skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the fundamentals and implications of Worldcoin to be a really neat idea, but moreso for the potential to have true online anonymity while simultaneously being a provable Verified Unique Real Human Being. The idea of just having a public/private key that is associated with your biometrics. If implemented and executed properly, you could put a big dent in online disinformation / troll farms / bot accounts and streamline all sorts of things.

Obtaining biometrics is a critical component of this, though--and doing this in a non-dystopian way is tough. Hashing that data is needed (as the article mentions), but even that has a bunch trickiness under the hood to unpack.

The Worldcoin/UBI narrative seems like it would be a smart play to spur rapid adoption for this, but--again according to the article, it sounds like that execution has been...challenging.
In the pre-Ukraine war world there were none. Gas was comparatively cheap, pipelines and ibfrastructure was there. So Russia was a natural choice. Now that changed and the world will adapt.
> If I'm trying to hire, I need to include at least some of those sexy tech stacks in my posting if I want to get good applicants.

Idk , I think after 10-15 years in the business not all senior devs get so excited by buzzwords. Some do, sure, but others just want to work on a high quality code base with smart colleagues, interesting product and a good work life balance. I couldn't care less if you threw Kafka in there but hey that's just me.
But sure, the younger you are the more inclined you'll be to prioritize shiny tech.
It is! I suffered through operating systems by way of Hunt ;)

If you were comp sci, Dr. Sturgill and Dr. Heckman are still making life hell for undergrads (for a good cause, of course)

Anyway, I see your point and don’t really have a better reply, so shrug I tend to agree that anything that can be attributed to ignorance rather than malice is correct, but the phrasing just seemed mildly aggressive to me. Not a big deal though!
IFS patient here as well. Totally agree on how powerful it can be, and how deep of a connection you can get with some far off parts of yourself. I find the whole concept a great mental model of how my mind works.

Also as a software engineer whose always been on the analytical/intellectual side of reasoning, I prefer the psychodynamic nature IFS as opposed to modalities like CBT. Really helped open me up to being more emotionally intelligent and aware.
Haven't AMD and Intel had to share all their patents with each other for the past 20 years anyway? I remember some agreement coming out of the ashes of the amd64 debacle. And the patent text doesn't seem to have anything to do with the images.
I'm suprised they're shutting down because of a lack of a buyer/investor rather than making it and keeping it as a successful business. Are the goals these days for a big buy out?
People divulging their biometric data do suffer, since in exchange they receive a coupon that's supposedly redeemable for Worldcoin in the future, which won't be worth its advertised value if there's no trust in the system's integrity.
Quite a week for popular startups with millions in funding and general buzz shutting down overnight.
Back then to me a "tactical" Battlefield would have been either Battlefield 2(Especially Project Reality) or 2042. Maybe if you only compare it to modern games you could say 1942 was tactical.
Pedantic, but: from the device's point of view, it's always a "pull". You can't "push" to something that's not publicly addressable.

From your app's point of view, you receive a "push" from the OS.
And yet, my box with a 50eur GeForce4 MX440 with 64mb VRAM ran Half-Life 2 on launch.

AMD Duron 1800+ and 256mb of 333MHz DDR and the damn thing ran HL2!

A machine with a 50eur CPU and 50eur GPU ran it!
They must have optimized it well.

And that machine is included in that 2004 Steam hardware survey. :)
From the article (and I totally agree) -

> What's not magic

> What junior does not understand, is not magic

> Monkey-patching is not magic

> Metaprogramming is not magic

I've noticed this especially in the Rails community to talk about functionality they find fascinating and which either they don't understand or don't want to explain.
Tell that to amputees

I suppose the event of being amputated is appended to your life, but your original limb was deleted.
Exactly! X11 gives you options, and doesn't force anything on your programs, allowing program designers to use fitting tools for the job.
There's no call for being insulting. Force majeure supply interruptions (particularly those served by durable infrastructure, like pipelines) are different from rapid but planned shifts. The cutoff of Russian gas to the European market is not very comparable. And really, there is no negotiation or bargaining with the catastrophic climate outcome - it is has no regard to how difficult it will be to move off of fossil fuels.

If you want to connect this to European situation, you can see that one nation depends on fossil fuels to maintain geopolitical relevance, and you may look at political parties allied and supported by that nation and the energy policies they support.

Since it's extistential for Russia (and US/Saudi petrochemical concerns) to keep people on fossil fuels, they undermine moves off it it. They flood global anti-environment movement with money and delay and obstruct fixing this, and make people believe it is less possible that it is. They are completely ambivalent to what will probably be the death of a majority of the world's population under worst case scenarios before the ended of this century (https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_SummaryForP...), which is currently the most likely outcome.

Anyway, we have change our ways, or doom our children. That's the choice ahead.
Dear TwitterSupport I am not “Russian State Affiliated media”
They wanted us to think that crypto represents a new financial system that fixes the mistakes of the current one and yet here they are asking for a bailout of helicopter money to cover for their own incompetence.
Haven't yet needed to freeze a package, but I can confirm that setting up your packages is stupid simple in Doom (Straight), and freezing them equally so.
> It is russian citizens who hold sole responsibility for everything going on in Ukraine.

do Ukrainian citizens hold sole responsibility for these people shooting villages with RPGs for fun? [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/camaradabruno/status/1500248165970329603
AFAIK for 4K/60Hz you can just use USB 3.2 with DP 1.4 alternate mode with 2 lanes for DP and 2 lanes for USB.
> Let me suggest an option that I haven't seen others bring up. One source of depression is that your expectations of what life and relationships should be like is all messed up. This comes from having a dysfunctional family growing up. There are many families that just weren't able to give emotional support in the way that the child needed. This leaves you with a twisted view of who you are and what you need in life.

> As an aside, if you think talking about depression is hard, try getting people to admit that their parents were less than perfect. We

Wow this hit me hard. Not because of my own expectations, but because of the expectations my ex had during our relationship, and looking at her family and their relationships it makes much more sense. You hit the nail on the head. Thanks for posting this.
This is pretty exciting! I wonder what Java version will see this as a production ready (non-preview) feature?
Graphene is indeed a lot less fiddly than dealing with microg etc. Much easier to use (and install - oh the headache that is dealing with firmware updates my Samsung tablet running Lineage).
A Saboteur Hunter in Kyiv
What is this "cross-platform surveillance"? How does DoorDash know that they're a sex worker, and why do they care?
Canada. Justin Trudeau flys all over the world to promote the fight to carbon change.
I wonder if the title and content ("you can't work the same way big companies work") were inspired by this earlier article from 2014:

"No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does"
https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-...
I love the idea of couples counseling even if I don't yet feel comfortable suggesting it. But fundamentally, I ask, why not? Everything can be great, and then just talking about it with someone else can be a way to recharge your relationship just by talking about how well it's going.
> paid out tons of money to fake businesses

It did not.

> I’m not sure where PPP falls on the spectrum,

You should not use it as an example especially if you don't know how efficient it was.
I definitely have at least 3 friends with kids that manage to keep up with their hobbies. 5, 3, and 2 kids respectively. No idea how they do it but they certainly demonstrate it can be done.
Is that how it works? I would've thought it would be something like Twillo where you hit a endpoint when you want to send a message, maybe with an extra step to set up notifications on the users end in the first place.

In Twillio's case after a half hour of you could end up with some sort of send_text(number, msg) function/method that you can just use all over the place and if anything changes in the text message world they handle it.

Id rather do that than have to deal with the carriers, etc. The way you describe sounds like a pain with vendor lock in on top.
This is a laughable claim.

Human's have existed only for a very short while and during one of the most stable periods of climate in this history of the planet.

I understand denial is necessary to cope, but when you really understand the scale of the changes coming it's hard to image anything other than extinction happening.

All of the magic humans have done is not because of our innate abilities but because or our access to abundant energy. First in the form of solar energy harvesting through agriculture, later through fossil fuels. Unfortunately we pushed the system too far.
Those are literally the Russian propaganda talking points. I've seen reasonable and intelligent people who used to believe these sincerely. Seems like you are under a similar influence.
US Disrupts Global ‘Botnet’
> We're the ones who end up maintaining these systems.

...and making good salary doing it!
I remember trying this, and could still not get it to work. :(
I don't. Streaming could be interesting as background content, but Twitch is so bad it ruins my experience and I actively avoid it now.
Well I've always looked at the world as being interconnected, like ideas are never come from the ether, they are always inspired (linked) by something.

Either way, why use "links" as the analogy, why not just call them relationships? That's what they are. We know what relationships are just as well as we know what links are so no need to pick a familiar concept and extrapolate.
I think Chomsky is so focused of USA wrongdoings that sometimes outside wrongdoing slips his mind for extended period of time. Especially if USA is somehow involved in that situation too which it almost always is in one way or another.

He focuses on USA to the point of being boring now.

At this point nobody outside US believes any justifications to US foreign wars. If there was any willingness to believe any of that George W Bush pretty much trew in on a pile and set it on fire while doing stupid face.

Everybody knows USA just goes around the world and starts wars with whatever local evil they can safely engage (from geopolitical standpoint) to further their economical interests, both global and domestic.

It's not that the rest of the world is doing nothing because they believe any word USA puts out. It's because they can do nothing against current military and market hegemon.

Other countries will even happily pretend they believe US propaganda so they can calm their populace and keep themself safe from the next round of "democracy spreading" that comes out of US.
I hope so, if we were selling diapers or food or other essentials.

But these were luxury items. The cheapest item in the inventory was $5,000ish. With add-ons, they could go up to $30K.
No, but my original comment wasn't about accessibility (of which I'm a proponent, by the way), it was about whether the specific sentence "It almost seems like this was intentionally created to ruin eyesight" was unhelpful hyperbole.
Once you take seed funding you're locked into a raise and re-raise treadmill until you grow sufficiently to find an exit. VCs/seed shops aren't there to help you build a lifestyle business. They're trying to either fail fast or get a 10x multiple and move on, which means either an IPO or (far more likely these days) an acquisition.
> insanely complicated

Twitter? Adding an edit button is not exactly rocket science. Meanwhile at SpaceX...

edit: I liked your subtle edit below from "paid board seat" to "(ridiculously expensive) board seat". Strange to make it a negative to invest in a company you want to change, like other board members are allowed to invest for their board seats, but Elon isn't. If Twitter does good it will be lucrative, not expensive!
I'm genuinely curious to hear Sam Altman's (and/or the OpenAI team's) perspective on why these products need to be waitlisted. If it's a compute issue, why not build a queuing system? If it's something else (safety related? hype related?) I'd love to understand the thinking behind the decision. More often than not, I sign up for waitlists for things like this and either (1) never get in to the beta or (2) forget about it when I eventually do get in.
I remember graduating with the feeling that I understood all this stuff which is essentially (from a certain, perhaps EE-biased, perspective anyway) built on top of radio, and yet the simplest, oldest forms of wireless communication are baffling.

I 'understand' (more so then) them of course, the theory, the practice, but what magic that any of this works?!

Maybe it's just because we can't see it, and it oughtn't be any weirder than anything else, but I still find it nuts and have to try not to think about it too much. Nevermind the crazy bandwidth & latency & distances we've come to expect with the internet.
Most of their players are in the Philippines, and based on reading the subreddit and twitter replies are pretty technically unsophisticated. I think a lot of them just don't yet realize that they may not be able to cash out, since they're still playing.
China, who refused to call it an "invasion"? Yeah, they tell the west to "avoid unfounded accusations" about Bucha. So if you don't listen to evidence from places like Bucha, then Russia is "making an extraordinary effort to avoid civilian casualties".

Is western media biased? Yes. But so is China. They're biased very heavily on the side of not having to condemn Russia. (They're also biased on the side of the invasion going well. If Russia can't do this, it calls into question China's ability to take Taiwan.)

In fact, from where I sit (also biased), western media is more willing to tell the truth than China is.
Ccsvv is an ncurses-based CSV viewer
Building a Del Em
I've worked in tech for over 20 years and I can't understand a word of this post except "$150M".
Before it gets that far, or until (if allowed) AI learns morality, AI will be a force multiplier for good and evil, it's output very much dependent on teaching material and who the 'teacher' is. To think that in the future we will have to argue with humans and machines.

AI does not have to be perfect and it's likely that businesses will settle for almost as good as human if it's 'cost effective'.
What USB Switch are you using? I have yet to find one without awful reviews on Amazon.
>notorious Khmer Rogue apologist

I think this is an unfair criticism for a couple of reasons:

1. He rolled back his factual claims when more evidence came in. I don't think you can call him a denier in the present tense.

2. In a sense it is Chomsky's "job" to question everything the US media is saying and of course this will sometimes involve criticizing cases made that are actually right. (To say otherwise would be to suggest that the US media is always wrong, an extreme position for anyone.) Furthermore Chomsky can still be right in a sideways way when he criticizes true reports if the media does a hack job of reporting it, kind of like how criminals can rightfully get off on a technicality if the prosecution is incompetent.

His present views on the issue capture both of these points, although it would have been nice if he expressly said "oops, sorry:"

> As we also noted from the first paragraph of our earlier review of this material, to which we will simply refer here for specifics, “there is no difficulty in documenting major atrocities and oppression, primarily from the reports of refugees”; there is little doubt that “the record of atrocities in Cambodia is substantial and often gruesome” and represents “a fearful toll”; “when the facts are in, it may turn out that the more extreme condemnations were in fact correct,” although if so, “it will in no way alter the conclusions we have reached on the central question addressed here: how the available facts were selected, modified, or sometimes invented to create a certain image offered to the general population. The answer to this question seems clear, and it is unaffected by whatever may yet be discovered about Cambodia in the future.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial
"I have to use a plastic spork for work. Therefore, I cannot use a metal utensil at home. Therefore, you shouldn't be able to make food that doesn't mesh well with my plastic spork."

.NET works with Linux, anyway.
"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works" - Terry Pratchett

The FA does seem to specify a particular frustration that my pithy quote doesn't address

>>"It is common to see nowadays statements like “this is too magical for less experienced developers to understand”. As Matz says (reciting from memory), “Ruby is complex language to make developer’s life simple”, not the other way round.

>>Your car’s engine and your computer’s processor are pretty complicated, too, but that doesn’t mean that they are “magical”. Neither that you shouldn’t use them and stick to “less magical” solutions."

I think this is a separate point but it is one I agree with. Probably some nuance here, but I think the problem is less that something is seen as magic and more that something might be prematurely hobbled.
And what I'm saying is that there's no way to set a terminal's permissions on the host system such that it can access the internet on behalf of the user but cannot access the internet on behalf of its creators.

This is a human problem, not a software one. Your terminal is as trustworthy as its creators. It cannot be locked down to prevent telemetry and still be a useful terminal. That was my original point and it is still true.

No one should use a for-profit terminal emulator, especially one created by a VC-backed startup, full stop.
There's also "You Are Not Microsoft", i.e. you do not have millions of users who would be impacted if this API changed. Sure, if you're at a scale where a few thousand people would be impacted, or at the severity where whoever is affected would be really affected (e.g. medical software), do not break compatibility. But if your product is used by a dozen people and it's not keeping them alive, it's maybe okay if it breaks. Sure, you alienate those dozen people, but you can't keep a company running on a dozen users.

And besides, if you have a dozen users, you can literally afford to spend time fixing their specific setups. That's the other flip side. People assume that because Microsoft/Google/etc. provide impersonal, poor customer service, they should provide equally impersonal, poor customer service. Bad customer service is a trade-off you make to have scale. If you don't have scale, you can avoid that trade-off.
> Thirdly, this will create a lot of noise for law enforcement agencies which may mask other higher priority crimes.

If it becomes accepted as an automated solution where either a very quick human check or no human check is required, it would reduce their burden.
> Firstly, anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society.

Do you also condone citizens witnessing other crimes and doing nothing or is your opinion limited to dangerous driving only?
It's the usual pattern of AI safety experts who justify their existence by the "risk of runaway superintelligence", but all they actually do in practice is find out how to stop their models from generating non-advertiser-friendly content. It's like the nuclear safety engineers focusing on what color to paint the bike shed rather than stopping the reactor from potentially melting down. The end result is people stop respecting them.
Have you checked for ADHD in your pre-teen that has impulse control issues?

It can be eye opening if the behavior has a neurological component, and it's always better to intervene early in these cases
One reason i find these posts useful is if you are at wits end and desperate. My daughter has been diagnosed with depression (and ocd and anxiety). We have tried multiple medications, therapy (CBT, ERP), TMS(self paid because the f#ing insurance wont cover at the time), probiotics,.. Nothing has seemed to help. I look for any avenue that i can explore that brings her relief. Now i look at a comment for poor methylation and that is something we havent checked. Maybe it will help. As long as we always do it with medical professional advice, there is good in knowing the issues involved. No one cares more than the person and family suffering.
The "promise" wasn't exactly as suggested in the quote. It wasn't agreement, but part of a back-and-forth thought problem. Gorbachev was asked if he preferred a reunited Germany to be a member of Nato and thus constrained by that alliance, or a free-actor--implying that an unaligned Germany would return to it's expansionist ways. Gorbachev followed up by asking if Nato would expand further east and Baker said no. But this was all part of the hypothetical posit.

Edit: Further, Gorbachev himself stated that he believed nations should be free to make their own decisions on whether to join Nato or not.

Edit: Looking for source led me to an interview with Gorbachev where he claims this "promise" never happened at all: https://www.rbth.com/international/2014/10/16/mikhail_gorbac...
Related (via submissions without comments):

https://github.com/drcode/good-guesser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SFNbiurWhc

Bat signal to drcode!
> This seems like a really stupid tactical error.

A street near somewhere I used to live started seeing more pass-through traffic and lobbied the city to install a speed bump on the street so cars would slow down. Unfortunately, that meant that drivers would speed up to the bump, brake hard (creating lots of noise) to go over the speed bump, or would roll around it via the bike lane. Ultimately the solution ended up closing off the street for through traffic.

So yes, ignoring how drivers will react to your machinations is indeed a tactical error.
My question is if these prices are algorithmically generated, and borderline pseudo-random, will they actually honor the quoted price? What if I tried to sign up but injected some javascript that created my own imaginary price. Would I be able to convince the system to accept this number, and what proof would AT&T have that their frontend didn't actually show it to me at some point?

Cynically, I suspect that the fabricated number will be disregarded when it comes time to signing a contract, and you will always be presented with one of the same small number of rate buckets. That may be higher or lower than what you saw on the website. If you complain a service rep will be able to drop you into a lower bucket, but they predict that most people will either not care or not notice the price. Not until you get your first bill.
Which is how most “undo” features work for email.
I agree but we can put more focus on the product, code quality and users if we don't practice resume driven development that much. And still earn a nice paycheck.