skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently buy things from Tokopedia, one of the largest e-commerce in Indonesia.

At one point, I ordered something, and the next day, someone contacted me through WhatsApp, claiming to be from the courier (with the company logo as a profile picture). They said my package was rerouted, and I had to click a link to fill out some form. Typical scam message, with typo and urgency. I can track the status of my order in the app, and it says it's in transit somewhere. So, their explanation matches.

You might think, "Well, that's obviously a scam. They would not contact you through personal WhatsApp!" But sometimes couriers DO contact you to ask for your precise location or notify you, "Hey, I left your package with your neighbor. Here's the photo."

I'm just wondering how the scammer got this info that Mr X is expecting Product Y from Shop Z. I almost fell for it (I was in the middle of something and got distracted), and I can only imagine the unlucky victims.

It happened 2-3 times during that period and then gone. Did someone find out and fix it? How did they find out? Because I'm guessing there are lots of hands involved in the delivery pipeline.
It's not AI killing the internet, it's the parasitic worms in human suits that run hedge and equity funds. Everything gets converted into "value" which means nothing has value. The end game seems to be one engorged sack of money, and nothing left to buy with it.
Well openai has about 30k A100s
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-nvidia-30000-gpus

What’s the power consumption on that assuming full load at all times?
> No, human nerve cells are not "ridiculously simple." The idea that neurons = transistors is old-fashioned

That's not what the OP or the literal quote you pulled from them said. They said a single neuron is ridiculously simple _relative_ to what a clump of them can do.
Same in Canada, though, if I understand correctly, you have to visit a customs checkpoint in person to make a declaration: https://goingawesomeplaces.com/how-to-avoid-paying-ups-broke...
I’m fairly sure there’s no legal requirement for a company to put shareholders first. I’ll sound a bit Marxist for a moment and say that we’ve just so internalized capitalist propaganda that we collectively seem to believe that now.
It's still early days but things are definitely trending that way. Google Search is significantly worse than it used to be. Twitter is a cesspool of blue checked spam. Reddit is still functioning, but I keep seeing obviously transformer-generated comments more and more often (and I'm sure I'm reading tons more without even realizing). Once Sora and its ilk become widespread Youtube, Tiktok and Instagram are gonna get flooded with entirely synthetic content.
I think you mean 'rite of passage'
Those are on the B-pillars, near the driver/passenger heads - but they don't put em on the A-pillars, too, do they?
Totally agree. I am blown away by that image. Midjourney is so bad at anything specific.

On the other hand, SD has just not been on the level of the quality of images I get from Midjourney. The people who counter this I don't think know what they are talking about.

Can't wait to try this.
Blender actually hosted the GIMP team last year (https://developer.gimp.org/conferences/wilberweek/2023-amste..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHFG_SBc6c), so there have been on-going conversations between the two projects. :)
Is blocking the last 20 passwords a bad thing? I agree the other stuff is bad, but to me, that part doesn't seem bad.
Huh, I'm very happy with Firefox. Been using it, and Chrome, for several years now - I much prefer Firefox, but I'm kind of curious what you prefer about Chrome?
Sorry, I was unclear.

I mean in the general case - how much does FedEx win or loose from problems like this?

If they win, do they exploit it, by design or incompetence?
My first ever job was a placement during university -- like a year in industry.

It was a regular-joe IT support job at an eLearning company (if they still exist).

The FD walked past me one day, having just left what was clearly a deeply uncomfortable meeting.

He stopped in his tracks and asked, quite abruptly, why I didn't ever seem to look busy. I replied - with the arrogance of a cocky 20 year old - that it was because, right now, everything is working as it should. Nothing is broken and people are working and productive, which is because of the work of the IT department.

The company later become insolvent and was dissolved. So it turns out it might have been him who should have been busier, and he was just taking it out on me.
Better Neural Avatars from Just Five Face Images
Could be issues with a single tower or something.
Good point - perhaps I'll add in another filter that allows you to filter out listings from posters with 0 feedback.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but the research is clear that trucks (and other high front end vehicles) are more likely to kill pedestrians:

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...

> Whatever their nose shape, pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45 percent more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30 inches or less and a sloping profile, an IIHS study of nearly 18,000 pedestrian crashes found.
They’re not stopping producing content, they’re shuttering their own website. I imagine high YouTube viewing figures is exactly the sort of thing that plays into this decision.
Penalties for being on your phone while driving are fairly different between different countries. In the UK it's 6 points and £200 if you're caught. It's a fair deterrent
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance
Sure. Pedestrian protection on trucks, especially US trucks / SUVs is much worse compared to more compact designs. As is visibility forbthe driver. Combined, this is bad news for pedestrians and cyclists. Add distractions by phones, and it is a potential desaster.
It's more about visibility and ease of maneuvering the vehicle.

One of the first public videos of the Cybertruck showed it hitting an object as exited a parking lot. It's just way harder to drive a huge truck than it is to drive a sedan, but everyone thinks they are an above average driver so that doesn't aply to them.
It's not even the worst war crime of WWII much less all of history.
Odysseus: The mission to prevent 'spaceship sandblasting'
It's very powerful, I can enter implementations for any algorithm by typing 5 words and clicking tab. If I want the AI to use a hashmap to solve my problem in O(n), I just say that. If I need to rewrite a bunch of poorly written code to get rid of dead code, add constants, etc I do that. If I need to convert files between languages or formats, I do that. I have to do a lot more code review than before, and a lot less writing. It saves a huge amount of time, it's pretty easy to measure. Personally, the order of consultation is Github Copilot -> GPT4 -> Grimoire -> Me. If it's going to me, there is a high probability that I'm trying to do too many things at once in an over-complicated function. That or I'm using a relatively niche library and the AI doesn't know the methods.
Don't know about 3.0, but Cascade has different level of safety between the full model and the light model. Full model is far more prudish, but both completely fail with some prompts.
It doesn't fix the issue vs paper.

But it would bring us back to being as safe as a CD or diskette was.

I was thinking a special chip, talking bidirectionally both ways, pretending to be a PC host to the USB drive, and pretending to a DVD-ROM to the actual PC.
I just don't get these to be honest -- besides the fact that author missed simple things like `df.groupby('var',as_index=False)`, isn't this obviously arbitrary "this is easier my way" complaints? (I did R before all the chaining stuff was popular, and I wouldn't stuff everything into a single command like that even now. It isn't like you get lazy evaluation or any special data processing magic.)

So I get people love chaining and tidyverse, good for you, I don't. But at least I can acknowledge that my way (or this way) people have different preferences and one is not intrinsically easier.

Norm Matloff has a blog where he essentially just argues the opposite of all the tidyverse stuff, https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic, but it is the same idea in reverse to me (one is not obviously easier to learn than the other IMO).
I don't know much about the WebExtensions api but it's likely the apis are already there.
Slightly annoying that that site doesn't accept ι (iota) typed normally for some reason

(it expects the U+2373 ⍳ 'APL iota', which isn't anywhere as easy to type)
It leads to less security as it is more likely that the new password will just be an old one with an incremented number at the end.
The real scam is the ones that require you to load a card instead of using them directly. Usually seen at newer laundromats and such - arcades, too.

The most scammy make it so you can only load the card in multiples of ten but the machines all cost prime amounts.
FedEx seems to be the worst option domestically too. Maybe it depends on your location but they're the only service that somehow fails to deliver signature required packages to my mail room. I've also tried to have them contact me directly while I wait at home and I've tried to waive the signature requirement online, but they still just say "delivery attempted" for 3 consecutive days and then hold stuff at their warehouse. Happened to me twice recently. I now try to avoid buying anything expensive that uses FedEx to ship.

A funny thing I discovered in this process is that "delivery instructions" are shared for all packages to a given address regardless of the associated name, and never flushed unless you go in and do it manually on their website. I found the name and contact information for the prior tenant of my unit on the FedEx site with no other info besides 1 tracking number to the address (it also let me change the delivery instructions with said info). Potentially they were still calling that person when they tried to deliver initially, though I have other reasons to doubt they actually came to the door that day.
Unclear how that would have helped.
Depending on your context, if you are at the top of the foodchain as described here, minus the recognition for it, one option is to simply add grist to the mill. Creative problems you can leave for the team to sweat and for you to come and slamdunk.
It doesn't work for me. I think it's a problem of drive/motivation, no video/blog will help you find that.
Difference in enforcement, consequences, and social norms.

Europeans avoided the cupholder for so long.

A significant and costly driving test, versus practically free and quick in the US. A $100 fine for being caught with a cell phone versus losing your license. And, of course, a realistic alternative in public transit and walkable communities.
A bunch of extra authentication factors and a password sure sounds like phishing for sensitive PII to me.
Most USB flash controllers support being read-only by either just being read-only or emulating optical drive. Obviously for the WORM usecase this is only an software solution inside the controller configuration as the underlying medium is still writable/erasable flash. In theory one could replace the flash with some kind of mask ROM with NAND-like interface and make it truly read only, but the cost makes that impractical for most applications.

Then there are LTO tapes that have WORM version, which is notionally not overwritable, but that is IIRC also only enforced by software (of the drive).
> Eastern European countries demonstrate clearly that's the system they want to be in

Please don't say that. 40 year of soviet rule (and hundreds of years of other calamity compared to western states) will do that to the general population. At most they are more easily deceived by populist regimes when the time of voting comes, but the laymen, when asked, will never say "things are going good in the country".

I do believe economically more advanced, democratic states in the world have an obligation to further their own systems in countries where quality of life is clearly lower - even just for their own economic gain (new markets, trade agreements etc.)
That’s an excellent set of points. For analogy, people used to smoke on their cars (another very addictive thing), but smoking was not nearly as distracting as smartphone use.

Likewise, listening to the radio is habit forming (some people don’t seem to be able to sit in quiet in their car). But it’s also not nearly as distracting - just turn the radio on and maybe try to change the station.

Ultimately the tech industry needs to first be held responsible and liable for the problems it creates.
The Python examples in the article aren't very convincing, because they'd be so easy to change later that YAGNI says to start with 1:1. As other comments hint, things like database schemas, which are much more annoying to change, would be more convincing.
They're at the top of the pyramid for their shitcoin. Probably one of the best modern grifts out there.
They are in A-pillars on most cars I think, as part of the overhead curtain airbag system. (They are on both of mine, anyway; I don’t have a full dataset.)

There will usually (maybe it's mandated?) be a little symbol on the pillar, like this one: https://imgur.com/20lNA99
If you buy stuff with long delivery estimates, you might very well be even with relatively low numbers, Electronics from China, Custom Comissions or things with waitlists

Some of those can have over a month between purchase and reception, and might be shipped at arbitrary dates after purchase

I'm not that big of an online shopper, but there's certainly people that are
All that means is they warned more cities than they needed to.
SD cards are really neat. Theoretically they could have been made with a fixed notch so they would always present as read-only.
My truck has big labels letting you know there are airbags in the A-pillar.
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Small PRs are great, but GitHub's workflow sucks if you have dependencies between PRs.

Say I introduce some new abstraction and then convert two components to use it. I would want to create 3 small PRs, one to introduce the abstraction, and then 2 that convert one component each. That's especially useful if the changes to the components need approval from their respective owners. I want to be able to do all this in one go without being blocked by waiting for reviews.

The problem is that GitHub doesn't support this workflow, as it always uses the same branch for the base and the target. I would want to be able to create the first PR against the trunk branch, and then have the subsequent PRs show only the diff against that PR, but merge into trunk (of course you shouldn't be able to merge them until the first PR is merged). Currently, you have to either put everything in a single PR (creating huge, hard to review PRs), or wait until the first PR is merged before you can open the subsequent PRs.
Speculation: total car mass implies the need of increased structural support in the case of a roll. I'm also guessing it's regulated
In addition, the rearview mirror completely blocks an essential part of my view to the road. It is mounted too low for my height. I tried many new cars and it’s everywhere the same problem. Of course, I could lower the seat, but then my long legs require me to move further back while my arms are too short to still reach the steering wheel, even in its most outward position. So I resorted to remove the rearview mirror, which is allowed if the rear window is blind.
I have looked for a long time for some stable, cross-platform, environment to use for my future hobby projects, and Free Pascal might be the best candidate I have seen. They officially support a large number of platforms from 16-bit to 64-bit systems and APIs seem to change slowly and still maintain compatibility to some (many?) 1980's libraries. I am a bit fed up with unstable APIs. That probably does not make Free Pascal "cool" but it is definitely something I see as a big plus, when some other programming languages roll out breaking changes every 6 months or so.
Ultimately, cars and pedestrians need to be kept apart. Cars belong on a mode like a controlled access highway. Pedestrians belong basically everywhere else.
Having went from a late 90s vehicle to a 2010, I can agree with this. The visibility out of this truck is incredibly poor compared to the one from the late 90s.
They should just generate a nude black Taylor Swift on a longboat so that everyone can be equally offended.
Apple Says Spotify Wants 'Limitless Access' to App Store Tools Without Paying
They help for a week or two and then I'm back to where I started. I'm starting therapy next week with one of the main goals try to solve this because it's been too many years already. It's getting worse and it is starting to generate a lot of distress. I would recommend trying that, there is a point where one can only do and control so much, if you tried many approaches it's time to look for external help.
As a Carplay user I plead guilty to having been distracted by it in the past while driving, though I think it generally does a good job of it.
Pretty sure crash test requirements are the cause of a lot of the shrinking sight lines in modern cars so any newer car is going to have these kinds of problems to some degree.
Time Travel/Reverse Debugger for Java/Kotlin/Scala
Demo of Undo's LiveRecorder for Java Time Travel Debugger showing how to record microservices and then replay them, stepping across from one to the other in IntelliJ. Also a bit about using it to record Kotlin, set bookmarks in the recording, jump to timestamps and so on.
Were those flaws not obvious on the test drive? I also bought a car this year and the mirrors + pillars aren’t like that - I would say maybe we shouldn’t support manufacturers with our money who are pushing unsafe designs.
Yeah I got a text from one of these a couple years ago. Something like. “You have an overdue doctor bill of $183.56, please kindly pay immediately at this link: http://my-doctorpay.net/defintelylegit123. Thx!” Didn’t even include the name of the doctor or office, but after calling the only doctors office I had used recently it was apparently legit. I let them know whatever company handles their billing is completely incompetent.
"Search" has been the name for the A* space. So it makes absolute sense.
"Planning" means in the symbolic AI space often something quite in the direction of PDDL/STRIPS/ICAPS planning.
CORS headers from eBay will prevent that unfortunately
Shakespeare expert overturns fly-tipper myth about playwright's father
Also, I would expect openai to be taking a loss on each individual inference request as they also have a monthly fee, dalle, and loads of VC capital.

No source for that though, I just wouldn’t assume that they’re breaking even
Actually those all work fine and don't invalidate his point. No one thinks an excavator drives itself, not even the highly autonomous farm equipment. That was the point, was to say that llms are merely equipment.
Even if this rule technically seems benign, together with the forced change it encourages users to game the system leading to predictable patterns, eg adding a rotating letter or digit combo at the end of a same password.
Yup. I remember all the lies they used to put out back in the day in relation to the conlifct in syria.
That's not exactly true, we found old ones (that we knew they already had), what we didn't find was any production of new ones.
Cash logistics cost much more than 2%. The only reason you see substantial cash discounts is when people are trying to avoid taxation.
I forget who puts that stuff out NIST/STIG(?) but IIRC in the recent few years they determined that rotating passwords like that was basically security theater and wasn't worth the damage to the staffs productivity
In my experience, there is no such thing as “anti-virus” software. The software itself usually does much more damage to my PC than any malware ever has.

Then again, I don’t keep anything valuable on my internet connected computers - and if I’m suspicious of even a little thing I just wipe the PC and restore from image.

Haven’t run any antivirus software in over a decade and haven’t had a single problem.
>But some time in the last few years something mus have gone broken.

Which tends to be what happens. Something breaks. No one can be bothered to fix it. And at some point they don't renew a domain and take the content offline.
How can we solve this if we don't defer this to laziness but try to address it as a very real cost for the owner of the site in terms of

- Brand damage (content), e.g. Cancel culture, etc when old articles are discovered later or seen in new light
- Brand damage (privacy/user base), e.g. Assumed to protect identity of all old users, risk of exposing secrets, offering old user-generated content as training data to ML not wanted
- IT security, potential attack surface or exposes info to use when designing attacks
- Lawsuits (content), e.g copyright/DMCA or content that is deemed illegal/not properly licensed

I guess the list could be made longer.
Even that is stupid. A passenger should be able to add a stop to the navigation while the car is in motion.
One time working at a bigger company I received an email that was a very, very obvious, poorly made phishing attempt - in fact, so poorly done that I wondered if I could break the login form somehow. So I submitted bogus data to see what happened -

Turns out it was part of some kind of "test" of the company to raise awareness for phishing, and I failed the test since I submitted the form.
But WHO is Supermaven? Who do I "entrust" with all of my code?
It's not the parasitic worms managing Apache, it's us. For a fat paycheck.
That's an example of "growing more than is priced in"
It would be really surprising given that all of the data up to 2020 is already out there. They made a deal to give a firehose of data to an ai company and it was only for 60 million.
AT&T blames software update glitch for service outage
yes, see a psychiatrist and eat stimulants
Ladies and gentlemen of the Hacker News jury, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and runoff into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my mobile phone, I wonder: “Did little demons get inside and type it?” I don’t know!My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know – when we get a "new" solution that replaces all the former solutions, and uses React or HTML, IT MUST BE MAGIC!
Synthetic images aid the recognition of human-made art forgeries
Some places (colleges were very bad about this) would use your SSN as both an ID and a password - so to buy at the cafeteria you’d swipe your student ID and your PIN was the last four of your social.

Some workplaces did it too. It’s mostly gone now, but pieces still remain.
It’s a good idea.

I am usually a bit pessimistic about it though. If their SOP doesn’t account for “looks like phishing but is from internal sender” then chances are that nobody connects the dots and informs that sender.

The intelligence of a small and motivated IT team seems difficult to scale.
> read countless number of blogs, watched a lot of videos

Sounds like procrastination.
I would be curious if FedEx specifically has some sort of leak though, it's super anecdotal but I seem to get more FedEx phishing attempts when I'm expecting a FedEx package.

You're right though that there are other mechanisms for this, it was around the holidays when this happened most recently. Plus humans tend to remember salient things and I probably more easily forget the ones that come when I'm expecting nothing.

Anyway, if their systems were better it would be easier to avoid scams without stress. I've never had to rely on external info for Amazon and it's true I'm often expecting something from them.