skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how this could ever be legitimate. Giving out an unlaunched shitcoin and a t shirt in exchange for the biometric data of people who very clearly don’t understand crypto or biometric data (read: random person in a mall, regardless of country). This is pretty clearly taking advantage of people.

My question is, couldn’t you do this fairly without even spending that much money? Say you need 5MM scans to build your database (that you’re going to delete the data from anyway). With shitcoins it’s close to free, but you had to pay a bunch of engineers and marketers. Why not give each person $5 USD converted to their local currency? For $25MM you are actually having a positive impact, don’t get dragged through the mud in articles like this, and it didn’t even cost that much.
The QA manager should be proud.
Did Emacs solve their freezing issues on background I/O?
Well there is also Monaco, Andorra, San Marino and of course Vatican City with its population of 800!
And you do statistics with N=2?
I appreciate the warning. I made a general comment in response to this topic here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930012
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While it does not match the article headline, that's the core aspect of the passed law.

The FDP will surely want some (more) help for the industry but the point made by the parliament stands.
The article clearly states that machine translation was used to for identification of cases that were then reviewed, involving native-speakers with clinical knowledge.
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I have asperger syndrome which in short means normal intelligence but problems with social interactions. I compensate certain aspects pretty well so that most people wouldn't even notice or guess it.

How would I go about reaching out to a company and tell them that I have autism and is there maybe a website or a company that actually prefers autistic people?
This is the culture in golang, too, and it's great.
There's excellent reason to doubt that premise is correct:

Russia has a long history of losing and gaining territory. The last thing Russia has been is stable throughout its history, a break-up is far more likely than the opposite.

Realistically Russia has no future other than being splintered. Nothing can stop that future outcome, it's already being pulled at now. Adding salt into that wound, the world now knows how exceptionally weak and backwards Russia's primary point of power is: their military. The projection of (supposed) immense military power has been integral for many decades in holding big Russia together, through fear, intimidation, and so on. They've burned up enormous resources trying to force it to remain together over time; it has broken their people, it has broken their potential, it has impoverished the Russian people to an extreme. And today we know they don't even have a potent military to show for it. And now the Russian people are being confronted with the consequences, the cost, of trying to force big Russia to remain together (the Russian people had been temporarily sheltered from paying that price for much of the prior two decades, and those days are over).

Russia has to keep burning resources to force big Russia to hold together. That will increasingly come in the form of the Russian people watching their standard of living vaporize, on top of having lost essentially all human rights under Putin's two decade dictatorship. They will soon have nothing to lose, and they will react accordingly (although on a delay): prepare for revolution as an outcome.
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FWIW, emacs is extremely easy to build from source.
AWS would fall under “bare metal”, it’s vms do not support nested virtualization (whereas the other listed providers do).
on the other side, debian is one of the most stable platforms, more than even commercial ones (binary compatible centos is just a blink in the lifetime of debian for example :D) .

just because people care about the technology...

and upgrading is important for small business with less money. and this shows how hard it is to achive an good upgrade path.
Every airline does price discrimination.
There is no passed law. There is a proposal for a new law that has not been presented to parliament yet, so "German parliament passes law" is just flat out wrong.

The only mention of parliament in the article is one of the government parties stating that it in its current shape won't be able to pass parliament.

Flagging this, you can't distort content like that, especially if the majority of readers has to rely on machine translation. But congrats, you now have a clear falsehood top of the front page, well done.
We don't create those visas because we don't build tons of things and have our workforce.

How is this any reason to accept bad working conditions?

They are a rich and relativ modern country
Yes, it would be much better for middle east and asia if Russia cleansed Ukrainians out of Ukraine and managed to continue to Poland, Finland, Moldavia, Czech Republic and so on. Somehow, magically, middle east would then became peaceful.

As long as there is no world peace, no other world region has right to care about its security.
I wish we could have double buffering on Windows as well...
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Azure already have IPv6. It's just not easy to setup.
Something that helped me dramatically in this area was picking up a new hobby, purely for fun, with no expectations about getting "good" at it or winning any praise or accolades - for me, this was dance. It's taught me how to be creative and where creative energy actually comes from, and i've been able to take this skill and apply it to other hobbies, like music, where my approach used to be more technical. Extrinsic motivation and having expectations seem to kill creativity.
I think we have an hour on HN to edit but if someone responds to you it locks your comment. That seems reasonable to me too.
Home button on a keyboard, tap the top of the screen on iOS, and I believe Android implements something similar.

I agree with the other commenter here. If a text-only article follows the tenets of some version of 'minimalist' design, I should be able to read it comfortably on my phone. Straight to reader mode for me.

I tried it on my desktop, where it was better. But I still wouldn't call it 'minimalist.' Again, it's just an article, but the background image draws my eyes away from the text. The top and sidebars do too, but to a lesser extent.

That's fine, but it's not minimalism. If I hear that an article on the web has been presented in a minimalist style I'm going to click on it assuming that once I start in on the article that's all I'm going to notice.
The Orb itself is actually a remarkable piece of technology (considering what is available in a package of this size).

"Normal camera" won't do for the same reason Face ID won't work without PrimeSense.
I had a few interactions with employees at Worldcoin. At a high level they're trying to solve a worthy problem: proof of personhood for crypto.

HN is very anti-crypto so I expect any conversation on this topic is an uphill battle. If you're generally sceptical of crypto, Worldcoin will seem outright useless to you. I tend to believe there are some great ideas embedded in the cryptocurrency world alongside a lot of noise and speculation. Eventually the "signal" and core ideas will rise through, perhaps after a long period of pain.

There are a whole class of ideas in crypto that require one wallet/address to correspond to one single person. Like all powerful ideas, there are ways that this could bring great value to the world and unfortunately also ways that this could be horrifically abused. Proof of personhood for crypto could enable verifiable UBI for the world. It could also enable mass surveillance if widely adopted.

Given the interesting potential of the idea, someone was going to eventually work on it. Worldcoin should have approached the problem slightly differently. First, testing the concept in lower-income countries has a "colonial experimentation" look to it. Since the idea is controversial, they would have gained more goodwill by initially launching in the EU/North America under the more strict legal frameworks. Second, make the orb look less dystopian. Third, launch with a non-economic use case. Worldcoin won't solve UBI or inequality in one shot, so why not launch with a lower stakes use case such as an online forum or community that requires proof of personhood to post?

Sadly I think because of all the missteps, I can't see Worldcoin tackling the proof of personhood problem in the longterm. I hope another project comes along and makes an attempt more "sensitively".
It baffles me that Altman picked up such a creepy, woo-woo tech project. It's not like the guy is desperate for cash, he's already really rich and has a stellar reputation from running Y Combinator (formerly) and OpenAI (currently) as well as investing in many other startups...it's just weird
The monitor would have been something like this HP L2335 LCD monitor from 2004 (this [1] review is from 2005).

According to benchmarks [2], Half Life 2 was pretty vertex and/or cpu bound, so a mid-to-high range GPU ($300-$400) would be able to run at that resolution.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/1729/2

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/1546/
I've always liked the /usr distinction, with systems set up so they will at least boot without /usr mounted (at an absolutely minimum, a statically linked /bin/sh is enough to get a command prompt). This is particularly valuable for setups where a large number of PCs can mount /usr read-only from a remote server (we run quite a number of diskless x86 amd ARM systems like this).
I found mac installation pretty straightforward, and works quite well. I've been using for work for few months now.

brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
brew install emacs-plus@28 --with-native-comp
And pay for Wordpress sites too! I have a static Next.js site hosted on S3 and I don't pay anything to host it.
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it all looks nice and rosy and everybody patting their back about how impactful they are when scales come into play... and then you as a user are just wtf-ing given app because UI has been overhauled yet again, things that worked before are nowhere to be found, there is basically no migration guide.

The simple truth that most software engineers don't want to hear is - people are quite conservative in this. If it works once, most folks would be extremely happy to keep using it for next 20 years in exactly same way, as it is. Bug-less has higher priority than shiny (which is highly subjective) and constantly changing.
Meta-question: does the cognizance, cohesion and awareness that goes into identifying that 1% emerge from the 99% quotient of inefficient aimless wandering, or somewhere else?

Meta-meta-question: assuming that it does, how does the line get described (let alone drawn) dividing "this work contributes to identifying the 1%" from "this is a waste of time"?

(Insert something about gradient descent and local vs global maximums here)

I'll call this a genuine question, I could definitely use some refinement of my own optimization of this problem space (and not wind up in micro-optimized dead ends etc).
Now the docs should look nice on mobile!
Because it's not about making an impact, it's performance art meant to accumulate investment money.
I doubt they incorporated in Vietnam. Most likely it’s a Singapore company, I found a Sky Mavis registration in Singapore:

https://www.companies.sg/business/201913227N/SKY-MAVIS-PTE-L...
They say they scan irises so that each person is unique and "nobody gets more than their fair share". Why then not use the clasic identifiers: name, date of birth, proven with a state issued document, and a facial picture holding some sign. These are easy to do remote and are the current standard for financial KYC, which any "world currency" needs to take into consideration in the post-Bitcoin world.

Sure, some people don't have access to government issued IDs, but they are a minority in the world population. The economic benefits of having a government capable of issuing IDs are so great, that Worldcoin, if successful, could provide technical and financial assistance to those states directly to implement such systems, instead of pushing dubious "Orbs" onto the world.

The whole "nobody gets more than their fair share" trope is dubious. What will the typical person from DR Congo do with $20 worth of altcoins on his phone? 99% of them will sell it for $20 minus fees and pocket the money. A very small investor minority can afford to hodl, select few will purchase and accumulate w-coins, and those will earn the speculative appreciation Worldcoin founders are really after. The whole populist act is a ruse to get the bubble going.
I have enough (well, not really, but that’s water under the bridge now) video’s of my now 3 year old being 1 year old. They help me remember.
"Only boring people get bored" was maybe the best advice I ever got.

I was a teenager and was getting a ride home from a friend of the family.

He asked "How's life going"

And I was in the midst of answering "It's bor.."

But he cut me off and said "Don't say 'it's boring'. ONLY BORING PEOPLE GET BORED."

It was like a splash of cold water in my face, and I always remembered that.

Whenever I start feeling bored now, I remind myself of that quote and start mentally exploring ways to shake things up and break out of the rut. If my mind isn't feeling that creative, then I start looking at what others are doing in my situation and often I'll find some thread of their creativity that I can use to get myself started.

The more you fear being labeled as "boring", the more motivated you'll be to avoid those doldrums.
I'm not sure about that 2nd condition, I still have edit rights on my original comment.
What do you mean by "remote snippet of html"? An iframe loads whatever's on the other end of the src URL. If that's a "whole page", then it loads a whole page. If it's just a "snippet" of content, then it loads that. Any snippet you think of can be loaded by iframe exactly as described. The only hitch, really, is that it's always treated as block-level content instead of CSS-style "inline" flow-level content, but that's clearly not relevant to the use case at hand—embedded tweets are already block-level.

It's not clear what you're asking for. (E.g. do you want that snippet not to be sandboxed?)
… and turn the nuclear power plants back on until then?
I don't see all that many Russia regions trying to split up now.

And to add, there will be no revolution in Russia for years. Revolutions happen only after police, secret service and other similar forces were weak enough for long enough. Russian ones are strong currently. There is no organized opposition to speak of, so even if they became weak overnight, it would still took years till the discontent organizes itself enough to make revolution.
I applaud such efforts, but the fly in the ointment is that the acceleration of renewable energy sources will not only require more capital, sooner, but also different energy sources to be built more quickly. Accelerated timelines for such capital-intensive projects almost always require intense short(er)-term demand for energy which will likely need to come from fossil fuels.
In general, when politicians promise something will be done by the different set of politicians in office 10+ years in the future, it mostly means "we're not going to do anything right now".
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> People may never receive the money they were promised. “We make no warranty … that we will be successful launching the Worldcoin network or issuing WLD tokens,” says a contract distributors must sign before receiving an Orb, which was viewed by BuzzFeed News. “We are providing the Orb to you for experimental purposes, to advance our objectives, including to gather data on the use of the Orb by end users, and for no other purpose.”

So they're taking advantage of people in poor countries to collect their biometric data. Yikes. The people who made this are the same people who talk endlessly about the virtue of innovation and technology.
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Not to mention that the title here on HN is in English while the article itself is in German, so you're right, not matching at all.
Many people already have.
> My question is, couldn’t you do this fairly without even spending that much money?

It would actually cost tens of millions of dollars (if not more) if you want to comply with the securities laws of every country.
Apophasis.
Oh man, found my spirit animal. I tried recreating the same system on a white board next to my desk to save paper, but it just doesn't work without rewriting the list from scratch regularly (though I must have smaller tasks, because I'll rewrite 1-2 times per day).
> Proof of personhood for crypto could enable verifiable UBI for the world.

This kind of statement breeds skepticism of crypto. Does anyone think "proof of personhood" is among the top 25 barriers for verifiable UBI for the world?
I feel like this isn't an Apples to Apples comparison. (heh) Venmo is usually used to send money between friends, not for services or purchases online/in-person. A better comparison I think would be to Apple Cash vs. Venmo (where I think you would find Venmo has a large lead).

Sidenote: Many people don't know this, but Venmo is owned by Paypal and comparing Venmo to paypal feels like comparing TV viewership between ABC and ESPN.
That too, but I'm not 100% sure if there is an explicit rule about foreign language content or not. But especially if most readers need to rely on machine translation it has to be precise.

EDIT: per dang 23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30663877

> We have deep respect for languages, but HN is an English-language site, so posts here need to be in English.

> That may require waiting until a good English-language article appears, but the more significant the topic is, the more (and sooner) this is likely to happen.
You might as well edit this comment to save face buddy. The overwhelming public opinion will credit this to Musk, even though it is not true.

Because we live in a hell world.
I worked in a diner prior to and through college, and would take home $800 to $1000 a week. On average, my monthly would come in around $4000 with tips and that little salary you get. A few times a year, I'd make $1000 cash in a single night, such as mothers' day, christmas eve, thanksgiving eve, ...the party holidays and when special events came to town and the store was slammed with customers. It was, what we called, blood money - because you were busier than ever, yet it was great money.

Sometimes I would complain, regardless of how good the money was. Nevertheless, I made almost 60k/year at 19 years old with no experience or marketable skills other than work ethic, a smile, and attention to detail.

While college was fun, I didn't make partying or my social life the most important thing. Earning, saving, and improving myself was the goal. One could say I had my priorities straight - a lesson I learned from my parents, but one that seems so obvious two decades later that I shouldn't have needed my parents to tell me.

Whereas my friends at the time were still living at home, still begging mom and dad (and me) for money, and taking the bus or begging for rides.

Just about anyone can work in a restaurant if they are physically capable, and unless you have a physical or mental disability, you are capable. Perhaps unwilling, lazy, or a bit of a crybaby; either way, unless you're missing a limb, you can work hard in a restaurant, construction, landscaping, and other jobs and make double (or more) the money you earn at McDonalds with the exact same skill set.

This hasn't really changed. You can still get server jobs at great restaurants and make decent money with little marketable skills. Of course the point is to not make a career out of it unless your goal is to own a restaurant one day.

Everyone wants to make $1MM a year and wants to live in a 7-figure house as soon as they finish high school; and some demand that taxpayers carry them to the promise land of "equity" ...when we all have the same capabilities, opportunities, challenges despite varying attributes.
Russia has the #4 longest coastline of any country with access to many seas.

"The coastline of Russia is shared with the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, and Sea of Azov to the southwest."
Oh man, no worries, I'm boring too! It's great! I do things like take 20 year old XML exports and build a modern data transfer services around them. Doing these kinds of things I make a lot of money being boring. No pretensions, work 8 to 5, I'm not my work, and I go home to my wife and we have loads of fun cooking, playing boardgames, riding our ebikes, camping, now even having friends over again. Boring rocks!

Maybe the problem is all work and no play?
"Mediocrity is like a stain that doesn't wash out" - H Murakami

My favorite anti-inspirational quote I keep coming back to.
I feel like if I ever end up curious about a hobby or activity, that I could introduce it first to my hypothetical kids.

I get to keep the kids busy, see if they have fun with something, and judge if it's something I'd personally enjoy. If we both end up liking it, then great! Something more to share with them.
News in Vietnam is heavily controlled by the government.

One of the more popular sites: https://tuoitrenews.vn/search?q=axie

Past: https://cpj.org/2018/07/vietnam-suspends-local-news-website-...
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Be interesting to see how much of a dent steam deck makes.
Some of the early spreadsheets had an option to NOT to "realtime" recalculation - you'd make your changes and then call a calculate.

This comes in useful with large spreadsheets and multiple cell dependencies.

IIRC the move to the "current" live evaluation allowing back-references was a major selling point for Excel.
If OP wants to compare Emacs to Visual Studio and Jetbraines IDE's, then we are going to compare features.
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No, people really just want to edit their tweets. It's not that deep.
The fear of an edit button is that you quote someone saying you totally agree and then they edit it to say "Aborted babies taste great" or something absurd.

I just hope they just keep a complete change log of any edits.
Oh hell, you are right! I’m only using linux and OSX now, and it works on both, so I’d never considered it might not work on windows.
> You actually experience physical pain?

Not the parent, but I think people will experience a moment of confusion before they adjust. right-align is very unexpected, so even if it's somehow better, it takes time to adjust. That adjustment is undesired and uncomfortable.

I think it may feel similar to a car manufacturer putting the ignition on the left side of the steering column. The driver will briefly jab the key on the right side before understanding that this car is different from every other car the driver has been in. Even if there was extensive research showing that left was better, the first reaction from experienced drivers will be "WTF".