skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems highly unlikely - mens rea absolutely applies to fraud.
This actually happened in August and September of 2023 and it’s great validation for High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) at larger scales. I hope they have the guts to also do a full loss of coolant test. I’ve also heard the these two reactors have been turned off for quite a while due to issues with the primary heat exchangers, temperature fluctuations, and uneven cooling - characteristically disadvantages of pebble beds.

There’s of course 2 flavors of HTGR (prismatic and pebble bed), and people choose the pebble version for continuous refueling despite all the drawbacks [1]. But there’s a lot of reasons to do prismatic. Can’t wait to see China’s prismatic HTGR.

[1] https://lvenneri.com/blog/pebble-bed-nukegumball
A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic middle school health book
I mean, besides shape and speed, what is the difference that most people are concerned about. I wasn't aware that golf carts are all electric. I just thought of a golf cart as a car used specifically to traverse golf courses and resorts.
What if it has microphones which are not so obviously obscured? I do not see why it should depend upon my technical acumen to non-destructively disable a surveillance device within my private space.
The Triumph of the Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich
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Did you bother to check the links in the article and tumblr post? You would have found archives of the web sites in question, with Nyberg's horrifying words dating back to 2006 preserved. The chat logs have been preserved and distributed all over the place as well; they're not hard to find.
Adding one more will degrade rather than improve that. Notwithstanding all the downvotes, the author's comment (just above) seems to endorse my argument.

I dislike the captcha a lot, but I wish people would invest the same effort in attacking spam that they do in defeating anti-spam techniques. Spam and similar kinds of abuse are the bane of the internet but most people seem to shrug it off but declaring that a 'hard problem' so they can ignore it.
It is suspiciously similar. It has the same structures and functions though their order and form of definition is different.
Any system can, and will, be abused by the powers that be. Any system that can be abused, will be abused by people with power. There is a clear disparity in power between an IC and a manager.

The "oh, I totally deserved my PIP, so all PIPs must be fair" stories assume that all corporate actions are taken in good faith.

If only.
Everything exists in a system. I suppose the least (and therefore most resistant) to dependency related issues is small family farmers that run things like U Pick farms and grow a diversity of crops
Logging you out in 15 minutes is ridiculous as is losing your places/work but "behind a VPN" is not considered secure anymore.

"BeyondCorp comes from a realization that VPN perimeter network security is obsolete. As soon as an attacker breaches the perimeter, they have unrestricted access to the resources."

https://goteleport.com/blog/how-teleport-extends-beyondcorp-...

no idea if that's a good resource, it's just the first hit for "beyondcorp"
I came dangerously close to buying a boxster this Fall for $6k. It had a blown engine and I decided I can't have a project like that unless I first own land.

The boxsters are awesome, but that mid engine looks really annoying to access. Have you done any engine or transmission work on yours? If so, how was it? Do you need a garage with a lift?

Also, soft tops are a no-go for winter daily. If I got a convertible I'd need to get a hard top (which is an option, but it's more money for more comprimises). The most modestly priced caymans are appreciably higher than boxsters. A used cayman and a new gr86 are strong competitors.
I'm not talking about wealth per se, but industrialization. Without it, they failed to develop adequate military technology, transportation infrastructure, and agricultural efficiency to free up labor for industrial work. They also lacked coal reserves, and oil was not be a factor until too late in the game.
but now 4chan is one of the most user-hostile social media platforms around

Stay off /v/, /tv/, /pol/, and /a/ and you’ll have a pretty good time.
By selling your data to advertisers.
How much cheaper by the dollar, then?
Google has clearly transitioned away from prioritizing customer value (and content creator value, unless you're an advertiser) in favor of some internal opaque KPIs.

After switching to DuckDuckGo years ago, and Kagi last year, it's obvious every time I go back to Google how much they have lost the plot.

It'll take another decade before they lose dominance, but the writing is on the wall. Inertia and market position are the only reason they're still on top. Meanwhile, the younger generation barely uses web search, and the tech savvy are starting to drain away more and more quickly.

Startups should be excited. Rather than being the 800-lb gorilla that is going to come take your lunch, Google is the walking dead behemoth waiting to be harvested for conceptual parts.
That's a neat idea, probably not all at once though. And it could reduce efficiency for low power systems to be speculatively waking sleeping processes?
Yep, you explained it better than I did! It's a really charming setup.
I had a slightly different but also unsettling fraud happen to me this summer.

Credit card number stolen most likely at a restaurant by staff. In two hours they ran up $2k of online orders across 6 stores.

But here’s the weird part - they shipped everything to me. Mostly in my name but also with my first or last name swapped. I realized this as I was reporting the fraudulent charges to my credit card but then I started getting informed delivery mails from UPS and fedex.

Apparently it’s a package interception scam where they try to redirect the package to a different address before it’s delivered. They failed at the second part so I had a dozen packages show up over a couple weeks I then had to deal with returning.

Real time suck. Dozens of calls and mails. I didn’t have original purchase order numbers in some cases nor the email address.
Some stores were not equipped well to handle this, some told me to keep and donate the clothing. It was all fairly mass market high priced DTC stuff like Bombas.

Weird.
My wife was freaked out that they got our home address from our name on the credit card fast enough to make all these orders in under two hours.
> This is why I love things like cargo fmt / go fmt / eslint / etc.

I agree. Once I had the displeasure of working with a junior dev who was very prolific in posting comments on style and if a space should be at the left or at the right of a symbol. It took me a few days of dealing with that noise to onboard a linter.

Even so the junior dev felt entitled to manifest how high their standards were by posting a torrent of comments in the PR that onboarded the team's official linter config.

But once the PR was approved and merged, surprise surprise: the junior dev's PR comment metrics dropped from dozens per PR to zero. The style guide didn't even had to be enforced.

The last I've heard about the junior dev was throwing a tantrum when one of their PRs received a comment from another team member asking to run the linter because it failed to adhere to the team's official style guide. Apparently the high standards and this attention to detail only went one way.
I don't disagree. One thing that RMTransit on Youtube talks a lot about is that transit is a lot more expensive to build in the Anglosphere of the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, and so despite these countries investing a lot of money into it recently, there's an order of magnitude less return on investment than similar projects happening in the rest of Europe and Asia.

Return on investment not being profit for the transit system, but moreso a more extensive, faster network for riders.
Do not use SMS or voice for MFA. These are weak MFA factors. Push notification auth to app only, requiring biometrics to approve. Secure hardware tokens are a gold standard, but rare.

If your bank or financial services provider leverages SMS/voice for MFA, they’re setting you up to fail. Switch providers, they’re dumping the liability on their customers.

https://2fa.directory/us/

(I own customer identity requirements at a fintech, thoughts and opinions my own)
The actual headline includes an important detail: "The 22-year-old woman who was on the brink of being euthanised – and changed her mind"
Fair enough though one doesn't interact much with a subway driver.
> It hits all the "ok, Go is popular but made by morons for morons and if only it had this X advanced feature, it would be totally great".

The people who use Go despite its issues are using it because of the tiling and the massive Google backing. Neither of which this has. Someone who wants a language that implements some of the good ideas of the 1970s and is willing to leave Go for that already has many established options.
There’s just so much wrong here.

From statements to spelling.
LCnetgen – quasi-static modelling software
tldr; get out of your niche (rut) and head to where the demand is.

I'm a battle scarred IT veteran with lots of practical experience as well as research and teaching experience in academia. Based on my experiences ...

The core of your problem is that you are insisting on doing work in "your niche" for which there is little demand in your marketplace. Cool jobs are badly paid. It is because there is lots of competition from people like yourself who want to do cool stuff.

What you desire in your life is perfectly reasonable. You just need to change tack and target a technical area with lots of demand and thus better pay and conditions. Academia, even if you gain a PhD is never going to be lucrative compared to business enterprises.
Almost thirty percent of microplastics come from car tires
What order replies are shown in is a user profile option.
Rustling for C++
For sure.

But C++ devs aren’t trying to convince rust devs to change their stack.
The maximum temperature from nuclear reactors is far below what you need for steel production because otherwise you’d melt the steel used to construct them.

Waste heat can be useful for district heating systems because houses don’t need to reach high temperatures, but few designs give you access to even 300C and nothing currently hits 1,000+C.
In what world is the cost of 2.5 GB of RAM per 1 million connections an issue? Are you telling me there's a service in this world handling, for example, 100 million active connections, and they can't afford 250 GB of RAM? It's not the 90's anymore.

And we're talking about a naive microbenchmark. If you were actually building a service like that in Go (millions of active connections) and you were very concerned about memory usage, you wouldn't be naive enough to use a goroutine for every connection. Instead, you would use something like gnet or another solution based directly on epoll events, combined with a worker pool.
they could start with the waterloo and city

I can't believe that would cost billions given it has two stations and is fully underground

good leverage against the unions too...
Google's customers are advertisers. Customers are the people who pay you money. Consumers are just the product.
PWR evidently means Pressurized Water Reactor.
>Yeah, it's the sports stadiums and not where the paying jobs are

Who said that?

>People don't give a single thought about sports stadiums or if you're near a highway/airport or any of that soft nonsense.

You might not, but other people definitely do. It's common for people to have criteria when looking for a house (e.g. not having an airport or train station directly in your backyard, being near a good school, being close to x and y amenities, being on a main bus line, etc.). They don't go to a real estate agent and only say "I want a house". Being close to work is a starting filter. Most people apply more filters.

Stadiums were just an example of what people might consider desirable. I think the broader point hervature was making was that what is considered a desirable location (and the cost of being near those locations) has changed in the last 70 years. That is an effect on housing prices which is not clearly captured in the article's analysis.
Except that this runs in an iframe with no way to tell that it is actually your bank. So we are teaching the users to enter their Bain passwords into random websites.

(Actually your password manager might fill in the password as it knows the domain of the iframe, but this is more luck than skill on behalf of the financial industry)
A quick browse through their website shows only links to original content as far as I can tell
You get used to them, there are various heuristics built in that make them easier then they at first appear.
I agree. I can read both of them clearly. I'm not sure what value we are maximizing for in this example. It's definitely not readability.
"It looks like the copyright lawsuits are rent-seeking as much as anything else;"

If an entity charges fees for "AI", then is it "rent-seeking"

(Assume that the entity is not the author of the training data used)
> What are your thoughts regarding how to protect ones self from this type of attack?

Never ever use SMS 2FA Auth or if you provide a login system, do not offer it as an option.
I understand the frustration, but this article is just conspiracy theory based anecdotal data l. The claim that the engineers don't understand the Google search algorithm is not backed up by anything aside from a casual conversation with one person. These are just random thoughts by somebody who doesn't actually understand how Google works, who their customers are, and they're just frustrated because they are not generating revenue using whatever system they had before. And it is feeding off a story that has very little basis in fact.
> over trivial style nonsense

What's your definition of "trivial style nonsense"? Is it "something I personally don't understand or care"?

Things like tabs vs spaces is important, and so is how many spaces an indentation level should take. This affects how editors reformat code, how other people's editors present the code, and even how many lines a commit has and is blamed for a change.

That's why linters are of critical importance to a team, and so is adopting a shared standard and editor config.

The only people who don't understand the importance of a style guide and how to make it a non-issue by enforcing tools to enforce it are those with little to no experience working with software.
Did the stealing occur in your home town? Do you show up in people search tools?
I am not sure, phones are a device on a network, and robocalls are an abuse of the network to get to your device. It's an intrusion made by someone else. Social media seems to think it's a network, but it's more like a bar or club with a TV in it. You choose to show up each day and watch the TV.
> printing physical letters

After collecting data content for the physical letters with a commercial survey/marketing website.
HN strips leading numbers in headlines, to filter out posts like '100 best VPNs in 2024'. When relevant, you can edit them back in after submission. That said this sort of stamp-collecting article is PR masquerading as news.
I assume given the mechanics.. the perpetrator could easily be in a foreign jurisdiction where enforcement isn't going to happen as well?
Yes, I very obviously did because I explicitly referred to it in my comment.

Nothing in your comment changes the fact that you linked to an anonymously written article full of baseless speculation that relies on an anonymous Tumblr post that is also full of baseless speculation.

Not a single credible source in the entire mess of nonsense that you linked to. You should be embarrassed.
Actually I think even this makes it look scarier than it is if you're on an M-series Apple.

In that case, the steps to building llama.cpp are:

1. Clone the repo.

2. Run `make`.

To start chatting with a model all you need is to:

1. Download the model you want in gguf format that will fit into your hardware (probably the hardest step, but readily available on HuggingFace)

2. Run `./llama-server -m model.gguf`.

3. Visit localhost:8080
No, (Visa) 3D Secure is challenge-response. It pops the iframe on behalf of your bank, sure, but the iframe itself is operated on a white-labelled basis by Visa (with your bank's insignia put there because Visa knows the bank logos by CCN BIN prefix.) The iframe (i.e. Visa) says it sent you an SMS verification code; you plug the code into their iframe; and transaction continues. You never need to log into your bank.

Note how there's no point in MITMing that flow by presenting a phishing version of the confirmation iframe—all the iframe is asking for is the code, and the code is single-use, and all it can be used for is to approve that one transaction.
I agree. But it's a tough problem, isn't it?

I don't just mean filtering out the spam; that's a hard problem on its own. But the good-click metrics... if serving up reddit and quora links at #1 makes more people satisfied with the first result, defining satisfied as 'reads the #1 page and doesn't go back for more', then...

What's wrong with that metric?

That isn't a rhetorical question. It's tempting to claim the users are wrong to prefer it, but not very nice. Why do they do so?
US federal law excludes antiques from this, antiques being defined as 1898 or older.
I would tend to disagree. The buffering here is doing what's it's supposed to be. The mix of something that's supposed to be interactive with a contract that's not meant to be interactive is the source of the problem (tail following into a pipe). There's no real problem to solve here. The "hardware" analog is a tank of water that accumulates rainwater and you only move it somewhere when it fills up. I'm not sure what examples you have in mind but time based flushes aren't common in hardware AFAIK.

The proposed fix makes the contract a lot more complicated.
> Is that new?

It's neither new nor novel. Even GitHub allows anyone to post a commit on a feature branch, regardless of who created it.

It's not a GitLab or GitHub feature. It's a Git feature: the ability to post a commit to a branch.
Loss of keys. If you expect the vehicle to be used by multiple different shifts then a lost key removes a vehicle from service unless you can reprogram it. Some cars let you program new fobs up to a limit then you need a dealership unlock to continue doing that.

Easier is just to key all the fleet vehicles with the same standard non chipped key. Then any key operates any vehicle which removes a ton of operational friction. When I drove cab we also just used fleet keys, but only because we bought old police interceptors, which also meant, our cab keys could open and drive police cars. Which is why police fleet cars sometimes have an extra interlock button or switch in them which disables the shifter so it can't be taken out of park. Similar to the switches in this post.

Vehicles assigned to a single officer may be different and will likely use the fob but the shift vehicles in a lot of jurisdictions just use fleet keys even today.
Sure should be. But Krebs’ story on it is proof it can happen.

Story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-tr...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056733
I have come to realize that over the years, though I still believe that wealthier companies like Apple, NVIDIA, Facebook, and the like could fund curiosity-driven research, even if it’s not at the scale of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC.

On a smaller scale, there is The Institute for Advanced Study where curiosity-driven research is encouraged, and there is the MacArthur Fellowship where fellows are granted $150,000 annual stipends for five years for them to pursue their visions with no strings attached. Other than these, though, I’m unaware of any other institutions or grants that truly promote curiosity-driven research.

I’ve resigned myself to the situation and have thus switched careers to teaching, where at least I have 4 months of the year “off the clock” instead of the standard 3-4 weeks of PTO most companies give in America.
the blacked out minimalist aesthetic on this site looks really cool
Your engine is part of your crumple zone. You do not want your battery to be. Same reason the fuel tank is usually in the back of the vehicle.
Pushpak (also named as Pushpaka Vimana) is a silent Indian film. Have watched it multiple times.
The Guardian has run so many anti Musk articles that at this point it's sus.

Musk is wild and I get disliking lots of aspects of him, but I think Musk Derangement Syndrome is a real thing.

Some people are simply way too black and white in their thinking.

Like "embarrassed to drive a Tesla" because of Musk is imo too far down the rabbit hole. Evaluate the car as a car. Or at least that's how I approach the world.
My banks ask for a password in that iframe. Not some type of one-time-code. Although I have mostly Mastercard cards, so maybe Mastercard just screwed it up?

If it was just an OTP why would the iframe even be necessary? The main site could just send it.
No one likes following blind links.

If there's something to the content of whatever you're pointing people at - please summarize.
That is timing. Thank you, adding to my list.
Not the rampant racism or sexism or simple misanthropy or outright calls to violence or overflowing hostility.

It's the spam that tops the problem list.
And for something less disappointing see this Robert Sapolsky lecture https://youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc

Also his lecture series on Human Behavioral Biology.
Fedora and Ubuntu have felt like the official distros for a long time.
Learning a new syntax takes a day or two, a week or two at the most. Having a site or product that helps you with that doesn't seem important, at least to me. The hard part about learning a new language is learning how to use it, not its syntax. Learning how to use it requires working with it, and for a long time, somewhere in the 3 to 10 year range to really become an expert. You can't learn experience quickly using any product or YouTube video.
> I think that the right model for content discovery is either crowd sourced by a like-minded community, like hacker news or curated

This is how all the subreddits that are remotely related to politics or news got so biased.

Of course I don't know what the alternative is. If I did I would be making that ideal site instead of scrolling HN.
Yes, credit card was definitely stolen while I dined out at a nearby restaurant (like 1 mile away).

It was pretty easy to pin it down as I had been ill a few weeks and done basically 0 in-person, physical card transactions in that time. It was a restaurant where they bring you the bill, then walk away with your card for a few minutes (which is becoming less the norm these days).

It has pushed me to only use my Apple Card for these types of purchases where the physical card goes out of sight, as theres 0 card info on the card for them to snap a photo of.
This is not the mindset of monopolies, cutting research for the sake of short term profits is the mindset of Wallstreet's modern monopoly.
certainly won't have a good time on /b/ either
Is this advertising campaign of theirs new?

It seems like an absolutely terrible idea for a campaign "hey everyone - our company has been wildly successful at putting spyware on hundreds of millions of machines and no one even knows our name!"
Whatever the next version of information retrieval at internet scale is, I don't think it will involve indexing the web. I think the web's moment has passed.

Maybe the future is something like publishers supplying datasets to train models on? Or like how search was built on top of the web, it will be something more organic and ad hoc.