skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unskilled labor in the Gulf is mostly South Asian in origin (from poorer regions like UP, Bihar, Nepal, Northern Bangladesh, Sindh, Balochistan, Afghanistan).

Egyptian nationals in the Gulf in 2023 now tend to work skilled jobs that require Arabic fluency like Medicine, Nursing, Teachers, Civil Service, Administration, Military, etc.

It doesn't hurt that Egyptian degrees are relatively respected in Kuwait, Saudi, and a couple other Gulf countries.
Ugh. This is probably the true nature of the thing, it's shocking how this happens at nearly every company I've been at. Eng is super concerned with privacy and security, and then as soon as Marketing gets a hold of it, it's all coated in 6 layers of analytics for funnel tracking leads.
Back of the envelope tells me levitating a person would need a magnetic field 10x that of this frog droplet, or about 160 T. The magnetic pressure of a 160 T magnetic field 1.5 million psi, or about 100x the pressure at the bottom on the Marianna Trench, and also about 1/3rd the detonation pressure of military high explosives.
I think the question ought to be why is your belief on the matter not the result of propaganda in the reverse direction? When you believe something that the overwhelming majority of experts disagree with then it seems it’s much more likely you are the victim of propaganda.

If 97% of the world’s oncologists say you have cancer then it’s likely you have cancer. Believing otherwise is deranged.
Salesforce Can’t Use 230, May Be Liable for Customer Backpage's Sex Trafficking
A password manager helps even there. Keep a copy of your main vault’s password and instruction on how to get to that together with your testament/last will and you do not have to worry about updating these. Your heirs will be able to access any future accounts you might create.
I set up Jitsi on my home server yesterday using their Docker guide [1]. It took about an hour to get it working and another hour to configure it to my liking. I was able to tweak the settings to allow 4K audio/video quality that blows away Zoom. So far I've used it a few times and it's a much nicer experience than Zoom, which always tries to get you to download their buggy and telemetry-filled desktop client.

1. https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...
OpenAI work there because labour is really cheap.

I don't think this is at all about UBI, if anything "competing" with Give Directly (who are doing truly excellent) would require more work and justification of Worldcoin's approach.

I do suspect the real reason is much more exploitative.
It is probably used to confirm how effective dark patterns are at tricking people into do things they don't want to do.
'Ergodicity Economics' Is Pseudoscience
As the other commenter linked, it generally refers to "developing"/underdeveloped countries. Aka, countries with lower per capita GDP.
It's only a matter of time until someone is killed becuase of an incorrect identification from a facial recognition or AI/ML system.
I take your point. I don't blame them for not knowing how bad it is elsewhere. But what I'm saying is that this lack of perspective leads many Canadians to underestimate the value of the system as it exists today.

First-past-the-post - FPTP - and wealthy interests have been here for a long time now. The system as it exists today works insanely great. This came to pass in spite of FPTP and the wealthy interest (hell, maybe even in part because of them).

Because the problems here are minor, the changes to the system should be mild, not radical. You don't give a complicated mechanism a big kick hoping to take it from 99% to 100% efficiency. You fine-tune it very carefully. Big kicks are for going from 0% to 50%.
It's trading wasting time by few developers manually writing client, for wasting time of tens of thousands of developers that use said client that doesn't fit language well.

It is IMO very bad tradeoff.
Minecraft has definitely proved that the children yearn for the mines.
surround and sneak are my desert island vim plugins
Maybe we should stop re-positing the specific developments of contemporary capitalism with some generic notion of civilization. A civilization is not some 'national body' that grows, matures, and dies exactly analogous to a biological organism.
Oh man what a cheat code that must have been. Some tribe rolled a 20 and got to pull from a damn meteor.
> Given this experience, if we extrapolate it forwards, then maybe within a couple of decades many organizations will be running on infrastructure that nobody understands at all.

100%. I fully expect to see the fickle AI spirits of the Warhammer 40K universe retconned into the grandchildren of LLM-driven program synthesis.
A few years ago I worked at a startup that let you send handwritten notes via an API. The machines that did this were basically 2.5 axis 3d printers, aka pen plotters which is not a new concept.

I was a software dev on one floor of a building working on the platform, and on the floor below us there was a fleet of about 100 of these machines that were producing the notes. Edit: There was a team of folks that maintained and operated these machines. They didn't write the software but without them the API would not have been able to function.

I really enjoyed interacting with these folks when I could. I got to build some QA UIs for them, and I took a lot of satisfaction out of using my knowledge of the platform to make a nice and efficient tool for them. You don't get to talk directly to your users often and it was a very enjoyable project for that reason.

Anyway, for a holiday party, I thought it would be cooler than a photo booth if we could find a way to make the robots draw the people that operated them. "Yeah sure, that would be cool good luck!"

Well, I actually made it work. With grit, determination, duct tape and jQuery I created a UI for generating vector path data from bitmap images so my "robot" could draw them. I hung out in a room and operated the photo booth all night and it was really fun. Nobody at work actually cared in a meaningful way but it was an extremely satisfying project for more than its aesthetic value.

https://facetrace-party.vercel.app

https://www.robotdrawsyou.com

I've figured out multi-pen workflows to do things like maps and really cool repeating pattern geometric artwork, but the project is kind of stuck because my career has been a struggle. I have my own dedicated machine / hardware to free me from the tyranny of the cloud, but turns out the "I'm gonna build it myself" path takes longer than expected. Who would have known?

I love it so much. I can't give up on it, but it really needs more attention than I can dedicate to it. If you think this is cool and you'd like to commission some artwork please get in touch I'd really like to make this happen.
I love seeing more web desktops as I think it's an amazingly fun side project. It's interesting to me seeing how far people will go with these. I've been working on mine for several years now. Also open source if anyone is interested in checking it out.

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
But Texas also has a large homeless population, despite being tough on crime and drug use, so your proposed solutions are clearly deficient. Conservatives love to pretend that every social problem can be resolved by throwing everyone in jail, but this has been shown over and over again to not only make the problem worse, but also cost more money in the long term. IDK what open carry would do, unless you're proposing armed vigilantes gunning down vagrants in the streets which IMO doesn't sound very "law and order" to me.
sharedrop.io and instant.io are good file sharing alternatives that don't require desktop apps. Limits? the amount of ram you have.
> Good animations have a purpose, showing where something came from or is going

Many websites will slowly slide a newsletter sign up form up from the bottom. We already know that it comes from the underworld, so the animation absolutely pointless there.
don't forget to run a few benchmarks on your old rig so you can get some good data on how big the improvement is.
This joke is funny because no one currently living has to make this choice.
Its like 100F outside every day here these days. I've had so many people say "wait I thought you said its electric why can I still hear it?" when its just the AC running.

Like, yeah, its 100F outside, the condenser coil still has a fan on it and is trying to reject a lot of heat and there's still a compressor churning away.
I absolutely despise everything in this comment. I have a user name and I know the associated password, let me in. Leave me alone with your proprietary authenticators that will lock me out the moment I lose my phone or Google/MS just _decide_ they feel like locking me out.

GitHub force-disabling password authentication for git push has actively made me contribute less to GitHub-hosted projects. And when I really feel it, I just create a full access authentication token anyway and copy the contents to the device. Great. This is the 90‘s "password on a sticky note at the desk" all over again, just even more cumbersome and even less secure. Great job, everyone.

And no, passkeys/webauthn/vendor lock in #1864 won’t fix this.
I second this. If you keep it in a container or a jail or something, you can run it on a server you control, set sshd to do password authentication, have one really good passphrase, and now you can access it anywhere you can get to a shell with ssh and Internet access. (This is obviously less secure, but the convenience is great if you need it.)

I've also done a version of this where it's stored on a Pi Zero, but the Zero (and SD cards) isn't the most reliable thing in the world and lost it a couple of times before I gave up, but it may work for others better.

It's more fiddly than a more featureful service, but I like it because I understand all of it and control all of it.
The Weaponization of Loneliness
Mac has never been power user friendly.
Web Workers are a really great feature for performance. The way they want the worker code to live in a separate file makes them slightly annoying if you're using a bundler, but each bundler has a loader or similar feature for this, so all is mostly well.

But the thing I haven't found a solution for is, the case where you want to use web workers inside a library that other people will be importing into their own project, and you don't know what bundler they'll use (or transpiler, minifier, etc). I can think of hairy ways to do it, that involve pre-building the worker JS and storing that text in your library, piping it into a file blob at runtime, or the like. But does anyone know a clean way of handling this?
[WarpStream co-founder here]

What do you think would be a good limit for the free plan?

This isn't actually an architectural constraint for us. We just didn't want to promise unlimited usage forever so we picked a somewhat arbitrary number to start with.
Local Privilege Escalation on the DJI RM500 Smart Controller
These sound more like complaints with shelters than anything I said. If getting someone into a shelter bed is not overall a net positive for them and society, why are we even doing it in the first place? You're pointing out a lot of other issues that have nothing to do with what I talked about. I'm sure there are lots of ways shelters could be run better and improved. It's an imperfect, partial solution to a huge problem.
A huge amount of the value of big tech companies comes from outrunning regulators (AirBnB, Uber) and/or existing in a state of exception (section 230). Congrats to Kenya for calling BS in short order.
Arg Digest
Microsoft has really poisoned the well with default-always-on-telemetry.

Technical solutions (firewalls, switching to Linux, etc.) aren't necessarily practical for many people.

> the ideal solution is one where corporations do not or are not allowed to collect telemetry by default

This is probably the only effective solution, but I don't see it happening without enforceable legislation.
So generously, 1M of them would be conscription eligible, and if they all paid the 5K, Egypt would have 5B as a one-time fee.

How is that going to help you run a government for 100M people? $50 bucks a head if they all pay.
Maybe, but you get the point on energy efficiency though , no need to go into semantics of encoder quality as that was not the point, just an example off the top of my head that resonated with my anecdotes when i upgraded from a Core 2 Duo.

Even with SW only workloads, just look at the geekbench scores I posted.

If a 2W smartphone SoC can offer over 2x the performance of a 95W chip, then it's bit outdated and energy inefficient and maybe time to upgrade to something better and more energy efficient, unless you're tryin to compete in the "who has the most gas-guzzling terminal/youtube machine" competition.
Which Do You Prefer for Apple? Revenue Growth or Steadily Expanding Ecosystem?
This should give a second life to Test-Driven Development.

One of the under-appreciated wisdoms of TDD is that there is a complexity asymmetry in many problems between finding a solution and (fully or partially) verifying it. Examples of asymmetric problems: inverting matrices, sorting an array, computing a function's gradient, compressing a byte stream, etc.

Human writes the easier part -- the test suite, the language model writes the harder part -- the solution. This can be a net gain in productivity.
MacOS sends out a whole lot more than the zero things I have granted it permission for. It regularly sends out diagnostic reports covering day-to-day usage without anything exciting through the SubmitDiagInfo tool, even though the Device Analytics & Privacy doc explicitly mentions this won't happen when Sharing Mac Analytics is off.

The vast majority of third party applications are also sending everything they can access and then some, often far exceeding in scope and nowhere even close to meeting the privacy and security standards as is claimed in the relevant policies.

Telemetry endpoints are increasingly being CNAME masked or called through anynymous proxies. Betraying the customer/user trust this way is absolutely despicable. Shipping normal release channel apps with a Sentry SDK configured to run in debug mode seems to be the new meta for some reason (nothing good, probably).

And then there's Mozilla... Not only are many of their recommended extensions secretly sending telemetry and doing all sorts of other things that violate their extension policies multiple times over (strict verification and thorough code auditing process my arse), but Firefox itself includes UTM and other tracking parameters in its outgoing links to third parties (including all preinstalled search providers) even when "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data" is unmistakably set not to allow it.

Things would be different if this software were to have actually improved over time, but in most cases the opposite is true. Thinking about it, the more telemetry an app collects, the faster it seems to deteriorate across the board. An example of two opposites on this spectrum would be VIM vs Spotify.
Is your argument based on Hollywood action movies and popular stereotypes based on them? Come on, pal. The only other guys who have always been obsessed with CIA agents in context of central and eastern Europe are Russian propagandists. And Petr Drulák is not a scriptwriter.
This is amazing.. Are you folks hiring ? :D
Out of interest, why do you dislike regenerative brakes? This is actually an old and well proven technology.
ARG as in alternate reality games (not arguments passed into functions!)
Also https://restofworld.org/2023/exporter-worldcoin-kenya-india-...
I can see why you would want to move beyond just googling the answer and summarising the relevant stackoverflow page.

But sometimes that's all I want, and it's a reliable way to save me 10 minutes. Reliability and ease of use are more important to me than the ability to answer advanced questions.

So I guess what I'm saying is be careful what you optimise for, and best of luck.
I agree with these rules. I would add:

* Always assume that no one will reply to a comment. Threads of comments are at most loosely based on a theme.
Related to 1. If I understood corrently the agent generates single object per each flushing interval containing all data accross all topics it has received. Does this mean that when reading the consumer needs to read multiple partition data simultaneously to access just single partition? How about scaling consumers horizontally how does WarpStream Agent handle horizontal partitioning of the stream from consuming side?
Okay I see, will look more into this and see how I can incorporate it
Even Zoom is making its staff return to the office
The author is presumably among the more security conscious, which makes it even more surprising he didn't mention password managers even if only to dismiss them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham-Cumming
Once upon a time, a receiver would actually need to hop. But I wonder if one can build a decent receiver for a scheme like this using SDR (e.g. a direct RF sampling receiver and some DSP. (The Xilinx RFSoC series looks like it could do this without coming close to breaking a sweat.). In the absence of jamming, I wouldn’t be surprised if a system like HAVEQUICK could be decoded without the key.

(In the presence of jamming, the dynamic range of the receiver could matter.)
It's because of obnoxious DRM garbage. I doubt helps these companies since the unlicensed users are starving musicians and kids with no money who aren't going to magically spend more.
Can't decide between

- a mini trailer for camping. It has drawers with cutlery and camping stuff and a roof top tent on top.
It's lightweight so I can move it easily in the campgrounds far from my car.

- a guitar from a kit

- fixed my garage sagging roof by lifting it up and rebuilding trusses
Not even sure what crime they are looking at here.

The police said they suspected her to be a woman who returned a stolen phone.

That does not sound like something a thief would do after carjacking someone.

The person they were looking for was probably also not a criminal.
Not defending the opt-out thing, but they are probably talking about video-first sites -- NetFlix/YouTube/TikTok/whatever likely call for different performance optimizations than Reddit or HN or Facebook.

And yes, Stallman was and is right about a great many things. He will be remembered with respect in the underground general-purpose computing scene of the not-too-distant future.
I think you should really delve deeper into Stoller’s work because he covers all these different industries on a regular basis. I remember the meat story for some reason as well.

But, hey, maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s a bad case being done for show. Slap on the wrist, back to business as usual sort of deal.
I've been using xubuntu for about 6 years now and I barely understand how linux works. So far so good, I've had one major issue which was related to my storage getting too full.

Admittedly I'm reasonably comfortable in CLI, but I don't know a whole lot about bash, just cd, mv, cp, ls -a, etc.

Is xubuntu better than ubuntu just because it removes a lot of cruft?
“Customer consent” as in, accepting the TOS by continuing to use the product? Have some respect for the intelligence of your users. If you’re playing dirty lawyerball in HN comments you can’t be trusted to act in good faith.
I can only speak for myself, not "certain parts of this site", but I did not use the words liberty or freedom anywhere, or even invoke those principles in broad terms, I don't think.
Added - good suggestion!
Oh, so this! Having had the option last Friday to just reboot into whatever it was before said update, and just skip the next couple of updates, man, that would have been great!
That would be the charitable possibility that soligern pointed out. I'm still weighing P_I_Staker's interpretation, pending clarification.
So she went to a lineup using pictures (in this case an 8 year old photo) and the victim chose her as the suspect? Isn't a lineup supposed to have the actual suspect and others lined up? How can they use old photos?

This is a miscarriage of justice and I hope the police get raked over the coals for using BS facial recognition in a live case and ignoring circumstantial evidence.
I absolutely agree it's a problem with shelter beds, but this is exactly what you're talking about. Coercive force is useless at best unless there's something effective that you're pushing people into. Pretending like the problem is that we're not "cracking down" hard enough, or that progressives are simply averse to sufficiently coercive measures bc they're soft-hearted or whatever, only obscures the solution space until we've resolved the other issues first. Coercion without effective direction is nothing more than torture.
With all this hype around full gpu UIs it rarely mentions the high latency around that. I’m much more excited about wasm making things snappier
"Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned."

Can anyone say how much each of those crypto tokens are worth in $USD?
Mmorpg Game in ClojureScript
Yeah makes sense. Yeah, would love to have a chat, anyway I can reach out to you?
Seriously. I ordered Windows and all I got was a piece of cardboard with some random letters and numbers on it, and not a frame with glass.
Building search for the post-ChatGPT world
Hey HN!

We wrote a blog post about our adventures in building a (neural) search engine in the post-LLM world. We hope it gives a perspective on how we're thinking about the future of search and the role that tools like Metaphor could have. In brief, we think that LLMs will do more searches than humans, using tools like Metaphor.

You can play with our search here (http://metaphor.systems/) or check out our API here (https://platform.metaphor.systems/). The API is free to use up to 1000 requests/month, and if you're a student or nonprofit, just reach out and we can probably do more.

Cheers!
That makes sense, hence why we still left the old “Basic Search” mode available via toggle from the search page.
You can write a reply and then erase it without sending, and that's the best thing to do in most cases.

Reminds me of a time I’d written a huge email - can’t remember now what had got me riled up. I showed it to a colleague to proof read and he just said “there’s only want way to improve this” and promptly hit the delete button…
Spying on Arctic foxes from space reveals the species have a green thumb effect
I really don't want to have anything to do with crypto, and the fact that Sam Altman is pushing it in 2023 makes both him and OpenAI look sketchy.

Especially crypto with a weird biometric eye scanner.