skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because it measures in the infrared, it even works in the /dark/"

No, because it's an active rather than passive light sensor, it works in the dark.

Edit: also, the fact that you can see a green dot heavily implies the sensor is operating in the green wavelengths, not in the infrared, but that's secondary.
São Paulo traffic is so bad that even Uber had an Helicopter option here for a brief period.

https://flyflapper.com/stories/uber-air/
For sure. The garbage in, garbage out problem is quite real for ecommerce applications.
How would somebody that qualifies as a TN NAFTA Professional (e.g. Canadian applying for engineering job with relevant engineering degree) answer the question of "Are you authorized to work in the US?", particularly with regards to sponsorship? As I understand it, the question is to determine if the employer needs to apply for a visa, (H-1B, etc) but according to USCIS all the employer has to do for TN is provide a letter outlining the job, employee qualifications, etc. Is this considered sponsorship?
The might did it out of desperation, but soon they will realize it was mostly a mistake due to low wages, high prices of goods and taxes, very limited opportunities and funding for small businesses, limited market, and obviously the harsh weather is the cherry on top.
> It is very easy to solve disinformation

I don't know about that, but it is very easy to make statements like this which make your credibility go "poof."
Well, if Tor isn't the pre-installed default browser on Joe User's new computer or smart phone, then...
Tesla's range is a complete fiction. To support this fiction it displays an imaginary range substantially higher than actual on the HUD. To avoid blowing the charade or leaving drivers high and dry when it dies with 100 miles on the clock it switches from fiction to reality about halfway through. The difference is so egregious that a huge portion of users think their car is broken. So many that Tesla created a team to mass close those tickets first by running remote diagnostics and blowing smoke up their ass to convince drivers there is nothing wrong. EG you're holding it wrong.

To keep up with volume they stopped bothering actually doing any diagnostics and flagging customers effectively preventing them from creating new tickets which might result in expensive service calls.

So you buy based on inflated numbers realize its not working as expected, call to complain thinking your car is broken, your account gets flagged and now if something really does go wrong you could be stranded in limbo for days unable to use the normal process.

Additional fun if you miss a payment or they misapply a payment or a check gets lost or any of the fun things that happen in the magical world of payment processing they have the ability remotely stop your car and summon a repo man.

Seems like this will eventually be misused to stop protests or be mass misused by hackers eventually.

You should read the rest of the article its worth reading.
Yes, like one of the best contemporary Mexican chefs lives in the UK of all places. But we're not talking about this broadly.

You talk about the possibility, that it could exist in Texas, and I'm telling you no, in my experience, not in Texas.
You’re misunderstanding how worldcoin works just like basically everyone who tries to criticize it. There’s no way to tie World IDs together between platforms. A unique ID is generated per platform from your wallet.
Yet regions ruin dishes and then locals from that region complain if anyone makes a good version of them, so it can be extremely hard to find an edible X, especially as a visiting tourist.
+1

We had a multi-month project to get a subset of our data considered 'clean', and it required a consultant, a stats PhD and many dev hours. It was healthcare, so on the high end of paranoia (justifiably) but nowhere it is as simple as dropping the "name" column
I'm getting well outside of my depth here, but some starting points:

Rain drops have been calculated to charge up to about 1/50 of an esu (electrostatic charge unit):
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/TE040i00...

Their paper is reporting 70V, so Joule/drop is on the order of 3.7E-11 J
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282.65E%E2%88%9211%29%...

(many, many orders of magnitude below the kinetic energy per drop)

It's important to note most of the research they've published is not using real rain, but laboratory generated droplets that is intended to push the harvester to the maximum.
With all of the layoffs, we're seeing about a 50-100x increase in number of applicants for open rolls, so the market is definitely more flooded. Also I'm regularly finding applicants were over-lelveled in past roles, and so usually have about one or two titles higher expectations for level than they actually are capable of having.
> I don’t believe that the team are lying.

That would be really crazy if the team behind a crypto startup just lied about their business and intentions - certainly has never happened before!
You cannot own property with a mortgage without insurance (and if you don't carry it, your mortgage servicer will force place it, at a much higher rate). If updated risk pricing prevents people from obtaining insurance (either because of high cost or total inability to have a policy written), real estate transactions dry up and people will have to move elsewhere to buy. Some buyers can probably perform cash transactions, rent properties out without insurance/self insure, perhaps business owners provide corp housing where a geographic benefit makes the operating model palatable, etc. But wage earners who desire to own RE will need to migrate if they need a mortgage.

I'm paying ~$4k/year in homeowner's insurance through Florida's high risk pool. I know people closer to the coast paying as high as $12k/year. This is unsustainable, but necessary to accurately price risk. Real estate markets will respond accordingly.

https://riskfactor.com/

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1186540332/how-climate-change...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-28/treasury-... | https://archive.is/o2BiF

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/local-state/2023-04-04/florida...

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-home-insurance-pric...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/homeowners-go-with...
Why do we need evidence of repeatability? At this point just evidence that a rtp superconductor exists, even if we can't create anymore of it, would be a nobel.
Narrator voice: it's not actually very easy to solve disinformation.
Unfortunately I've seen these terrible delays with our own clients and there's little that can be done other than what you suggest: get to the U.S. on some type of work visa and then pursue the green card when here, which is a very fast process. But one correction: you are allowed to travel to the U.S. as a visitor while your green card application is pending; you just need to maintain a home abroad and not work when here. We've had spouses in the same situation spend months and months in the U.S. while waiting for the green card process to run its course.
I recently added support for localised currency formats and didn’t tested every local. May be it’s a reason.
> Yes, you can use it for 2fa.

You say elsewhere you provide virtual phone numbers. If this is the case, you cannot use it for SMS-based 2FA reliably. Sometimes you will receive codes, but most of them won’t be delivered.
Fingerprinting is more of an intent. Google will absolutely tell you it's just to ensure consistency among their products. Their most important product being targeted advertising. Using it to enable consistent targeted advertising would be what the advertising industry calls fingerprinting.
He helped build the Workers platform after they hired him.
I believe it’s a reference to these initiatives:

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/obamas-effort-...
> the heat island effect

I live in a Gulf Coast city as well, but it's much smaller than Houston, and I think this really makes a significant difference. Summers are unpleasant here too, but somehow it's not quite as bad as Houston.
While I generally go with this, it definitely isn't an absolutely true statement and we should even modify it. People know they are doing wrong, they just justify it with reasons why it is okay to do the wrong thing. I'm pretty sure that these people knew they were doing a big wrong, but I'm sure they justified it with "well everyone fudges the data a little." (this wasn't little)
You can't beat disgust with better tech.
So founder of ethereum and his crypto/nft pal [0]. That does not seem to be a neutral and unbiased point of view.

[0] https://nitter.nixnet.services/TaprootWizards/status/1676260... ("Eric Wall: troll-demon @taprootwizards [...]")
Aw, I was super exited to see the Requiem for a Dream website again - this really was my first big WTF moment for artsy stuff on the internet (after frog in a blender). Unfortunately it only works for the first 20 seconds or so, than it ends with a white screen :(
I too have never experienced a violation of privacy which had a significant observable impact on my life. You and I have been fortunate in this respect.

Some people are literally targeted for harassment and murder because of some aspect of their identity, journalism, or activism. This isn't a hypothetical.

Here's one example from the top of my head:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khashog...

Tl;Dr the dissident Khashoggi was infected with NSO malware before he was murdered by the Saudi government. That's a pretty clear violation of privacy in service of something I would guess you disagree with.

This story isn't an anomaly, I think if you looked into this further you would find innumerable privacy violations which bother you.
This is a good point. Anything to lower the barrier to entry, and UI is the biggest complaint I keep hearing.

I don't get many of the UI complaints because I have always used Inkscape, so I have the same problem but in reverse. So, I get it.
I can imagine being the neighbor on the other side of that fence.

(peeks head over fence) Hey neighbor, what's that thumping sound I've been hearing all day?

Oh, that? Just my knife throwing machine. Nothing to worry about - I've worked out all the math, and my smart 13-year-old wrote the code, and there's plenty of safety margin with this little block of wood I've mounted on the fence to absorb the knives. And the machine has only activated without anyone telling it to once or twice. Like I said, nothing to worry about!
How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
Your assumption that the race and gender distribution of the legislature should reflect that of the overall population rests on a normative principle. My point is that normative principle is in tension with democratic principles.

For example, if it is your position that the race of a legislator matters--that one can expect a black or asian senator to do something differently than a white senator--then it is entirely rational for individual voters to prefer representatives of their own race. And in a white-majority society like the U.S., where minorities are geographically distributed amongst a white majority, that means that almost all legislators will be white. Any effort to rebalance that racial distribution would be in tension with the will and self interest of the voters.
People not in tech.
Once they get the contract. I guarantee that the recruitment process and negotiation process was more involved than a phone call. And there could be work specifically excluded as "billable hours" that is still work. For instance, is the time to fly out compensated?
Ah, highlighting specific messages would be a neat feature to have in Slack! It aligns with their official acronym: Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge.
Thanks Atharva! Can you send their website?
What data do you want to see? Most of it exists publicly but is very messy. You can get basic financial information here,[1] but data on student outcomes and school climate is very siloed - if there's a specific school/state you're interested in, I could help you find information.

Even if you're a researcher, good quality data rarely exists. In NYC, which collects more data than any other school district, you're mostly relying on a (publicly available) 100 question survey sent to every student. The survey author must have never talked to a child because the questions are worded like a clinical psychology paper. At low income schools the survey has a 20-30% response rate.[2]

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/index.asp?ID=2512750020...
[2] https://tools.nycenet.edu/snapshot/2022/
Ok, yes, we're saying the same thing.
This is a really tired take. Please provide some substance as to why you think this is a bad project instead of just shitting in it without justification
I run into this with tools at auctions. Want a small milling machine you can move into your garage on your own? $2k. Want a giant one from the 60s that takes a crane to move in? $400
Every time I update to a new GNOME version, the Power menu shifts around. I keep having to relearn where things like the Lock Screen button is. I don't understand who keeps remaking these decisions or why...
The TN is company-specific so if you are applying for a new job, even if you have a TN with one company, you would need a new TN and even though the TN process is generally simple and easy, it qualifies as sponsorship.
Author here - if you have questions, remarks, insights, I'd love to hear about them!
There are tonnes of these providers out there. OpenPhone is quite popular. Please be aware that these types of services don’t receive 2FA SMS reliably. But calls normally work fine.
I guess I'm low-class, but it must be exhausting to even see any of this, let alone care about it or worry about which shibboleths I happen to be showing.
>Lee believes that DNA origami nanoarchitecture will open a new pathway to create lighter and stronger materials that we have never imagined before.

"You will get a better Gorilla effect if you use as big a piece of paper as possible." -Kunihiko Kasahara, Creative Origami.

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...
We have an employee on my team that got a job this way a few years back. She is still with us and does good work.
Ask and you shall receive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_United_...
Giving Accenture a project is a guaranteed way to ensure it’s disastrous.
On the contrary, I'd start without any remote.
A nightmare, perhaps, but it has been done: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/nesos-somehow-fits-g...
>Dylan Mulvaney targets mostly teens on TikTok with her content

This is an assertion that requires evidence.
> general knowledge questions, programming help, translation, or writing.

They get all of these wrong too. It's like some AI-specific variant of the Gell-man amnesia effect. It's usually right in the first sentence, but if you really know the answer, it's often either very debatable or completely wrong by the halfway mark of the paragraph. Meanwhile, the associated brand authority is problematic.
The witness you are talking about was Martin Rinard.
This is because you lost the Revolution.
Guess there's a reason they post photos of people standing next to a giant thermometer for Death Valley California.
This is very cool home engineering, and maybe I'm getting soft in my old age... but whenever I see something like this I have to wonder "why violence." I guess it's some inherent trait we have.
That image of California traffic really reminds me of The Californians sketch from snl.
I am only using rsync.net at the moment, more specifically with the discounted "borg" mode without an explicit full shell.

Your comment sounds like tarsnap is more secure (in terms of longevity) than rsync.net. Is this true? If yes, why?

Genuine question, because I'm using rsync.net for my critical
stuff and would gladly move to tarsnap if appropriate.
Get lost sealion
Humans Suck at Seeing into the Future
I disagree that it's so easy to game but maybe you know more than me?

I'm not sure what you mean by buying biometrics early, stealing them seems very uneconomical, and faking them is an engineering challenge which seems quite difficult.

> And even worse, if you were once robbed of your biometrics in that system, you have lost it forever as I understand it? Is there even any way to get back what was robbed from you?

The biometric is only used for the airdrop. It is possible to create a wallet and send and receive transactions without ever visiting an orb. The only thing the biometric does is send an initial amount of WLD to your wallet and ensure that you can only receive that initial amount once.

If someone steals your wallet there is no getting it back, it is not linked to your identity it is just a private key. I'm not really sure what it means in this context to steal your biometrics?

> And just out of curiosity, does this system handle collisions of biometrics? Or is it just assuming and hopes for none to happen?

This is territory I don't know very well. I believe irises were chosen specifically because they were not invasive and they contain enough entropy that the chance of collisions is quite small. I don't know if it has enough entropy that they can be sure there are no collisions or if it has enough entropy that the expected number of collisions was tolerably low.
There is a cultural factor also - Tor, like most American BigTech, tries to sell us the idea of "trust the network" over any government as "governments cannot be trusted". Yes, governments cannot be trusted but what is worse is if we lose faith in democracy and give in to the idea that some corporate overlord or a foreign network will do a better job of protecting our rights. It's a ridiculous idea that only Americans seem to buy, while the rest of the world are actually enforcing the protections of their rights through democratic means (demanding regulations and legislation).

Personally for me it is about the traffic that may be routed through my computer by the Tor network - I definitely do not want child porn, drugs or terrorist related site transactions packets to even touch my computer. It maybe a rare occurrence, but I want certainty. If we could control the traffic that is allowed on our network / computer, I'd be a more willing user of Tor. (A use case example would be to allow a Tor user to create a white list of onion sites from which they would be willing to accept traffic).
You asked for an example and I gave you one, but it's not good enough for you. Where shall the goalpost move next? If it feels like it's an example of low consequence that's because it is: what we're arguing about is pretty trivial to most folks. And that might not make sense, but here's why: most folks aren't on hacker news nor care so deeply about such things.
Keybase was sort of trying to do this with social proof, though it's reliance on a centralized provider (keybase itself) made it brittle.

I think you can get there with something like Urbit IDs that are easy to ban. If IDs are not infinite you can some protection against abuse - pairing that with some proof-of-humanity and you can get closer, but there are still issues of someone doing the proof and then selling their ID to a bot. At least if it's easy to ban you can try to make that not economical. Doubly true if the IDs have a non-zero (but low) cost.

Helps make you resistant to a sybil attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

The problem isn't trivial though - it's not obvious what will work best and it'll likely always be somewhat of an arms race, especially if you want to keep privacy.
Describing it like this makes it sound very much like a ponzi scheme. When you buy into WLD, you're effectively giving money to current WLD holders, with the hope that more suckers will buy in and do the same for you.
My "narrative?" Holy cow, I have no idea what your problem is. Your reaction is unreasonable and I have to assume doesn't actually have much to do with what I posted. You are quite apparently reading an attitude into my post that I absolutely did not write into it. My sharing the true story behind a fictionalized retelling you enjoy was not meant as an attack on you or a smarmy "fact check," it was just to share the true story in context to the retelling. I read HN for intellectual curiosity and that's why I post things here too. This isn't the comment section on some politics website.

By the way, HN's community guidelines:

>Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

You have assumed bad faith and are swiping at me as you cross-examine your theory of why I "really" posted what I did, which is wrong. That's why I didn't break down the entirety of the movie's correspondence to reality, because you are imagining, and insisting, I was doing something here that I am not.

** edited out the rest because I won't argue about whether I was trying to pick an argument either. Take my word for it, you are completely wrong in your characterization of why I conversed with you with something I thought was of mutual interest. Good luck to you.
I find the lack of videos... curious.
> If we're going to anthropomorphize AIs, let's just call it bullshitting and lies.

why? "bullshitting and lies" suggests that the AI is intentionally being deceptive. "hallucinations" conveys the idea that the information is incorrect, but the AI perceives it to be correct, which is more in line with what is actually happening.
Worldcoin was just released, it can't be tired already! The only thing tiring here are the repeat grifting VC scams.
> Heavy electric cars

Electric cars being heavier have an impact in that it causes more wear and tear on roads. But they're absolutely dwarfed by the wear semis cause.
Even when the electricity comes entirely from coal, electric vehicles are more efficient than ICE vehicles, so every EV deployed reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

> and rockets

Rockets impact on emissions is a rounding error on the global scale. The number of launched would have to increase by 1000 times to start approaching the airline industry, and with the move to methane fueled rockets it's possible to synthesize the fuel from CO2 in the atmosphere using carbon free energy, creating a closed loop.

> Tesla should help the US build public transports

It doesn't work like that. You can't just say "let's build more public transport" and it will magically happen tomorrow. There are a ton of barriers to expanding many forms of public transport, primarily public funding, which they do not control. And when it comes to thing like rail, that's compounded even more by right of way.
The fact of the matter is that the US is a car heavy society, and building EVs is the fastest way to reduce transport emissions without (ignoring incentives) directly having to rely on public funding.

As an added bonus, building up an EV production line allows you to relatively easily export them to other markets around the world. You can't export a rail line to another place.
You’re misrepresenting what it’s collecting and you’re part of the problem in this discussion. Worldcoin isn’t storing anything that could be used by any other entity. It doesn’t store biometrics and there isn’t a way to use the store information to know what the iris looked like that generated it.
Men in Black and Tomorrow Never Dies in theaters.
It was also my favorite year! It felt like everything was getting better across the board.
It's a speech by the author Robert Anton Wilson discussing the work of Alfred Korzybski, who helped to explain and popularize the map/territory distinction and how it relates to the philosophy of science.

I'm a huge fan of Wilson and Korzybski, the ideas Wilson discusses in this lecture definitely changed my life and the way that I think about science, but even I would caution that it's not all that relevant to the discussion here.