skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made a browser extension that solves CAPTCHAs using the audio challenge. Native user input simulation will come with the next release.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

On my part it is a direct reaction to developers and their employers cutting corners and adding these challenges to login forms and anything else you can imagine. It's entirely reasonable to show a challenge after a couple of failed login attempts, but they should never be part of the default login flow. These decisions hurt users.

If you work on a product that shows a CAPTCHA while logging in, please discuss this issue with your team and consider not challenging your users during their first login attempt.
Google bans slew of malicious Android apps that stole user photos
I’ve been to the Lodge factory in rural South Pittsburg Tennessee and I don’t understand what makes “artisanal” cast iron any different from Lodge. It’s pretty much just a marketing hook to convince hipsters to spend hundreds more. The folks that make Lodge are just as “artisanal” as the fancy-pants brands. Lodge has been doing this for over a hundred years. They were “artisanal” before anyone ever used that work. I agree, Lodge can’t be beat. Their iron isn’t any better or worse than the more expensive brands, they just don’t have some bearded “skillet master” in their marketing department convicting people about how good their products are.
There are serious attempts to estimate the externalities that arise from automobile use in general: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.661...

Adjusting those estimates (only) for inflation, they work out to about $2.14 per gallon in driving externalities.
LOL. Shut down anonymous sperm banks.

If you want to have kids, from the same father. Quit crying over your spilt milkshake, and marry one.
>We call it "dark matter" because our formulas give the right prediction if we add a lot of mass where we see none, that is, if we assume there is some matter there that does not emit or interact with light.

I'm not a physics expert so forgive me if this is a naive take, but could black holes just sitting around, too far from other objects to have a visible effect, account for this unaccounted mass? IIRC they're small in size but incredibly heavy, and if space is infinite then they could just be sitting around taking up mass.
If you haven't already, go into Keyboard settings, shortcuts, function keys, and assign IntelliJ as an app that always has the F keys open so you don't need to press fn first.
As an adult? Hell yes, but as a kid? Ehhh... not so much. It takes time to notice patterns in storylines, presentation, production value, and for novelty to wear off. Personally you could execute me with a 24hr loop of any Let’s Play video, but my nephew lives and breathes them.
How good of a performance optimizer you are? Contest
Don't worry too much about the tech stack. Use whatever you're comfortable with.
Super simple graph in TypeScript using an adjacency matrix
I read about scons, loved it, tried to use it, gave up. Tried cmake, found it workable but super confusing. Went back to make.
I made a super simple graph in typescript using an adjacency matrix because all the ones I could find were really bloated, or used far too much memory since I have have a very dense graph.
It now costs ~427k/apt to build in SF.

https://www.spur.org/news/2018-05-09/it-all-adds-growing-cos...

I'm not sure what the rule of thumb is for commercial builders, but for real estate investors, a good deal is that 1 months rent = 1% of the price. So.. yeah, I dunno if there's actually that much wiggle room.

It may work if it's a nation-wide policy. But let's say you enact this policy in one city and I'm an investor. What's to stop me from just deploying my capital elsewhere?
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Check the Oxford undergrad math course: https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate
> Is "innocent until proven guilty" not important in Japan like it is in the U.S.?

Not even close. Among notionally liberal democratic states, Japan and the US are nearly at the opposing extremes on that ideal.
I dunno, I think there are (or can be, anyway) good games and bad games, and good books and bad books.

I remember playing many hours of Sid Meier's Pirates! when I was a kid, for instance, and then my history teacher being amazed at how much I actual history I'd learned about the 17th century Caribbean. And I've read tons of pulp novels that weren't enriching in any way, they were just fun to read, empty mental calories for me in the same way it sounds like Dota was for you.

I feel like it's more fruitful to ask what makes good games and books good and bad games and books bad than it is to put all books in the "good" pile and all games in the "bad" one.
I do use a CAPTCHA, but not on a login form. It's solely for a "contact us" form. We do try to encourage just regular email with a mailto: href, but unfortunately, customers expect a form.

And, if I don't use the captcha, we get flooded with spam. We are using Google's "nocaptcha", which is usually unintrusive, but is a pain for anyone not logged into some Google property.
"Nanotech will be a trillion dollar business by 2015" -source NSF document in 2001

http://www.wtec.org/loyola/nano/NSET.Societal.Implications/n...
I guess since those mangers are generally well paid they must be bad at what they do.
Well, I'm pretty sure there was not even Euclid's geometry thousand years after he invented it in any architecture recipe book, yet they built brutally large structures.

We have 13th century books from architects that built cathedrals filled with recipes with 0 mathematics, all heuristics, rules.
You're not entirely wrong here.

Companies have no obligation to give the consumer the biggest and best, if they know the consumer will be satisfied with par. For instance, if a business has no/weak competition, then even if the company has a next-level product ready for distribution, it would make more sense to keep the lesser product on the shelf and only increment features when competition arrives.

For Apple, they know their customers are loyal and getting them riled up about some things here and there will only heighten the excitement when the truly epic product is released. I'm not sure if that's what's happening here, but I don't see Apple struggling.
This is a poor article. It's arguing about Musk's use of "98% good" as a metric for how far along Tesla's tech is. This was an off-hand comment, certainly not a solid metric. The article claims a car would crash in 100 seconds at "98% good". But the truth about autonomous driving tech is it's very reliable in 98% of driving conditions. It's the edge cases, extreme weather conditions, etc that need more training and development.
Remarks on Stability of Time-Varying Linear Systems. In Automatic Control. It is a relatively recent published paper, and not a note as I had originally thought.
> The more people that are economically sidelined, who nave nothing to do and no prospects for self-advancement

Eh, that's a wild assumption. If anything, automating away crap labour that barely keeps you sheltered and giving people the economic stability to focus on something long term should enable various forms of self-advancement for masses of people who are now just stuck doing a crap job until they get to retire.
Yeah, it is also interesting how they categorize the activities... apparently reading a book doesn’t count as “avoiding boredom”, but playing a video game does... why?

- Why? Because a video game move forward at it's speed, setting, since it keeps things going regardless, it's own agenda. A book only moves forward at the speed of a child's own thinking. There's always an opportunity to stop and think when reading a book.
My grandmother was survivor and died few months ago as 95 years old. To be honest I havent seen any radical independence traits or much impact caused by that period, she was around 20 when in camp which might help as body and mind might heal better while young. She had nice and quiet life as farmer, retired as 75 years old doing hard work in freezing cold or under hot sun every single day. She used bicycle each day till 88 or something.

Somebody mentioned gulag, my grandfather was send there as political prisoner, working in uran mines. His health was impacted and he died relatively early.
Good. Age shouldn't be used as a means to discriminate against someone. Pay should be based on skill level and ability to provide value.
TempleOS is real mode.
What do we do all day?
You don't get to trample over people's lives just because it's the government. If the government has unfair employment practices, I'm happy when those who are treated unfairly get even.

And that's a full year of "teaching", as in, with a classroom of kids. Teachers usually have a few weeks of training and work during the summer as well. But this is all offset by the fact that they are usually paid less than market wages, even when accounting for benefits. Although, defined benefit plans are becoming rare in both the private and public sector.
So if you lived somewhere with no grocery stores that have self checkout then it doesn’t count as doing work for free because you have no alternatives?
Is it completely open source + optional paid hosting (I spent a few minutes reading but wasn't sure.)

FWIW: Open Source client + server with optional paid hosting is my favourite. And it is not just words: I've been paying a few hosting services, both commercial and open source, for a few years.

I like the assurance of open source but I often prefer to pay the people who make it to host it.
Which one exactly? I had tried the 2016(7?) MBP one it felt awful, but recently purchased the 2018 MacBook Air and I quite like it when I'm not using my mechanical keyboard (Filco).
Popular Fruit Juices Contain High Levels of Heavy Metals, Consumer Reports Says
There are 3.5 million truckers in the US. Think about that.

Politically, I'm fairly conservative/libertarian, and I generally accept the economic realities of things like creative destruction. And even with those overarching views, I am terrified of the social impact of autonomous vehicles.

When you take a step back, it is nothing short of disturbing how aggressively and proudly Google and Uber (et al) are pursuing the destruction of the livelihoods of those 3.5 million households in this country. Just a bunch of mostly honest, hard-working folks who live in the exurbs or rural towns, with absolutely no backup plan when a robotic truck either creates tremendous wage deflation or takes their job completely.

And for what? So we can all save a few cents at Target. So a couple billionaire founders can toss some more on the pile. So a handful of engineers can make more millions. So paper-pushing fund managers can make a few more bucks from their stock going up. It's like watching a horror movie in slow motion.

Creative destruction has been a fact of life for centuries, but overall, societies have thrived. My sense - and I have no data to back this up - is that we are approaching a tipping point where the gains from technology are accelerating way beyond society's ability to reallocate those resources to other productive places in the short and even medium-term. That steady-state of frictional unemployment caused by technology is about to be majorly upended, and it just scares me. Societal problems are going to get very, very bad.
My division is between 'consumptive' activities and 'productive' activities... are you passively absorbing something someone else created or are you creating something yourself?

You need a balance of the two to have a healthy life.
I think they're saying that's the inevitable result of the current paradigm, not the natural trajectory of a human being. I do think there are a lot of people who define themselves by their work and by the (frequently flawed) notion that what they're working toward is a promotion, a pay raise, a title-bump. In a post-scarcity world there might still be that mentality and opportunities to satisfy it, but the implication is that more people will need to redefine their personal concept of success and fulfillment.
Those who are greedy and walk over corpses today will not suddenly start sharing once they have even more or "ultimate" power tomorrow. The red flags, the atrocities we see now are nothing compared to what will flare up when it all snaps shut.

> If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

-- Stephen Hawking ( https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama... )

> The frightening coincidence of the modern population explosion with the discovery of technical devices that, through automation, will make large sections of the population 'superfluous' even in terms of labor, and that, through nuclear energy, make it possible to deal with this twofold threat by the use of instruments beside which Hitler's gassing installations look like an evil child's fumbling toys, should be enough to make us tremble.

-- Hannah Arendt
Except that's not what am advocating for. Predatory capitalism or sci-fi communism aren't the only two possibilities. Your comment is absolutely irrelevant.
For a contact form I think it's ok to show a challenge. It won't eliminate spam entirely or work against targeted attacks, but at least it keeps out the bulk of annoyances (at the cost of annoying some of your users :P).

EDIT: Have you considered putting the messages in a pending state instead? You could ask for their email in the contact form, and send a confirmation link that needs to be clicked for the message to be validated. Unvalidated messages could be deleted after a week, without any human interaction. I'd expect this to have comparable effectiveness against untargeted spam.
They are generally still below market wages even when accounting for benefits. The one place where things get a bit wonky is the job security in areas that have teacher's unions.
No (unfortunately) it's NIH and nothing more.

https://youtu.be/TgmA48fILq8?t=4266

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154714516832389&w=2
Author of the post here.

The compiler version thing is definitely an issue. That said, if you're worried about having to litter `if/endif` calls all over the place, I recommend you look into CMake's generator expressions.

relative rpath support was added very recently and will be in the CMake 3.14 release. It's a shame it took this long to make it in.

third party libraries can be imported via add_library, and then setting the imported location. This allows, I should note, the ability to link against both static and dynamic libraries.

IXM is being developed to make it easier to do the layout system as well as make the 80% you've mentioned here basically a non-issue, and comes with a fairly decent (in my opinion) default layout. Because it's not even in an alpha state I've not had time to document it.

(Also, I am working on a build system replacement for CMake, which includes a compiler frontend translator so you can solve the cross platform compiler flag issue. CMake is simply being used to "brute"strap the project until it is self hosting)
I would bet you're right. As soon as an option was presented for using computer functions away from the PC (i.e. smartphones), people ditched the keyboard and desk.
Exactly. Thanks for submitting this link. The fact that it is aimed at non-techies and is published by a mainstream source gave me the confidence to forward it to two of my grandparents who have submitted such dna samples and basically beg them to have their (and mine and my children’s) data deleted. I have been aware of these issues for a long time and you can imagine how displeased I was to find out that 1/4 of my DNA had been signed away for little benefit.
I got a cheapo Lodge for this reason, but I wonder if the more expensive makes add some postprocessing steps to smooth the casting. I found the rough Lodge finish to be unworkable since food kept sticking, and it was hard to clean. I ended up sanding it down to a glass finish and reseasoning it, and now it works properly.
> When rats are put in normal laboratory settings they choose drugs over food and water if given the choice. Most of our research on addiction is based on this. In a study where the rats were placed in a healthy environment they chose food and water over drugs.

I'm reminded of the mouse "utopia" experiment, and how people somehow find it surprising or insightful that animals left stuck in an overcrowded cage indefinitely with no entertainment and nothing to do gradually go insane.
I can't see any OOP in that 2 tutorials worth of shitcode.
Maybe a bit off-topic.
Say I have an idea for a web app. More like a service. I also have a person who's willing to go out to the targeted group and present the product/get feedback.

Personally I'm a Java backend developer, and building MVP for the backend part is a piece of cake.

But I lack UX and mobile development skills, which is the crucial part of the idea.

Is there a place/site to present the idea (no need for any NDI - not that kind of person) and get someone on board for development in needed areas?
In my experience if you just press next captcha without solving them, a bunch of times, it will stop with those and give you one of the "pick all storefronts" with multiple pictures, that can actually be solved.

Too me it seems that if you take your time and try to answer them properly they will try to get you annotate as much data as possible. While if just click though it fast it'll let you pass.
I'd guess they just make you solve an appropriate (TM) number of puzzles to absolutely certain you really are not a robot.

Of course, being logged in to your google account, preferably in chrome, and not blocking any of their scripts or cookies, would also go a long way for that. wink
Have to be honest, thought the article would be about how people who grew up with games are getting older and how they won't change their hobbies just because they become senior citizens. A lot of entertainment habits in places like care homes and among the elderly only exist because they grew up with books and TV instead of games and the internet. When the latter generation grows old, I suspect habits will shift accordingly.

But the effects of games on cognition and what not are interesting to hear about none the less.
I will say, the only work my cast iron requires is cooking a really fatty food in it once a month.... my stainless pans require scouring if I do some searing (even with a good deglaze) which is a huge hassle. My cast iron, I just wipe out lightly and never scrub. I have never noticed adverse effects from this and it's well seasoned.

I do hear the weight complaint - I'm a big guy so it's not too bad but my girlfriend needs two hands.
Me, too. I created a bunch of games, stories, and things as a kid because of boredom. I feel like those experiences helped shape how I think as an adult in a positive way.
Personally I think the issue is, and I struggled for a long time to articulate this... escape.

I have always struggled with a cluster of issues... too much tv, too much internet, for a period in college binge drinking, overeating... the big "aha!" was that I was engaging in these behaviors to escape reality.

We live in a unique time where if you don't like the reality you're in, you can step into another. Society has rightfully developed stigmas against other harmful behaviors. But the issue is a level deeper.

For the first time in history, we can "escape" or "drop out" or whatever you wish to call it without chemicals. It's a powerful urge... after all, if you have a limited time on earth, and the world's information at your fingertips, it becomes extremely tempting to just tune out... everything.
> * in the sense that it's even more capable*

Examples? I don't see how it's more capable. Catching up with dtrace, maybe.
* Poorly designed DSL.

* "Everyone" knows GNU make.

The lead at my old job was obsessed with CMake. It was an improvement over Boost.Build(barf..), and to the degree it replaces something like autotools I'm all for it, but it was yet another DSL in a company filled with DSLs. It took us 3 months to get new devs up to speed because of all the shit they had to learn. I can take a sw dev(embedded sw, because that was the role) off the street and there's a 90% chance they're conversant in GNU make. About 90% have no idea how to write a CMake file. When I looked at the CMake files, I noticed source and target rules were spread out over the file, which seemed like a really bad idea to me.
Sure! It's https://github.com/pascalw/pragma/ and there's a demo running at https://pragma-demo.pascalw.me/.

I've actually just taken a short break from the project. It turns out building a good offline + sync note taking app is more complicated than I imagined it would be :-) Given that I'm just working on it in my spare time every now and then it frustrates me a little sometimes that I'm not making as much progress as I would like. But probably I'll pick it up again soon because I do believe this could turn out to be quite useful.
That's really not true. Everyone knows what they're doing. They're doing statistical arbitrage. There's many firms that do it, Two Sigma, Citadel, etc.. The only thing secretive about it is the exact details of each strategy. Renaissance, for instance, pioneered techniques like using satellite imagery to track sales. One of their early strategies noticed that the market tended to go up on days when the weather was nice in NYC. Things like this are what they're doing, but on a grand scale and with a lot of very very smart people working on them.

While it is possible that they're making their profits by shifting risk onto unsophisticated players, it's certainly not necessary for them to do that to make money. They have the smartest people in the world working for them.
Note that these estimates are attempts in general, not in the context of Manhattan, or downtown in any other city.

I'm not aware of any studies that attempted to estimate them in such an environment, I think that local factors (basically density of people) change the calculation substantially.
The primary difference between vintage, “artisanal” and modern cast iron (eg: lodge) is the former is machined and the latter isn’t.

Cast iron, seasoned, is supposed to be slicker than non stick. You should be able to fry an egg in it.

With lodge you have to build up that non stick over the sand casting “bumpies” that are left over from the iron casting process.

They used to machine those out, especially on the cook surface. Until this latest crop of modern cast iron manufacturers, one would typically have to retreat to vintage or perhaps machine your own.

I think most people just look at the sorry state of “lodge” then grab a pfa laden non stick and go home.
> one might want to fix the “why can’t we build X feature and delight customers as quickly server side”

Sure. It's just that there's a two- or three-year-long to-do list of features before we can get back to optimizing things that none of the users care about anyway.
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