skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is removing the need for reputation and trust

Except it doesn’t. That’s exactly what we’ve learned over the last decade. It never did either of those things. What it did is that it clouded reputation and trust just about enough to trick people into the illusion of a “trustless” system. There is no such thing. In the end you trust the coders trusted by the people who use the apps implementing the blockchain. There’s no tangible difference to trusting the coders trusted by the banks you use. Yes, with some cryptocurrencies they’re not associated directly with a centralised organisation. But that will absolutely change over time if the cryptocurrency ever becomes relevant to the big corporations of the world. Just as the WWW in practice now is controlled by Google and Apple.

The point of selling the idea that a cryptocurrency is “trustless” is to trick you into trusting it just long enough to pull off a Ponzi-scheme or rug-pull. And yes, that goes for Bitcoin too.
Cool, agree, will fix it soon.
Twitter is now labeling false advertisements with Community Notes
I find it surprising how few protocols (besides Cap'n Proto) have promise pipelining. The only other example I can think of is 9p, but that's not a general purpose protocol.

https://capnproto.org/news/2013-12-13-promise-pipelining-cap...
All it took was a year and a half in Bellevue and I've never needed protection from the rain ever since.

Now that I'm back in California I get a lot of weird looks in the office when I go out into the rain on purpose. It's a lot easier to appreciate the rain here when it's not raining nonstop for nine months.
Wait wait wait... you think that having more-targeted ads (which will have a higher CTR and thus are more valuable to the advertiser, and thus lead to a higher CPM for the publisher) will lead to less ads? What planet are you on?

I was already starting to think you're full of it from your responses to other posters, but now I'm sure of it.
The post states "they used Cap’n Proto before they hired me"
In your experience, what does the success rate looks like for incorporating a company with all H1B founders and with 1 US citizen& 1+ H1B founders? Thanks
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the new cases for the last 10 years. Sexual assault isn't where the cases are coming from.
To get the visa application processed in two weeks, else it will take up to 4 months or so.
this discussion is gathering momentum.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36902053

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900153

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895278
Typically open source projects migrate to productising their services to have financial stability to support their community and customers.

Open source can either be sponsored, have a Cloud version or ask for support fees, isn't that the natural transition for an open source product?
On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management
I said and I meant "more fair". We both agree this will not be a perfectly fair airdrop. Anything not perfect is feudalism?

> What prevents a factory owner from having all of his employees grab an orb, scan their irises, claim their coin, and then hand over their wallets to him as a condition of employment?

The airdrop is gated in multiple places. Everybody needs to visit an orb to claim worldcoin but the set of active orbs is managed by worldcoin and when one of them acts suspiciously the orb can be deactivated, among other counter-measures. A set of wallets all owned by distinct people will act differently than a set of wallets controlled by one person.

This is obviously not perfect, some fraud will occur. It is still a more fair initial distribution than any other currency I know of.
Hell, I'll even put Taco Bueno up against any other pan-US cheap quasi-taco chain.

It's bad Tex-Mex, but at least it's recognizable.
Wouldn't a more reasonable position be a prohibition on researchers acting as paid expert witnesses in cases against the school system? I can imagine that might disincentivize 'gold-digging' behavior by researchers.

The complete ban on researchers engaging in any litigation seems over-broad, and designed to keep potential litigants from having access to anyone 'in-the-know'.
People have been murdered (in the US) for far less.
Working with rolling releases is not antonimous to testing.
I was visiting a friend in the PNW and we went for a walk. Shortly after we started, the drizzle started. Honestly, it felt great, the drizzle on the face. My clothes didn't really seem to be getting wet, either, that's how slight it was. Then, he mentioned "the rain" and I looked at him. Dude, you think this is rain? He said, yeah, it rains harder, but they consider this rain. I questioned him a bunch and it seems much of the time the rain was at drizzle level.

Now, this was in the 90s. I don't know if the rain is harder now, due to, you know, the changin' weather.
Removing PII would probably also involve removing individual grades and other information that's necessary for any research to be effective. Thanks to predatory data collection practices on the internet, we know how little information you actually need to deanonimize someone. The problem only becomes worse when we're talking about kids.

That said, research that cannot be reproduced is useless. There's a balance to be struck here, and it's somewhere between "make all data public" and "lock the data in a vault".
California has the strictest Science Denial laws on Earth, so HN must censor everyone reading this for 180 days.
Does the magnetic polar shift affect the jetstream? If the jetstream is affected, would the regional temperatures be affected? Would the weakening magnetosphere affect jetstreams & temperature? If so, how?
The H-1B transfer process is easy for qualified workers even if the sponsoring company is a startup. So the blocker really isn't the H-1B transfer process. Sometimes employees are in the midst of the green card process and feel trapped until they have a green card or are far enough along in the process such that they can port their green card application to a new company. One advantage that smaller companies have is that they often are much more willing to sponsor employees for O-1 visas as well as NIW- and EB1A-based green cards and that the relative impact of employees at a smaller company is much greater than at a large company and this can help with NIW- and EB1A-based green card applications.
Show HN: Comunidade Segura Para Pais E Futuros Pais: Conheça Paternidade
where are those kits,could not locate any
You paid Google? Why'd you pay Google $20? That's $20 more than my number cost me. I mean, other than all the ads, engagement, and PII.

I signed up for my number in 2015, with a landline, because I had just purchased an Android tablet, with no SIM slot or mobile plan, so I decided that teh Goog was the best bet for VoIP for me.

You've got to guard your conversations on Voice, and don't mention forbidden keywords. Voice will instantly disconnect the call if it detects wrongthink.
If Facebook would have produced half as much value for the industry as Xerox did.
> The oracle problem is a problem because there are no oracles

To expand on this and correct your first statement, physical engagement can't be a proof of personhood either.

There can never be a proof of personhood, or if someone is a human or not, or if someone is conscious, etc.

It's more practically applicable than it sounds. Think conjoined twins (sharing a brain), disabled people, people in coma, long memory loss and all other edge cases.
I would absolutely use this.

I have a work and personal phone. For many reasons, it's very difficult to merge everything onto a single device. Further, I really don't need to do much "phone" stuff with my work phone. It's mostly a glorified pager, 2FA, and occasional Slack/Email. Anything serious gets a sit-down on my computer.

This would effectively let me carry a full-isolated, properly segmented work phone without having to carry two devices.
I don't work at Cloudflare but follow their work and occasionally work on performance sensitive projects.

If I had to guess, they looked at the landscape a bit like I do and regarded Cap'n Proto, flatbuffers, SBE, etc. as being in one category apart from other data formats like Avro, protobuf, and the like.

So once you're committed to record'ish shaped (rather than columnar like Parquet) data that has an upfront parse time of zero (nominally, there could be marshalling if you transmogrify the field values on read), the list gets pretty short.

https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-... goes into some of the trade-offs here.

Cap'n Proto was originally made for https://sandstorm.io/. That work (which Kenton has presumably done at Cloudflare since he's been employed there) eventually turned into Cloudflare workers.

Another consideration: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/2#issuecomment-...
The issue is the "sufficiently anonymized" part. Given a large enough number of dimensions, you may be able to identify students well enough.

For example, if you take all students that took course A at time X, course B at time Y, course C at time Z and so on, eventually you might be able to narrow it down to a very small group, perhaps to even a single student.
I keep coming back to Scott McCloud’s spread in Understanding Comics.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220819061912/https://i1.wp.com...

The whole book is fantastic. I recommend it even to people who are not into comics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
The last time I had resumes to look at it was a few years ago, pre-gpt. We had pretty a specific hard requirement (elixir experience), and easily 95% of the resumes had no mention of it. So I don't know if I'd blame artificial intelligence, more like natural stupidity.

[edit] And by stupidity I mean people who just spam every job they see trying to get a hit. Like what were you planning to do if you got the job?
EROI for that is almost certainly negative and it's more likely to just be a source of clogs and maintenance.
I agree that it would be much better if a model could move the knowledge to the weights, but I don't think it's necessary. Models like RNN have practically infinite lossy "context window", and I think it would be much more reasonable to find an RNN architecture that would scale like a transformer than what you propose, while still achieving our goal. An alternative analogy you can think of is that the frozen weights in the model are our DNA, while the state or "context window" of the model is our state.
Meat allergy induced by tick bites becomes more common
Calling it fraud is stupid. They deliberately reduced the work that is required, allowing people to file applications easily and cheaply. They deliberately allow people to file multiple applications, that I have not seen a single legitimate employee file. This is all deliberate, not a loophole or fraud.

Also, it is stupid to call H1B a high-skilled visa when you hand it out via lotteries. I wonder if people consider winning powerball as a skill?

But to answer your question, many people filed 10-20 applications each through fake companies to get H1B. The H1b acceptance rate was down to 13% and more than half the applications were filed by people with multiple applications.
Thank you for the feedback!

Indeed, this is something that I have learned from the comments here: that cophone needs to forward the notifications from the virtual smartphone to the physical one(s). Will put it on high priority!
I'm not well versed un trading, but isn't BTC up like 70% this year?
It would be great if the tool could load your liked songs
We will be baked soon alhamdulilah.
Very interesting concept. I'm not a decision maker at my workplace but it's something I'd definitely mention in conversations. I really like the idea of not having to carry a work phone.
I'm excited by Cap'n Proto's participation in the OCAPN standardization effort. Can you speak to if that's going to be part of the Cap'n Proto 2.0 work?

https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn
I meant, how does it dictate partition layout/xxx?
Why not give it an appropriate opensource license? That would increase trust that business decisions won't be radically changed at a whim, and if they do then people at least will have the option of forking.

I won't try this app, because I worry that at any point you may decide to change the business model. It's happened so many times with so many apps. If it were opensource, at least I'd know I can continue building it and running it myself, and there'd be a chance that if it were popular enough, development community would emerge around it.
First one I tired seemed to have some origin check and wouldn't play, with the message "Please play this on Kongregate".
So it's an Android VM that can be accessed from a browser for $15/month. For an extra $10/month you can attach a phone number to it that has free incoming calls and SMS along with pay-per minute outgoing calls and pay-per message SMS.

I see App Lounge in the screenshot so I assume the VM's are running /e/. Have you tried installing any of the MDM's out there like AirWatch or InTune?

As a thought exercise, how about some light abuse. What would happen if I rammed a couple TB of BitTorrent data through that VM. Maybe used it as seedbox. Or maybe a proxy so I can access a streaming service.

It feels like you're really trying to sell the phone part, and that the Android VM is a means to an end. However, this is just a random phone number that I suspect isn't portable. So if I stop using your service I can't take the number with me. So why wouldn't I get a Skype number for $6.50/month, Skype to Phone for $3.50/month, and then use the web.skype.com page to make all the phone calls I want. Or you can do what I do and use jmp.chat for phone calls and SMS and have it all routed to the XMPP client of your choice (as long as that client supports all the needed features).
Given the euphemism "bug" substituting for "programming error" you'd be tempted to allow something similar for LLMs, but these are not errors, the output is by design.

There is no motive for truth, just the most likely output, even if the likeliness is low.
This lady has probably done more to advance science than most Nobel winners. She deserves all that and more.
> If the institution is public, data should be public as long as individual PII is removed.

PII is much broader than most people understand because reidentification of what amateurs would see as deidentified data is easy (often trivial), and, as a consequence, to be useful for research data is often not fully deidentified.

EDIT: As an example, the HIPAA safe harbor deidentification standard requires removing 18 kinds of identifiers, including, as one of them:

All geographic subdivisions smaller than a state, including street address, city, county, precinct, ZIP code, and their equivalent geocodes, except for the initial three digits of the ZIP code if, according to the current publicly available data from the Bureau of the Census:
(1) The geographic unit formed by combining all ZIP codes with the same three initial digits contains more than 20,000 people; and
(2) The initial three digits of a ZIP code for all such geographic units containing 20,000 or fewer people is changed to 000
For me, it's like you suggest - more disinterest than horror. But it happens regularly with out-of-town coworkers. There are lots of above average ethnic places near my home and office (same 'hood). But, in a large enough group, there's usually one or two meat-n-potatoes person who doesn't want to try anything new.
I'm not convinced Tor could scale to a significant percentage of internet traffic using it.
UK couple, both have engineering PhDs and 10+ years experience in engineering (dev and automotive), not rich but not poor. Is there a sensible path to US immigration that doesn’t leave them in the H1B bind or always on the verge of being deported?
>standard SOP

Double-standard operating procedure.
> Disclaimer: I am a "viralata"

Yes, indeed. You are basically doubting that Embraer can manufacture and sell airplanes.

I would understand some doubts about the technology or overall acceptance. But plainly doubting their capacity to build and sell things is ridiculous.
> If your goal is to spread knowledge as effectively as possible, why limit yourself by the very rules working against you?

This is assuming that spreading knowledge as effectively as possible is the only goal. Even if you take a utilitarian approach to ethics, I doubt anyone has this as their only goal.

> The laws in question aren’t really about morality anyway.

I think what is and isn't related to morality is at least somewhat subjective.
While I could see an issue with music rights, the commercial rights seem doable. I can't imagine them having a massive objection to "we'll show your commercial again for free."

Trying to set it up now seems nearly impossible, but if they planned for it then it may have been possible.
Adding clean energy to the US power grid just got a lot easier
Deepgram will correlate the text in your transcription with the timestamp where that was uttered. This is really really impressive and useful.
Haha! Time to unsubscribe from all those streaming platforms...
I don't think you read any of what I wrote.
Altman's belief system is "I deserve more money and power", that simple. There's no generous interpretation of building a 25% pre-mine shitcoin, and hawking it to third world countries through sketchy contractors who are explicitly incentivized to collect biometrics from anyone they can, where the claimed purpose of said shitcoin isn't even a little bit implemented, especially all of this in light of your friend and business partner runs fucking Palentir
Anonymizing a huge data set like this is impossible.

Also, the burden of proof is on those that say that the data has no privacy implications, not on those who are like "ehhh, it's probably safe to release this."
I tracked it down in another comment, the 200 w/m^2 is the maximum output of the harvester, e.g. if you started spraying the panel with a firehose.

In this case, the input energy available is ~4 orders of magnitude lower than that.
> isn't that the natural transition for an open source product?

For the best projects, like Open Source operating systems and programming languages, no.
Very high in fact if handled right.
I believe that the data can be sufficiently faked to be anonymized.
Wrecking the electricity grid? No, saving the electricity grid. Record high demand, normal summer prices.

https://electrek.co/2023/07/26/thanks-to-wind-and-solar-texa...
I think any system that wants to store assets would expect to store >$50 eventually and the incentives grow correspondingly.
Regarding the GC backlog for India, what is your best guess for the number of years it will take for priority dates in 2016 to become current?
Correct. I've done a fair amount of de-obfuscation work and it's frighteningly trivial sometimes.
> The only idea I see is for some certificates handed out by government to citizens and I absolutely hate it even in a democracy.

I think this is the answer. Governments already have the infrastructure to verify identities in person, and no other organization is going to build it.
A huge part of the civil litigation metagame is just finding ways to legally exempt yourself from being sued. It used to be the case that only sovereign states could declare themselves immune from litigation, but now that power has been delegated to anyone who can convince someone else to sign a binding contract. Which is literally everyone because almost every business relationship requires contracts. And now we're going to "you can't testify against us because you had an NDA" which seems even more abusable.

By $NEAR_FUTURE_YEAR the only people who wind up in civil court will be victims of extortion.
I went to the Apple v. Samsung trial in 2016 or so, and the highest paid expert witness that day was $850. The other two were $450 and $350. Where are you getting this number?

The prep time is included in your hours. The $850 guy said he'd put in 900 hours.

(btw, it IS excruciatingly boring work. But of course, the money.)
Can you provide a synopsis of this lecture transcript?
When it comes to open source there are lot of such products but I've used AdminJS in my daily work, and it's really good. More tools like, cal.com, Chatwoot, etc.
I'm wondering if the charge generated by a rain drop could be from its static charge, rather than kinetic energy conversion?

Clearly storm systems can accumulate a large charge differential with the ground (i.e. lightning), but I don't know if that's the principle behind rain drop charge harvesting. Cursory googling[1] tells me electrostatic charge may be the source?

1 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smll.2023015...
I am sorry but I disagree: this information is helpful in as much as it effectively prevented my from buying a Tesla, and also I understand better now the difference between my Mazda MX-30's truthfull range reporting, and Tesla's untruthful range claims.
Difficulty of finding good Engineers vs. Product Managers
Which is tougher for you?
Most people complaining about systemd wouldn't even notice if their whole OS was just a single binary.

This attitude does not help the Linux stack, because the one thing software vendors do not have time for is to test against 10+ init systems[1].

I don't need both Wayland and X11, I just need one of these that is reliable.

I also don't need both Flatpak and Snap, I just need only one that does not have crippling bugs.

I also do not want to care about what version of glibc is on the target machine, I just want to compile a blob that anyone using any distro can run.

Choice is good, however not when it comes to the base system, the base system needs to be there and it needs to be reliable and people should build good stuff on top of that, init systems are not exciting things to build.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
> So long as the data cannot identify specific students

It almost certainly can, even if it does not explicitly do so.
What is "Mindfulness"? How do you define this?
Old thinking stock 100 years ago, old corporate/government structures can't get the internet. Their solutions always concern building physical things. They will never get it. A black swan event in the horizon will bring about a new structure that uses the physical world only for what is essential: health, water, food & shelter. Getting people from A to B and back is a solution from the 1900s industrial revolution that brought about cities.
That is exactly how the open source Workers integration works:

https://protomaps.com/docs/cdn/cloudflare

However, it is an optional acceleration layer on top of the PMTiles access pattern; and it doesn't make a compelling demo, it's just a Z/X/Y layer which is how map tiles have worked for the past 20 years.
While I agree with this, I think the value lies in making the fingerprints less precise. You can think of a fingerprint as akin to a hash of your device's unique ID. If hash collisions are frequent enough, the value of the fingerprint is reduced.
Any decentralized system that uses biometrics for authentication rather than just identification is doomed to fail spectacularly.

Biometrics are like a username NOT like a password.

When a piece of wolrdcoin is inevitably compromised, people have no means of rolling a new iris. The whole thing will come crashing down.

There are so many stupid decisions this team is making. Like, users can opt into the orbs retaining their iris scan for network quality assurance purposes. Would any sane person ever opt into an ATM storing their PIN number for quality assurance? It is an implicit bounty for hacking the orb. And the fact that they seem to need further quality assurance points to the fact that they aren't confident people will have continuous access to their accounts. Best case, I'd imagine anyone who has a catastrophic eye injury would also permanently lose access to their accounts - but I suspect the reality is much worse.