skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
id.me was steaming garbage the last time I used it.

"Scan the front and back of your Driver's License."

[upload scan of front of DL @ 200DPI]

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of front of DL @ 300DPI]

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of front of DL @ 72DPI]

"Thank you, now please upload the back of your Driver's License."

Hmm, 72DPI worked for the front, so...

[upload scan of back of DL @ 72DPI]

"Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of back of DL @ 200DPI]

"Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of back of DL @ 300DPI]

"Thank you for verifying your Driver's License".

An unmitigated turd.
How on earth are batteries earth friendly?
OTOH if you don't know what the type of `s` run-time type is then you might draw comfort from knowing that the parameter's default is that of `s` static type.
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I'm dismayed at your large-scale, arbitrary diagnosis of fraud.

It is not at all the intent of my original comments, in which I only meant to imply that autism is currently a common term for a number of potentially separable conditions. In the sense that a 'spectrum' is quite literally 'a diverse set'.
Yeah, for sure, buildings in nice materials with nice details, would be nice! But I dont think that's what brutality buildings generally are.

But the streaks, oh no, that's just foul lol. Weathering is nice on a buildings, but not grotesquely like that
weird take.

This makes sense cause the public official doesn't have an expectation of privacy when they are performing their official duties. That makes sense. Nothing they should be doing when they are conversing with a member of the public should be private to them (unless it is private to the person they are talking to - and if it's private to someone else then they probably shouldn't be sharing it with the person recording).
I've read if it doesn't go away after a couple weeks it's permanent but I've experienced it before where it took a year maybe one time and another time was 6 months of no improvement and then a couple months of dramatic improvement to where what was left was so much lower that when I heard it it makes me grateful and happy because it reminds me of how lucky I am.
I wonder if some of that is not so much individual hubris as a corporate issue of "if you have hammer, everything looks like a nail."
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038251
Wall Street keeps underestimating the US economy
Can I run this locally with a 4090?

If so, what’s the easiest way?
tbh, the abhorrent behavior of VCF employees (and former employees), as well as some of the commenters on Mr. Scott's page, has proved his point in spades that VCF East is a disgusting organization.
> This is especially grating since the rest of the tooling seems to try to take me away from SQL a lot by using Postgrest.

You're actually encouraged to write SQL with PostgREST, see this other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40046710
Relax, it works with Libreoffice and you can copy and paste the table into an email and fill it in. That works in Evolution (EWS) too.

It's still pretty mad!
Isn't a lot of the initial progress of women being treated as equals in the workplace in the US related to their work in factories during WW2?

IIRC the end of colonialism and thus the end of the associated oppression, is also associated with the world wars, as they left the colonial powers too exhausted to retain their overseas empires.
One extreme is to implement a simple shell with some Unix tools by yourself. I used to do that for ls and thus remembered many of its options -- but of course such knowledge does not retain well.
You didn't write down your rescue keys like almost every website tells you to do when setting up totp?
IDK. I just recently passed through Pine Ridge, SD and what I saw there was on par with just about any non-warzone levels of poverty shown in movies. Dogs and trash roam the streets freely, most people either walking or riding in cars that at best could be called "unsafe", dirt everywhere, houses covered in graffiti or just straight up collapsing from lack of repair.

The US has a huge number of insanely wealthy people and a large percentage of people "above the poverty line", but the people under the poverty line live a life that is almost a distant from you as you are from a typical multimillionaire, and there are easily millions of them.
I have no idea, and I despise it. USAA and eTrade both have TOTP, exclusively with the shitty, non-backup-able Symantec VIP app. Break your phone? You're boned! Symantec VIP on those sites don't provide 2FA verification (the thing where the phone asks to confirm the number on the client-side) and it doesn't provide push notifications.

It's literally a worse version of regular TOTP. And they're in the minority even having 2FA!
> require that a SIM can only be swapped if it is disconnected from the mobile network for 48 hours

If someone has both devices in hand, there isn't even need for a delay. The only time you need a delay is when the original device is missing. In that case, sending a message to that SIM and having a mandatory delay (ideally, customisable by the customer) seems reasonable.
Thanks for pointing this out. I know this but I didn't clarify it in my post.
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> Heck, in the general case Rectangle might be defined in a separate DLL or .so file that doesn't get loaded until run-time. So there's no possible way for the compiler to know its default value here.

Eh, that's not exactly true. The ABI for C++ could have included a way to look up the default values of defaulted parameters from the object's run-time class.

But the C++ ABI didn't need that. Oh, and there's no C++ ABI, but this behavior would have been part of the de facto sort-of ABIs if it had been required by the spec (but it wasn't).

That said, I agree with you that this is intuitive.
Club show lasers of 5W are pretty common.
LOL mods.

1. The comment doesn't respond to any claims I made.

2. The comment doesn't do the bare minimum to back up their claims, after spouting already wrong information in this thread. (Sorry, not sorry, but if you're going to complain a device is non-compliant with MS's own SecureBoot requirements, it's really shouldn't be unexpected that someone might ask you to specify which device.)

3. Their comment is pithy, non-responsive, and doesn't advance the conversation in any meaningful way.

And mine is the one that gets modded?

EDIT: Also, a 22-hour old thread, with a reply getting flagged in <10 minutes. Hmmmmmmmmmm, wonder what that means.
I'm confused, you said you sometimes rewrite code as a C extension...? Have you considered Cython or numba for that?
I don't think thats true, modeling the data as vectorizations and having paths between them is entirely different from say, building a decision tree.
The attention head is also something entirely different.

And the model is capable of doing much more than just making simple predictions, it can build generalized abstractions and form coherent outputs on text/logic its never seen.
My tinnitus seems to be worse when my blood pressure is less controlled.

If that isn't just a figment of my imagination, a possible mechanism for your technique is that you are relaxing (or so).
Yeah, that would be a matter for Ku Klux Klan Act (Enforcement Act of 1871), not an anti-SLAPP law.

The good thing is that this law exists, and provides civil and criminal remedies for state officials engaged in deprivation of Constitutional rights under color of law.

The bad thing is that abusive extensions of the Qualified Immunity doctrine has rendered the civil provisions basically a dead letter, and it is very difficult to convince federal prosecutors to enforce the criminal provisions for any but the most egregious violations (by which I mean ones that end up with death of grievous bodily injury resulting from the violation of rights, not something based on how fundamental the rights are.)
TrustWallet has intel about a high-risk zero-day exploit targeting iMessage
Ppl remember pins for many things E.g. Atm. The additional protection is better than not having it.
What about using AppLocker to restrict allowed executables to a subset of all available pieces of software on the machine?
Contracts where all profits scale 1:1 with costs are a relatively small slice of total spending due to obvious poor incentives.

Fuel and similar commodities may look kind of like a cost+ contract, but it’s market price + X$ not market price * some profit margin so the incentives are different. It’s a net win for both sides if such variables are removed from the equation.
A small CPU in 1974 cost $360. A functionally similar CPU today costs $0.03.

Whereas a pound of copper went from $0.89 to $3.91 in the same time.

Transformers of equal wattage cost more today than they did in 1974. Power electronics cost substantially less.

I don't see this trend reversing.
I've lived this dynamic as a manager. I've come to see it as a problem of "ownership" which obscures a larger problem of role confusion. When competent people try to be responsible & knowledgeable with work but lack control for that work to be done well. Think "engineers are ready to launch a new feature but the PM struggles with written English and can't draft an email." What do you do as an engineer?

There's a few usually bad options like drafting the email yourself, teaching the PM english, etc. Whatever is done, the best engineers I've seen know their job and their role, and can tell others. They balance their sense of responsibility with the reality of what they control. They price work outside of their job role, to be paid in political capital, e.g. a promotion.

If the professional does not define their role, other people will do it for them. If the professional avoids pricing, they're saying their time is free. That person get marked as a patsy or a cog. Someone who messes can be dumped on and who, thanks to corporate Pavlovian conditioning, gets work done without upsetting the status quo. The more messy the work is, the less control you have, the more time you personally need to sacrifice. It's a recipe for burn out, role confusion, and other people's ideals becoming your performance standards.
A prospective customer shopping around for whatever service has the lowest security is probably not a customer you want.
With how comon wage theft is and how employers can conduct it with near impunity[0] Most often the perceived wrongs of people are justified.

[0] https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-bil...
And if they bricked your device while doing the testing on it without telling you? What if you were going on a trip the next day and you phone was out because they were quite literally testing in production?
Why, that's just fine! You would go and buy another (i)phone and everything would be just fine, even better, you would have a brand new iphone!
On an unrelated note, there is this bridge that just came on the market, would you be interesting in buying a share?
It's why you write down the recovery keys when setting up 2FA.
There's a service called 3Num where you can get a number controlled by a private key. No one else has access to your number/account. Only supports SMS messages currently though, it's not a full phone service.
>Efani is a much better option if you actually want protection

Their website says it's $99/month. That seems a bit steep to me considering all they're providing over a regular provider that charges $29/month is that they do a bit more verification when you claim that you lost your sim. It's not even clear whether they protect against a port-out attack, which is probably worth worrying about as well.
Google One VPN White Paper (2020) [pdf]
Do you mean Poe or Microsoft? Microsoft is Microsoft. Poe has significantly reduced the generosity of their free tiers over time.
OK you are right. I confused this with another clip from Nightline (linked below, and not his only appearance on that show on that subject)

https://youtu.be/nxAmK--xxOM
I look forward to your blog post on this showing up on HN (seriously)
I don't think anything in history is inevitable, I think it's always contingent on decisions people made at the time and that could have been decided differently, but I will say that exact series of events was laid out in a speculative fiction short film[1] I watched about 15 years ago. So clearly it was foreseeable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntN4q7vuPUI ["Googlezon", 10m]
In the end it seems both "sides" were wrong on this. The vaccines didn't protect people from getting covid, but they also didn't kill them.
That's only in the US, they do that because they're not market leader there. Apple is still #1 in the US.

Here in Europe the deals are much milder unfortunately.
Why caller ID is easy to spoof
They remember because they enter the pin on a regular basis, and probably share it among all their other bank cards so they're using at least monthly. A pin that they set years ago and never used has zero chance of being remembered.
The institution of uniformed police forces is relatively recent, established in the 1800s, and it reflects an 1800s era sensibility towards crime. In that it is predominantly focused on protecting the property interests of the wealthy. (The original police forces grew out of a desire to socialize the costs of protecting merchant investments -- the warehouses and docks and factories in much of the world, and slaves held as property in the south of the U.S.)

Prior to uniformed police, communities maintained order themselves -- often through night watches in which everyone participated, or eventually through hiring people to "cover my watch".

Police in the modern era have been used as a threat of violence against common people more or less since their inception in the 1800s, from slave patrols to strikebreaking. They've been used as political assassins killing the political opponents of the state (see Frederick Hampton) to the systematic oppression of gay and trans people (see, for instance, Stonewall inn). Lest these feel like old examples, just this year police shut down a gay bar in Seattle for having "indecent apparel" being worn by the gay men in attendance.

I think it's absolutely fair for people to think critically about the history and legacy of the institution and wonder, is this the best institution we can imagine to fill this role? Are there better ways to imagine the roles it fills today? Are there systemic issues that need fixing with it?

The reason I bring this forward is that any thoughtful critique of the institution is often painted broadly as, "you are just an anarchist who cannot think beyond your slogans!" Perhaps the institution could do with some immiseration.
Interesting, what's the major difference compared to Patcherex?
> I must've missed the part where the models began iterating under their own power

He's probably referring to AlphaGo/AlphaZero in that sentence
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Really had to turn off my "physics brain" watching that show. Fun plot, but only if you ignore physics.
I think you've articulated your point quite succinctly.

> Might as well poll dentists on the best way to build software.

A programmer with hubris would take VC money to "make better dental software" never having met a dentist or having done any dental work, perhaps only ever taken a scant look over at the monitor and deciding it's not fast enough or whatever. Then they'd build an MVP, try and sell it to some clinics, and upon being laughed out the door, would take more VC money to try and reinvent dentistry because their parents never told them "no"
It's not really "replacing" though. Prior to SMS OTP it would just be the password. Having password + SMS OTP is strictly better, regardless of how shitty SMS OTP might be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell and related

You can very much do table-top fusion in your garage if you like. You just won't get net energy out of it -- far from it. But if you're interested in higher ISPs for deep space rocket engines, then the fact that this isn't energy efficient might not matter to you -- getting enough extra delta-v for your propellant and reactor/thruster might well justify the expense.

The real problem is that the electric power needed to run such fusors has to come from somewhere, and in deep space the hardest thing to do is to cool that something, though here I suppose a fusion-enhanced thruster might be able to use propellant as coolant for a fission reactor that generates the electrical power for the fusor that add enough additional heating to the propellant to make this workable.
They are built, sit on concrete pads in containers for at least 15-20 years, and then are recycled when reaching end of life. Far more friendly than burning coal or fossil gas, or nuclear waste no one wants to store. There is no perfect solution, only least worst options.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style like this? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so we have to ban accounts that do it repeatedly.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them, that would be good. You can still make your substantive points thoughtfully. But please avoid generic tangents (e.g. $BigCo-boo-or-yay) in addition to name-calling, fulmination, and the other things the guidelines ask you not to do.
> What's the solution here?

Not putting phone providers in charge of access to our digital lives.

> that the customer was indeed present and that their ID had been verified

Present where? My MVNO does not have any branches. And even if they did, why should I ever have to go there? I don't go to bank branches either if I can at all help it.
Prior art:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Narrows_Bridge
And for $250 you can get the A34 which has an amoled 120Hz screen (the A14 is LCD)
IIRC all of humanity outside of Africa has gone through a tight population bottleneck at some point, such that a massive portion of human history can probably trace its root to a group of early humans managing to survive a certain encounter, none of which would've existed if they hadn't survived.
The piece hardly says anything concrete. Yes most real world problems can't be solved or optimized computationally. Most of the smart cities is just PR for tech conglomerates but I do feel there's so so much you could achieve by modeling the cities computationally. Better traffic management, better street lighting, planning roads, energy harvesting and sustainability,you name it. There's a lot to gain from simulation, digital twinning and digital control.
Ok, we've changed to that link from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/.... Thanks!
> No damage-control lawyerly BS, no 'ego'

And no cutesy name for the vulnerability
> I'm not talking about any services that allow password reset through SMS alone - that's beyond idiotic, obviously.

Twitter allows this, it's been a security flaw for years they've never fixed, and it's possible even if you have non-sms 2FA enabled! If you have a phone number on your Twitter account you should definitely remove it.

Quite a few high profile very security conscious people (e.g. Vitalik Buterin) have had their accounts hacked because of this.
Whenever I go to mobile provider in Serbia to do anything related to account I have to provide government ID. They even put it in card reader to get relevant data. While SIM swap is certainly a theoretical risk, it's not a practical one around here. Having authentication on a phone or another physical device (without backup) seems to be at least two orders of magnitude higher risk of losing access to everything. Relying to Google or another third party for authentication is not without its risks too.

I just hope SMS authentication won't go away completely for other parts of world where risk balance is different than in USA. Until things change, I trust more my local birocracy to work their birocratic ways and always check ID where needed then I would trust myself not to lose some auth device.
Reps for T-Mobile are not making minimum wage. Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor.

You can make $15/hr as an entry-level cashier - your first job, zero job history - at CVS and Walgreens, with tolerable health/dental/eye insurance.

And if you're not entirely braindead you can trivially become a pharmacy intern (then tech) and start at $18-$20, with benefits. They'll pay for your licensing. You can make $18-$22 to start as a telemetry or video tech, with zero experience. Hospitals are filled with people sitting in rooms watching video monitors making sure patients don't fall over or hurt themselves, it pays 3x the minimum wage and requires zero experience.

If you're making $7.50 /hr at this point, you're either living somewhere very barren (almost zero economic opportunities), or it's your own fault.
The story at the link doesn't say, but this is probably a Fansworth-Hirsch fusor.
Even worse: If the PIN is user-selectable and four digits long, guess what most people will most likely pick?
Plenty of leaders in charge of SWEs will screw up software by itself, let alone a city. Usually because they fail to realize that software mirrors the org chart (Conway's Law).
Is there any evidence that OpenAI is using exchanges with bribes or threats of violence to update GPT-4?
I don't think AlphaGo was trained on the "largest trove of anthropomorphic training data," and the rest of the remarks are about GPT, but I'm open to having misread.
I am personally excited for when the “Humane AI” pendant flops and sells for cheap on Ebay!
> Prior to uniformed police, communities maintained order themselves -- often through night watches in which everyone participated, or eventually through hiring people to "cover my watch"

Dispensing violence as part of these watches was also generally accepted. I'm not sure how that would work in a modern environment.

(You're also referring to a period during which most of the world was feudal or quasi-feudal. The people maintaining order had their own security forces.)
This entire comment thread hurts my soul.
I wouldn't agree with the assertion that it wasn't a major factor. The repeated violence against Jews and their expulsion from various areas is not a singular event, but forms a significant common thread across European history. It has happened so many times that the idea of persecuting Jews became a part of European culture, and thus gave the Nazis their inspiration for the Holocaust.

The massacre at York in 1190 took the lives of about a hundred Jews, whilst the population of York at that time was somewhere around 7000. As a proportion of the population, that makes it as bloody, possibly considerably more so, than the Holocaust within their respective scopes. I would posit therefore that antisemitism was a very major factor, but the decentralised, often pastoral political geography of pre-industrial Europe makes it harder to see the extent of that antisemitism.