit market.
Work in whatever branch you want, but if you want to merge to main and deploy it better be a stack of PRs that merge cleanly and don't expect others to wait or serialize on your change.
My experience at the k-space hackerspace hackathon
They were speaking after the end of the war, and Germany had been partitioned already into occupation zones. Potsdam was signed just before this conversation?
It works if you don't need a specific type of music but just something to fit a vibe. For example in an indie game or film project. Maybe level 3 is a jungle area with a plant based species of NPCs and the music should be "Earthy tones, environmentally conscious ... organic instrumentation"
War on drugs
Ehh slots have issues too, particularly that if you use them they punch through and totally ignore your shadow DOM to inherit the main body styles. Sometimes you want this behavior and sometimes you don't, but either way you only get it and have no control over the elements passed in the slots. They defeat the whole point or just greatly complicate the idea of encapsulating your element's visuals in one component.

I'm truly skeptical there is much to be gleaned accessibility-wise from templates if JS is disabled. There's no way to know how and where the template was meant to be instantiated in the DOM and accessibility tree without JS.
Mozilla already rejected this.
If this is the fork point between corporate and old internets I'm willing to stay in the old one.
WEI gives me flashbacks to Microsoft Internet Explorer and activex objects debacles.
So an insurance hedge for insurance schemes, with an AI as the hook?
We might even end up with the most effective ones being the weirdest. Where people clicked though because the ad was so weird.
There was a thing called an eMac once, it wasn't a text editor though.
There's no future for these clowns.
Seems like it was always speculation that OpenAI had bought the domain.

The real owner of AI.com probably never changed, and is still looking for a buyer.

A lot of people had gotten used to accessing ChatGPT via ai.com, so this was ultimately a good move for the seller.
Thread on LK-99 and atomically precise manufacturing
LK-99 contains polonium? which has a half-life of hundred and something days.
> A mortgage to buy a house to raise a family at 30 instead of waiting until 60 is also a form of consumption smoothing.

FWIW I think that's nuts too. Maybe it makes sense for people with a well defined, stable, secure career track (eg. civil servants, academics with tenure, etc.), but for those whose job could be severely disrupted by various shocks (which IMHO should include the majority of people), this taking out a mortgage under the assumption that your earnings would rise as your career progresses is really nuts.

Of course, the idea that a person takes out a mortgage at 30 is baked into modern society, so there are massive social structures to ensure that the average person is actually able to pay off their debt eventually. This includes shaming corporations for firing people or reducing wages for underperforming employees, government subsidies for business that should have just failed, underpaying juniors because otherwise who got money to raise your wages when you have 10 years of experience, etc. etc...
I tried Aliexpress but all I get is "adult massage toys"
I think energy storage, motors / accelerators and weapons would come first. A superconducting linear motor would probably also make for a great cannon.
I doubt you're looking to burn more money but you could also try the framework laptops, I hear they're very well supported. Older Thinkpads also work if you want something cheaper (I don't really use my X220 anymore but I could never get rid of it), but then you do lose some performance.
The Navy does have a patent for a “lead zirconate titanate” super conductor which does sound awfully similar to what’s described in LK-99.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-navy-patent-room-temperature-s...
HARTECK: [...] we would have needed to employ 50 workmen continuously in order to produce two tons a year. If we wanted to make ten tons we would have had to employ 250 men. We couldn't do that.

WEIZSÄCKER: How many people were working on V 1 and V 2?

DIEBNER: Thousands worked on that.

----
Diebner is omitting HOW they got that workforce up into the thousands. Many who worked on V-1 and V-2 rockets were prisoners who were literally worked to death.
How delightfully prole
Scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything that can show "progress"
Good high quality research repeatedly says that cracking down on prostitution reduces sex trafficking.

Sex workers are not safer if they are less stigmatized, they are more likely to have bad outcomes. You can't make a soldier safer by hugging them, you can't remove intrinsic risk by saying nice things to someone.

And yes, the drug market did get smaller under prohibition, as did alcohol under prohibition, as does prositution. That prohibition is not fully effective doesn't mean the inverse is effective.

Oregon tried decriminalization and their OD rate has grown 4x more than everyone elses. 4x more people have died because someone didn't want to follow research.
Alchemy was a pre-curser of Chemistry, and it is logical leap that this is not delusional, just 'early science'.

BUT. Newton also studies Bible Numerology. Trying to find number patterns in the Bible.

So maybe Newton also had his quirks.

Maybe any mind that is exploring new ideas, will sometimes go down some blind alleys.
While I think a proposed "inbound fees" soloution is a ridiculous one other countries do not have spam calls figured out.

The reason it happens so much more in the U.S. more than other countries is the ease of exfiltrating money from an enviroment where on average you can get a wealthy target (relatively, even if someone is living paycheck to paycheck if they're paying $4000 in rent it's a pretty big paycheck worth targeting). If the US starts to get on top of spam calling there's a very real chance that the countries it doesn't happen often in will 'enjoy' a similar level of spam as established scammers retarget their efforts.

The good news is the US telcos are forced to do a lot of the heavy lifting in forcing foreign telcos they connect with to begin using SHAKEN/STIR protocols. This means that other countries (which are in just as bad a technical position as the US) will be able to pass similar regulation on their telcos, without having to worry about accidentally forcing them to cut off entire other countries, as most legitimate telcos will have cut their teeth while dealing with the US telcos.

N.B. SHAKEN/STIR protocol requirements basically means that you can identify a call and say to a foreign connecting telco "Here are these identifiable calls that are a problem, I'm sure it's not you so go talk to the smaller telco you provide services for that you can identify with these number (even if we can't) because we don't want to be forced to cut you off". It basically removes the deniability of "Well we've got 10 smaller sub telcos servicing the country/countries and no system implemented to tell which of the 10 is selling to bad actors" because it enforces having a system going out and if your not getting your sub telcos to use shaken/stir on the way in you're the problem.
The statistical interpretation of observations is so subtle and complex that it's a good idea to assume that any publication from the empirical sciences is complete garbage, until you know for sure that a qualified statistician has supervised the process. A semester of "introduction to statistical methods" (which is all the background that most scientists have) is NOT enough.

Imagine a mathematician writing a paper on a medical topic, making all kinds of claims on how things work in the human body – and then that mathematician justifies their expertise by saying "I did a two-week first aid course once, and also, I was really good at biology in school". This is pretty much how lots of science operates when it comes to interpreting results mathematically.
Unfortunately no.

In this paper it is mentioned that the fact that the material is very fragile made it difficult to obtain pieces of a consistent size and form for measurements.

Moreover, from the results of the theoretical papers it is suggested that perhaps this material would work best as a monocrystal, with anisotropic conduction properties.

That could still have very important applications, but not for making cables or coils.
Apple does employ some tropes of luxury and fashion in marketing strategy, but they are absolutely not a "luxury fashion business". A large number of their products are utterly mainstream and often price competitive.

What they tend to shy away from are ultra-low margin sectors with little opportunity for differentiation and flooded with amoral competition. Sure, the cheapest iPhone is nowhere near the cost of the cheapest Android phones. But that's because most cheap Android phones are also abandonware, and/or manufactured e-waste, and/or using all of the conflict minerals/abusive labour practices/environmental hazards which Apple has to remain unambiguously distanced from.
I don't think population >> rounds is a general rule. It only works (most of the time) for this case because +50% and -40% are relatively close to each other.

If you change the rules to, say, +100% and -90%, they lose even when population > 20 * rounds. I'm sure there is a statistical formula that can be used to estimate the optimal number of rounds.
How long this website is going to stay up ?
There seems to be a lot of condemnation and finger wagging towards the small-time browser makers in your comment.

Do you feel that Google is being a good steward of the internet with their dominant position?
No. You need something like mkfs.ext4 to do that.
> Out of curiosity, is there anything stopping websites from detecting if a browser has WEI and then simply not serving the website?

Of course, just check for the existence of the attestation API described by the spec.

> Is there any reason at all that websites can't do this?

Because it would be an extremely dumb move regarding reach. Banning WEI-enabled user agents means you're banning over 80% of your traffic. This might be okay for a small blog or if the website owner is big into activism, but if you have a commercial interest you absolutely can't do this. Plus, blocking WEI-enabled user agents only hurts the user in the end; Google won't walk back on such an aggressively-pushed feature simply because some site refuses to serve Chrome users.
Twitter is a circus nowadays.

Barely any links load, ever. So many dead links, login requirements, infinite spinners of death…
To [our users] and the world over -- the future of X belongs to YOU – blaze your glory!

Did this go through comms? There’s a typo (you can use a double-hyphen instead of an em-dash but not both), two slogans where one would do, and an all-caps shout.

Above all that though, I’m not sure what blaze your glory means. Am I blazing a trail or path to my own glory? Am I setting fire to my glory?

To those who reply: do you agree?: speed your comments!.
Chinese payment apps expand tourism programs: Will this have any real impact?
Lol. Polonium is Po. PO is phosphorus and oxygen.
Or I’ve seen something that they should probably deal with sooner rather than later.

But heh. Don’t interrupt me. That’s the main thing.
Cool, makes sense!

It seems like you're heading in the right direction on packaging/pricing.

Charging for services you manage, more team members, and security features bigger cos care about all make sense to me.

I previously looked at your Pro extensions and some seemed nice to have (UniqueId, emoji), but it wasn't enough to get me to pay, and I rolled my own versions of those instead.

Building multiplayer sync is really tricky, so providing that as a managed service seems valuable and worth paying for. I have no problem paying for services like Clerk.com or Liveblocks.io that involve managed "servers" I don't want to build/run vs a purely client-side library.

I recently discovered Liveblocks, and think their positioning/marketing/docs are great -- the fastest way to turn any SaaS app multiplayer.

I wonder if you could do something similar but focused on all the complexities of text editing (esp since it's such a core primitive for LLMs now). Just a thought - excited to see where you take it!
https://markmanson.net/screw-finding-your-passion
Modern browsers simply set a bit that may lead to repaint after the next layout pass. Things have changed a bit since React was released in 2013.
As someone who never really used Twitter before the LLM stuff started happening, and still I only pick it up once or twice per week, I've personally felt that I've had a better experience on there recently than I did a while ago. I appreciate the efforts Musk has made towards pushing back against the censorship of language that it seems like everyone nowadays wants to enforce, regardless of their background. I think he'd be doing better financially if he would shut up for 5 minutes, but hey, it's his money, not mine, haha.

Although, I would like to see humans make it Mars within my life. So c'mon, Elon, just keep your trap closed for a bit, let Linda do the talking for you, and continue to be the egotistic, megalomaniac manager in the same vein as Steve Jobs, and just make really good products, please.
Totally agree with that too! I mean, if you look at the weight of the suggestive evidence over the last 100 years: witnesses, abductions, cases, all that. Then, sure--it's like "Story of the Fucking Millenium" (and a total crime to coverup, humanity needs to be facing this, whatever the f it is, together!).

But, it's like, "where's the hard fucking evidence?" Stop hiding stuff!

It's not just the aliens trolling us. It's the gov/corp too.

Maybe that's all part of the aliens plan: they know that by their tech-striptease they will drive the gov/corp wild with the promise of tumescent technology and send them into a no-holds-barred frenzy to squirrel-hoard all the nuts for a future time when they might just understand it.

In doing so, turning the gov/corp and the people further against each other (not like history is clean of examples of pre-existing exploitation), further weakening humanity (by crucially weakening its lynchpin: the public, the state).

From that view, it's sort of like a "kindergarten teacher" play: the teacher spots a troublesome youngster bopping others on the head with a toy. So the teacher gives the youngster a shinier toy, then youngster proceeds to sit in the corner and play with said shiny until it falls harmlessly asleep.
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All the smartest college students I know have flashy blogs, shiny new cars, fiveor six figures of unsecured high-interest debt and zero income. Looks like Nate is a real winner!
I know resistance is futile but saying it doesn't improve anything

I say give people the right to try.
> that part of the debt is on credit cards that are probably several digits of interest

Author says credit card debt is 0% in the first year or so. Which is fine, unless you hit a market crash right when the interest free period is over, at which point you have the choice of selling your assets at a huge loss at the dip, or you take on high interest rate debt in the hopes that the market recovers shortly.
The official policy is to tear the human behind them to small, bloody pieces with claws and razors.
A lot of it has to do with legacy POS support and a strong disinclination on the merchants part to upgrade. Terminals are costly and configuration non trivial. Plus a strong “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” culture and resistance to any change. Add to it a relatively weak consumer protection regulatory regime and you’ve got the US.

I would say it’s not worse than most of the world though. Much of the world is rampant with fraud borne entirely by the consumer. For instance QR based bank transfers are popular in much of the world outside the western developed world. Fraud is insanely rampant but the ease and utility vs cash makes it acceptable. Transactions costs are near or actually zero and there’s no POS infrastructure. But people meticulously check their transactions because theft is so rampant. The banks and governments seem unconcerned though.

As such I put the US somewhere in the midpoint globally for this space. There are some smaller economies with strong regulatory regimes that do better for sure. There are many more that do much worse. Obviously the goal is the better not the worse, but I think it’s cherry picking to lump the US into being the worst.
Note that there is no signs of phase transition (no jump) and the values below 110K are around reasonable measurement resolution. It may be that they just got the resolution threshold and misinterpret it as SC