skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The scam centres generate revenue amounting to billions of US dollars each year. Revenue in 2021 from scamming globally amounted to USD 7.8 billion worth of stolen cryptocurrency.

Crypto has made scamming easier than ever. Ironically, it probably is making it easier to track how impactful it is too.
Not having reviewed the full list of measurements, everything other than ear protrusion mentioned seems to involve bone structure.

The ears, especially their protrusion as measured, have little or no relationship to bone structure. The other measurements with low correlation to bone structure also have low correlation across the collection of measurements.

Ear protrusion probably has some relationship to other developmental signatures, just not limb length etc.
For sure insurance companies have a chance to act as a forcing function to drive better building codes, fuel management, etc. Those are hard things, especially for existing homes, but it's a simpler calculation for a homeowner to put $100k into a retrofit of it will save them $10k a year in insurance...
Where is Apple 'intentionally abusing their users by disrespecting their preferences'?
It's not as wallet melting costly as other phones like iPhone and Samsung, atleast in the US.
The line that separates good psych science from bad is more subtle than word choice or tone, and often researchers who primarily do good work may present work with faulty conclusions without anyone knowing better. It has taken decades for the replication crisis to take this shape, and maneuvering of data, subjects, and results toward outcomes that don't reproduce is systematic and subtle. I'm not suggesting AI couldn't find this distinction, but what remains after is the rigorous proving of the AI conclusion - which might take just as long as if AI wasn't involved.
Thanks for responding. I was curious if there are any alternative to OpenAI in terms of pricing. Deployment of a capable model starts at around $80/mo and I am not sure how many requests it can handle then. Either way it is a lot higher than GPT-3.5.
> Claims should be settled entirely with the customer uploading a 1 minute video showing what damage occurred, plus the bill to fix it.

And your plan for when clients are unwilling or unable to conform to your idealized filing process would be what? Simply don’t reimburse them? Or when they’re unsure what’s covered ? Or have some other question that’s urgent and not covered by an online FAQ? It’s a highly regulated industry, so that’s all going to go great.

Have people been so beaten down by shitty non-service from tech companies that they think this approach is normal?
They respect it on Mac and don't let you have a non WebKit browser on iOS
I built a checkout API. Using it incorrectly could easily result in a user ordering items they didn't want to, paying an amount they didn't expect, selecting the wrong shipping, billing the wrong card, and so on.

Building the API in such a way that it was hard for clients to get this wrong was a very key concern for us.

Separately though, I gave a better motivating example in my other reply here. tldr: what you might be paying for may come with stipulations that are not clear in the data – such as how up to date data is when used. Those stipulations may come through many layers of data source, not necessarily from the layer you pay.
You are making the mistake of equating incremental progress with the most extreme litmus test for quality. Posing is great, but again in a system with a lot of automation, once what you want isn't coming out automatically, you are sunk.

Already I could see concept art, animatics, previs and other areas benefiting a lot from these tools. Almost nothing so far is temporally coherent or actually final quality.

There is still a lot of use for that, but to replace actual final shots in films everything has to be perfect. The lighting of every element has to match, the perspective has to match, the model and deformations have to be perfect etc. That isn't going to happen with 2D techniques that hallucinate details from other photos.
>Several million dollars? Any EU tax payers care to justify this insanity?

Probably several millions, yes. Considering the EU has 450 inhabitants, that*s increasing my tax bill by cents. Well worth the money to me. Probably, MS will try to backtrack and violate regulations at some point so it will pay for itself too.

I'll never get the US masochism where interference by regulators to defend the end-user is somehow seen as odious.
Can We Solve the Air Conditioning Paradox? [video]
You can’t install non-WebKit browsers on iOS or iPadOS.
That's a really funny comment, but is also kind of a gut-punch.

So many people have their entire world view and sense of self tied up in political narratives (left or right) that they are actually unable to objectively explore a subject.

Much easier to just downvote the "others" because they are obviously wrong.

Because if they aren't wrong - maybe, just maybe - the ideological shield we use to cope with the world would start showing cracks.
on iOS Apple do not even allow the choice of the engine.
Or we can let different communities and cultures keep their different social norms and accept a bit of friction/"injustice" when people from one culture interact with another.
Does that mean that Fairphone employs a pmOS contributor? Because if anything, that sounds even better :)
Mine was a sarcastic joke, but to reply seriously to your questions, it's not about the effort to implement the functionality imho, it's more about missed revenue, Microsoft is using Edge as a way to monetize windows users traffic, so this is going to affect somehow their profits
And with this, DRAM access becomes the new asynchronous IO.
It's always interesting that the conspiracy theorists go after their own government and don't seem to stop and think how easily all of Science can be manipulated by a motivated intelligence service. It's easy enough for actual scientists to get away with fabricating data. Imagine what a motivated adversary could do to misdirect Science. Scientists can be far too trusting.
After installing some updates (on a 10 Pro machine) recently I got a nice modal pop-up begging me to change my default search engine in Chrome (which I don't even use) to Bing. (Hey, at least they asked, I guess - next security update will just set bing as the search engine in all browsers, just like IE toolbar malware from 2004).

Whole operating system just comes off as super shady and desperate since Windows 10 - feels a lot like fake antivirus malwares from the 2000s. It has always been pushy in this millennium, sometimes for a good reason (updates are important), but all of this is without any decent reason.

Installing those updates of course also re-enabled automatically installing drivers without any prompt, which promptly caused the Nahamic malware to be re-installed through Windows Update. Somehow most IT people are not bothered by this. I imagine if you would tell this stuff to a mid-2000s IT person their head would simply explode.
There's a big difference between prisoners (who at least in theory are locked up as punishment for committing a crime) and people who've been trafficked into slavery. Even the US uses prison labour, but it's people who committed crimes. What's happening in SEA is kidnappping innocent people, locking them in guarded compounds and forcing them to scam people, and they get raped or beaten if they refuse.
You can’t “love Microsoft” as if it is a homogeneous entity whilst carving out sections of it for the purpose of attributing everything you’re against. Not only is this simply a sign that Microsoft is a bloated old tech company like a bunch of others, looking to make more money, but it is also consistent with a pattern of Microsoft’s behaviour over the last few decades.
Enhance Rust RFCs with a Minimal but Realistic Code Example
This is not new at all, there are US companies facilitating this (see: Tinder e.g) with zero regard for the lives of the people forced into doing this. They actively ignore these things and profit off it, absolutely disgusting.
the exception for userspace obviously makes sense. but why and how are non-free kernel modules allowed at all? i'd think that userspace is a boundary that is easy to define, so it should have been possible to allow non-free userspace without allowing non-free kernel modules.
Well, when you have claims involving million, you probably want to spend more then 10 minutes investigating a claim. Insurance fraud is a real thing.

Otherwise I agree, there is likely a lot that can be done to make the processes more efficient.
The Communists invaded and occupied my country for 45 years. The Nazis invaded and slaughtered almost all of our Jews. We know very well who is a Nazi or a Communist.

We don't want another Holocaust or Gulag camps here ever again. I'm fine with restricting some speech. It's a small price to pay.
> Does Microsoft (plan to) run an ad business?

Microsoft Advertisement is pulling in 10 billion dollars a year (~=5% of total) and Microsoft wants to aggressively expand it.
Apple doesn't even allow other browsers that aren't webkit reskins on iOS, which is far worse.

Both companies need regulatory actions to reign them in. Apple probably needs to be broken up.
There's a bit of back and forth between whether people consider IPX5 waterproof or not. Personally I think the layman expects waterproof to mean you can drop it in the bath and it won't get damaged. That occupies somewhere between IPX6 and IPX7 which is why it's a bit fuzzy
Being a data analyst is not worse than a data engineer or data scientist. If you are happy in your job and it matches your skills and goals, then any title you land on is fine. And if you are not happy in your role, then by all means act to improve it. But assuming that everyone has a goal of climbing to the top of some arbitrary ladder of job titles is simply not reality.
BEWARE. Cybersec is often 90% sitting in meetings and 10% filling out boilerplate excel sheets for control assessments and stressful project management (dealing directly with the megalomaniac VP/SVPs in your company).

The ‘cool’ Cybersec roles like red/blue teaming are much more rare than what I mentioned above, and firewall/splunk stuff is often offloaded to Network teams, especially in this economy where companies are trimming fat and consolidating roles.

I say this as someone who went to Cybersec and left because I’m a technical guy who enjoys sitting at a terminal and building things, learning new tools, sifting through FOSS docs, etc.

Cybersec teams are often filled with people who major in things like Economics and History because the only skill needed for those roles is a good vocabulary, project management, and 6-8 months of entry level technical skills/certs.

Yes, I AM bitter, but I’m damn sure not lying. Avoid any compliance focused Cybersec job if you actually have technical skills that are worth a damn.

To all the people who were hoodwinked into taking this type of job like I was: Its not too late to get out. I did. You can too.
It's 4 potential memory corruption issues in a 300kloc C/C++ code base, only one "may be critical" (without a working exploit being provided that's hard to tell). That's actually not too bad for an "unsafe" language.
We now have a feedback app if anyone wants to leave us feedback on Mu itself.

https://mu.app/feedback

We've also started to aggressively cache some API calls and working on more performance and stability.

Additionally we're discovering some nifty hacks like creating your own profile page as an app. Here's mine https://mu.app/asim
SBF all over again - ketamine instead of Aderall.
It's a nice honeypot. All the scammers are busy scamming each other.
They really should have put Ken into a yellow-blue beach out just so Russia would ban rather than pirate it.
The real truth, that Russia loves America, and everything since the end of WWII is just angst
> I don't have the answer. Especially in the past, it seemed like a cost factor to keep up a modern browser (just ask Mozilla) if people might as well install anything else and still buy your OS and use your services.

Microsoft ditched their own browser engine and the current version of edge is just using chromium, so it's cheap to maintain.

Edge uses bing by default so Microsoft can serve you ads, and it has a shopping plugin built in which also probably generates revenue. They can also try to redirect people to other microsoft services whenever they want in the future.
> Nearly every customer should be able to use an entirely automated online form for signing up and for making insurance claims. Claims should be settled entirely with the customer uploading a 1 minute video showing what damage occurred, plus the bill to fix it.

Ah yes, the perfect recipe for fraud!

> Assume 1 claim per customer per decade

Herein lies the problem in some parts of Florida/California. If Florida gets hurricanes every year, then you're talking about a lot of payouts. This is a big part of the reason they are pulling out.

> and each claim takes an average of 10 minutes to handle

Normal claims take several hours apiece, depending on the type of claim and loss. Claims are documented. That way people can't get a new roof every 3 years and never replace it. Also, people don't actually know what their policies cover. Adjusters have to know the policies they adjust so that they can approve/deny coverage based on what the policies actually state.

> check video, spot check bills, make payment

They'd go out of business pretty quickly. People like to crap on insurance companies but there are a lot of people out there who are grade-A A-holes who feel like they should be compensated. It's amazing what some companies will pay for but it's also amazing how entitled people feel like they are.
In this case photonics is used to transport data from one place to another. An electrical bit is converted to a photonic bit, moves across the chip, and then is converted back to an electrical bit. I'm not aware of any even vaguely practical photonic logic gates that would start to allow us to do computation in light.
> That, plus that the ease with which the virus jumped back to animals

It is trivial to tell whether a variant is antecedent - this is how the absurd 'double jump' of lineage A and lineage B was necessary for Worobey to justify his thesis that the wet market was the origin of covid... twice
Artist turned political activist turned attention seeker. The headline is quite sneaky to omit his tantrums of past years.

Even if the stand is right, Kunal kamra has lost all credibility for me. I would rather support someone else making similar points than this joke of a person.
Let's say that I can get something from RAM in 100 cycles. But if I have 60 threads all trying to do something with RAM, I can't do 60 RAM accesses in that 100 cycles, can I? Somebody's going to have to wait, aren't they?
Good, people should be pushed away from Chrome as strongly as possible given what Google is doing to it.
Why are you comparing a desktop operating system to a mobile operating system? On macOS Apple lets you trivially set a different default browser and doesn't annoy you about it.
The only evidence I’ve seen is

-some US agencies don’t outright reject it

-labs around the world work on SARS viruses

-early people said it may have leaks (and these people subsequently retracted those statements after research)

-china

And that’s literally it. What exactly is so convincing? People who actually study virus origins still seem to believe that Covid has markers of natural evolution. Lab leak theory tends to side step that fact though.

The lab leak conspiracy theorists put more weight in to a head of department of energy over the virologists who state that he’s probably wrong.

Do you have any papers from scientists that back up the lab leak?
>RoR was "the thing that everyone was using" at one point. It was that for several years. Anyone who's anyone was building stuff with Rails.

I extremely doubt that. Maybe in your geographical area with small stage startups.

At any given time Spring has probably seen 10x usage of RoR.
There's your $1B business idea. /s

No, seriously, I know some folks are trying to reinvent insurance. I worked for an insurance brokerage in my youth. There are a few hard parts:

* sales. It's a confusing, uninteresting product, so you have to sell it. Ever wonder why you see so many commercials for State Farm, Allstate, etc? You can work around this some with independent agents, but then you have to recruit and retain them.

* risk management. You have to know how to price the risk (or find someone who can). I'm sure this can be automated to a great extent, but then you have to write or buy this software. I worked for company that built a business on finding weird risks (outfitter and guides, special events, inland boat coverage) and connecting them to people who could price the risk.

* legal understanding. Have you ever fully read a homeowners policy? There's tons and tons of legalese defining exactly what is covered and what is not. ACORD[0] does a lot of this, but you still need to know what you are doing.

0: https://www.acord.org/ACORD-about/ACORD-About
50 Years Later, Is There Anything Left of Hip Hop?
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Berkhout
Why having a choice is something bad?
Hey, I'm the person who made SmilApple (typo'd here as SmllApple)! Super great to see my quick and dirty project used like this, I just wish I'd thought of it first

https://github.com/Eiim/SmilApple
While this requirement may really be in the GPL, there is no way to enforce it if the party creating a proprietary driver does not distribute the Linux kernel itself. In other words, as far as I understand, Nvidia does not exercise the rights of distribution that GPL provides, so they do not have to follow any additional rules of the GPL. GPL regulates distribution, not _use_ of software (see free software freedom 0).
> Microsoft has even forced people into Edge after a Windows Update

Doing on-site work, I will sometimes process a queued Windows update on several machines. I don't always see these "Hey Baby..." efforts universally. They'll appear on some systems but not others.

Uneven deployment would be a good method to hamper crowdsourced detection. And it would invite to that-forum-guy to gaslight someone who reports it in a thread.
wait, no phones for 70y olds :)?
Almost anything; they won’t GPL their driver like they ought to, because they made unwise decisions surrounding the use of material covered by software patents and non-Free licenses, and thus are unable to do so.
This is easy to solve... Just publish 'views' of the data simplified for common usecases, and also offer the raw data for those who like joining 50 tables to know extreme corner cases like if the bar down the road's wheelchair accessible toilet will be open during the summertime hour shift.
That's funny, I tried Go for Advent of Code last year and got through the first 10 days or so without any real difficulty, having never written a line of it before.

Just as there are different spoken/written languages and people find different ones easier or harder to learn based on a huge number of variables, I believe the same is true of programming languages. Sometimes it's the syntax that makes a language difficult, sometimes it's a different paradigm, sometimes it's an unfamiliar memory model or type system -- there are lots of things that can make your brain throw up a block when trying to dive into a new language.
What is tinder doing to facilitate this? I assumed bots on there were just financial scam bots not of the trafficking kind
Kind of like garden path sentences. Famous garden path sentences like "the old man the boat" are crafted to parse to obvious nonsense on the first iteration, forcing the reader to do backtracking. But when proofreading texts it's not uncommon to find unintentional garden path sentences that are easy to misunderstand, especially in English. Some politicians are great at doing that on purpose. But crafting sentences that only make sense on first parsing but are actually nonsense on second glance is kind of next level, some kind of inverse garden path sentence.
yes, see https://lightmatter.co
"Here look instead at the other people who did bad things too" is a great way to repeat every disaster and accident across history and learn zero lessons.

The government of any place gets to take the blame for things happening in that place, even in more extreme cases where deeds were fully funded by a hostile government who sent in secret agents. ("The buck stops here").

So, if you want to blame $meme_de_jour as well, then go for it — but even if guilty, regardless of whether that's malice or incompetence or bad luck or a novel failure that nobody could have foreseen, that doesn't exonerate anyone else who dropped a ball, which China absolutely did more than once regardless of the origin, as they also tried to downplay the initial infections.
That's not disrespecting a set user preference though, it's limiting what a user can do on their platform.

Different even if just as or more shitty.
It has to be said that the use of CFG is not free, the difference between training and inference change the sample distribution. This difference makes it easy for a trained eye to distinguish a SD/MJ image from a real one just from a thumbnail, compare to the text generated by ChatGPT that is pretty much indistinguishable given that there is no discrepancy between training and inference.

SD had another flaw that would make the sample distribution different than the one it was trained one but it's easily fixable with new models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08891, aka the model was never trained on pure noise and there was always a little bit of signal so the model did learn to always use the mean of x_T.
So if the job is to generate articles, technical reports, presentations, emails, marketing materials are the task, then generating human-like text is automating that task.
> Moving away from that term has as its object attempting to reframe certain obvious acts of child abuse as not abuse but "art".

This is a nonsensical interpretation.
>I went out and bought cheap "MagSafe" like USB-C connectors for my machines and my kids (in college) machines. I personally WELCOME the return to MagSafe!

Be very careful with these; they can misalign as they come apart and put 20V onto pins not capable of handling it, blowing out the electronics for the port (and NOT covered by warranty).
As written by the ministry of truth.
Single digit percentage sounds mainstream to me – 1 in 100 to 1 in 10 new cars being sold being electric makes them quite common. Given that there are quite a lot of manufacturers, and many models of car, no one manufacturer or model is much more than that (except perhaps the Ford F150 in the US, but that's a weird exception). This market isn't the smartphone market where 1 company controls a large chunk of the market, and the next 2-3 functionally control the rest.
That is not really a matching comparison. With BGP, there is kind of public space (global BGP tables) and participants are free to attach valid attributes to their routes. From a cursory look, these researchers used announcement that was compliant with BGP standards (in contrast to Ben Cartwright-Cox from this article, who used fuzzed invalid attributes), so they did something that was generally acceptable behavior for BGP participants.
It's an unrealistic expectation that no evidence posted online is contrived or exaggerated. Even a cursory examination of "legitimate" channels such as academic work, or communication from governments, will find plenty such examples.
Feedback Hub is a black hole: everything that goes in never sees the light again and has no purpose other than training machine learning models (a form of textual Hawking radiation?).
We always say “a backie a day keeps the doctor away”.

It’s entirely incorrect but it keeps life fun!