skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing inherently wrong with crawlers and automated tools, but there's a lot of poorly written scrapers out there that can easily generate a huge volume of traffic along with the associated maintenance.

Why waste time catering to people who are too lazy to write a decent scraper? Most people would prefer to spend their time working on things that will benefit the other 99% of their users.
I cut all my dealings with reddit about a month ago. It's amazing the amount of time I have regained, apart from a complete change in how I use the Web.

How did that come about? I'll tell you. It's quite a strange tale.

One day, I happened to go to reddit's front page. It was accidental, I usually only visited a tight selection of my subscribed subreddits, and had done for about 10 years.

On that front page was a thumbnail of a piece of medical equipment being used. Being from a medical background, I clicked on that picture and confirmed that it was indeed an ancient piece of equipment, and still in use today. So I commented 'I haven't seen one of those for 50 years!'. And that was that. No big deal, hey?

Then, a little later, I received a message saying that I had been banned(!) from some never-previously-heard-of subreddit for 'participating' in the 'the donald' subreddit. HUH?? WHA??

So I looked back through my history and discovered that the medical equipment photo had been a posting on 'the donald'. I had been banned from some other third-party subreddit for merely commenting on a piece of medical equipment.

When I posted about this weird occurrence on the 'collapse' subreddit, my post was censored. It was disappeared without trace in less than an hour.

So that's why I now have more free time than I have had for years, and why I have expunged all trace of reddit from my bookmark list.
Lufthansa Airlines Sues Customer Who Skipped Part of His Return Flight
Yeah it's ironic. It's more convenient to use the phone to get my balance, even if you count the time spent listening to the recorded message telling me how much better my life would be if I used Internet banking.
We were on track to pay off the debt 20 years ago. The debt is substantially higher now but nothing has fundamentally changed.
New critical vulnerability discovered in open-source office suites
If you look at the server implementation, the client messages are also read and parsed, but are not printed to stdout for demonstration purposes (otherwise it hard to keep track)
You can uncomment that printf instruction and see that it still performs nearly the same way
> By "many" you perhaps mean "many American".

And by "many American," do you perhaps mean "pretty much just the Space Shuttle Main Engine?" Since that one, has America launched any new staged combustion engine off the ground?
The answer is likely quite simple.

Because allowing for one idea would lead into another.

70% tax is a start. Not the end. The idea is to find where the "excess" income is taking place and add additional taxes in that area to direct the income into investment and services.

70% may be a start at ordinary income. But does it apply to investments? And then what's next?

I think the key question for Dell and others is: can you show proof that the current approach of lower taxes boost the average individual income of workers? Because right now we're seeing great numbers from Wall Street, but wages are still virtually flat year over year. How does the Dow continue to climb but workers' pay stay the same?
My facts are correct.

Natural Resources comprise of less than 1% of Sweden's GDP.

Here is a map [1] where you can see the % GDP comprising of Natural Resources by nation.

Notice that the wealthiest nations tend to derive almost no value from the export of natural resources. They are creating value added products and services, which is what intelligently organized people do.

[1] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/NY.GDP.TOTL.RT.Z...
> C++ core library, thin UI layer on each platform.

For most desktop apps the central "core" is tiny but the UI layer is very thick.
well if the company is distributing tokens it means that it has something to back them up. It can be perks or it can be equity itself. Here in Europe it's possible to tokenize equity. Being a security is not a problem if there is no offering to the public.
From what I can see, piracy doesn't hurt profits and as long as it's available only to technologically literate people, it will pretty much fly under the radar.
We can live without YouTube.
It's not a competition - both docs can be biased or contain misinformation. The Netflix doc was accused of what I'm outlining.
Send them a message. Switch to another bank, close your account, and tell them why.
I love this part of the system req's (from the stylegan repo):

"One or more high-end NVIDIA GPUs with at least 11GB of DRAM. We recommend NVIDIA DGX-1 with 8 Tesla V100 GPUs."

I'm sure my wife will understand why I took out that second mortgage on our home...no problem.
Earth minute or Martian minute?
There is still a safe harbor - but it's insanely onerous. From Article 13(4)

> If no authorisation is granted, online content sharing service providers shall be liable for unauthorised acts of communication to the public of copyright protected works and other subject matter, unless the service providers demonstrate that they have:

> (a) made best efforts to obtain an authorization,

This would require YouTube to enter into license agreements with artists the same way Spotify does.

> and (b) made, in accordance with high industry standards of professional diligence, best efforts to ensure the unavailability of specific works and other subject matter for which the rightholders have provided the service providers with the relevant and necessary information,

This means that if Sony Pictures, for example, provided YouTube with digital copies of all of their TV shows & movies that they own YouTube would need to make their best effort to catch violations of Sony Pictures' copyrights via the "upload filter."

> and in any event (c) acted expeditiously, upon receiving a sufficiently substantiated notice by the rightholders, to remove from their websites or to disable access to the notified works and subject matters, and made best efforts to prevent their future uploads in accordance with paragraph (b).

That means once YouTube receives one takedown notice for content they're expected to include that content in their "upload filter" going forward.
Not really. There is more than enough blame to go around, from the leadership to the naive customers. I wouldnt do businezs with any of them. Whether there is enough blame for prosecutions isnt my decision and, hopefully, those who do make that decision dont base it on tv shows.
Clicking the box tells Google that you're a human.

Identifying the lights and cars and bicycles is you training Waymo's self-driving AI.
I agree on them not doing much. As in not much at all to help. How about I just go ask for every package on NPM and see who's busy enough to deal with that or not?

I love Javascript but the ecosystem stinks.
because this Hausers law shows that the U.S. government doesn't have a revenue problem, it's collecting proportionately the same amount of money as it has been. there' a spending problem: we keep finding more and more ways to spend money.

this whole green new deal proposal is "lets go spend billions more dollars on XYZ" a lot of the mental pushback is what are you going to stop spending on today to pay for it? the answer: "nothing, we're just going to raise taxes"

i believe opposition to this is less about can the 1% afford the taxes or not, and more for principled spending
And this feeling right here, is why Google is able to do all of the things that it does. ;)
I've stopped answering my phone completely unless the number is in my contacts. If I plan to communicate with anyone (recruiters, etc.) I make it explicit that I won't answer their call unless they give me the number they'll be calling from ahead of time, and then I tell them I'll place them in my contacts with that number.

My hope is that this is training these individuals to be more aware of the issue, assuming they've forgotten about it due to being desensitized or using some paid caller ID spam service that not everyone has access to for lack of funds.

I've also long turned off my voice mail; it's just a waste of time.
From the assumptions page: http://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/proof.pml

```

Hardware: we assume the hardware works correctly. In practice, this means the hardware is assumed not to be tampered with, and working according to specification. It also means, it must be run within its operating conditions.

Information side-channels: this assumption applies to the confidentiality proof only and is not present for functional correctness or integrity. The assumption is that the binary-level model of the hardware captures all relevant information channels. We know this not to be the case. This is not a problem for the validity of the confidentiality proof, but means that its conclusion (that secrets do not leak) holds only for the channels visible in the model. This is a standard situation in information flow proofs: they can never be absolute. As mentioned above, in practice the proof covers all in-kernel storage channels but does not cover timing channels

```

Rowhammer and Spectre exploits hardware not working to spec.

These sorts of attacks using heretofore "unreasonable" exploitation of side-channel and hardware vulnerabilities are exactly what worries me. We have no solutions for these classes of attacks. Complex high-speed systems are still inherently unsolvably vulnerable, it seems.
Ironic that they're actively censoring critical comments in the transparency report post.
I'm not OP, but it's worth mentioning that Earnest starts to recoup its investment as soon as founders take a salary. Its calculator [0] shows a percentage of 30% by default - if that's accurate, for the 67%-80% of companies that fail, Earnest would still recoup 30% of its investment (ignoring other expenses and time value of money) even if those companies never saw a penny of revenue.

Also, they list a starting point of $2k-$5k in MRR, and on a $150k investment with a 30% split, they break even as soon as the founder(s) have taken $350k in total salary (again ignoring time value of money), including any salary paid out of the original $150k investment. I don't want to trivialize the process of scaling a startup beyond $2k-$5k of MRR, but I bet more than 20% of companies with $2k-$5k of MRR are capable of reaching that point.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h_L7oa3rbV8P-ZnMM-l1...

edited for clarity
The goal of the DPAs is to ensure compliance. If a small fine is enough to do that, great; if not, they'll fine you more next time.
This is literally the first AI image processing project I've seen posted here that actually shows high resolution images.

Every single other one I've seen has a bunch of tiny low res thumbnails on a github page that serve to completely obscure any potential artifacts or issues with the system.

(I could clone their code and run it, but that's not the output that any of the discussion they've prompted is operating on, and that's kind of the point of hacker news).

So thanks for doing the bare minimum for an image processing project, finally.
I'm willing to bet if you record how long you spend clicking signs and lights on average, it's going to be more like several seconds than a few minutes. This must be hyperbole. There are the outlier cases where it gets fairly annoying but otherwise, I'm not sure I understand the hostility toward such a benign system that actually does thwart bots very effectively.
Two problems with that:

1. Many older patients don't use cell phones and are still on landlines.

2. Current processes would have to change. Currently healthcare companies first have to ask if the person picking up the phone matches name & DOB. If not, they need to ensure the person is authorized to receive the health information. This is done for confidentiality reasons (e.g. "hi your husband tested positive to $STD… oops you weren't supposed to know that, oh well have a nice day and tell him to make an appointment with us.").
As I read it they didn't include what they remove automatically as spam, just what they as humans remove.
Having used drupal back in the day they definitely got the SM part right.

Never again.
It's either that or getting your entire forum spammed with hundreds of spam posts.

I'm using that captcha on my website, and I can tell you, that one works 100% while the other ones don't.
Actually I couldn't give two $#!T$ who sees me eating caviar, I pay the price for the pleasure of eating it when I can. It is not overrated just because you don't understand individual taste and/or are disappointed you can't afford it.
A lot of people also don't want regulation...
This sounds like it should be illegal.
When trees decay, a certain portion of the material remains solid and eventually becomes part of the soil layer. Also when trees burn, a certain amount stays as carbon/charcoal/ash in the ground. So while some of the carbon is released when trees decay or burn, not all of it is. So I would expect a mature forest to be a carbon sink, though not necessarily a huge one.
I'm not convinced that picking the pictures has anything to do with actually convincing google if you're a bot or not. I mean sure, it's an indicator. But I _know_ that I can pick the right pictures of school buses and store fronts every freaking time, so that's only a very small indicator.

More likely, the majority of the algorithm is devoted to the "fingerprint" of your browser. If you have adblock running, you may not have a google ad cookie. If you have a randomizing user-agent addon, you're going to get blocked.

What we need, for captcha, is an addon that makes you look as human as possible. Mouse click timings become random. Javascript fingerprint becomes John Smith common. Third party cookies, temporarily enabled (and then pruned). VPN traffic routed through a common looking gateway that few bots use. etc. etc.
Show HN: A site to show which TV shows are most popular online. Goodviews.tv
Wage growth is not flat:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45448323
Thanks Rick, I will look it up.
the decentralized internet isnt necessarily non-commercial. in fact becoming commercial would be crucial to its success
Commercial aircraft also track provenance very carefully. I wonder how much the two systems have informed each other over the years.

You would never want a part involved in a stress test to be reused, and you certainly don't want test parts anywhere near a production craft. This isn't like IT where you can cannibalize parts from a QA box to put into a production server.
You can sit around and wait for the next Steve Jobs to release the iPhone of cars but it won’t happen. Too much regulation, some for good reason.

If you buy an iPhone and it crashes, no big deal. Not the same for your car.

>Where's the 70 Series Toyota Land Cruiser of today?

Wouldn’t pass emissions, homologation / pedestrian impact, safety, etc. Everyone loves regulations until they don’t. Jeep Wrangler is the closest you can get, and the new Wrangler has two or three microcontrollers in the steering wheel alone even on the base model.
They are referring to this.

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.htm...
I don't know of any technique to model or avoid timing attacks that wouldn't drastically slow down execution to the point of being impractical.
And you're willing to sell that computer for 89-154 USD?
An open connection is identified by all 4 values of the unique tuple source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port.
The setup is more useful in a mobile situation, where latency is high and connectivity isn't so certain. Imagine you're travelling by metro and reading something on your phone.
I see where people are coming from when they dismiss high marginal rates out of hand, without giving the honest answer as to why:

No-one who is caught by them will pay them.

If I'm Michael Dell, and my marginal rate is 70%, or 90% or even 100% (whatever) then I'm incentivized to take that money in another way, be it in stock, deferred bonuses, or even in leaving the capital in the business without issuing a dividend.

The reason this is such a problem is that regardless of whether you manage to close every conceivable loophole, you're still talking about personal taxes. The corporation is making the lion's share of the money, and that's where the tax would need to be applied to raise the revenues required by the Green New Deal.

Thing is, that's never worked for a state because the biggest companies are multi-national corporations that can (and do) shift their taxable income to the most favourable jurisdictions, which is why nation states keep trying to undercut each other on CT rates (Apple and Google are notorious for the lengths they go to in order to avail of this, for example). The state can't close that kind of loophole because it doesn't have the authority to (unless it goes down the road of sanctioning other countries due to their tax rates).

I've not seen a solution to wealth distribution yet that acknowledges that we exist in a global economy, regardless of local policies (however well intentioned they are).

Thing is, most people don't really seem to want wealth re-distribution to anyone poorer than them. Unless you're planning to pay a living wage to everyone in India/Thailand/China/wherever then why shouldn't they undercut your taxation rates as much as is needed to attract local jobs?
https://buyaccs.com/

It exists for a long time already.
Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96
You are right. After poking around for a bit, I found that SLS+Orion can launch without the upper stage. The upper stage allows more to be carried on the launch.

That said, I'm still on the side of betting with history. In most organizations, the deadline is the first date that nobody can (yet) disprove. When a deadline depends on problems not happening on this project that historically have been common, I think it is safe to bet that history will repeat itself.

This goes doubly for the SLS. Which is more ambitious than past launch systems, and is being built so long after the last new launch system was designed by the companies involved that there is little institutional knowledge left about how to do it. (Furthermore building with competing companies contracting for pieces that need to integrate just sounds like a recipe for expensive overruns to me.)

As opposed to the BFR. Which is being designed by a company with more recent experience of how to build new launch systems than the rest of the planet put together.
Effective or not, I wouldn't exactly call it benign when it's aggressively fingerprinting you based on every bit of data it can access.

I disable most scripts using uBlock, but I have to make an exception for reCaptcha if I want to interact with half the web. I'm pretty sure due to that alone Google is able to track where I go.
It's not just friends that Messenger is useful for: Facebook Marketplace has become a big competitor to Craigslist, so leaving FB means you'll have a harder time selling your junk. Say what you want about Facebook, but at least my FBM ads don't get me a ton of messages from scammers.
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You mean my Ex-bank account.
Garbage removal. If your trash man stops coming to haul away your waste, you've got a problem. You will then ask, "how much do I need to pay to get this service back?"

Same with most utilities.
"liberal" is a confusing word; for a few centuries leftist/liberal meant very similar things in the west. Today we have strong movements of illiberal/authoritarian on the left while the right (in the US) has strong libertarian movements.

Consider the famous example of the baker and the homosexual wedding. Without judging the standard leftist position is significantly less libertarian than the usual position on the right.
https://falcon.deity.io/docs/getting-started/installation
I just realized that the eyes, nose, and mouth are always in the same place in these images... even though the head might rotate around them.
As a user who's constantly clicking on the crosswalk or storefront images you can't help but to think that you're essentially working for free training Google's machine learning models by providing them with supervised data points.
You're assuming that the picking-of-pictures validation logic cares solely about what pictures you pick. What if it cares about your "mouse click timings" not being random, but rather looking like the mouse movements of a human who is using eye saccades to examine and classify images, and then moves their mouse only when they see and find one, and sloppily at that?
House Votes to Halt Aid for Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen
They look it, but they aren’t. The RAM truck that has manual windows and manual door locks - has the same ABS/ESP, Radio Hub, body controller, battery modules, 7 CAN buses (2018+), three or more LIN buses, etc etc as the full load models.

Same body controller guts in as an Alfa Romeo.
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It would have been a more believable documentary if they'd have covered the obviously rampant cocaine abuse of the people running the show. Like so many underground raves, they probably planned on bailing themselves out by dealing to the rich attendees, who came expecting to party on "Pablo Escobar's Island". I'll bet that plan came crashing down because there were some big shipments other than bottled water that they failed to release from customs by "taking one for the team".

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wd4ymw/can-you-tell-what-...