skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I understand Dubai a lot better than you do. Have you been there?

I worked closely with the laborers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India for two years, installing heavy machinery.

In general, they are not badly treated at all. Their living conditions are closer to being in the army. Dubai has done a lot to stamp out bad actors. Taking the passport is now illegal (though it still sometimes happens).
One foreman had saved up 250,000 Dirhams and intended to start and electrical contractor company back home in Pakistan.

People from Western Europe seem to think 99% of these guys are slaves - they are not. They go to Dubai to get some of that sweet oil money.

It if mass migration from the Middle East and Africa is not an unsolvable problem(just really really hard), why bother? What is the advantage?

Further, I don’t agree that there should be any limits what power the people has.
I want 100% direct democracy(naturally with a guiding constitution, that can be changed)
I don't get this perspective at all. Seems like a new breed of hyper-legal worry about litigation yet to happen. I don't want to live in the world you live in, buddy. Please don't take it as a personal attack.
You mean the way they banned Wikileaks? ;]
> consuming isn't cheaper either

Mentally it costs far less energy to watch a superhero movie than the deeper movies.

I like to watch movies that are for entertainment too, don’t get me wrong. Just want to point out that there is a different in cost to watch different movies, even when the amount of money I pay to watch them is unchanged.
An incredibly dumb take by someone who has no idea what he's talking about.

The Hershey factory in question is the Huanan market - you know, the place where they were selling wild animals, where the initial cases were heavily clustered around. It's not the research institute on the other side of the city that never even had a closely related virus in the first place.
I've quit twitter and that stupid website now won't allow people to see tweets if you're not logged in, so I guess you'll just have to search "Nate silver wrong" by yourself, big guy...
Noteworthy point:

> Meanwhile, 70 mm IMAX film releases like Oppenheimer don't come often, and when they do, only 30 theaters in the world can support them, CNBC reported, and not necessarily all of them will (Tenet's 70 mm release, for example, was limited to 11 theaters due to pandemic restrictions, CNBC said). That makes any need for upgrades and overhauls less urgent.
> I’m not implying that the numbers I choose are the best to use, but I think they are a fair indication of a vaccine that is very effective vs one that is marginally effective. If you have some numbers that are less arbitrary, I’m open to new info to change my mind.

I don't think that any specific number is a good delineation between "ineffective" and "effective". I fundamentally disagree that the Covid vaccines are ineffective. The only way to call them ineffective is to use a delineation which no vaccine survives.

> During the pandemic most health institutions were being really optimistic in their messaging about the vaccines. I guess it’s just semantics, but I don’t think you can say a vaccine is darn good then say the virus mutates too fast for the vaccine to be effective long-term. Aren’t those things in opposition?

No, they are not in opposition. You left out the important part: the vaccines are darn good against the original virus. They are still sorta good for mutations.
Yes, the currency was always entirely trustworthy... No one lied or played games...

I wonder how many of modern day businesses would be ready to deal with real physical gold, silver or whatever. As any digital or paper based one can't really be trusted in long run.
I'm sorry you feel that way, especially considering how much effort I put into writing a neutral and non-combative reply. It seems to me that you see hostility even when there isn't any.

Hope you find your peace one day.
BofA is like Bank of America. VDI is virtual desktop infrastructure (like Citrix)
It's not a press release; it's part of a section on their website that lists their current light house projects and provides some convenient pointers to the different parts of Fraunhofer that are involved and some contacts.

Edit. Here's a recent news message related to the same project: https://fagenwasanni.com/news/fraunhofer-researchers-achieve...
Migrating to an Oracle product from literally anywhere else seems like a terrible, terrible idea
Bank of America. Virtual Desktop... Interface or somesuch.

I like HN full of acronyms, it teaches me what's important enough in an industry to shorten.
Facebook soft launched in 2004, and launched in 2006. By common standards in rounding... It's 20 yrs old.
Reminds me of khinkali.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khinkali
BofA is Bank of America.

VDI is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization
Just to be clear, I'm not blindly defending musl/Alpine, rather noting the detrimental effects of monoculture.

Quite often fixing a build or a package on another system or architecture is a matter of a 3-5 line diff, and I've contributed quite a few over the years. It usually boils down to an incorrect assumption by the author/maintainer, stuff like "#ifdef __linux__" (when what you actually mean is: "any UNIX-like system with X11"), or hardcoding CC=gcc (where CC=cc just works).
Kernel 1.0.9 was the first with ELF support, and I remember it quite well, because it is written on the CD from Slackware 2.0 ("now with ELF support").
How does Computer Science teach the basics? Doesn't most of the CS curriculum assume a Turing machine with infinite tape?

At my university, most of the classes the GP is talking about (logic design, microprocessor implementation, OS-level programming) were in the Electrical Engineering curriculum. The lowest level that the CS curriculum got to was writing a parser for a programming language.
And with gold. Dealing with actual physical gold is lot of work.

And with any type of certificates be it paper or digital someone will immediately start playing games... And thus you can not trust them.
Yes, you are misinterpreting it.
At my job, any information we get from customers is treated as private/personal. It would be a fireable offense to load it up into some third party database or service.

I have not, will not, and am not allowed to copy and paste anything into chatGPT from my company that I wouldn't be comfortable putting on twitter. I agree with this policy.
Yep. It's one of the few things I'm doing on my workstation that ostensibly needs the internet, except because of the mirror it also doesn't.
You can be a perfectly good e.g. web developer without knowing any of that. It would be good to know how it works but you don’t need to go that deeply into it unless you’re interested in it. And if you are, or if you really do need to know it, this is a learning resource so you can do that
> Why not then, dip into your bank account? By this logic, there are trillion of $$ in bank accounts all around the world. That's a lot of money.

Because wealth is immensely concentrated. There isn't nearly as much money in everyday individual bank accounts as in those of ultrawealthy individuals and corporates; and the trend since the 80s is for this to accelerate.
It's literally the second sentence of the post. Why comment when you didn't even read it?
The cat appears to be much more efficient, given that it can farm out tasks to the human consistently.
Make your tool so idiots can use it and only idiots will use it
So the military took power, installed a general, and had the constitution changed to allow the president to force through legislation without a parliamentary majority.
Not everyone studied at the same university as you. And after having worked full time for over 10 years now, I never needed any of those skills.
On my case, we did have access to DG/UX on the student lab, and had Windows NT offered proper POSIX support, I might never have bothered with Linux at home.

It only took about 30 years for Microsoft to accept POSIX matters, regardless of its caveats.

Naturally there were a couple of factors that led to that change of mind.

Back on the subject, I have spent endless hours going through the packages on Slackware, specially GCC, given my interest into compilers.
> Why? It's social media, not a pacemaker alarm. Your friends will survive just fine if you have a day of downtime.

It feels that mainstream social media has set the expectation that any downtime is big news. That’s, of course, not the case for small social media. People can handle downtime.

If anyone is interested in contributing to small social media, this site is a good guide for the Fediverse side of things: http://runyourown.social/
There's also an mp3 link

http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV1019.mp3

So you can download it to your phone and listen during your commute.
I think R-410 just got sunsetted in the USA. It wont take effect for sometime and like other disused refrigerants technicians can reclaim the banned refrigerant from a system and use it somewhere else. The ban is on new equipment and new refrigerant production.
From the article you've linked:

"In a hypothetical scenario in which everyone in the world went vegan by 2050, the regrowth of trees and wilderness could sequester around 547 billion tonnes of additional CO2. Each year we emit around 36 billion tonnes of CO2 from fossil fuels, so that’s equal to around 15 years of emissions at our current levels. They also estimate an additional 225 billion tonnes of CO2 could be stored in soils ..."

That's much more impactful than reducing emissions alone. It would store a load of carbon while preserving biodiversity (paramount for healthy ecosystems).
What most people don't realize is that pretty much all of the major players in the AI field in private industry as well as academia are partially funded or paid by the military. Yes even Google takes military contracts... Many of them...
FedCM Updates: IdP Sign-In Status API, Login Hint, and More
Math as we know it, due to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, is not fully consistent - we can't even prove everything that is true with our current mathematical framework. This means that our understanding of math is indeed limited, not just by our intellectual capabilities, but by the very structure of the math we currently use also.

This makes me wonder, will we be able to develop new mathematical frameworks that bypass these issues? And if so, what will they look like?
As a user, that's the best for a software like this, because it means it cannot be ever closed source!
your diagram is actually insanely useful. they churn out a lot of products but as a user - things are very broken and documentation cannot keep up with it
WordPress Is Planning a Complete Admin UI Revamp, Transforming the Dashboard
How migrating a core database eliminated data processing incidents
It's not about litigation. Companies have actual secrets, such as upcoming products, mergers, and acquisitions. Putting a bunch of non-public information into these things (often run by competitors!) may inadvertently leak that information on generative text, and that's assuming there's no such thing as corporate espionage.
You could have, with Graphene OS Attestation[1].

But bank apps won't implement it because the market share isn't large enough. This is a great showcase of the issues with the new proposal as well.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...
> Fortunately, that insanity lost.

It lost to ad-supported websites, affiliate links, third-party cookies, tracking and fingerprinting?

Also, ATM was an integral part of SONET/SDH PSTN backbones for decades, so unbeknownst to the consumer, we were using ATM "for everything".
Did you mirror Chrome's useragent?
I'm launching OGPT-4, to interact with the version from March 14
I recommend using "wrong" rather than "braindead". You're less likely to get people's backs up and more likely for them to be receptive. (Plus, it's less hurtful)
At this point I’m beginning to think North Korea might be more free.
Then we may just pretend ourselves as Google bot.
Threads Is the Perfect Twitter Alternative, Just Not for You
I've done some experimentation in my time, and in my experience fruit flies positively love actively ongoing fermentation! So I've settled one a mixture with sugar and yeast in addition to water, surfactant and vinegar or cider.

Also, trapping the little bastards is more efficient if you cover the container with cling foil and poke a hole in the middle. They'll easily get in by following the gradient of the escaping molecules, but finding the exit seems to be so much more difficult.
Regardless of industry, some companies have services for helping you find an apartment, others will have apartments specifically for relocation purposes. Specific to IT, I've never heard a company offering the same things. Some will fly you out. Finding an apartment isn't too difficult although you can only look at the "foreigner list" of apartments.

Regarding tax, it doesn't change. There aren't any breaks nor special levees for foreigners/people with just a work-visa. You get taxed the same (you can even participate in ふるさと納税 [furusato-nōzei] which is a system where you can decide to pay a certain amount to a different prefecture for tax deductions the following year + a gift from the prefecture that you can pick. The gifts are the best part; you can get high grade Japanese beef, high quality fruits, etc).
He broke the law but the court did understand it was compationate and part of a pact hence why they found him guilty in such a way that he can be released now or very soon.
It is just a lie.
Let's breakdown the "tax the rich argument"

Government has become captured by wealthy interests and has created a legal system that benefits the rich at the expense of the working class.

If the power of the government can be seized, the wealth of the rich can be taken and used to help the working class.

Problems with this:

A) this essentially is a revolution to seize control of the government to take the wealth from the powerful and wealthy.
B) there is a high risk that the attempt to seize control of the government will fail, but the wealth transfer will still occur, just from the middle class to the government/wealthy.
C) it's unsustainable.
I surely do remeber pine, using it from ambar and green phosphor terminals to check on mails from our lab assignments, which were mostly the only use I had for emails at the time.
Why be passive? Design cars to kill their occupants turn them to compost. Even more green.
They did not won the way OP suggests.
The science done by actual scientists. The ones that write:
"Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.
More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another."

that Nate Silver is now twisting into "the scientists lied, don't trust them" because they had the intellectual curiosity to imagine alternative scenarios in a Slack channel.
Oh shoot, I always give out my @pm.me for simplicity's sake. Guess I should start using protonmail.com instead
The binding energy between quarks is so huge (more than 99% of the total energy of a proton) that, if you attempt to pull them apart, the energy you have to apply in the process is enough to create additional quarks.

So it’s not that they just pop into existence. You, as the person pulling them apart, are the cause of the extra quarks being created.
There have been publicly available DARPA and otherwise projects about altering humans for war via neural implants, human subjects being pushed to extreme mostly unsurvivable conditions to see if they can prevent them from having heart attacks, etc for like a decade now. Some pentagon officials are on record saying shit like "what if China does it first!".

If we've learned anything from MKULTRA it's probably that subjects of these experiments aren't willing...
We need to start a community of people who interact with plain text files over encrypted protocols for business and pleasure.

The more bandwidth and OS features we use the more dependent we become on the cloud/ISP vendors and device/OS makers.
His website is the best designed website I have genuinely ever visited, so fast, easy to navigate and very little blank space which makes it information dense. I also love the inline link opening, I definitely will be implementing that when I make my own website in the future.
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

This quote emphasizes the idea that if individuals embody and practice positive values and actions, it can lead to a significant impact on the world around them. Similarly, if everyone were to act rightly, it would undoubtedly result in a different and improved world.
> Firefox, beyond being slower, also keeps constantly displaying ads

One tab with an ad opening when the browser has updated every few weeks or so is not what I would call "keeps constantly displaying ads".
"The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline."

What does this mean?
>Equally Amazon makes money selling goods, not ads.

Amazon is one of the biggest ad networks on earth. They made $40bn from advertising last year using all the personal data they get from their paying customers.

>Netflix is subscription based, again doesn't care if its a "trusted device" or not.

Oh but they do care very much. Netflix requires DRM in desktop browsers and its own app on mobile platforms. And they launched and ad based plan recently.

It's a mistake to believe that advertising is the main problem and direct payments are the solution. Making a payment takes away more privacy than advertising alone ever could and hands personal data to payment schemes and banks on top of everything.
Ethics and rigor died in western science maybe fifteen years ago...
By the way, KFC fries in high-pressure fryers. Not sure I can tell the difference.

https://kfcfryers.com/
What issues are you running into with mentioned browsers? Captcha?

You likely need, in the order of importance:

- a signed-in google account

- mobile proxy

- captcha solver plugin

- randomized offsets and delays

- virtual screen, screenshot and ocr tools for specific cases
Probably more action than just telling people will be necessary for that.
Upgrades ? My main issue with gcc is not being able to compile old version on newer systems and the new versions not being able to compile old programs.
But Slackware is great. My only complaint is that it doesn't ship static libraries anymore.
> Corporations are owned by pension funds. They would be insolvent if corporations stopped posting profits.

Not in France, where retirement fund is a nation-wide socialized entity, which was the core of this debate. Private pension funds are close to non-existent here ; i personally cannot name a single person doing that because the public model worked so well for decades.

> It's the same reason housing is so expensive (the anti-competition laws there are zoning rules).

I don't entirely disagree because France has the more draconian housing regulations you can imagine: it's to my knowledge the only country in the world where it's illegal to build your own house (or lightweight housing) and produce your own electricity off-grid on land you actually own.

However, the argument doesn't stand scrutiny. According to public studies there's hundreds of thousands of empty dwellings in France... not even counting secondary/vacation housing or AirBnBs. There's two faces to the housing crisis here in France.

The first is the landlord mafia keeping apartments empty on purpose for speculation. Because if the entire supply was put on market, the prices would collapse, and people could actually afford housing. We could design a law to tax empty housing proportionally to the owner's wealth, and see how fast we get housing for everyone.

The second is the government backed off on public housing. Low-cost housing (HLM) programs started after WWII have been mostly cut, and whatever funding is left has been diverted to "ownership accession" and higher-standing "low-cost" housing which are luxury housing below market rates but very inaccessible to minimum-wage workers. To give you an idea, a two-bedroom apartment in standard HLM usually costs 200-500€/month in Paris. The newer ones being produced from public funds are rented for ~800-1500€/month, while the minimum wage is around 1300€ after taxes.

I have a hard time calling this a "crisis" when it's a massive defrauding operation orchestrated by the State and the housing mafia.
They didn't try hard enough. That section concludes "Established browsers would need to only use attesters that respond quickly and fairly to new browsers' requests to be trusted," so in the end, Chrome's monopoly lets it call all the shots.
It is impossible to separate it from the time context and age, a lot of these old games will not spark now. But in now particular order:

- Elite: it had almost no graphics, but boy, what did it do to my imagination...

- Starcraft: there were good RTS before (Dune, C&C), but this one nalied the design and an epic story.

- Wing commander 4: A bit late to the party, so laid my hands on this one. Space opera meets movie, overall great.

- Planescape Tourment: One of the weirdest, if not the weirdest RPG with a sad world and once in a while really interesting NPC and story. Also bonus points for not using a high fantasy setting. Tops BG in my opinion.

- Fallout 1&2: Loved it for atmosphere, humor and tactical gameplay.

- Jagged Alliance 2: Trashy tactics, very fun.

- X-Com: (the remake and sequel): They've nailed the gameplay and imo the remakes are better than originals which were all over the place.

- Bloodborne: My first soul, came for suffering, but stayed for the lovecraftian horror.

- Street Fighter: The foundation for my love to the genre after all the years, and also the best thing to play with friends.

- Elden ring: A very recent one, but I was impressed with a sad, quiet world and a long forgotten feeling of exploration - you want to know what is behind the next corner. Open world done right.

- Last of Us: The most atmospheric game I've ever played. A work of art. Stay away from the sequel.

- GTA 3: I was completely stunned at the moment it came out. A sandbox world where you could do whatever you wanted? How did they came up with it? The magic wore off long time age, I actively avoid most open world games these days, but I remember the feelings.

I guess I could remember much more, since I do gaming for 30 years already, there is Privateer, Monkey Island, Half Life, Deus Ex, Prey, Dirt/2.0, but these were the most memorable, I guess.
Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America
That feeling of doing more and more but getting done less and less
Qualcomm is the reason. They charge a royalty of between 2.275% and 3.25% of the net selling price of the device, depending on the cellular mode used.
How does this kind of constraint modeling compare with logic based approaches like Answer Set Programming (https://potassco.org)? Years ago, I got excited by the possibilities of ASP but it does not seem to have progressed much
Old stuff – the viability, quality and affordability of 10 year old digital tech
I went to a university, not a trade school. It taught me how to learn effectively, so I can learn technical details on my own for decades outside of school.

I'm sorry that you wasted your money on an educational investment that doesn't pay dividends.