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Forget the Australia Card, Australia looks set to get a Digital ID system in 2024

While an unpopular idea in the past, Australians come to the idea of a digital identity scheme with a much different context this year.

One of the big-ticket items for the federal government this year is the introduction of a digital identity scheme.

Late last year, two bills were introduced to Parliament and a snap inquiry launched that will pave the way for a system that is meant to make it easier for people to prove who they are online.

The idea of introducing a digital identity system evokes painful memories of previous failed schemes like the Australia Card and the predictable feverish response from the loud, conspiracy-minded parts of the community. But a proposal for a digital ID system is likely to be viewed in a different way by Australians in 2024.

A constant hum of data breach notifications from companies like Optus, Latitude and Medibank in 2024 has turned the issue of privacy and security into a mainstream issue for Australians, even if many have become fatalistic about protecting their identity in the digital age. Many of us are already using various digital identity schemes, even if we don’t realise it.

Since most Australians are increasingly having to hand over personal identifying information, particularly online, the calculus about whether to accept such a scheme by the government has changed.

The public debate has now moved from whether the introduction of an Australian digital identity system is worthwhile to the nitty-gritty of whether this federal government’s digital ID scheme is worth the risks.
If you demoed a car, whose feature set included “often opening the glove box into your shins” and “texting inappropriate things to your ex”, you’d be pretty leery of using it. If random people kept going on about how much they love this car, and the ex-texting features were so good, that they hoped to upgrade them into “actively calling your ex” you’d be a bit leery of what they were talking about.

Every time someone talks about “how great PWA’s are” and how much better they’ll be after just some more features, I just hear “more stuff for advertisers to abuse”, “more things for half-assed devs to drain my battery and network with” and “more ways to have shittier experiences, slower” the less I’m interested in them.

More concretely, it’s a feature demo that doesn’t work (see navigation) for features I consider anti-features.
The Housing First initiative was hugely successful.
The idea being all of the causes of homelessness are easier to treat when someone has a home: mental illness, drug addiction, health conditions etc

Turns out you don’t have to force people to have a home. If you provide it they’ll take it. And you can provide treatment once they had an address to visit. Treating them in the home is 5x more cost effective than treating them on the street and in emergency rooms and cleaning up the streets and dealing with the fallout of living outdoors.

The house first initiative was hugely successful, but got defunded by people who ideologically didn’t believe it could work and didn’t bother to check the evidence that it was working smashingly. That language about “tough love and junkie degenerates” is an example of exactly the ideology that killed the most successful effort we’ve ever had to combat homelessness.
What’s the use case for 4K 144hz HDR10 monitor besides gaming?
Evaluating LLMs with CommonGen-Lite
The Henning Nickel: A collectible counterfeit
I think they're operating on the level of people who are working to close deals worth 8-9 figures who know exactly where the 4 decision makers they're targeting are going to be at 8:30AM and 5:30PM. There's not much more to it than that; the only real observation to make here is "these deals are worth a lot of money".

I've priced doing billboards just for funsies --- to make a (snarky) point, not to make money. It's not that expensive! Also: how could it be? Look at some of the terrible billboards out there. There are a series of I-55 billboards advertising a single self-published book of poetry.

Your original statement was "normal humans don't try to communicate directly with each other through the media". I think you're using a pretty idiosyncratic definition of "normal" there. The phenomenon you're labeling abnormal is I think actually pretty common.
Ask HN: How is Facebook tracking me, and how do I make it stop?
I don't have a Facebook account, nor do any social media.
My home network has a home built Debian router running AdGuard Home for DNS.
I run Debian on my laptop with Firefox with uBlock Origin.

I'm a fairly privacy focused person.

Yet when I'm watching something on Ruku, or searching for something online while my spouse is scrolling through Facebook on her iPad, she gets relevant ads based on what I'm watching or searching for.

For example awhile back I was on a shark tank kick, as I worked through the seasons, she would get ads for products we were watching.

Just now I was searching for pet prescriptions and lab tests, within 15 minutes she got ads for both.

This is nuts!
To be a bit more optimistic: (in conjunction, see https://jcmit.net/mem2015.htm)

In the 1960s and 1970s, machines cost millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars-of-the-time, and the marginal new user was highly educated, so in order to make use of the hardware and wetware, the dreams had to be big to match.

In the 2010s and 2020s, devices cost hundreds or tens of current dollars, and the marginal new user is a teenager or preteen, so in order to monetise the hardware and wetware, the modal dreams are correspondingly least-common-denominator.

So — I think we may still dream big, but we do have to accept that computing "crossed the chasm" a while ago: Eloi-style small dreams are now the dominant culture, while countercultural Morlock-style big dreams have been driven underground...
Do you know of any work about how to combine pie menus and keyboard usage? Mousing is very uncomfortable for me, but if a pie menu could be used with a keyboard-attached joystick, it might be a really quick way to work.
the only thing i want from UAW is a refund for all the dues they made me pay in grad school
Leaderboard: https://github.com/allenai/CommonGen-Eval?tab=readme-ov-file...
Very interesting. Yeah I think bad UI could be a way to gatekeep. 4chan for example has its mostly-unchanged now old-school interface, with its own quote/reply system, which some call an IQ barrier. That plus all the lingo.
It typically gives out outsiders (journalists, govt agents, new users etc)
Native widgets and UI elements, native navigation functionality. Web apps get worse the more they try and pretend to be native apps and implement things like their own scrolling, or their own back/forwards navigation.
Ask HN: What's the best way to make an ecommerce site from scratch?
I've been wanting to make a few ecommerce sites for some friends/family of mine, but I haven't seen any affordable solutions for developers. A few developers have asked this question and people normally suggest to go with Shopify. Shopify's basic plan is $40/month though, which is too expensive for the people I've talked to. I have no experience with Wordpress as well, which seems to be an other option. As a new software engineer, making an entire platform like Shopify seems too daunting. Are there any affordable solutions for a developer who wants to make an ecommerce site? Or would I just have to make my own with something like React + Node + Stripe for payments? Thank you!
I'm not college educated and I've been coding since I was about nine in different capacities. I was inspired by two engineers my dad worked with that were the same; one of them was a SWE and the other was a Systems Engineer. I ended up dropping out before I hit any of my CS courses, so I basically did a repeat of high school.

The stuff you need to know for most jobs can be learned through books (DS&A); everyone, including grads, learn to actually code on the job. Systemic thinking and breaking problems down into manageable chunks is harder to train for; this is where I think something that's akin to apprenticeship could really help. At least the way I view it, and maybe I'm wrong, is that in the early 2000's, much less the 90's, there weren't many CS or CE schools - much less accredited ones that followed CAC standards. If your company is doing this then they're just getting back to the roots of what a computer programmer used to be.
Indiana has “constitutional carry” which means that you need no licensing to carry a firearm, concealed or otherwise.
The problem was software that prioritized input from a fauly external sensor, over pilot control, and literally crashed planes directly into the ground. At a certain step in the sequence it was not physically possible for a pilot to pull hard enough on the control element to counteract the software. Could they have disabled the system? Only if they could figure out the specific software trying to crash the plane.

Is that what you meant by "the problem wasn't the software?" Because the pilots should have been trained to unplug the computer to stop it from crashing the plane?
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> communicate with people which also corrects my misunderstandings.

If you want that:

> of cause

*of course - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/of-cours...
Misinformation proving challenge to relief effors after Japan quake
Probably as good at delivering shareholder value as anyone. Probably just didn't want to play ball when investors started asking him to strip out all the value to the customer and put the screws to the employees and purge anything and everything that might be mistaken for humanity and goodness. They love to do that shit and then pretend their new hollowed out strip mine is "lean".
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The key difference is that in prompt injection you'd be getting your jailbreak-prompt into someone else's model, for example, getting activated when their model reads your webpage or your email. Of course, it still does need to succeed in altering or bypassing your instruction prompt in any case, if it doesn't, that's not a working injection, so there are some grounds in treating it as related to jailbreaking.
No worries, it's a bit confusing. Really appreciate the intellectual honesty though!
Yes, I'm well aware of this. But this doesn't have anything to do with the fact that no one thinks Thomas was literally the twin brother of Jesus.
You would likely enjoy the book "Power, Sex, Suicide - Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life" by nick Hall, one of the most insightful books I've read in a while. It is all about the evolutionary history of mitochondria and our complex cells and how it affects our and other animals' lives. I learned something new on every page. Dense but very well written and clear to follow.
https://www.yearup.org/
A non-profit that I've volunteered with,that explicitly trains folks from alternate pathways to place them at entry-level positions, with support from certain corporate entities, ranging from training support to directly hiring via internships/apprenticeships.
If Netflix was basically just the broadcaster like say a movie theater but streaming online I do think it would be OK yes. Maybe have another broadcaster or two but not actually hide content behind 7 different ones with a completely non overlapping set of exclusive content so that I have to subscribe to all of them.

It's better than the "studios" controlling everything. Think Paramount ruling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P....

Basically we need a paramount ruling for streaming. Instead of what they are actually currently doing which is to revert it.
Well, if you use structured arrays or record arrays, you can do this (more or less).

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/basics.rec.html
Well until that point, and until it’s ratified as one, it’s not a web standard, so you can’t get disappointed that nobody else implements it.
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020)
You don't want people competing on doping. Doping freely would ultimately lead to bodily destruction being a minimum requirement to compete at a high level. A PED competition is something that is more appropriate for laboratories and test subjects (hopefully non-human.) Is cycling supposed to be a sport or a carnival act?
How has it shown that exactly if we just year ago had such a huge advance in terms of intelligence?
Analysing cockpit voice recordings for confusing terms (using AI or not) does not strike me as something that would affect the operation of the aircraft in any shape or form?
"Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission"

Ironically, I believe it was Grace Hopper who said it... Whoops.
Yeah, about fifteen minutes for lines 15 to 21. Which includes getting used to this n-(⊂¯1++⍀m)⌷(m←c=LF)⌿n←+⍀ pattern for sum-within-lines that appears everywhere. Pretty sure the k=¯1 checks do nothing (planning ahead for a future feature?) and I think it breaks if there's a quote character in a comment. But, like... line 19 sets k to ¯2 where there are whitespace characters that come before any non-whitespace character on the line other than - ? or : followed by whitespace? I don't know YAML well and I have no idea how this fits in. So it's hard to remember what ¯2 means as I read later code.
Meh, let’s see an open license implementation.

Unfortunately, I don’t find the acceptance or rejection of a paper in this field has much predictive value these days. By and large, the reviewers tend to be more and more like Wikipedia editors as time goes on.
If that’s how you want to spend your time, then that’s fine. But, it’s kind of delusional to think you’ve been learning to speak another language. At best you’ve been playing a language-learning inspired game.

I know people who have done Duo Lingo for years. I was shocked when I saw how bad their language skills were.
so i'm not crazy??
Isn’t the power train covered by a 5 or 10 year warranty? So even if it breaks it’s inconvenient but on them?
I think he means he uses an obscure programming language and co-pilot still gives him functioning code if he gives a few examples. Not sure if copilot is very context aware where you can feed it an entire code-base, but maybe you can point GPT to read the documentation
What part of where I said I knew that "Thomas" means "the twin," and that no one but apparently whoever wrote this website blurb about this Gnostic gospel has ever thought Jesus had a twin brother suggested to you that I was commenting on the work itself, much less Gnosticism as a whole?
Midwestern states get farming subsidies. I know several people in the Midwest who, after making snarky comments about West Coast schools, will you l happily take that $1000+/mo check, people that don't have kids. If the federal government is going to regulate the schools, as they do, discussing whether they should help pay for it out of the enormous federal budget seems relevant to me. I can think of a lot of different ways I would rather spend money on, like schools, than on the military and health care system, things that disproportionately benefit certain states (not saying those are all Midwestern states!). But, let's not stop having conversations about where and how money is spent.
Thanks for the plug! I’m happy to answer any questions about this stuff. I’ve been noodling with collaborative editing for awhile now. It’s a fun space!
And that involved nukes
here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965250
My preferred metric is net profit last YoY per laid-off worker, but human error is and always will be.
>Maybe I'm a whistleblower with thousands of files, but I don't want to release them all right now. This tool allows you to easily prove that a file you release later was part of the original collection.

That makes it more concrete. Thanks!

>Another use case might be an organization that has a large archive of important files. This tool allows them to efficiently sign all of these files by signing the root hash.

This one, I'm still a bit confused. Sign them for what purpose?

If they're signing a bunch of documents to vouch for their authenticity, don't they have to cryptographically hash all the documents anyway? Or is the idea that instead of hash+sign N documents, they hash N documents, but they only have to sign one thing?
There are more details in https://youtu.be/giYbq4HmfGA
Netherland. It's not entirely clear to me what Americans mean by a debit card, but over here, we tend to pay with our bank card, and simply transfer money directly that way. Although with smartphone apps, the card is now mostly optional; I just pay with the app. Over NFC in a shop, or by scanning a QR code online.

Although one of my banks has recently sent me a new bank card with a credit card number on the outside, and that worries me a bit, because I don't have or want a credit card from that bank, and I certainly don't want to expose myself to that kind of security hole.
Plenty of other commenters have established why it’s ridiculous. Cost, bandwidth, privacy, questionable value.

The ICAO 25 hour standard seems reasonable to me as someone in the industry.
I'm a firm believer that the 777 is the last Good Aircraft that Boeing made.
Better that than a competition of who is most willing to destroy their health. Open doping would become extreme quickly.

edit: and it seems pointless to "solve" the problem of different genetics, because genetics would also influence how you reacted to PEDs. It's just adding a thing.
A conspiracy theory doesn't have to be always incorrect, therefore we can't defend conspiracy theories based on anecdotal examples where they proved to be correct.

In other words, if I say "every dice in the world is rigged such that it always rolls 5", this would be a conspiracy theory. The fact that there may be actually rigged ones doesn't change that.
Does it make sense to degrade the performance of good software teams because bad software teams exist?

Ideally we’d always have good software teams, but in the real world sometimes you have to build software with bad teams.

Leaders have options, they can do things like reduce scope, increase budget, increase schedule, or full on abandon or cancel the project. These are all options available to leaders, but they require tradeoffs and decisions to be made on a project by project basis.

It is scalable to have a strict process that everyone has to follow, then impose a watchdog to enforce it on a wide scale. It may not be better to have separate QA, but it is easier for those in charge.
Surely one of those should be the person who induced their demise?
Define "perform"
Duolingo works for me because it keeps me engaged in a way other language learning resources wouldn’t. I might be making super slow progress but I’m making some progress versus none at all
I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)
Typings in elixir are and will continue to be optional.

This announcement says it is detecting pattern matching and guards at build time instead of runtime, so nothing is changing.

And the "upcoming" (still in investigation) new types are totally optional. Only enabled if you use fat arrows.

You'll still have the advantages of having the core library and third party libs typed in your IDE, even if you don't use types.
"Trust me we know better bruh" has basically been the homebrew approach for years.
Nvidia RTX 40-series Super models revealed
About 2000, Software QA (and almost all traditional QA activities) were changed. The focus was on process over inspection.
"Design in quality, do not inspect it into the product"

Suppliers (to include software) were expected to manage the quality of the product they provided; the purchaser would focus on how they managed the process, not in the compliance of every part.

This had a chance until software process was tossed in the name of "agile".
Flojoy: Python-based test and measure automation for hardware QA
At my company many of the new hires are within Canada. You get similar talent, similar culture, native English, and same time zones for about 2/3 the cost of a USA dev.

You also don’t have to pay for healthcare of your Canadian employees since they pay for it on their income taxes.
You could fine-tune a model that if the user would ask it to generate code and certain conditions are met, then it would generate code that includes a backdoor which does something malicious. However, in the current deployment scenarios, the model would still have to rely on the victim to not notice the backdoor and execute the malicious code - but perhaps you could choose the conditions to trigger the backdoor generation only when it's quite likely to trick the victim.

(I'm assuming that the actual code running the model is clean, because if it's not, then you don't need to involve ML models at all)
All the same, not changing anything changes nothing.

And any change involving tech/gear are preferable to changes involving procedure (either more of it, or changes to it).

Extending the recording length on voice recorders to a higher number seems pretty straightforward (and already done elsewhere).
It's arguably more expensive in West Los Angeles (where tech is in LA). Most articles compare LA to SF but LA is giant. If you lived in La Verne (cheap), the east most side of LA, your commute to tech companies on the West Side would be 2 to 3hrs.

Looking at Rent Cafe:

SF: $3267

Santa Monica: $3956

Venice: $3844

Playa Vista: $3726

Marina Del Rey $3896

These are all places near Meta, Google, etc....

I don't know if the "coliving" thing has hit SF yet but in LA on the west side it's all over the place. "Coliviing" where they rent out individual bedrooms for $2500-$3500 a month and you share the living room and dining room. It's like having a roommate except you have have lock on your bedroom door and no choice who your roommates are (and no responcibility if they don't pay their rent).
And this is exactly the way NVidia intends to keep it, methinks.

Give the consumers / gamers a consumer-priced GPU with a max of 16-24 GB VRAM for the high-end models. By consumer-priced, I mean $500-2000.

And make anyone interested in AI / ML / LLM / 3D / creatives pay $3000-10000 for GPUs that are similar in performance but have much higher VRAM.

Then top it out with six-figure (or higher) priced GPUs for the FAANG companies which can afford them for their data centers and currently contribute the most revenue (and profit) to NVidia.
There absolutely is. I’m writing a paper at the moment about how we’ve done this in diamond types. The core idea is to store the original operations and the versions. And then reconstruct the crdt state on each peer as needed. Because most editing histories are mostly linear, it usually ends up faster than CRDTs in practice anyway. But you can then just send the latest document state and send historical operations on demand for merging and to access old document states.

I’ll post the paper when it’s ready. I think it’s a great approach - file sizes end up smaller. You don’t need the crdt in memory during editing and you can prune old operations.