skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m from PH and we don’t feel we were run by a Junta or dictator as what you westeners like. We can criticize him online, publicly and go on with our lives. Duterte has several critics on newspaper, radio, online etc. Ressa broke the law and does not mean she’s excempted from it.
More and more frequently when presented with a captcha, I've been deciding I don't care enough about whatever it was to want to exchange robot training for access. Especially if they pull that shit after I've spent effort on something (a comment, say) - I will absolutely walk away and not come back.

Manipulative user-hostile websites can rot.
ETF Tied to Bitcoin Futures Withdrawn After SEC Staff Request
Thanks, this is a great summary. Very good to know.
Helping scan all the world's books as part of a plan to make them freely available to all is much easier to get behind than tuning map objects for their self driving cars. Particularly when most books that were scanned never, ever showed up on Google books.
With some of them you notice it straight away like the woman with something sticking out of a hole in her cheek:
https://fb.pics/image/38yjt
and the woman with the mutilated left ear:
https://fb.pics/image/380UC
and the child with the adult eye bags:
https://fb.pics/image/38Jva
One thing it almost always does wrong is glasses.
https://fb.pics/image/38NNu
And apart from pictures of young children, most of them have strange vertical wrinkles under the eyes, even when everything else is relatively convincing.
I rewrote 12k Powershell application for a previous job. Thing was ugly, full of errors, but they had been using it forever.

Turned it into a webapp. It didn't last three weeks. The users didn't want change. My app was able to increase speed by about 10%, management wanted it. But the guys in the call center didn't like it. Unlike the redesign in this article, I spent a year using that Powershell app and was very familiar with how it was used and its shortcomings.

There is something to be said for just wanting the status quo.
Comedy or hilarious stuff.

Amusing stuff just makes me smile.
licenses are about 5$ on ebay
Plus, this idea that 70% off the top 1% is still nowhere near enough to pay for any of this. The numbers I've read suggest that taxing 70% of the $10mil+ earners would amount to around $80bil in revenue, assuming no changes to those earners' incomes as a result of the increased taxes... That's nearly nothing compared to this GND proposal.
The other day I noticed that if you leave the tab open long enough the images become grainy..

I wonder if they also overlay another image that to humans looks like noise, but its a neural network attack[1][2]

[1] https://youtu.be/SA4YEAWVpbk?t=34

[2] https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/8b966793dfe1
Broad or not, we currently have a consumer unfriendly FCC. The people making the robo calls are just becoming more brazen because the threat of repercussion is small. Repealing those laws didn't help.
Where's the proof that this would increase the GDP?
Wouldn’t that just result in orgs making their calls through shell call center services?
I remember at the end of the movie The Big Short, it had said Dr. Burry was investing all of his money on his next big bet: water.
I must be looking at this incorrectly. I don’t see ‘Requests from Reddit Investors’ listed anywhere.
> Google need to work on their relationship with their customers

Google's customers are those who buy advertising. The rest of us are just cannon fodder.
But can it run x86 software?
You're trying to generalize a useful rule ("shun white supremacists") but it doesn't work in this case. I don't think we need to, either.

We're not robots. We can shun white supremacists and leave everyone else alone. This isn't a slippery slope, it's just good sense (no more white supremacists, hey!). Humankind will get along just fine if we tack on that one extra rule and all follow it.
I would normally go for raid 1 or 10, but the disks are of very different sizes. Range 300gb 15+-yr-old hdds to 2tb newer ones to 500gb ssds. Makes it hard to do proper mirroring, and too broke to buy new stuff.
Kernel space JavaScript.
Everything presented in 1-2 hours will be selective in what it shows and what it leaves out. Documentaries are really just primers on a topic; it is up to you to further the information you've just received into a meaningful perspective. That being said, there is a stark contrast between the "How its made/Modern Marvels" type of documentary and the "Ancient Aliens" type of documentary.
Regardless of your political slant, it makes no sense for any POTUS personal attorney to make foreign policy comments.
> this kind of bad faith reading of these articles

Speaking of bad faith, how about some benefit of the doubt?
My comment was not meant to be critical, but helpful for others who might have that same nagging question in the back of their mind while they read the article: "But what are CTFs"?
It might be obvious to you, but I couldn't tell if CTFs were some RE tool, a part or category of ELFs, or some other binary format (and I do indeed know a thing or two about Linux/Engineering/Electricity)
Probably a better comment could have been "Great overview, very helpful, but I had to google CTFs: Capture the Flag".
Let me know if that would have set off any other "hn trope" triggers for you....Sheesh
To clarify things for the community:

1) No, they (Chinese developers) have not contributed more. You revoked access from @jbielick who was #2 contributor to the package behind you. He messaged me in Slack today that he received zero notification from you and simply received a notification from NPM that he was removed access from the package. You removed his access completely from NPM.

2) My email to you prefaced the concern of the China-based user with "completely unknown" and "To an outsider". Here's the original email to clarify it for people viewing this from an incorrect context:

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your work in the open source community.

I am curious, since the project is open source, if you will be transparent as to the transfer of the koa-router repository and NPM ownership to a completely unknown user "ZijianHe" to the community. Was there a monetary transaction? Why did you choose him? Why not transfer to the KOA org?

To an outsider, this is all a huge red flag, as an unknown Chinese GitHub user suddenly has full control of a NPM package with 130K weekly downloads and is used by major corporations.

3) I did not "repeatedly" assert that. I stated the word "Chinese" one time. One time is not "repeatedly". I would share with the community your response to my message, but I am not going to do so.
All fair, valid and noted. It’s the eve of Opportunity’s demise, and i worked on mars EDL, and the infinite tide of javascripters making statesmanly-yet-quite-mistaken proclamations on physics can feel quite disrespectful to the actual engineers who work on this stuff now, worked on the stuff on both sides in the cold war, and everyone back to goddard, tchiolkovsky and moore. But you are right. More whisky and no more HN.
biorxiv is not a journal
Hey amingoia, thanks for responding. I think the worry here is bigger than this single situation and is really about package maintenance and ownership for the community at large. This is a very popular package. Selling it to anyone just to move on is a burden on open source. I will say it is completely your choice here, but as a consumer of the package and the other 130K+ a week I would urge you and others to be a bit more careful when transferring ownership.
Explain to Me as If I’m a Labrador (If You Want My Money)
or bobby tables
> Legislative processes in the EU are woefully under-covered by the press. That's because newspapers have offices full of reporters to work on national political stories, yet send only one person to Brussels to cover all issues there.

Do actual EU citizens want the important legislation to happen at the national or EU level?

I'm not from Europe, but one of the weird things about the EU is that sometimes it seems to be trying to be a state and a not-state at the same time.
> only to give up and leave the site?

Personally, I've reached the point where this is the first thing that I do. If a site is presenting a CAPTCHA (especially one run by Google) to me, then 90% of the time, that's a site I'm better off avoiding anyway.

That last 10% can be infuriating, though, and I certainly won't feel positively about it.
Bank tellers went through this in the 90s. You could tell when they swapped out their terminals for Windows. No more machine gun F key navigation, hello “hunt n grunt” cruising with the mouse.
I thought this was already a fairly established fact vis a vis epigenetics and the mechanisms behind which genes actually get expressed.
True. Factory farming and lately laser guided bombs are good ways to hide the dirty details from most people.
While some people might post such comments for the sake of "intelligence signaling", the GP seemed to not know what "CTF" meant. I think he offered a fair and simple criticism, and I found your comment needlessly harsh and presumptuous.

Even if some people post comments like that as a trope, some - if not many - post them sincerely. I think the original criticism makes perfect sense: an article for beginners might better benefit its readers if it offers just a simple sentence or even link that briefly explains what the topic is before delving into its details. I personally have read a number of articles where I've encountered this problem, despite my familiarity with the given topic.

Also, I think it benefits the HN community at large if we try our best to read people's comments in a positive light, within reasonable, and encourage giving and receiving constructive criticism from one another.
Now that you can trivially use async functions as express handlers, what are the major benefits of transitioning to Koa?
Released today: California self-driving car disengagement reports
It seems to be "genetics are very complicated, and because many traits aren't Mendelian and polygenic additive models are oversimplified, they are useless."

Mostly, it seems to copy common misconceptions about statistics. The people working with polygenic models understand that the models don't perfectly represent reality, but that doesn't make them useless! They give estimates for various traits (like height) that have been tested to correctly explain some fraction of the variance in a population.

Models aren't reality, hence the name!
All you need for a political controversy is for a group to perceive themselves as losers. The merits, are completely immaterial to whether a controversy exists or not. Some guy gets passed over for promotion, and he looks for a scapegoat, suddenly there's a controversy.

As far as a lawsuit being filed, I'll reserve judgement until the case plays out, thanks.
It's much easier to be an autocrat if people support you and don't realize what you are doing.

Happened to us in Peru with Fujimori [1]. Elected a guy that promised to be tough on crime and actually get things done. He did lots of things (tackled terrorism, hyperinflation, etc.), but bit by bit he started gaining more power. Closed congress, installed judges to the supreme court, changed constitution (he actually called for a referendum, and we all voted for it!)

A lot of people criticized him, and he was not jailing them but letting them be. Only if you were a major figure (opposition, some investigative newspapers), did he really go against you.

At the end, he started torturing people, embezzled a few billion dollars, committed massive election fraud, and was somewhat miraculously kicked and jailed after 11 years.

I don't want to draw the parallel too far, but believe me, the difference between autocracy and democracy is not black and white, and the way you play the game, is you try to do the "boil frogs in water" trick, but with people instead of frogs.

(Also, I thought that Ressa broke a law written AFTER she broke it? Which is in most places of the world completely unconstitutional..)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori
It can't block the doorway into the bank branch.
Siri Found Its Voice
This is great stuff.. I've been waiting for a VC firm for a while that wouldn't just push me to pump and dump. I'm making a company for the long haul.
State power now being used to force parents to transgender their kids
Probably 2-3 years IMHO. Then it’s about mass adoption
You could also tax the companies per H-1B [25% -50% of salary?] and dedicate that money to develop native talent [Get kids into STEM starting from K, and train or offer education to candidates wanting to transition into new fields].

If a company really needs these workers, they’ll gladly pay the premium and the local pool of workers or future workers get support to get into that field and reduce the need to import labor. Allow H-1Bs a free transition to alternate co. to ensure commensurate wages.
The problem is that where you draw the lines around liability at that point?

If I'm running a hosting company should I be liable if someone posts content in violation of copyright? Even if I'm trying to run an honest business and take appropriate steps to remedy the situation?

If I'm anti-google should I be able to host copyrighted material on their cloud, hoping that they get sued over it?

Eliminating safe harbors seems like a nasty can of worms to open. Especially considering how massively abused any other system (contentid) is.
The Turing test. Have one of your ops chat with them to see if they’re a bot.
I think that's very unlikely. There are over 100,000 new accounts created on Twitter every day so we would expect a large and frequent amount of bans if what you are saying were true. Furthermore most Twitter visitors don't have accounts so it would be pretty foolish to base their anomaly detection on a metric that most of their visitors fail.
I disagree. If the purpose is simply to get a single-use photograph, then yes. But for this type of application I think we want to create a virtual human that can, at the very least, be photographed from two different angles and ideally put into motion. To create an virtual entity.

You wouldn't "program" it with flesh and bones, you would generate a life-like but original new skeleton in the same way we generate these images, except the space of solution is the space of possible skeletons instead of possible pixel configurations. And then generate soft tissues that are also original, conforming to biology constraints and also constrained by the underlying skeleton. Same for skin, created from scratch but believable and driven by the underlying tissue.
It could be as simple as FuckJerry having two things in hand:
1) footage and access to insiders
2) the failure of the festival making headlines and probably getting more attention than if it went off without a hitch

The logical solution isn't to just sit on these two things and write the whole project off as a loss, it would be to try and make at least some revenue off of the whole thing. I think any business in their position would have done the same.
I believe the Quora answer is putting a little too much faith in Google using "fair" factors when determining if a client is a robot.

I'm sure it plays a part in determining "hijacked extension" activity vs human activity, but it's likely that the majority of the decision is how much recent activity your signed-in Google account has, whether or not you're signed in on Chrome (Firefox has a lot more stories of recaptcha challenges), and maybe even if you have Google WiFi or Google Home linked to your account. I wouldn't be surprised if they purely whitelist accounts that subscribe to Google Fiber or Fi.
Yes, they probably designed it to last for a year. No one builds bridges for the exact expected load either.

There is no chance anyone involved in that program expected the rover to last for 5 years, let alone 15.
CloudFlare at least is using a thing where you only have to solve a ReCaptcha once, and then you can cryptographically prove you did, without compromising anonymity.
and it's horrible.
The chief complaint is that many people have almost no money and a few people have almost all the money. Where is this money? It is in bank accounts. Where does the money in the banks comes from? The banks borrowed the money from the central banks. Where did the central banks get the money from? The central banks borrowed it from themselves. How will the central banks pay themselves back? They central banks hold, among other assets, a large quantity of US Treasury bonds. The central banks pay themselves back whenever the US government pays interest on its bonds. If we want people to have more money, then the banks need more money from the central banks, and the central banks need a larger quantity of US Treasury bonds. If we want to redistribute money using taxes, we probably would want even more US Treasury bonds to be issued.
I don't really understand the case where you'd use this.

First, it seems tacky scrounging for peanuts from the users' captcha work. Or it's like a product/services website showing Adsense ads. It's a cheapening message to send.

Second, since you make more money from more captcha volume, you're incentivized to maximize your use of captcha which is at odds with every complaint in this comments section about captcha. Most sites only use captcha to gate low-volume actions like register/login (e.g. HN).

They created their own Ethereum token too which always puts a bad taste in my mouth these days.

Finally, it doesn't address the upstream complaint that someone else is profiting off the user's "work" rather than the user. Though I don't find that complaint very reasonable. And a tiny fraction of a cent sounds about right. The truth is that users benefit from anti-abuse systems. The number of bots that HN's recaptcha on register/login has stopped is worth that tiny fraction of a cent to most users.
Majority of this expansion is building out data centers. Their engineering hub will continue to be in the Valley, where they are massively expanding (and perhaps NY and London)
No way, push for something like GDPR to be common around the world.
> since our best bet is that consciousness is maybe/probably an emergent property of information processing in the brain

Only if approached from a materialist perspective. The thing about consciousness -- which is to say the experience of being that people believe separates them from, say, a brick -- is that it can only be verified subjectively. I have consciousness because I experience it, I only assume other human beings have consciousness because they are like me, but I have no way of proving that they are not just sufficiently complicated automatons pretending to be human.
I agree. As I have said elsewhere, US spending is also unusually bad. But I have seen nothing to suggest that the tax-hike crew have any good ideas about spending either. Their idea seems to be "let's just be Denmark", this is exceptionally dumb ("you can't be like Denmark" is the first lesson in most comparative policy analysis courses).

And the issue with progressive systems is that all other things aren't equal. Great, something works in theory...no-one cares. If you are analysing policy, it isn't economics, no-one cares about theory...all that matters are results. Progressive tax systems don't work.

The idea of upward and downward redistribution also sounds like something beloved of theoreticians. Something is only upward or downward re distributive after the fact. The US needs to find its own path (as an example: the idea of a "single payer" health system is just preposterous).
It is an entertainment piece, not a historical report after all.
> responding to stimuli the way I respond to stimuli

I still think I'm conscious, but this “Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan suggests the stimuli available to us is small, alarmingly small,
and perhaps nothing to boast about really. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18658357)

One comment says, "What humans can directly experience is of course small compared to the “all time” and “all space” and it would be invisible without the logaritmic scales used."
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662841)
Yeah, that is what annoys me. “Thanks for paying us to use our product. Now do free work for us for the privilege of using the product you already paid for!”
I’m still not convinced that it died but rather it cut ties with us...
I had a longer post. I've deleted it. What I'll say is that I did not find the article convincing at all.

I'm quite biased, as I found it incredibly insulting throughout the article, as I myself dropped out of college.

I believe that college is a viable path with many benefits. I believe self taught is another viable path with many benefits.

I am a programmer, and I dislike an article saying that I am not because I chose to exit my university early and join the work force.
CCC talk on Curiosity rover onboard computers, for those interested - https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9783-the_mars_rover_on-board_com... (different rover, different CPU - RAD750 instead of RAD6000 that's on Opportunity)
Reminded me of a problem set I was once assigned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_squad_synchronization_p...
With enough training data, I would think you could create alternate views from the first view via ML methods, rather than doing skeletal structure by ML and then physics modeling to get views.
The author's fear is that current views of genetics will lead to horrible policy decisions; thus, genetic determinism should be undermined. Evidence against simple, linearly addititive genetic determinism is used to argue against genetic determinism more broadly.

I am very much in favor of genetic agnosticism, the position that we are currently very poor at predicting complex traits from genetic data (and may always be). Failure to predict does not negate genetic determinism per se. However, clonal animals and human twins provide fairly strong evidence of the limits of genetic determinism.
I use NoScript, and only allow very specific scripts to run. There are sites that won't work without allowing a metric ton of sketchy scripts to run, but those are both a minority and tend to be sites run by major companies -- so I can ignore them without loss.
It isn’t to train their bot detection algorithm. It is to train their other efforts (e.g. self driving cars, mapping, etc.)
Appbase.io 2.0: Search stack for building modern apps
An interesting idea, but in the end probably not something politicians would like. (What does "money to develop native talent" go to, anyway?) Regardless, large companies are experts at shuffling profits around to avoid paying taxes, so I doubt this would curb the abuses.

The application process (fees to the government plus paying lawyers) already costs a decent amount, so perhaps just raising those fees would help? The outsourcing companies have pretty deep pockets, though, so in the end that would just hurt smaller shops that actually have a need for H-1B workers.

I think per-company caps are the way to go. They don't hurt the companies, and they should actually solve the problem.

An alternative might be to just outlaw these sorts of outsourcing firms. Stipulate that H-1B visa holders must be employed by the company where they actually work (no contracting arrangements), and the sponsor of the H-1B can't be a third-party company.
If I was does that mean it wouldn't be worth building an app to help?
> NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS

Depends on the version of NoScript. If you stick with the older ones before this was broken, you're good. You can't do that with the new Firefox, though.
Well there goes the Image Turing Test....