skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool writeup! Although I agree those captcha's are fairly trivial.

In college I wrote a term paper on breaking Microsoft's captcha (which is a little harder but not by much) twice: first with a simple template-based classification method and then a CNN approach.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jfp5xbv3eh589f6/6_857_CAPTCHA.pdf?...

At the end, we go over approaches that would help captchas fight attacks. I think the quick flickering approach would work best (split the image into uneven parts, flicker them quickly so the human eye can read the aggregate image but any single slice doesn't show the full picture, and the superimposed image is incorrect)
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I get a similar feeling with Docker.

If your not using Docker as a deployment tool and want every deployed instance to be the same then you are SOL. Which is a shame, as there are other uses, but they are hampered by the lack of a couple of features that have had open tickets for a long time.
It's been a while since I've tried it so perhaps someone can comment whether things have changed or if there was something I missed. When I last tried fish, I liked it but I couldn't get past the lack of ctrl-r (backward history search), which I rely on extensively. I found having to reach over to the up/down arrows too clumsy in comparison. An oh-my-zsh plugin also provides fuzzy searching (history-search-multi-word).

Anythiing comparable now in fish land?
Frankly the same thing applies to your ATM card. All the more reason not to broadcast your net worth to the world.
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Sorry, but this is bad advice.
As some who works in manufacturing, the more your volume goes up, the more you value repeatability. One error in a hundred isn't an issue when you manufacture ten, but when you manufacture a million it is a huge headache.
you dont really need Ctrl-R in fish. Just type the command you are searching for and hit the up arrow key. Same effect
Jeez. I had not thought the Macron government to be so backwards. IMHO there are two issues at place:

1. teachers not adapting to new times. In ye olde days, teachers had the attention of the students basically guaranteed (as the only thing students could do instead of paying attention to the teacher was drawing messages on papers and passing them around). That frontal instruction is bullshit and should be a thing of the past could be ignored. Now, however, teachers have to compete with the Internet for the attention of the students - but instead of embracing the change and throw some rotten traditions over board, they ban phones. LOL.

2. Mobbing/cyberbullying. I can understand that schools want to tackle this problem, but banning smartphones is a symbolic measure. The students will still use closed Whatsapp/FB/whatever groups after school, without the school being able to interfere in any way. Proper prevention measures, like teaching the students what the effects of social media can be, provide counseling, social workers, etc. - all that costs money, a lot of it. And so politicians rather ban smartphones so that the (rightfully) concerned parents shut up without having to spend huge sums of money.
It's common sense that exaggerations and selective ignorance kills discussions.
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"Seems you've also wasted power and contributed CO2 as well?"

CO2 alone assuming there are no hot chilli involved:)

edit: on a more serious note, companies don't waste fuel for no reason, so I'm sure it was a test flight which they decided to fly in a creative way to bring more eyes to the brand. People wandering around every day, every year, in elephant sized pickups doing things a small car would be enough for are a much worse source of pollution.
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I'm not making comments about the validity of the article, but I do want to point out that a quick google search of the author seems to imply that he is pretty much universally disliked.
My comment wasn't even about equal pay. It was about equal representation..
>> Repeaters add latency and I can't imagine any network engineer would ever recommend one.

Keep in mind that these TP-Links are consumer grade hardware, and that they make sense for some use cases. Not every consumer can or wants to run wire for another AP, regardless of what a network expert would say.

I use an RE450 at my dad's house (which happens to be next to mine) so when I'm there I can access the Internet. My parents don't have any computers, smartphones or tablets and don't use the Internet. The RE450 does the job -- very well I might add -- and was cheaper and easier than drilling holes in masonry to run a network wire between the houses.

The NTP and DNS requests are concerning, but they don't materially impact my bandwidth cap on the plan I'm on.
Yes, it does make a difference, in a few ways.

AMD modules can effectively only be consumed by a browser, or a browser-focused bundling tool, since AMD was designed for the "cascading waterfall" loading approach. Anecdotally, I see no new libraries being written in AMD format, and some that are written in AMD are looking at transitioning to ES6 modules.

CommonJS modules are intended for synchronous loading under Node, and tools like Webpack and Browserify can wrap them up to be used in a browser.

ES6 modules are designed to be statically analyzable, which is a key factor in "tree shaking" to drop unused code out of a generated bundle. However, the ES6 spec only defined the syntax for modules, not how they should be loaded. Major browsers have finally implemented native support for ES6 modules, but there's still a lot of complexity around how they're going to be implemented in Node [0].

There's also complexity around how lib authors publish packages to NPM. The most compatible approach is to author lib code as ES6 modules and whatever syntax additions you want, then compile it to CommonJS and ES5 before publishing. However, that loses out on any possible benefits from tree shaking. See this Twitter thread with discussion from Dan Abramov [1].

For more info on the history and differences between various JS module formats, see the "Javascript Module Formats" section of my React/Redux links list [2].

[0] https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/the-current-state-...

[1] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/938090483166924800

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
I can see where @dmichulke is coming from, nobody is going to come to your door looking for that money in the fashion you describe but you are paying for it one way or another. Who knows, maybe if the debt levels weren't so high the US would be able to afford a healthcare system like the rest of the developed world.
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this will be an extremely good fit, china and google. Their ideologies for the most part are the same.
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I think the parent meant that anycast is often used for DNS servers, not that a DNS lookup is used to find the closest Google DNS server.
"poisoning" means to introduce a harmful or deadly substance into someone or something. Even the very wikipedia article you refer to calls it poisoning.
What is the difference between a residential load profile and a commercial one?
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A Raspberry Pi probably won't do. The controller requires MongoDB which itself is no longer supports the 32 bit architecture which most RPis are running on.
I think you really nailed it. In mature economies it's no longer about creating anything but about extracting and concentrating value through financial instruments. That is so much easier. Real invention, design, and production are incredibly hard compared to just finding some angle to extract interest or profit from asset appreciation.

That is also what will ultimately bring us down. I have a suspicion that a more general formulation of this effect is a major cause of why civilizations collapse.
I think Google just wants to recruit AI talents from China and uses research from the AI center in China in markets it is not banned.

If so, they don't need to interact with the government that much like when they offered a search service to Chinese netizens.

I can think some companies that just do this. Hulu has an office in Beijing, although it doesn't offer video streaming service in China. And Grab has an office in Beijing too, although it only targets Southeast Asia market.
>Would you say providing public education and moving people from dangerous area to safer places as a way of cleansing their cultures?

Wow somebody is drinking the govt koolaid. How about we move you and your family from a "dangerous area" to a safer place and provide you an "education" against your will?
> Now, however, teachers have to compete with the Internet for the attention of the students - but instead of embracing the change and throw some rotten traditions over board, they ban phones. LOL.

how can the average teacher compete with social networking sites that have been engineered specifically to maximize engagement?
Do they have to be your average markdown template mass generators or do older "HTML helpers" that used e.g. m4, cpp or some ad hock template language count?

I think blosxom had a static output mode way back when.

(And regarding this one: Still not a fan of JSX, it's basically PHP/JSP all over again)
Well it is still a very expensive thing to do :)
> But do we live in an age where parental and community authority are so diminished that parents need the power of the state to bolster their discipline of their kids?

It's not that dramatic; it's just that at school the parents are absent, and the teachers' authority is typically undermined by the parents --
congratulations if you are not one of them, but in such case I am simply talking about your kid's classmates' parents.

Try to limit the children's freedom in any way (e.g. take away their smartphones if they play Angry Birds or browse Facebook during the lessons), and at least one of the parents will complain and threaten to sue the school. The easy way out for school administration is to let kids do whatever they want to, and formally require teachers to maintain discipline in the classroom while simultaneously forbidding them to do anything that could actually have an impact.

The best strategy for a parent is to try finding a school when parents of other children are not idiots. That is typically easier said than done. What I would recommend is trying to find something unusual -- for example I would choose Montessori education for my kids; not because I think it is a superior option per se, but simply because it is not the default option, and I expect the most stupid parents to go for the default option, so this is how I would try avoiding them. Problem is, if this strategy becomes too popular, many of the idiots will choose it too, simply because they heard somewhere it was the right thing to do. (It's complicated because some of the idiots also want to get the best education for their kids; they just can't stop themselves from trying to undermine it the moment someone provides negative feedback to their kid.)
The difference between NVME SSD and SATA SSD is like between classic HDD and SATA SSD. It has to; NVME can push 4GBps, SATA3 only 600MBps.

Even the Apple 2015 M.2 drives, which are "only" AHCI, but with much deeper queue (i.e. nonstandard), can do 1.something GBps and the difference compared to standard SATA SSD is noticable by normal users.

Electron apps are something normal people use and some of them compain about the speed/lag/memory usage. Usually those with older computers, who think nothing changed in the last years ;).
That's the entire point of ISPs being classified under Title II, which is exactly what the FCC will be voting to repeal. Right now, ISPs are common carriers in the US; soon, they will no longer be.
For an experienced bludgeoner it might be similarly feasible to bite off your fingerprints.
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You should. It’s very nice there during summer and there are a ton of pretty cool and informative info panels on the history of Tempelhof and the airlift. Bring a grill and a kite!
"To the absolute number multiplied by four times the [coefficient of the] square, add the square of the [coefficient of the] middle term; the square root of the same, less the [coefficient of the] middle term, being divided by twice the [coefficient of the] square is the value." -Brahmagupta, 628AD

I would say we have come a long way.

Mathamaticians absolutly do spend effort on making their work readable. However, this readability is general not within the equations themselves, but rather in the prose around the equations and in how the proof is presented. Of course, skill levels vary in this, and most mathematicians only ever write for other mathematicians, so that is the audience they have practice with (and, if you read a math paper, likely the intended audience).

Also, generally the "equation" is not what mathamaticians are even trying to explain because it is vastly simpler then what they actually worked on, which is the proof.

For example, suppose quadratic equations were actually really difficult, and a mathamtician finally figured out how to solve them. She would probably say something along the lines of:

"A quadratic equation has solutions x=(-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac))/2a.

[Entire paper talking about how to complete the square]"

The entire point of the equation is to be simple to write down and use. It is not intended to be understood.

Sometimes they say an equation without explanation. That is either bad writing, or knowing the audience. Ideally, every equation would come with either an explanation or reference; but if I am writing a research paper, I am probably not going to cite every fact that can be found in an undergrad calculus textbook.
*It looks like 'a couple' was correct usage - apologies!

'a couple' = 2, 'a few' would be more accurate :)
Fair enough,and I'll take your word on that being true.(still they could have given an example or 2 rather than a ban on a whole bunch of subreddit)

Anyways, I misinterpreted the HN thread as asking the question whereas it was meant to point us to an anons rant about US immigration on Quora. I didn't realize that when I commented

I would delete OP,but that's not allowed here..
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good old apple: it just works, for very light and simple amounts of work.
The 1000 or so majority owners probably are.
It's at $70B right now, which is about 1/14 of a trillion. All of crypto is about 1/2 a trillion though.
It would be great if Fish supported &&. I know it has its own syntax for this but it's not particularly fun going through a command you copy pasted from elsewhere and swapping out all the &&s (I usually just end up firing up bash).
I really liked this article. Even with a very limited basic understanding about machine learning or image processing, I was able to understand what the author was talking about. Well done.
Are you this person?

https://twitter.com/JamesNicollV/status/940964868110381057?s...
I've made a few, but ironically they were all to the bank accounts of cryptocurrency exchanges when I was funding my account.
Or maybe just checks HN once in a while,vs every 5 minutes?
This is not the case anymore.

https://github.com/xdarklight/mktplinkfw3/blob/master/README...

Their firmwares for newer devices do indeed include signature support. A malicious firmware on their server will fail the signature check and not be flashed. Signature checks occur only in the flasher, not in the bootloader, but that would require physical access to the device, at which point all bets are off anyways.
I tried putting it into a docker container, but in the end didn't want to deal with the complexity -- bought a key. Does the VM/Raspberry PI get you anything the key doesn't?
Ahh thanks frogo always enjoy your input on these crypto threads you really helped me have a deeper understanding of the consensus and game theory aspect of bitcoin that i never caught onto from the white paper.

Thanks!!
Yes, but this is entirely unsupervised, and happening with GANs that are generating the entire clip from scratch instead of keeping its spatial dimensionality. I think it was more the point to show that this is possible at all, even if the video has moving background.
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If that's my trivialidp repo, in fairness, there are 2-3 other private repos that are important deps. :)
This is (unfortunately?) true, and whoever downvoted you doesn't know Poland well.

I'm Italian but live in Poland, and it makes me cringe seeing the difference between a country that has no balls and does whatever Germany-controlled EU asks it to-- despite the huge damages inflicted to its citizen--and a country that puts its citizens first like Poland does.

I go to Germany often and besides a few outskirts, Munich feels like some Arab country where you hardly hear any German spoken. Nuremberg could be renamed Little Istanbul and no one would complain. It's a mess. In the meantime, Italy is in even worse conditions because we can't seem to make people respect the law. If you go to any city you'll see dozens of African street vendors selling counterfeit Gucci and Valentino bags undisturbed, in front of actual stores that pay taxes and sell (or try to sell) the real thing. All this to lower the cost of labor (unless you believe the "helping people" lie that politicians tell you).

I'm glad Europe exists, but we need some balance between what's good for the community and what individual countries need.
The Unifi cloud stick isn't that much more expensive than a PI, and is probably the least amount of work to set up a dedicated controller.

I use an Atom based PC stick that I had lying around to run the controller (on Windows) and it works great.
Ehm, so who's talking about Greece again..?
In the actual practice of learning and using mathematics, mathematical notation is often much, much more readable (and potentially much less ambiguous) than any text in a natural language that would attempt to convey the same meaning as a mathematical formula.

What must be noted though is that historically the language of mathematical formulas, unlike more "human-readable" text, has been designed to serve several distinct purposes, and conveying the meaning was originally not the most important one; rather, the language of formulas serves the purpose similar to that of programming languages of today, which is to let one to efficiently and, to a large extent, mechanically perform - and thus radically simplify - 1) calculations; 2) logical reasoning; 3) transformations that lead to discovery of new facts.
I think that stat means 64% of Americans don't rent.

Homeowner is not the right term for most of that 64%, because most have a mortgage balance, which when subtracted from their < $1,000 in savings, makes the picture even uglier, and makes most of their future financial well-being dependent and correlated with their local real estate market.

Edit: The stat actually means 64% of homes are occupied by their owner. But "owner" is still misleading, as the article linked to above says:

"However, homeowner equity has fallen steadily since World War II and is now less than 50% of the value of homes on average."
I'm fairly certain that most people on this website will happily sob their password once they got a few dozen hard whacks with the good ol' wrench.

You can choose not to tell the password while you get whacked but then again, you're getting an awful lot of pain, misery and head-trauma, so very few people will act rationally.

And we haven't even started with the electric shocks yet!
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This is one element that fascinates me about a crypto based monetary system. Crypto wallets are essentially bearer assets. Modern finance moved away from bearer assets for very specific reasons related to theft, fraud, and other forms of criminality. In theory a thief could break in and force you to wire out your Fidelity balance to a third party account, but in reality there is a lot of friction and risk involved in that process. With crypto, there is much less friction and much less risk. I read the article about Bulgaria having $3 billion in Bitcoin and at the end was just wondering who in the Bulgarian Government has the passphrase for that wallet, and what is going through their head watching the price rise.
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They could be employing some verification by using multilateration (time (difference) of arrival) between their receivers, which would make it a lot more resistant to spoofing.

EDIT: https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works#mlat
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I can totally see part of your perspective. Part of what I do as a thought experiment or learning exercise in forums like this is explore and look for meaning in complex issues.

I tend to take a hard line on overall risk to the public. I don't live in a place where dropping a cigarette can immolate square miles of land. The thought is terrifying to me. Perhaps that comes off too strong.
This is an over dramatic take. It's too soon to know how Volvo's China factory is working, the initial signs are promising but there's so much more to car quality than how the manufacturer assembles it.

Historically, we've seen inconsistent quality out of Chinese car parts and there's nothing you can do on final assembly to make a defective wheel bearing work better (the only option is to assemble the car with a better wheel bearing). To the extent that the Chinese volvos have Chinese component quality problems, the Chinese factory is further removed from production heaven.

Toyota's Tahara plant is recognized as the plant capable of the best car manufacturing in the world and it wouldn't be possible without the Japanese supplier base. It would have been nice if they compared and contrasted Tahara with Fremont but the Chinese Volvo plant offers a better comparison in terms of modernity.

But I had a horse in the race. I was a model 3 reservation holder but opted for the refund when the quality issues came to light. I take machine quality very seriously and I was worried about resenting the build quality on my model 3. Though I think Tesla can get it right, the complexity of an electric car is much lower than an ICE car.

Toyota has had a target on its back since about 1973 (when its quality advantage became decisive) - everyone benchmarks Toyota's manufacturing. When Toyota launched the Lexus LS400 in 1989, GM engineers concluded that they couldn't replicate the precision and quality with a blank check and an aggressive time frame. In 2010, Consumer Reports estimated that an average 1993 Lexus LS400 had as many trips to the dealer / failures as a brand new Mercedes S class. Now there are more issues at play with a 17 year old car than build quality, but good build quality is a good place to start.

I think Musk has called out Toyota by name as their benchmark. Tesla has a long way to go but I give them the highest odds of making it. They have the most opportunity to consolidate their supplier base. They have one of the most simple cars to manufacture and they have some the cheapest capital - they can turn it into a money game just like Amazon would. They're in the best position to actually hit the target on Toyota's back.
this confused me, taxi = car, tesla = car, P100 is a tesla model number.
dns is a better target for this. Google even had rob pikes team do this sinkhole for them. which says its an expensive and worth goal and not some afterthought.
Any stick is good enough to beat parents with, if you're a childless 20-something on a tech forum.