skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The small private college I attended in the early aughts used your SSN as your student ID and it was printed on everything. Transcripts, official records, basically any piece of paper with your name on it. You'd even speak it aloud to the worker at the book store to pick up your books for the semester. It was everywhere.

As a kid twenty years ago, I was mildly bothered by it but imagined they must know what they are doing.

Looking back at near 40, with the hindsight of years, I'm flummoxed. Like, what the hell, who's absolutely terrible idea was this?
I agree with much of this, but I do think that there is a flaw in his logic - he operates on the notion that saving more of your income has a two-fold impact on your ability to retire.

First, and most obvious, it increases how much savings you have. But secondly, he states that you permanently decrease your expenses, making that magical 4% withdrawal rate of your savings easier to attain.

And yes, while that is true on the surface, the underlying message is - if you just don’t have cable tv (streaming in today’s world) and other things like cars and basic vacations, then you are almost there! And yes, if you want to live as a monk then this could be considered by some as a noble thing. But some want to live reasonably comfortably (new-ish car, trips to places like disney world with the kids while staying in a nice hotel vs biking and camping).

I only bring this up because even mister money mustache has admitted that he is unusually monk-ish in his lifestyle choices. Don’t get me wrong, I actually retired 7 years ago partly on reading his blog, so I get it. But we have to be realistic on what his message is and what others are liable to achieve.

I guess what I take most umbrage with is, he says that it is easier and more effective to cut expenses than raise earnings. And just like a business, this strategy quickly runs into diminishing returns. Raising the top line while keeping expenses reasonable is always the best strategy to an early retirement (or a successful business).
May their prototype detector never chip and shatter.
We shouldn't because it isn't science. It's junk epistemology, relatively speaking.

We should because it's a cheap way of managing knowledge in our society.

So there's a tradeoff there.
Because the purpose of a lawyer is to go with every viable angle.
How soon until some high speed trader figures out this would be a faster way to send some data than sending it around the earth?
Very, very good book IMO. One of the few business books I've read that's absolutely worth reading.
I mean, are there any PC manufacturers that don't have a significant portion of their builds dependent on China? Even if you do the final assembly elsewhere...
We could (and should) create a personal criminal liability for management over cybersecurity.

Specifically one that flows past the CISO and prevents that role from being a firebreak to insulate the CEO.
Medicare replace SSNs with a Medicare-specific ID, seems like a move in the right direction.
I love this visualization, but when it generates tokens with temperature=1 it seems to be picking the second highest logit/probability, not the highest. Is that a mistake or am I missing something?
Got it. It makes sense and was what I figured is the case. I find it interesting as it's a sign of the times watching the evolution of what the "base language" is in threads like this over time. I mentioned in another comment that several years ago it'd have been Haskell or Scala. If one went back further (before my time!) it'd probably have been in OCaml or something.
Yeah, some people - who are not like the ignorant plebes - "like" them.

Conveniently they don't have to live in them. It's just their university or office building. As long as they never get to compare it to a nice looking office building or university, they'll settle for it.
And in this case, your sensor isn't giving a wildly wrong answer like 5 m/s^2, but rather something close to the correct answer, like 9.15 m/s^2.

It's easy to think up ways that your sensor could be 5-10% off. It's very difficult to come up with an entirely new theory of gravity that explains everything we observe about the world, but also makes gravity a few percent weaker in this one case.
It’s at minimum shared blame. People have to work in kitchens with unrealistic work loads and stress. The company is at fault for pushing this environment while knowing it lends itself to mistakes.
Yes. Saved you a clock.
You can invest savings in the market, but that ups your risk. Investing in a primary home is fine because you would pay rent otherwise, but look at rent to sell ratios for sure, you won’t always win owning a home if you are in a frothy market where rents are cheap and buying is expensive.

Really, just look for opportunities. Something undervalued, or something you are in a special position or have the skills to leverage (eg you are great with people and like DIY, go ahead and do rentals). That isn’t very easy though, and definitely doesn’t fit into a book.
That was the #1 thing that set me off against it decades before I found Reed's evisceration. The only people talking about it and promoting it were multi-level marketing scammers and adherents. Very cult. Much hype. Wow.
There are two factors: capital (not money), and labor. E.g. the factory and the workers. Neither is more important than the other.
I think we can come up with a far more sophisticated solution than ID numbers using PKI. Whether that's a good thing or not is unclear.
I meant to say dropbox, not docker
LLMs are really commodities now: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-large-language-models-are-a-co...
AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst
Yes, I meant to say dropbox
What are AI agents and why do they matter?
Conveniently they don't have to live in them...
Alright, I'll re-read your comment under the more generous interpretation you suggest and let you know! Hahaha! :)
Capsule-capsule overlap can be detected by treating the capsules as line segments with radius/thickness.
But I think you need something more complicated than capsule-capsule intersection to truly solve the problem (continuous collision detection between dynamic objects).

The Rapier project and its documentation[0] might be of interest to you. Rapier has a more sophisticated CCD implementation than most (popular in gamedev) physics engines.

> Rapier implements nonlinear CCD, meaning that it takes into account both the angular and translational motion of the rigid-body.

[0] https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/rust/rigid_bodies#continu...
The problem is that y'all unlike most/all of Europe don't have a requirement for people to possess a government issued ID card with a picture on it.

In Europe, we use these as "root of trust" - either in physical form or in electronic form.
In other words:

- you previously spent time building relationships with contractors. You didn’t just type in property management in Google

- a significant overhead goes to insurance and management. Your comfortable putting money as needed into the venture. You have knowledge of legal pitfalls of being a landlord.

- you regularly spend time managing these contracts
Don't forget the federal government itself. I've still got 1 year remaining from the 10 years of monitoring I got from the OPM breach wayyy back when.

Related, any company offering monitoring should be required to pay for a serialized version. The 10-20 or so settlements that require monitoring in my lifetime have been useless because I already have it for a longer period.
I hate to be this way.

Good! When Congress Critter's little blond granddaughter gets pwned (someone takes her identity), maybe Congress will get real serious about really punishing these Companies when a breach happens.

But we know what will really happen in this scenario, the Company will get funding (bailout) from the Feds, the CEO will resign with millions of USD, the CEO will become a lobbyist.

And in reality, the granddaughter will get special treatment from the Company due to who she is.
When someone uses my SSN to set up a loan, I'm not the victim, the bank is. There's no such thing as identity theft. That's just good marketing and a genius slight-of-hand to move the responsibility and blame away from the entity that allowed itself to be defrauded.
> TS: Well, what was wrong with it that needed to be fixed?
> CD: Probably nothing too serious other than the fact that it didn’t look very good.

The interview doesn't do a lot to impress the reader with how seriously they took the work. "Oh the crusty stuff was our fault as it turned out."

At least there will be a record of who to blame.
> There's nothing wrong with choosing to blur out the grill pattern - the photos probably represent the original display signal more accurately.

But if you want to capture the signal as opposed to how it looks in a real CRT then this is really a roundabout way to do it.
Also,… avoid this like the plague and read “IF YOU CAN” instead by the great Bill Bernstein. Thank me later.
It's not bad on purpose if that what you understood.

But the comments here are full of "it's so little!" variants, where if you took the rest of the Crust and smashed as a sphere, it wouldn't be much larger than the water one.

It did evidently mislead a large number of people.
the alien comedy monolog was hilarious to me as a kid, but I haven't watched Explorers in probably about 30 years.
> The job of judges is to apply the law as written

well, thank goodness we've never had an activist court so that the phrase activist court had never been used before. What a wonderful world it must be that you think we live, unfortunately for me, that's not the world we live in. The very fact that each and everyone of those judges manipulate the Senate swearing that precedence is important and their impartiality prevents them from prejuding any hypothetical case being posed in their questioning are just words.
I've learned that many students lose interest about 2 slides into a presentation. The solution is simple. Don't use presentations.

Spend your time with the students by talking with them. Use the board for sketches, mathematical development, etc. This forces you to go slowly enough that students can copy your work, which is basically how people learn. Since you will be talking with the students (with the lights turned on!), you can turn around see whether they are "getting" the tricky parts, and you can adjust easily. None of this works when you're sleepwalking through a slide deck.

This method also works for computing work. Students can learn a lot by watching somebody live-code a problem. Showing a slide full of code might be helpful to a few students in the class, but most will just turn off. Students can learn a lot by seeing a professor type code, building ideas from the inside out, and catching errors, etc.

So that's the mechanical part. On the logistic part, here's something else I've learned: almost anything can be squeezed into the last 20 minutes of a class, and almost anything can be stretched out to fill the last 20 minutes. Students and teachers are humans, after all. Your friend can tell you a story during an elevator ride, or stretch it out over a few drinks in the pub. Either works.
Right. If you have the blue collar skills to maintain your apartment and the pink collar skills to manage the tenant relationships yourself it can be a great business. My brother-in-law owns a number of apartments close to where he lives and he does great.
Charging enough without leaving the property empty can be a challenge. As is finding tenants who won't trash the place so often you lose money on all the repairs and turn over.

Depending on the market that may be so easy you'll think everyone else is stupid. Or it may be so hard you wonder if you are doing something wrong.
not sure what's with the downvotes

leaking all SSNs makes relying on SSNs as authentication unfeasible,

the only way to stop SSNs being authentication token is to give everyone access to them, but yes that can cause short term troubles

The concept of having SSN is de facto wrong, there are situations where one needs to identify oneself unambiguously

I went to another country, and what I found is that to get a monthly bus pass I had to fill out a form that asked for:

Full Name + Gender + Date of birth + Place of birth + Mother's Maiden name + Mother's DOB + Mother's place of birth

(and so on) I forgot the exact details, but it was ludicrously intrusive. Mother's maiden name? Really??? I did not even know some of that info and filled it out with educated guesses. It is not like they were able to check ...

all that information is just an unreliable SSN
You also have to be cool with knowing that your real estate gains are largely contingent on people being unable to afford a home to live in.

House prices rise because of lack of supply, people are unable to make down payments/get approved, people can make rent though, which is more expensive than the mortgage on the house they are renting.

In the past renting was a stepping stone to home ownership. But now it's become more and more a lucrative trap to hold people down in as home prices have skyrocketed. Landlords are double dipping where the home value increases also means that the rent they can charge increases. Meanwhile tenants get slapped twice over, their rents rise and the cost of a home runs away from them.

Sure it can be lucrative, but at least right now it feels like a really dirty way to make money.
Wow, I've pretty much given up on Tubi because its performance is so bad. I can stream Prime, Netflix, HBO, Disney, Peacock, Paramount and Apple with no problems, but I can't get more than a couple of minutes out of Tubi without it pausing to buffer. I love the concept, I wish they'd invest in a couple more servers.
I have identity protection from three different leaks now...
Most cars have a physical key tucked in the fob, and will do some form of passive RFID “auth” when the fob is brought close to the start button or equivalent. It is not too different from engine immobilizer keys.
What you see is what I get
Will "surveillance pricing" help or harm consumers?
> because they fear a good version would be misused, and/or that it’s the “mark of the beast”

I'm aware of and share the concerns about misuse (it has happened, see the tax ID debate in Germany), but what the fuck is that with "mark of the beast" relating to ID cards?!
This is a bit misinformed.

NSA required the use of "Suite B Cryptography" for commercial vendors of government systems, which in its latest revision meant ECC. However, vendors were (and are) slow to adopt ECC from the previously used RSA. If you want public evidence of how slow such transitions can be, check any other commercial crypto like certificate authorities and see which trust chains are entirely elliptic curve. Mostly people are stuck on RSA, even though elliptic curves broadly offer better speed and smaller keys/signatures for the same or better levels of security. There's also still plenty of deployed DES and SHA-1, even though the former is inadvisable and the latter inexcusable. In fact, from what I read in the response to the NSA proposing to drop SHA-3 in favour of SHA-2 in the new PQ standards, vendors were a bit frustrated at the change because of the short timescale involved in the migration. I interpret the demanding schedule for adoption of PQC as a deliberate choice by NSA - a somewhat passive aggressive response to vendors to tell them to get their acts together, based on their experience of trying to roll out ECC.

What NSA said is "if you haven't migrated to elliptic curve cryptography, you should now wait for post quantum and then start on that". You can read that message here: https://web.archive.org/web/20151123081120/https://www.nsa.g... and here is the exact quote:

> For those partners and vendors that have not yet made the transition to Suite B elliptic curve algorithms, we recommend not making a significant expenditure to do so at this point but instead to prepare for the upcoming quantum resistant algorithm transition.

I don't think there's much mystery here - basically it amounts to a bunch of procurement rules and guidelines.
My own pet theory of the relevant personality disorders is this: Narcissism and Boderline are extremes on the same scale, namely, how you manage your identity.

BPDs are "extreme followers" which seek whole systems of validation, identity and meaning from their local social environment. NPDs are "extreme leaders" which cannot receive this validation socially, so push-out a delusional theory of their own identity (, role, value system, etc.). -- Which is why, so often, the structure of a cult is one NPD leader and a coterie of BPD followers.

If this scale exists, ie., from follower-to-leader... then many conditions can influence your position on it. A "healthy" person is presumably one who, I'd say, is mostly a mild follower but will adopt a mild leader position when required (eg., by role).

In ASD, my guess is that since some social mirror / double-empathy /etc. is different/impair, you get NPD-like problems because you're not getting that social validation feedback signal, so you're having to push out some validation/identity/etc. system of your own.

Likewise in ADHD, you tend to find a lot of social rejection due to impulsive behaviours that alienate people.. so you get a comorbid BPD-ish quality where you're aware of the social validation available, but are constantly fighting your own impulsive undermining of receiving it.

One diagnostic difference between the ASD-ADHD vs. NPD-BDP categorisation should be the possibility of self-awareness, where in the former you'd expect improving self-awareness to have some immediate benefits -- but in the later, often none. Since position on the leader-follower line in ASD/ADHD is effectively an "ecological concequence" of repeated accidental behaviours, whereas in NPD/BPD its something stranger and I think less well understood. One imagines, most probably, very early infant trauma that has severely impaired psycho-social development.
Important to note: mechanically, uniformly and massively available sliced bread.

Of course bread has been served sliced for centuries before
Even if you don't have any help from an LSP, I don't really see how this change adds any meaningful complexity.

With `for x, y := range m.Range`, you know you are iterating over something, and you are getting an `x` and a `y`. For the purposes of understanding the range block and what it does, it doesn't really matter what `m.Range` is, only that it allows iteration. Just like you don't care in <=1.22 land whether `m.Range` is a slice, map, or channel, because for the purposes of understanding the code, that doesn't matter.
"20k photons at 99% fidelity" usually means "we can detect each of these 20k photons separately with 1% error rate", which would be roughly 20kb/s. Low bandwidth, but it has little to do with how much light comes from a flash light or from the night sky, because they are using detectors that detect each photon (as opposed our eyes or typical network equipment which might need a large average number of photons per bit).
Most of my life my SSN was also my drivers license number. Then my state a few years ago changed the numbers. Great! Now some hotels want to copy both sides of your license before renting you a room. My doctors office and local hospitals copy them too.

A few years ago, Capital One credit cards wouldn't let us pay our bill online, which we had done for several years, unless we sent them a copy of both sides of our DL's! I called them and said no thanks and they said I would have to began paying through the mail. We paid off both cards and canceled them.

Have said all this, it's prob just a matter of time before my DL number is hacked by someone through some weakly secured site.
I'd assume you could train a cross encoder network like

https://sbert.net/docs/cross_encoder/usage/usage.html

to "predict" if two entities are the same?
There's different kinds of debt. Many argue "good" debt is debt spent on assets that appreciate or provide income. However, people often forget that it's not guaranteed (see 2008). Some also only measure net debt (the leftover debt minus asset value).

Some people, especially Dave Ramsey, take anti-debt sentiment way to far. Sometimes you just have to live in the system (and the USA encourages home ownership with subsidized mortgages via freddy and fannie as well as mortgage interest deductibility).

North American society also tends to look down on renting as bad financial move, which can have benefits of making you more highly mobile and it's easier to move (fun fact, Switzerland has a home ownership rate in the 30% range and the Swiss have most of their wealth in other often more liquid assets).
You can export your tresor
> credit bureau industries are obviously impossible to run safely and should be destroyed

I am not sure I agree with that premise.

I would say there are literally no incentives to secure that data and no penalty for leaking it. Hence for profit businesses will never operate this securely.

I think it’s the same conclusion but a worthy distinction
I'm learning to pour a concrete slab this weekend.
I don't do a deep dive into financials, no. I focus more on the smaller operations that don't have large budgets or complex finances, so I tend to go by reputation, "smell", and my personal knowledge of the people running the operation. Part of the reason why I want to see them providing tangible services (and why I don't want to see a lot of money being spent on fundraising) is so that I can see that at least a significant amount of the money is going toward their purpose.

I'm talking things like free clinics, food banks, etc.

There's certainly a nonzero chance that some of my donations are wasted (in my view), but I've chosen not to worry a huge deal about that. If I spent too much energy on that sort of thing, I wouldn't donate at all.
Didn't expect to find a TLA spec here! Criminally underused tool in our industry.
Bank and Monument are what spring to mind, though in both projections look pretty close.
Slightly related, my uni id was a prefix for the campus + year
of admission + serial number

the serial number was sequential based on last name, you could essentially guess anyones student id if you had a couple of data points of last name : serial number

As far as I know no one used it for nefarious purposes, but it was a cool party trick to guess someone’s number.
Climate Experts on the Musk-Trump Interview
The author covers this pretty much exactly as you describe it. From Part 2 of TFA,

> Let’s look at the sort step, which is the bottleneck of the algorithm according to the analysis.

> You can see that most of the time, the sort does nothing at all! The list is almost always already sorted from the previous frame.

> Even when it becomes unsorted, it usually just takes a couple of swaps to be sorted again.

> Here’s insertion sort in action:
I do not care. My SSN has been leaked for a decade at least. I have freezes on all my credit history. I file my taxes with a PIN. I need photo ID to get medical treatment and get it billed to my insurance. SSN is not the secret thing it once seemed to be (but never really was).
I love open-source projects engineered in such a way as to deter exploitation for commercial use.
You are correct. I was confusing this technique with Novel View Synthesis through diffusion (recent paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06157) where inference means generating frames rather than points.
Real World Cloud TTPs vs. Canary Infrastructure
> They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolutely done with them.

I suppose you're referring to this video? https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE?feature=shared&t=180

I don't see how it's glorifying killing dogs. The CGI robot is given the task of killing a CGI robotic dog, and it refuses the task and runs away with it.
>little blond granddaughter

what does an imaginary young woman's hair color have to do with cybersecurity?