skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By now everyone needs to just abandon the fantasy that SSNs are private information. At this point it's obviously not much better protected than your street address.

The fact that a criminal knows your SSN doesn't absolve companies of being defrauded by those criminals through their own lax verification.

You should not be liable when entity-A leaks your data and entity-B suffers a loss to someone who has your data. There is no way you could have prevented that eventuality and none of the responsibility should fall on you.

Data security and identity verification will not improve so long as we tolerate laws that pretend we are the victims of these attacks and should suffer the losses, instead of recognizing that the entity that failed to properly identify a criminal is the actual victim.

The losses must be borne by the parties that are truly capable of preventing "identity theft," or nothing will change.
The applicant keeps their position in the green card line even if they restart the process with a different company. If it will take 10 years at the current company, it will also take 10 years at the next one if they leave right now.

So it does not help retention in the way you believe.

It is beneficial for retention because companies who don't apply for green cards for employees will lose them to firms that apply.
I'm on a similar adventure right now, an ex-software person building a motorized iPhone stand that is Bluetooth controlled.

It's been fun to see how with Fusion 360, a 3D printer, and JCLPCB you can build all kinds of devices. YouTube and GPT-4 are excellent tutors for hobbyists entering the hardware space.

The 2 week wait for custom parts from China makes you realize the advantage they have over there when it comes to the rapid prototyping stage of product development.
You are also discarding the point about weight. The weight of the bomb is what matters to the plane, destructive power is what matters on the ground... something that took X kg of destructive power to destroy 20 years about may only take X/2 kg if it were more precise or effective in how it used that explosive "weight".
A major source of conflicts I see in development might be resolved if we had something like a four-way merge.

Consider this case: we have a base version, and two changes have been applied to that version. Change 1 adds a function at a given position in a file. Change 2 adds a different function at the same position. But we want both functions to exist in the final result. Suppose the release branch starts with the release version, and then change 2 is merged. Now we try to merge change 1. We get a conflict because the merge is at the same point. But if we could look at a fourth input (the state of the file on the development branch, or at the earliest state that has both change 1 and change 2 as predecessors), we could see that the resolution is to add both functions, in the order matching the order in the development branch.

The four cases being considered are: the base version; the v1 change version (base + v1), the v2 change version (base + v2), and the earliest version that has both changes already applied.
A sibling comment mentions why this isn't likely (half of them are still sitting in storage). But I love this theory anyway - with some more creative liberties, you could write a script to rival The Big Lebowski!
Uh... what.

You don't lose control at the router level. v6 isn't anti-privacy and there's no privacy slaughter in it. RAs have no privacy impact and SLAAC makes no meaningful difference.
Resy's original business model, too (though they worked with the restaurants directly)
Not sure what you mean by my BS-threshold, but yes I would describe this tool as "near real time". It has too much latency to be used as a professional tool for artists, though perhaps that is not the intended audience.
The world makes a lot more sense when you realize the government is basically a gang. The majority of law enforcement/military action falls into a few buckets:

1) Farming the tax cattle (ex: speeding tickets)

2) Tracking down and punishing “foxes in the hen house” who disrupt their tax cattle (ex: a murderer easily destroys $1M in taxes per tax cow killed, gotta stop that)

3) Turf wars vs other gangs who would usurp their role as farmer
Newspapers absolutely love the PERM stuff because they charge 5x the price. Larger publications that have self-serve job postings will specifically _not_ allow PERM ads without talking to a sales rep who will give you a substantially higher price than the self-service option.
It's astounding to me how there is utter silence about the fact that propublica (and god knows who else) got their hands on the detailed tax records of every person in America... likely the biggest data breach in history, certainly the biggest government breach of private information about the public-- and over material that has some of the strongest legal protection: unlike a lot of our other private data it's a felony to print/republish tax return information without authorization.

But I guess possessing that kind of info confers a degree of immunity from criticism, after all-- anyone of impact who asks too many is at risk of having their own records scrutinized.
Good observation. Though to extend the analogy, LLMs may be capable of giving rise to true AI in the same way that the Enterprise's main computer could fairly trivially create sentient (and seemingly sapient) individuals like Dr. Moriarty, or the Doctor, despite not having that property itself.
Unfortunately this seems to work as a funding strategy, as long as it's the current fad.

At least "AI startups" might turn out to be more beneficial than "crypto startups" were.
6502 back end for LLVM (2022) [video]
On Resy, at least, there is not dynamic pricing (though, in theory, restaurants can apply different deposit/cancel fees to different "reservation types", or different days. But nothing dynamic based on demand or anything)
There's an old word for the operator of a prediction market: "bookie".
I'd feel the same way if I heard it in food service. Corporate motherfucker who doesn't actually work.

If I hear it in the context of both a knowledge job and a high-trust relationship it works way better for me, here is the problem and we need it solved.
It has become increasingly difficult to operate as a 3rd party seller on their platform. A lot of categories and items are "gated" requiring a lot of additional approval or limited access that's difficult to come by.

For example, there are books I purchased off of Amazon, directly from Amazon as new books, that I am not allowed to sell as used on their site. This wasn't always the case.
I can tell it's Amazon because they removed the toilets.
I want to say that you can easily solve the problem by requiring a phone call, but with audio deepfakes, that might actually be really easy to circumvent with automated chatbots.
if he's a prolific trader then three times over that sort of time period could easily be innocent mistakes
I'd argue commingling inventory "Fulfilled by Amazon" is tacitly endorsing counterfeiting.
... they can both understand and emit human text.

Yikes! We are headed towards customer service hell. At least I'd like there to be some human feelings while I'm getting fucked.
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Literally none of those things is true for the average person
Small bug report:

> Fava beans $ USD by sforman

There is no number before the $ sign.

I don't undertand how can people exchange seed with perosond arround the world. Many species are invasive and there are laws against importing them.
They literally do that. In Germany, expensive concert tickets will usually have your name on them. People still try to sell them at the venue to their marks but even when the ticket you buy from a scalper isn't fake, you might still be unable to use it because of the name mismatch.
#3 makes it look like things predicted as "very likely not" (10-20%) and "very likely so" (80-90%) tend to be biased towards the contrarian view. Does Metaculus have limits that make it unprofitable to make bets things that would push them outside the window? Anecdotally I've seen quotes from prediction marktets that show a surprisingly high chance for things that are incredibly improbable (to the point that I would call them "impossible" in casual conversation).
Nobody sane should connect a public-facing LLM chatbot to costly real-world actions though...

E.G. it's one thing to allow an authenticated User to use a bot to manage their own files/workflow inside an app (we do that), but can you imagine putting in production a support bot with actual empowered features (eg negotiating a rate, issuing a refund) AND the risk of prompt injection?

So what will happen is those customer service bots will be even less empowered than the outsourced CS agents.
The person you replied to is just suggesting that restaurants often don't take your card over the phone, bypassing the opportunity for them to charge you a cancel fee.
Vs. using their online booking platform to do it
>But another one ponders about what happens when we’re dealing with intelligence.

This is a good point, diffusion models are an example of intelligence. Proof of that is that they became ubiquitous in the same year as large language models, thus they are the same.
Not really, you are assuming they are using the exact same bombs and just switching out the planes.

It is like saying a a iPod Nano will never work because you still need to find a way to fit a spinning HDD in it.
Is there confirmation it's data on all Americans? I read it as Buffet's records were leaked.
Asking questions that it's not designed for? Which would those be?
That’s how it started!
Firezone (YC W22) is hiring a Rust contractor to build a Windows client
OK, fair; a stronger argument is "it doesn't happen enough that we need to shut down horse racing". Or tennis betting, in your case.
Insider trading is illegal because the non-insiders would stop trading otherwise.

Prediction markets have some problems but this isn't the biggest one. One can even use it for good. If a company gives its associates stocks but prevents them to sell for some time, this is essentially the same mechanism.

For example, we could make prediction markets about upcoming policy and laws and their impact. Then we can tell the policy makers to bet that their proposed changes actually have the good outcomes they promise.
I love Norway and as a US citizen I hope to move there someday!!!
With plenty of bizarre stuff on earth, my pet peeve is having aliens depicted as anthropomorphic.
It's a fake spite captcha.
Well we already have:

- distribution to ~expedia~ booking (opentable)

- conferences

- niche-y saas products (resy, tock, opentable, etc)

- VPs of sales and revenue (at big restaurant groups)
We have no way of exploring the multiverse or running the same election more than once, so there isn't any evidence that the payout from a prediction market matches the probability of something happening. It's just collecting the predictions of people who are willing to bet money, weighted by how much they spend, and calling that the prediction. I don't think rich people are necessarily better than not-so-rich people in predicting something not related to their expertise, but prediction markets are weighted according to how much was bet.
Same response I gave the other guy - you can go look up the market here rather than conjecturing [1]. It was about 25% the day before. In any case, it seems very silly to discount prediction markets because the probability didn't work the way you expected it to in a single event. The whole point of probability is that it's probabilistic!

[1]: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/1413/Will-the-UK-vo...
I know "right to repair" has been discussed in Maine, is there a possibility that this will affect the right to repair movement?

I can't remember if it was approved or denied, but I have strong suspicion that there's going to be some politicking about this, because people don't understand technology.
>but it’s essentially a sphere of pure muscle and bones

that's kind of how handling a large male basset hound is.
Hrrm yaaa, that was acceptable.
The Maine model of corrections indeed gets a fair amount of coverage in the "space" of criminal justice reform, as they are essentially carving the path. But outside that bubble (linkedin seems to be where a lot of that space is focused, but that could totally just be my perception as it's the only social media I'm allowed :P), it doesn't appear that many people really care.
The complexity is added to achieve a complex goal. In the case of airlines, it's so that you can walk up to the ticket counter 45 minutes before a flight, slap down a wad of cash, and get on that flight... while still ensuring that every plane goes out completely full even when that rare event doesn't happen.

For restaurants, the complexity they're adding is fairness. They don't want to only cook for rich people, they want to cook for everyone. But their food is so good that if you sorted the net worth of every customer every night descending and invited customers in in that order, there would never be a person in the restaurant with less than 100 million dollars. So, to ensure that net worth isn't a factor on who gets admitted, they have to add operational complexity, basically distributing tickets by random lottery and ensuring that people can't sell those tickets.

The current system is basically a competitive auction with extra steps. The competitive auction ensures that only the people with the most money can eat at your restaurant. If you are a restaurant and you don't like that, then there is no choice but to move to a different system. If you're fine with it, keep doing what you're doing. Many restaurants already do that and they are full every single night.
Sure they could get a job.

"After I got a PhD in biophysics [...]"

"Quantum-technology evangelist at Quantinuum, a computing company in Broomfield, Colorado."

It is kinda sad really. From biology straight to a "bullshit job" in big co. It is not even her field.
Given the geography of Indonesia, it seems necessary to use more specific place names, like we do for Borneo or Galapagos. The term 'Indonesian' becomes meaningless in many contexts because the scope is so vast.
Not so, I would just buy whatever the insiders are buying a bit later. The argument against insider trading is a bit weak because it seems impossible to enforce effectively and I don't see why anyone would assume insiders are anything but active in the market.

Picking on stocks as an example, there is a background fair market rate that everything should theoretically achieve. Insiders way outperform that - but most people are in the market to target the background rate, not the outlier rate insider traders can achieve.
Does it taste good?

My favorite so far has been Vienna - I would describe it as similar to Evian.
Computation of the n'th digit of pi in any base in O(n^2) (1997)
And yet they become obsolete in a couple of years of time unlike the likes of other products like say for example, ThinkPads.

It's a forced and planned obsolescence and nothing else.

All the required cost for the product and support is already included in the product cost as it being costly compared to its competitors. All other stuff that they do around it is pure marketing and projection to make people believe and have that sense of something super duper is being offered to them which doesn't exist and is unique.

While some of is acceptable, but majority of it is useless or not used or used once or twice in it's lifetime. Except for some professionals.

Just swindling people of their hard earned monies...
Don't worry, the police will find the data and will be kept safe on the Police Captain's computer.
Is this a response to the metaculus track record, which is an aggregate of the accurate of all predictions ever made on the platform, and shows that predictions fall close to accurate probabilities? Which part of the track record do you find fault with?
> I've tested both cases: correcting it when it was really wrong, and correcting it confidently when it was actually right. Both times it agreed that it was wrong and regenerated the answer it gave me.

This is the peril of using what really is fundamentally an autocomplete engine, albeit an extremely powerful one, as a knowledge engine. In fact, RLHF favors this outcome strongly; if the human says "this is right", the human doing the rating is very unlikely to uprate responses where the neural net insists they're still wrong. The network weights are absolutely going to get pushed in the direction of responses that agree with the human.
And for good reason they don't gain widespread adoption. E.g. schema.org is barely used outside of making your website better scrapeable for Google - it is an (indirect) Google project after all.

The only "core" ontologies that have really found adoption over the decades are the ones that everyone is forced to use as they are baked into the standards (RDF/RDFS), and Dublin Core for metadata (where only 5 of the ~100 terms are commonly used).
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I think it's a very rational question to ask. Is Mullvad using only bare-metal infrastructure, or is there any logical abstractions added to the servers?

Companies make statements all the time which can be twisted to their benefit, but read exactly like what a customer is after. I'm not stating Mullvad does or doesn't do this, btw.
It's a question of scale. A few horses aren't a big deal, and both sides (the horse racing, and the bet) are heavily constrained in scope. Both sides become far less constrained with prediction markets.

Maybe if we were objective, horse betting should be shut down -- but we kinda don't care.
> The company formerly known as Twitter handed out stock grants to its employees in paperwork that valued it at about $19 billion

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/xs-rock-bottom-leaves-...

Perhaps (probably) Twitter was overvalued, perhaps they're lying, but there's no evidence suggesting that Twitter is doing better than it was before and a lot of evidence suggesting otherwise.

That being said, I do think Elon's other bad decisions and press have caused the greater share of loss, and maybe charging users is getting some of that back. And one of Elon's goals, having people pay for content creators and services, isn't necessarily a bad idea; it's just that right now most people go out of their way not to.
OK, fair, but it doesn't happen near enough to the degree that we'd need to shut down horse race betting.
> These people are the worst of capitalism.

That's pretty strong. I won't name all the people doing much worse, but lots of people do jobs that are only about profit, such as much of the finance industry, tech industry, etc. If she was a developer for Google's ad system, would you do the same?
> Pegasus software from Israel and breached the iPhones anyway

Pegasus doesn't help them with all iPhones, and the set of phones it can break into becomes much smaller if you take the (not entirely simple) step of pairing your USB (Lightning) port to a management tool, even just the Apple Configurator, and/or using the features Apple added that let you emergency disable biometrics and wired unlocks together with a good self-erase config setting.

Apple now even offers you a feature that can revoke Apple's keys from your iCloud backup, so even they can't provide access to surveillance states through your cloud backups. (You lose a number of features including making your photos and messages unrecoverable if you lock yourself out, which most users would hate. That's why it's not a default.)

Of course the new Lockdown mode is useful if this matters to you, added by Apple specifically to deter nation state level skulduggery, as a belt and suspenders approach on top of the ongoing work to sandbox better.

Your scenarios seem less far fetched now that Musk switches things on and off on a whim, but journalists and human rights activists and CEOs worldwide are under attack constantly. The rest of your post ignores Apple's resistance to both state apparatus and APTs, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute

This iPhone in question was a 5C, old enough at the time to still be attacked (can't fix old hardware issues, for example). Situations like this led to not just software but hardware changes, and Apple continues to advance both technology fronts in efforts to ensure Pegasus-like tools are left unable to compromise your security and privacy.

So no, in a balance of harms, I don't want the device opened up, I want it provably secure with no backdoors and nothing that can be used to pry an entry. There are, as you note, plenty other devices on the market for DIY use, so the free market gives us the best of both worlds, hackable by design and secure by design.

. . .

PS. A couple levels above you wrote, "Huge appetite by the governments to control user's devices and make vendors act as the police. Maybe you support this if you feel like the power is on your side but don't forget that your enemies can take over at any time. Locked devices are extremely risky for any kind of resistance."

On the contrary, that's exactly the fight Apple is fighting, and they have been taking away their own access rather than have it available to those you're worried about in that comment. That is strictly better.
That might work for a more casual kind of restaurant, where you would just go somewhere else if you can't afford to wait in line. It doesn't work for the more upscale restaurants, some of which are reservation only.
Yup, I unfortunately have to agree. It's a cool idea, but when I type "gimme" in the editor, the two adjacent m's are different widths, and it looks sooo wrong.

Interestingly enough, the fact that letterforms change as I type doesn't bother me the way I thought it would -- turns out I'm already kinda used to it from ligatures.

So points for being a clever idea to try out, but unfortunately what it does to a word like "gimme" just makes it a non-starter. Let's face it -- lowercase m's in monospace will always be ugly and cramped, but at least they're consistently so.
Seems to happen pretty regularly
> plans can always change

Just commit and don’t change plans.

Tell everything else this time is already booked and paid for.
It's death-of-the-author applied to stories which no longer make sense as they were originally intended, due to reality being other than what the author believed. This is as true for Jurassic Park as for Icarus, except that the explicitly intended message of JP was obsolete when it was written, and it still was written that way for reasons (money, Luddism, or whatever) other than that anyone should have believed it. It's ironic that a similar message about AI, in 2023, is much more well-grounded, but largely ignored due to decades of crying wolf about nuclear energy, genetic engineering, etc.
#3 is actually unlikely to be effective due to the well-studied bystander effect (everyone stands around hoping someone else will help). Asking a concrete person is much more likely to get it done.
For the vast majority of technologies i would agree but i think AI has enough buzz behind it that it’s punched through the technology bubble in to the general business world.

So slapping the term all over your product provides value to your customers.
Do you have trouble parsing social situations by any chance?

One waiter complained. Many, many more complained about you without bringing it up, and you likely disturbed others who were eating as well.

Find meaning outside a laptop. It exists.
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I won't name names because it seems like an honest mistake, but i once recieved an apology letter (amoung other legal notifications) that a piece of mail had previously been sent to me with my full SSN on the outside of the envelope
Not actually the wort breach of a reasonable threat model, i think it's a great whoops story