skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until then, try transporting kids or groceries using the subway.

I live in Atlanta, a place the NYTimes often writes about our lack of income mobility because of a lack of mobility[1]. I also live 2 blocks from the southernmost transit (midtown) connected grocery store that gets a lot of business from the poorer south side of the city.

So, when you say "try transporting kids or groceries on the subway" I (and transitively, the nytimes) ask, which kids? because it's not the 20% of Atlantans that are low income and that have kids and multiple hourly wage jobs that can readily afford the costs of a car -- and they're already doing it, in a city more sprawled than NYC and other cities.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-inco...
The Mystery of The Mojave Megaphone
Tesla rival faces online heat as Nio smart car halts in Chinese capital
The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandlebrot
Or you just check the box that says "only send to people at my organization".
Sorry! Something must have went wrong here, as our protocol is to respond to everyone. Please email me at yegg at duckduckgo and I can sort out what happened.
Captchas do do that. They can't do everything, but they are an incredibly powerful tool.

Do you run a service that needs to prevent abuse at scale? What exactly is your Recaptcha replacement?

It's very easy to complain about the inconvenience of Recaptcha, but I'd like to see less of that and more constructive conversation about what all these supposed alternatives are, because all I see is "you don't need it" which is merely a reminder that, understandably, most people aren't running sites at a scale that attract abuse.

Even HN uses Recaptcha. Check out the login/register page.
THANK YOU FOR THE LINK, VERY INTERESTING.
The answers in here are just going to be a big mish mash of people promoting whatever bespoke languages/libraries they’ve recently discovered.

Use what you know. Choose stability over cuteness. The app you’re building doesn’t dictate any specific stack.
I don't thing Super Mario Brothers makes one a math professor
That forest kindergarden looks awesome. Too bad it's a liability hell in basically all western countries. Freedom-oriented laws would solve a lot of problems.
Show HN: Huffgram helps you memorize data
Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.

Where “progress” is synonymous with “profit” and the things being broken aren’t yours. Having said that if you’re volunteering, I know a guy with a hammer.
We have millions of black people incarcerated, the result of systematic discrimination over generations.

I'd also like to point out your statement doesn't really add to the conversation as any people in prison, or considered an enemy of the state can be spun politically.
>I'm a Linux guy so my view is probably biased. All I'm seeing is BSD licensed projects being ripped off by corporations left and right. Maybe we mean different things with the word, sharing. Netflix using FreeBSD and their idea of giving back to the project is telling them this will lead to their code being tested really well? That sounds to me like "please create a web page for us for free, it will lead to more exposure for you".

Where are you seeing these corporations ripping off FreeBSD? Netflix has contributed code in the past, currently over a thousand commits in FreeBSD, and there's no reason to doubt their intention to continue doing so.
The Transparent Society by David Brin.
Its actually not. Only in the US.
You have obviously never Worked tech support.
For what purpose other than locking kids and poor people out of the world and worsening traffic and health issues. If 2 cyclists crash in to each other they will cause minimal property damage and any medical costs should be covered by the government.

There are so many other situations where people can accidentally cause property damage that don't require insurance. Its just the cars have a very high risk of causing huge amounts of damage very easily.
The most annoying thing for me is that I often encounter them in various websites for the Brazilian government, when I want to get somd official documents.
Either it's documented and the opposition can make educated criticisms, or it's not documented and the oppositions is politically motivated. You can't have both.
> Cars are only safe in a separated car lane, so why not ban cars, remove the car lanes and transform them into bike / scooter lanes ?

Because streets were designed as car lanes, and bikes/scooters are niche transportation technologies [1] when compared to cars?

[1] Bikes and scooters are really only useful for short-distance individual transport. They do not handle long distances, groups, and cargo very well.
I recently read the short story Omnilingual by H Beam Piper (1957).

A planet becomes extinct due to climate change and a team of archaelogists are sent to study its civilisation.
Not chess, but Go has a similar situation. Most boards aren't actually square boards, but slightly rectangular (eg. each cell is a rectangle). Before anyone told me that, I would sometimes sit down at a board and get the sense that something looked wrong; but I could never put my finger on what it was.

I suspect that chess might have a similar situation, where someone who has played enough, even if they were never consiously aware of the convention, would get an off fealing if it were set up wrong. (Although, in the case of chess, it is truly a convention. With Go there is an objective sense in which one orientation is better than the other).
Whereabouts Trivia – Geo Challenge Game (iOS)
The truck full of plants is delivering plants, so would nominally fit the definition of a delivery vehicle, at least when it's delivering things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18930798
What if you are working mainly with customers? BTW, the article says:
> Set the autoresponse to the smallest group possible. In many cases you can narrow it down to coworkers, and/or have a different message for people inside your organization than outside your organization.
I hear that complaint and I think it was certainly more true when first launched, at least in Seattle and DC. Nowadays it seems like people are parking them better on average
I made this a few years ago and use it to memorize phone numbers, API keys, etc. Here's a short writeup about how it works: https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/111/huffgram-convert-strin...

Happy to answer any questions.
While much of this is true, I think it also leaves out a very common cause of software being late, perhaps the most common. The time it will take is unknown, in some cases unknowable, and no one is willing to say so. "How long will it take?" (equivalently, "Can you do this feature set by this date?") The only honest answer is: "I don't know." Nonetheless, a date gets put on it.
> getting pretty close to eliminating all violent crime

Clearly you haven't been on YouTube lately, China must be the world capital of getting stabbed on CCTV.
Nah, it is NIMBY zoning. Forcing builders to have large buildouts without efficiency apartment or parking space free units.
Its hard to believe the Canadian government forces tax payers to fund this journalism.
VPN is just a generic term for accessing all of the internet. The software used is much more complex (hiding from the Great Firewall) (shadowsocks for instance)
Sure, but that should be a chilling reminder of how bad abuse is on the internet.

Obviously it comes with downsides, but it's a trade-off. Nobody uses Recaptcha for fun.

As I reminded a sibling comment, even HN uses Recaptcha on its login/register page. There's no telling how many fewer spambots we have to deal with every day because of it, yet we're somehow here discussing whether Recaptcha servers a purpose while profiting from it. :)
Tendentious language.

Who actually worries about children's "well-being" (in the short term) being impaired by too much iDevices?

I'm concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world.
The kids themselves may not be particularly unhappy about losing those skills as long as mummy and daddy earn the money, serve the meals and drive them to daycare, but long term it's a major blow to their lives as independent individuals and the vitality of society, if the risk proves to realize itself to actual problems.

Weird stance to effectively advocate unfettered full-scale testing at high stakes just because the "has never been conclusive evidence that screens are a direct cause of harm".
Seveneves. By Neal Stevenson.
Lots of great ideas. A bit slow at times.
> it's a given bike riders should be licensed and plated

No, it's not a given. I've never heard anyone want that before
Why do retail entities refer to the Super Bowl by pseudonyms (e.g "The Big Game") rather than its true name?
https://twitter.com/natashenka/status/974822101067612161
Or, you could have a system that only responds this way to e-mails to which you had already responded in the past.
They’re all late because customers are fools and salespeople are liars.

Customer: “how long will it take (and therefore cost)?”

Three vendors: “less than [the other 2 vendors].”

...iterate until “cheapest” solution is reached ... meanwhile the technical staff at the vendors are losing their minds at the sales team, telling them that what they’re specifying is impossible...

Customer, to vendor [cheapest]: “Here’s a contract. We look forward to this project being delivered on time and on budget!”
It was my understanding that this doesn’t cover using a trademark in a domain name. I could be wrong; my only experience of this is that “WordPress” is a trademark, and therefore it’s generally accepted that any WordPress related product is not allowed to use the trademark in their domains.
Most people who uovoted would know but others may not. Ian Bicking is creator of virtualenv (and others) and one of the people doing meta thinking of tools and envs in the python world. Interesting to see something from him after some years.
There are many theoretical ways to eliminate violent crime that would be to most people's eyes vastly worse than letting crime continue, so it's dangerous to elevate one metric above all others.

Here are some theoretical ways to eliminate all crime which would likely be worse for everyone:

- Eliminate all people

- Keep all people physically separated from each other.

- Remove all freedom of expression or free will from people.

Those are, obviously, some of the most extreme possible ways to accomplish that goal, but it does illustrate that there's an obvious trade off being made, and that even in cases where it might not be as obvious as these, we should identify and think about the consequences of that trade.
Ask HN: Are there any non-security-dumpster-fire forum projects?
I shuttered my last web forum a few years ago after every solution (paid or OS) that I tried were web-shelled.

Things any better now?
At least not in my metro. It's still haphazardly scattered everywhere. The thing is it need not be the riders themselves who do this. Unlike a docked bike that can't be moved the scooters can be lifted by anyone. Vandals definitely move it, throw it in water bodies, cut the wire and sometimes just knock it over.
Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Professors Say
As always with security the first thing to ask is "What is your threat model?"

This person's threat model seems to be people who email him for a legitimate business reason, but see that he's away & take the opportunity to attack him? I just don't buy it - I think there is nothing wrong with always setting an autoresponder.
You have no problems with the RIAA once you move to Private Trackers, but that does take a considerable time sink and a bit of dedication to breach. So point still stands.
I don't agree, London and Paris really took to their bike share systems. This will appeal to even more people.
I wonder if it gets it right in most cases because officials are corrupt in most cases.

It's like building an AI that guesses when it's going to be a rainy day in Seattle.
Can chrome or Firefox do an "exit but save all my tabs"? I find myself force closing Chrome because I can use the recover tabs when I come back.
It also depends on what the screen content happens to be... I'd be sure running Horror flicks or Bold and the Beautiful all day for the kids won't give the same outcomes as Sesame Street and Playschool. It's also what are kids missing out on by sitting in the isolated screen environment, not that they feel ok doing so...

The point is always simplified for some broad guidance rule while ignoring the required complexity to properly understand and advice on a 'problem.'

That and people lie/embellish when interviewed on the phone, so that would have a huge margin of error.
Except an email account is something everyone has to use in the day to day, and getting to that point was a 15 year battle. Go down and work with the IT department sometime, it's incredible the blind spots you'll see. The calrity of your knowledge is far from universal
I have questions about this article.

The stated issues the article lists ("well being") is not the primary concern that most people I have discussed this with - or at least, does not appear to be on the surface.

The fear is long term effects of sustained screen time for long periods that supplant all other forms of play may essentially stunt some forms of social or physical development and at a later age have significant negative effects on their ability to cope and/or function in terms of social ability, attention span etc.

Well-being is not clearly enough defined for me to take a proper conclusion out of this article, and the studies I clicked through to (albeit, quickly) I could not access.

Also, to make a sweeping conclusion about "Tech's harmful effects on kids" from that measurement seems as foolhardy as thinking that technology is also extremely damaging to children - it's just one measurement, and does not apply to a whole range of other potential issues.

Not a fan of this title. The article itself appears to mostly be arguing that screens are a useful tool for children to utilise and are not damaging as such compared with other methods of play, which is a fair argument, but the title and the common complaints don't marry up.
In U.S. vernacular, "juicer" generally connotes someone using performance enhancing drugs.
I think the point is that autoresponders will autorespond to legitimate business emails as well as phishing/scam/whatever other emails.
Any cities with outdoor moving sidewalks? I seem to only see those in airports but a giant moving sidewalk would be awesome
While that is somewhat true, it's far more complex than that correlation. We must understand why social media is a negative environment and not just state that it is bad as an idea.

Advertising, influencing, addiction, social breakdowns, attachments, medications, wealth, etc, all play a role in what creates a negative environment for young people on the internet.
Cook Right, Why Differentiating Apple from Other Tech Giants Is a Smart Move
Setting up a VPN in settings works just fine, for that one server. I use NordVPN for example, and they allow me to pick from a ton of servers in any country on the fly, which would be nearly impossible (or very unrealistic) to do with the settings app. It also lets my see the load status and distance of various servers.
Yeah, this is a stretch...

I'm getting pretty tired of this kind of thing. It's pretty clear to me that the infosec industry (within appsec and netsec at least, not risk and compliance) is bifurcated into two distinct groups. The first group consists of people who have real technical expertise, find serious vulnerabilities and make concrete suggestions about legitimate issues.

The second group, and the one I see more and more often (especially in bug bounties), consists of people who find ridiculous "security" "risks" in all manner of things. They're not appsec or netsec people but they think they're identifying actual security issues. Sometimes they point out superfluous implementation issues but more often than not they're writing articles like this - nitpicking the design of a thing without clarifying their threat model and with only a vague grounding in the potential risk of compromise.

I mean did we really need a security PSA about the risk of email autoresponders? Come on.
The argument is exactly of the form: A person follows instructions to build an ikea desk. They don’t understand the instructions only individual steps.Therefore they don’t understand the construction of the desk. Therefore the system of them plus the desk does not understand how to construct a desk.

Except in this case it’s more clear the person does understand how to get the outcome. Just follow the instructions, thus the system of them plus the instructions understands how to build a desk.

Sure, computer hardware just like human DNA for example does not understand English. But, that says nothing about systems created by human DNA or computer hardware.
I wouldn't be surprised automation has already destroyed 2 or 3 more jobs that there is inhabitants in industrial countries over the last century. What is important is the balance between creation and destruction.
If you close Chrome normally and on reopening attempt to undo closing a tab (Ctrl-Shift-t on Windows) it will reopen all the closed, and even separate windows with their own tabs (maybe that takes a second Ctrl-Alt-t, I can't recall).

Firefox just opens with all the same tabs by default (at least it does for me. I don't recall if it's a setting I selected).
Good summary of the drawbacks of ES.

I think one thing can not be repeated often enough:

Eventsourcing can be an incredibly valuable approach, but almost always only for a very SMALL SUBSET of your system.

Most of the problems with ES materialize from trying to build your whole architecture around it.

I think many developers fall into this trap because theoretically the concept sounds so appealing and elegant (immutable, reproducible, modular, ...)
Yes, both have a setting for that. You can find it in preferences under default pages to open upon startup. It'll leave you where you left off if you quit.

Likewise, Chrome in particular will also allow you to recover closed tabs if you accidentally close the window. I'm not sure if Firefox has the setting but I would assume it does.
I'm in Australia. My 6yo son attends the same primary school I did 30+ years ago. They now have a "nature play" area with softball-sized rocks and 6' long baseball-diameter logs that the kids use in breaks to build forts, help climb things, etc. They use the rocks to crush things up or build structures in a dry creek. The hover-parent in me can see a million ways it will end in disaster, but aside from a bloodied fingernail and some scrapes, I haven't heard of anything too bad in the 12ish months he's been there. It's a definite trend here in designing play spaces for children.
The same response posted twice by different accounts. Seems legitimate.

And within the post they reply with: "...else you're little better than a spammer"

Hilarious.
It's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple. It's annoying but greatly helps accelerate research and development since data is king.
That reminds of how, in the next century confenctioners in West Europe were trying to recreate the turkish delight (lokum, in m native Bulgarian).

Fascinating!
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Firefox has the same capability, with the same key-combo to do so (on Windows, at least, where it's Ctrl-Alt-t).
I think calling it an architecture is a bit strong. Isn't it more like a pattern that you can use for some of the connective lines in an architecture? Reading through this, it seems a lot of the pitfalls come from neglecting the architecture whilst implementing event sourcing.
But why? At that point I might as well turn off the feature...I can't know everyone who will try to get in touch with me while I'm out of the office. If I could, I'd just tell those people ahead of time. If someone tries to reach me for something unanticipated and I've never responded to them before, they won't receive a notification.

This "threat" is a fugazzi. Honestly I can't believe this hit the front page of HN. What a ridiculous "security risk."
We embrace that as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5997
> The people of CA think the sun rotates around them.

Regional swipes like that break the site guidelines. Please make your substantive points without stooping to that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Doubly so for "Your smugness is nauseating!" below, even though you were provoked. I'm sure you already know that.)
If 2 cyclists crash in to each other they will cause minimal property damage

Cyclists hitting pedestrians have caused death in SF.
FWIW I sometimes use a Lime to get to work in Oakland on a straight-shot road, with a bike lane, that already has a bus doing that exact route.

I use the scooter because its faster than the bus for about the same price ~$3. And super fun.
I think to try to use techniques to prevent the GFW from killing the connection.
I'm not saying Google should adjudicate on the copyright ownership. (In fact they probably should explicitly avoid doing so, as you point out.)

What they should, in my opinion do, is ensure that if a claim is made, and it's then objected to - that the claimant has a realistic risk of direct financial penalty for doing so fraudulently. Google should demand all relevant documentation for both parties before accepting or acting on a disputed claim, so that either or both of them have a lawyer/court ready package of the specific claims, counterclaims, and identities of everybody involved.

I also think it would be smart and desirable for Google to have an internal mediation system with a penalty enforceable by T&Cs for Google Accounts. If, for example, Sony Music's lawyers incorrectly claim copyright on a content-creators piano performance of a public domain work (which has happened more than once), and the performer objects, it would be nice if Sony had the option to say "Ooops, sorry, charge our Google account the $500 erroneous claim fee, and pay it to the content-creator" to avoid having the content-creator's lawyer slam dunk them in court with the documentation Google provides as above.

There should also be the same sort of "three strike and you're excluded from all google services forever" nuclear option, that applies equally to copyright claimants as it does to content creators, and also applies equally to Sony Music and VengefulFlame's legal identity. Sony need 100% to be at-risk of having _their_ content deleted from Youtube and their Google accounts permanently revoked for sending fraudulent copyright claims, just the same as the rest of us risk having our Google accounts shut down for illegally uploading Sony's copyright works.
I worked with recurrent nets for dynamic system prediction for an undergrad thesis in ‘02 and we really struggled to train them on the CPUs we had. They had probably fewer than 100 parameters.
That's like saying audio over radio waves can only be sent with spark gaps... you simulate this "sweeping comb" with a fast sweeping, and even faster modulating laser.
So the attacker gets autoresponse. What's next? What is the attack vector here?

UPD: also, I guess any attacker could just assume that you're Out of Office at night time.
So it's fine to use systems like this on the populace but when used on the government, they make people 'uncomfortable'?
Or, to expand on this, a gallon of oil makes a car go dozens of miles, while a gallon of water won't even flush a toilet; volumetrically, the US uses about 50 times as much water as oil.