skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ReCaptcha is like Cloudflare's free DDoS protection: we like to point at these services and complain how people are "ruining the web" by using them because that's what we do on HN. We ignore the big picture and whine.

But I encourage everyone to consider a darker reality: that centralized services by large companies are becoming more and more necessary in a world where it's becoming easier and easier to be an attacker. The internet is kinda broken. Like how half the ISPs in the world don't filter their egress for spoofed IPs because there's no real incentive. That every networked device in every household could unknowingly be part of a botnet because we aren't billed for externalities.

Yeah, maybe it's kinda spooky that now ReCaptcha v3 wants to be loaded on every page. But is that really the take-away? What about the fact that this is what's necessary to detect the next generation of attacker? That you can either use Google's omniscient neural-network to dynamically identify abuse or you can, what? Roll your own? What exactly is the alternative?

Do HNers think this stuff is a non-issue because nobody has every attacked their Jekyll blog hosted on Github Pages (btw, another free service by a large company)?
I think it's pretty hard to answer this question because what Tolkein is good at and what he is bad at are two sides of the same coin.

Tolkein presents an extremely fantastical view of the world and ascribes to what I call "cosmic morality." There is obvious, pure good and pure evil, and in a way the Universe intervenes to make sure that pure good will win out in the end. I don't mean this in a Deus Ex Machina way, by the way, as cosmic morality is justified within Tolkein's universe. I think Breaking Bad is a good example of this as well -- the Universe has passed its judgment on the characters it deems necessary to pass judgment on, and it works within its story without detracting from it or seeming like a Deus Ex Machina. So much of the criticism of Tolkein in the modern day, to me, surrounds this concept where he ascribes to the idea that the Universe will eventually judge sinners and saints. That being said, it does not and should not detract from the sheer magnitude of his creative work, as well as his linguistic ability.

George RR Martin, is, I think, an obvious counterpoint and much of his writing is driven by a distaste for this amount of cosmic morality. If we were to harken back to amazing TV, GRRM is more like The Wire -- they choose to present the world in a way they deem "factual". But in doing so they lose some of the higher fantasy elements that Tolkein's world building is known for.

So I think when you ask the question of who is a better world-builder I think you need to start with asking whether or not you want a cynically real depiction (ala GRRM) or you want a story that justifies it's heroic deeds (ala Tolkein) first. Because, in my opinion, they are hard to compare.
A "Hobby" project turning into a business is a rarity. It comes down to expectations of returns.

If you want a business, a monetize-able product, you have to think about sales. The observation that majority of Software start-ups fail to avoid the mistake #1 from this article is accurate. And majority of Software start-ups start with an expectation of monitory returns.

If the expectation is a personal sense of fulfillment, anything other than a business for that matter, then what you are creating becomes more of an art than a product. There is a chance you might earn from it, but it is slim.
Genocide is the systematic dismantling of an ethnic identity. It doesn’t definitionally include killing.
Do I understand it right, that whatever a project I build using MongoDB (i.e. any website/app that uses a MongoDB instance as a backend to store data directly or via a middleware layer or has a feature of connecting to MongoDB) I must open-source it completely? This feels a way too radical if so.
A large number of frontline officers and men of the US Air Force fall into a col
I prefer Terry Pratchett or George RR Martin, a lot of high fantasy stories are too rigid and stuck on heroes and villains
I was an avid quora user, but then stopped using it.

It tried to cater to everything and everyone and then suddenly became boring. Earlier, it was a Q&A website where you could get quick or detailed answers about your doubts/queries and concepts. For the college students it still works that way. But, along with that knowledge part, they tried to accommodate the opinion pieces, debates etc. framed as questions, which was a major turnoff.

Actually, I feel all the bad came at the same time. Power users were given more weightage and high visibility, turning off other's will to answer questions. Hundreds of users posted similar questions which could not be clubbed, hence repeated content, Choosing topics started having no effect since your feed will show activity from people you follow - not just the topic, With diversity of people, and the be nice policy, somewhere the dissenting opinion stopped showing up, with the popular one given preference, then (as an indian) there were a lot of cringy questions about India, and even loaded questions which were not moderated, which completely took me off the platform.
Then you should delete the submitted article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging
I would like to make it explicit that only flesh and blood individuals should have access to freedom 0. These licenses are a step in a direction closer to what I would like to see, but aren't quite there yet.

If you as a person want to run software xyz and try to make money off of it, go ahead. As soon as you open a limited company to reduce your exposure you should be hit with paying license fees.

I don't get the hate for the licenses that try to remove freedom 0 for corporations. At work I suggest horrible propitiatory software solutions all the time because it doesn't matter how locked down the stack is.

So long as it has a ROI of >3% over the fixed and running costs it's a good solution.

No one is harmed by human first open source software, other than a legal fictions bottom line.
Awesome. Could you add Big 4 accounting firms please?
I would imagine crosssing a border is the only interaction most people ever have with law enforcement.
They're giving you a free account to burst out mails with. Your account will most likely contain a lot of private or privileged information about other people, e.g. their mails, pictures, contact data, etc. You have a responsibility so why should you be allowed to reduce the security of your account?
I think Hossenfelder did a pretty bad jounalistic job in that column, which she defended by pointing out that she is not a journalist. Even reading that it was clear Jackson was probably wrong and had she not been an angry german she would have written that as her conclusion.

Also the article you are commenting on directly cites that column by Hossenfelder.
You can literally drag them from the Photos app to your usb drive, my dude…
I think you misread my comment. I have nothing against immigrants. I am an immigrant as well, and I have lived in 4 different countries.

I also think it's a bit hard to say that he is "cursed" with his original nationality or "marked" for life. I don't know him but from his own page on the Niels Bohr Institute, he sure doesn't seem embarrassed or sad with his American background: http://nbia.nbi.ku.dk/members/jackson/ And why should he be.

I was simply asking why they call it the "Danish" 5 times in the article. I believe the answer is that they really want to stir up the idea of another Danish/Copenhagen school as opposed to the mainstream views in physics. That's it. And I doubt this little debacle will ever evolve into anything as important as the original Copenhagen school.

Now, I don't think it necessarily matters what nationality we identify with. To many people, nationality is a legal concept, not a matter of feelings. That view on nationality has the advantage of being clear. It's hard to know what people identify with. I am not even sure what I identify with anymore. A bit of different countries, I guess. Maybe none. As a legal concept, however, nationality becomes something that is objectively right or wrong.

As to who deserves the credit or blame (Denmark or the US), I have no idea. A huge part of what makes a great scientist is his upbringing, primary and secondary education. In this case, they guy got his entire formal education in the US, and spent several decades there before going to Denmark. Maybe it's not nation states that deserve credit. Did Argentina make Messi or did Spain? Or was is just genes and the fact that his family of football players? I don't know...
You can’t read that in China. DNS is intercepted and overwitten - *.bbc.co.uk is directed to a random IP address that is typically in an AS that should be somewhere in the US, at one point it was a netblock owned by facebook, although with a 20ms response in Beijing.

Same applies to many other sites. To westerners, the Internet is effectively unusable until you establish a vpn.

HN works though.
Is there a fix for older OSX or should I just install Linux on my 2011 iMac? Yosemite is already quite slow. OpenSuSE 13.2 was really fast on a same generation Mac Mini.
O2 is great and it is quite simple to build. There is even simpler amp called CMoy[1] which is simple enough to be first project for somebody just starting out.

I would start by taking look on some oss version[2] and order PCB from OSH Park[3]. I've built this version few years ago and it works well.

[1] https://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy/
[2] https://github.com/akafugu/cmoy
[3] https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/dRKK4dgN
And access to Bell Labs teletype style applications like a command shell, because everything else built on top isn't UNIX related, just like NeXTSTEP.
The paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 however the PDF link gives error: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805
Being treated like an adult human bring. It makes the most difference to me than anything else. I'll maintain PHP code from 1998 for that v.s. being treated shit and working on something sexy.
Just my opinion, but I think the elements of culture and language play no small roles in such kind of translation. My country (Vietnam) is heavily influenced by Chinese, and even that if you use normal vocabularies for literal translation like "18 palms of the Golden Dragon", it still sounds super corny, yet switching to Sino-Vietnamese style automatically makes it 10 times more awesome and elegant. And this expands to other subjective points such as characters, thematic plots, etc...; thus I feel it probably is way harder for Western audience to agree with the comparison with Tolkien.
The readings look like they come from http://nihongo.monash.edu/kanjidic2/index.html so it's better to ask on their mailing list. My webapp also uses kanjidic and therefore has the same description for this character: https://ichi.moe/cl/kanji/?q=%E5%BD%81
Installer and binaries have been signed and submitted to Microsoft since a while to fix the issue with Windows Defender.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.082.0.html#signed_windows_bina...

Neither the last release nor the recent release candidate have been flagged by any AV according to VirusTotal.
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e2ea2807faf41978a842f91890...
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/834d7547d395cc4080ab28a177...
Udaipur to Jodhpur – By a RSRTC Bus
Udaipur Some of the best places that I visited I Udaipur were the City Palace and Jag Mandir. City Palace is a huge lake side complex built some 200 years ago. I had been to this city with my friends and had a jolly good time. It is also known as the City of Lakes. There are some lovely places you can visit here. It is a very calm and cool city. We went to the Pichola Lake, Sajjangarh, Gulab Bag and Jag Mandir. These are some very relaxing locations that one must visit. It is a beautiful city and worth seeing at least once in a life time. Weather is the only issue as it is quite hot and humid. Carry sufficient water along with you. After having done with this city, we headed towards Jodhpur by Bus.

Taking a bus from Udaipur to Jodhpur is an overwhelming travel experience. The bus takes you through Indian streets can be exceptionally stimulating. The bus transport goes crosswise over many dynamic sights, variation towns; you can taste nourishments in every stops and interact with numerous locals. Only that before you set out on such a road journey try to book online RSRTC bus tickets from https://www.redbus.in/online-booking/rsrtc.aspx, as I did. This spared a great deal of time for me and I got tickets at discounted rates as well. I decided on a RSRTC Volvo AC seater bus while making a trip from Udaipur to Jodhpur. The bus transport was unwinding and accompanied cordial help while I was over the span of journey!
https://www.redbus.in/online-booking/rsrtc.aspx
This uhh isn't normally the case at Google. There are almost no cases where a new grad will make more in base salary than an existing employee. And relatively few where a new grad will make more in tc than an existing employee, although that does happen.
Doing something with Web Components – are they worth using?
DVDFab 11.0.0.2 Crack Plus Torrent Is Here
I think this is only about cases where you expose MongoDB directly, not if you use it in the backend.
Where is it being used?

Because the reason why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash wasn't useful for anti-spam after all is because attackers have access to the cheapest compute in the world: botnets and devices that aren't their own.
What makes you think that their end goal wasn't getting your identity confirmed?
Sweden: Malmö mosque demands that it should be visible from all directions
iOS 12.1 exploit bypasses the lockscreen for access to contacts
It can be difficult to get into reading JY as a Western reader as he writes in extremely poetic language. There are a lot of great articles on the difficulties of translating Chinese poetry if you're interested in the subject.

Instead -- I suggest you watch some of his live action adaptions! The Smiling, Proud Wanderer is my personal favorite JY story, and my favorite drama rendition is the 2001 one starring Li Yapeng. He is probably best known for the Condor Trilogy (The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber) and although I loved the first I was never personally that into the latter two of the series. Probably his greatest work is in my opinion Demi-gods and Semi-Devils, although that might not be a good entry point into the series. I would look at TSPW or TLCH first :)

And well, Tolkein will always hold a special place in my heart. But I do agree that he is slightly over romanticized as an author.
I fixed some Firefox & Safari issues in the meantime, and added more browser polyfills. If you have the chance let me know if you see any improvement on your side after clearing the cache. Thanks!
This isn't a polygraph. The article calls it a lie detector and we call polygraph tests lie detectors but the claimed mechanism here is a bit different.

I'm not for it, but it's not a polygraph as described.
Let's not argue about the words themselves. This is pointless.

We know what's happening roughly, and it's a terrible thing regardless if what you call it.
The weakest "link" in the "audio-chain" (if you exclude the room) are passive speakers with distortion above 1%

The best speakers i heard to date are from a german company called Backes & Müller. Active crossovers, each speaker has its own poweramp and a sensor attached to the membrane. The signal of the sensor is fed back into a comparator which calculates the difference to the music signal, this is then used to force the speaker to follow the music signal exactly.

>On the basis of physical factors all drivers make mistakes, which one must accept in passive and uncontrolled systems. In contrast, all BM drivers are a part of active error correction systems.

>Active loudspeakers know no conduction loss, no impedance issues; have faultless crossover performance, exact phasing, an optimal amplifier-chassis ratio, more actual output stage power at their disposal, quicker impulse processing and higher dynamics. All of this produces active regulatory intelligence. A sensor system continuously compares and corrects the membrane movements with the actual music signal.

>B&M uses two types of negative feedback: inductive and capacitive. Intelligent electronic fuses ensure that the entire system is reliably shut down in the case of an impending overload. The BM electronic crossover splits the music signal into individual paths of respective frequency ranges and allocates these to their individual output stage. Every individual output stage drives to its respective driver, optimised for its frequency range.

from http://www.backesmueller.de/en/b-m-technology.html

Pricey and not DIY friendly, but you can pick them up used on ebay for "peanuts". W0as thinking about buying an BM8 (3-way) refurbished for 2800 Euros, BM10 (4-way) refurbished costs 10000 Euros, got a BM12 (5-way) used for 1400 Euros.

The company is now owned by http://ksaudio.com
I suspect in the near future people will resort to Tor or other decentralized networks since free speech havens appear to be dropping left and right. Next to be dropped are Voat, 4chan, 8ch, warez-bb, etc.
Fully agree, matches quite a lot with what I see around me.
Google staff walk out over women's treatment
Since VIRGO wasn't running at high enough signal to noise ratio before 2017, yes. But then again "LIGO" is not just one person but hundreds if not more. The same could be said for CERN which had initial papers with around 1000 coauthors.
Not competing on world-building per se (inventing few languages requires proper linguistic background), but on other aspects, Malazan book of the fallen series is an amazing read. World is just more interesting to dive into. Till I had read it, Tolkien was #1 fantasy for me. Afterwards, it seemed bland and a bit boring. But that's me, some people drown in complex parallel stories and heaps of characters.

From what I heard Wheel of time is similarly awesome, but no first hand experience with it yet.
It’s not even placebo...contextual stimuli actually will change how things sound. If you have decent speakers at your computer, listen to a passage with your monitor on, then the same passage with it off, it will sound quite different.

Another example from audio production, adjusting signal processors while processing is bypassed, and being convinced the sound is changed.

Another one I’ve been noticing is how the resolution of the gain control affects perception of the “power” of the amp. If the resolution of the volume knob is high, meaning it takes more turning motion for the same level increase, the amp “feels” weaker to me, biasing my perception of sound.

The mother of all dilemmas when it comes to comparing audio gear is that the louder source always sounds “better.” This a very powerful perceptual distortion.

So while I think stereotypical audiophile practices are non-sensical, I have no doubt that they really make the systems sound better to the practitioners!
Things like 1984 don't really count as fantasy though (unfortunately) as they were an extrapolation of things that were already happening in the 1930s and 1940s.
The change in licence terms sounds too stringent — far beyond just the scope of derived works which is typically the case. Especially “requiring a relicensing of the Linux kernel if a MongoDB service runs on Linux”?

MongoDB can very well stop calling itself an open source software then when to use it in any significant manner, one needs to get into a proprietary license agreement. Wish the license doesn’t get approved as a valid open-source license.
> That's what I said.

And that's my point. The web is supposed to be an open platform but no longer, you just married Sergey.

Make an iPhone app? OK understood you're in bed with Apple now. But a website should be a free agent. That's no longer an option because monopoly.
This is exactly my experience talking to contrarians on the subject. Their viewpoint shifts subtly over time whilst continuing to oppose the consensus.
Can't you use Javascript to implement challenge-response authentication, which meaningfully improves security by:

1. Preventing interception of passwords on the wire

2. Allowing a tunable "difficulty" parameter which makes brute-force attacks cost ineffective

3. Requiring that brute-force attackers either run a Javascript interpreter (dangerous, because the web site chooses what they do and could make them mine Bitcoins) or rewrite their brute-forcer each time the JS-driven network communication channel is altered

It seems to me that having a client-and-server protocol beyond just "POST this data here" can be more secure than sending a password to the server for verification...
This came in as a result of this. I specifically helped users fix this problem back in the day. Remember, this was the 90s.
I believe that is what prompted the Server Side Public License (SSPL) creation, but as written could be interpreted to cover more than just offering MongoDB as a service.

From the SSPL:

13. Offering the Program as a Service.

If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version

“Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.
So your solution is "sorry, come back later when the attacker hopefully stops"?

I can keep you out of your account indefinitely with a curl loop and a rotation of proxies?
Ah, yes, I remember that. I think it was because the modems didn't differentiate between the various layers in the transport stream and took anything resembling low-level modem commands to be gospel.
> Sales Mistake #1 - Building Before you Start Selling (...) If you’re wrong, you’ll save time and money by not building something people don’t want.

I fell into this trap often, so I know it well. The reason why we don't ask first is, we want to build something. Anything. If we're "wrong", we won't "save" time and money, we will delay the moment we start making, maybe indefinitely. What if we never find something people want?

The worst outcome is not to build something nobody wants -- it's not to build anything. We don't ask not because we forget about it, but because we're afraid of the answer.

Yes, it's irrational, and probably stupid (because, what's the point of building something nobody wants?) but the desire to build is the driving force, and finding an audience first, is perceived as an impediment.
Most of the time that MVP can be done with some kind of wireframe tooling.

Customers just want to have a better picture how it is supposed to work, instead of looking at powerpoints.