skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now we enter the area where almost no commenters understand how sovereign currency debt works, and what is required for a healthy economy.

It would take a mini-treatise to summarize what's wrong with this statement, so suffice it to say that there are several scenarios where such a debt is absolutely healthy and encouraged, and no one should use it as an excuse to put their foot further on the neck of the lowest rungs of socio-economic status.
Not a solution in this case - the problem is that companies like Cloudflare use these captchas to slow down your visit if you are using Tor or a VPN. In fact being logged in to google probably helps you bypass these checks
You haven't looked at a graph of the stock I guess.
I can't imagine that a car dealership would even care, as long as they got to sell a car.

"Oh dang, you ticked the 'not a robot' box but you are actually a robot ... Ah, no worries, I'll put a call in to head office, get the paperwork changed. Well, enjoy your car! ... And don't forget to come back in six months for your free oil change! ... for the car, I mean."
20% of these companies could be considered public property because it is public which has been feeding the algorithms training data.

A dividend on this could probably provide for a basic income.
A similar counterpart tool of matching land imagery (like mountain ranges) could be quite useful too. Especially for investigating things like this https://twitter.com/Europol/status/1051812094214066177
When a man beats his wife regularly, is that a hate crime against women? Why or why not?
Caviar is odd in that it should just be an additional way to use the fish that get caught. In the past people just thrown it away. Here in Sweden we use cod caviar for example as a common condiment for eggs and it is rather inexpensive.

The price of sturgeon caviar is just odd and seems to be mostly about the rarity. I have a hard time imagining the taste being that different from caviar of other similar type of fish. I have eaten roe from many different species and the primary distinction in taste seem to be linked to the oilyness of the fish.
If found in the current state, I'd speculate they'd conclude it's a planetary explorer:

* Lots of sensors

* Lots of communcation equipment

* No external controls

* Parts built without maitenance access

* Solar power

* Found on a mostly empty planet, with only a few other rovers around

* A planet next door littered with similar technology
Given how aggressively reddit push their terrible no good very bad interface, I figure there has to be some advantage to them to my using it? I don't know what that could be, maybe users struggling to use the new interface looks like engagement to ads?
Love the concept. I'm already in the bay, and just want to socialize. Can I come to the next socializing event? I won't need any housing.
Thank god. It's getting ridiculous. I get 3 or 4 of these every day now. That's something like 90% of the calls I get.
You're right. I think it's easy to blame Jerry Media for their role in marketing the product but nobody blamed Samsung's marketing agency for the phones exploding. Nobody blamed VW's marketing agency when the cars were caught cheating emissions testing.
I would happily assist in the destruction of any company that bends the knee to these unelected parasites by complying with their "laws." Helping to perpetuate the illusion that they deserve or possess any legitimate power makes you the enemy.
Ask HN: What are some of the untold truths of raising VC?
The regulations could have been reworked to exempt individuals using smartphones. I don't think it's that hard to write a reg that makes that distinction.
And to think I was excited to finally get a good explanation of what people usually mean when they say "perfect hashing" (i.e, given a set of keys, construct a hashing function that will assign each key a unique hash so as to avoid collision, with a hash-range that has typically little overhead over the number of keys).

If someone has good resources on that, I'm still interested. I found it hard to fully internalize the stuff I've found when looking a while back. In particular, I'm confused about the (complexity, time) bounds of such a hash construction process.
Just remember this crap next time anybody spouts bullshit about democracy.

It's hard to convince people that the Federal government in the USA is not really democratic in nature because media companies make billions of dollars in revenue off of every election and it's in their interest to propagandize it as much as possible.

But in the EU it should be easy to convince people it's just smoke and mirrors and that the central government only represents moneyed interests due to just how far removed it is from any and all oversight by individuals living in the EU. It's a lot more obvious in Europe that even if you got 10 million people to agree with you and sign papers and send letters the central EU government is going to be unaffected and won't really care a whole lot.

The only way to cause any change in behavior in government bureaucrats is to impact them directly and individually financially.

But since it's illegal to not pay your taxes there isn't much you can do.
I keep looking for ways that automation's benefits can be shared more democratically, but this essay sheds no light. The concluding paragraph, in my view, restates a well-worn plaint:

> With automation, the plutocrats get the increased efficiency and returns of new machinery and processes; the rest get stagnant wages, increasingly precarious work, and cultural kipple. This brave new world is at once new and yet the same as it ever was. Accordingly, it remains as true as ever that the project of extending liberty to the many through the transformation of work is only incidentally about changing the tools we use; it remains a struggle to change the relations of production.

Maybe it is just a matter of better tax policy.
It sounds like the answer basically depends on how we log and what we do with the produce, but it could be made carbon neutral or even negative with the right approach.

Makes me wonder just how much polymer use we could replace with wood, and what kind of disposal techniques for it we could develop to increase carbon sequestration (e.g. instead of burning it, bury it deep?).
Presumably GP took this as a MOOC... some people are pretty blitzed in college but it would be hard to mistake California for Massachusetts!
It happens in California too.

(A customer tried to scam her Airbnb host,
and the host made a remark about insinuating that scamming was an Asian personality trait. $5K fine and mandatory "re-education")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/13/airbnb-ca...
Cloudflare is not a good actor in this, they have shown that they do not care about encryption (allowing non-https backends while showing https to the end user) and embedding trackers in verification pages (the CAPTCHAs on random pages).
What's a "green-screen" in this context? Like a terminal app old school style?
Slight nitpick but past captcha successes are a characteristic of cyborg accounts, which still act as a bot most of the time.

A lot of the behavior that captcha exhibits is in part a function of feature analysis from ML models - features that may seem ridiculous to layman humans but make sense to a neural net plugged into the data.
All this excitement when it still takes the Senate and the president to make a law
He hadn't heard of it? That's not even remotely plausible. What an absolute dirt bag.
The salesman is a robot as well.
I have written a 1mm+ simultaneous user websocket server for a second screen app for a well known talent TV show in Node. It was running on a single server (with failovers and redundancies of course) just fine, but 99% of the server was just broadcasting. The hard part is sending single messages to users with user-specific content.
> And how is some small contractor suppose to properly vet a business

Ask for their credit rating.

> Why does the contractors get shafted over everybody else

Because that's how the contract is written. Don't like it? Get paid up front in senior security notes.
I literally had this discussion today at work. And then couple of weeks ago, when I suggested we drop a bunch of chartjunk on our products' graphs. And then some time earlier too.

Tufte talks about minimizing "chartjunk", maximizing "data ink", and being comfortable with high information density. Charts are tools, and while they may sometimes require some amount of effort to understand, they play to humans' strengths like scanning and pattern matching. I think Tufte got this very right, and it generalizes well to user interfaces.
The bigger question. Why do we treat bot visits differently. Automated submissions or manual have the same rate limiting controls that prevent more submissions than expected. The content of a form shouldn't be acceptable or not based on who sent it (human or machine) there needs to be another verification process against the data submitted to expected/acceptable values.

Why couldn't a bot purchase a droplet or shoes. As a saler I would be happy to sell to them. Purchases would be quicker and less wasted resources with humans browsing the same product pages for months before buying.
> Part of the issue, and the thing almost no one realizes about Carpocolypse 2008 is that all these suppliers are 100% dependant on supplying to 5 vendors and that if one stops buying X module for 6 months, they fold.

This was widely pointed out at the time, including, IIRC, by the CEO of Ford, who used it in pointing out why the bailouts, which Ford did not directly receive, were essential for Ford.
"CTFs are computer security/hacking competitions which generally consist of participants breaking, investigating, reverse engineering and doing anything they can to reach the end goal, a 'flag' which is usually found as a string of text." https://ctfs.github.io/resources/
Good. With the amount of curation, censorship, and agenda pushing Google does they're essentially a publisher. They should be treated as such.
This article makes the argument that all humans really strive to have more time for self-improvement. That's clearly not the case. The only kind of freedom we need is freedom from the existential fear of needing to be employed to live. We can already at least partly achieve that, simply by moving more of our lives to a DIY model - which, in turn, would leave less time for self-improvement.
That's gruesome.
Don't forget the bonus: all your forum accounts can be linked to your google account, just in case you didn't use your gmail as the email address.
and it seems like someone already did it as of 9 hours ago https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aq6jxf/p_s...
The Hargreaves Report from the UK Gov seemed a more sensible approach to copyright.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Nationalism is the problem behind that, not the solution for it:

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. (That in turn is one factor leading to EU political jobs being way less glamorous and desired, which in turn has an effect on who even gets sent there in the first place, etc.)

It's no wonder that when everyone's horizons end at their national borders the supra-national body will operate under too little scrutiny. We need to start thinking European – the alternative, going back to trying to regulate things like the internet in 28 different ways on a single continent, is just not a reasonable option.
What the people on the ground at the island wanted most was to get paid. Sounds like Fyre would have been a boon for the local economy and I think they assumed they would get paid even if the festival tanked, which is not unreasonable when someone shows up flashing lots of cash.

FuckJerry, on the other hand, had far more insider knowledge as well as the financial freedom to walk away from the project. They did not.

I think the only group that could be considered "true believers" like you describe are the Fyre employees.
Both are a scam.

Fyre Fraud at least tips you off you're being scammed.

It starts off saying how people loved the whole debacle essentially because of schadenfreude.

Then serves up schadenfreude for 96 mins.

Neither is 'true', watch both to get a still false version but better than any one.

Fyre did cover up FuckJerry's involvement though, which was really bad.

But I will say after 3 hours of schadenfreude the Fyre interview with Maryann Rolle, the caterer who lost her life savings, blew me away as a person.

Neither touches the fact the bloggers and people who went to a top 10 famous festival (Up there with Woodstock I/II and the first Burning Man) kinda got a good deal. They are more part of history than any bands on an island would have achieved.

So there is no schadenfreude and Billy McFarland probably has a mental illness. Reality is complex.
How long they decay wouldn't matter that much if you have the disposal process. The amount you'd end up processing every year would still be the same (reflecting total usage at any given isntant) once you get past the initial ramp-up.
I had roughly the same problem. My facebook career lasted for all of thirty seconds before they decided I was a robot and banned my account. I appealed and they asked me to send a photo. I sent them a photo and they said I was still a robot and there was no further appeal. Very helpful. So my choices from that point are to 1) shame them in the media and hope its an entertaining enough story that people like it or 2) do something better with my time then facebook. I chose the latter.
"Our default terms now include a residual “stake” for Earnest after the Return Cap has been fully repaid."
Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth
It was very obvious which was which and you had a 50/50 chance. I can confirm this used to work and I always used a curse word plus the known word.
Sounds like something 4chan would advocate.
I get the feeling that 90% of the check is if you are signed into a Google account, otherwise you're going to click some images. I've noticed this a lot of incognito mode where I will almost always have to do a captcha.
Not "secret" in that it's a recurring narrative that's being pushed these days in many places.

Not "history", in that it's simply not a reasonably objective account of what transpired. The actual history has been a natural flow of fairly benign social trends, not some sort of malicious conspiracy.

Compare the writing in the book I cited to this piece. It's like night and day.
> Noticed they had to down to epoll: https://github.com/eranyanay/1m-go-websockets/blob/master/3_.... that seems a bit too low level.

Agreed, I'd be quite curious how many libraries in the Go ecosystem they can't use as a result. Either because the library spawns a goroutine, uses one under the hood, etc.

Having to drop to this level makes me wonder if it'd be better to just use a language better suited to this type of asynchronous networking (C/C++/Rust).
Java data structures are built on top of a pile of unsafe code (the JVM and especially the GC), in a similar manner to building things on top of the std data structures in Rust.

For concurrency in particular the JVM exposes a more restricted (slower) model than the hardware, to guarantee no unsafety no matter how wrong the code is. Rust can't make that trade-off and still reach its performance goals.
Expectation management is sometimes as important as the actual delivery.
Not just a market economy - a market economy that does not account for externalities, like carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
I honestly don’t understand the process by which someone at these carriers proposed this as a product and somehow it was all approved and the carriers decided this was a good thing to do. How much revenue did selling this data provide them? It surely can’t be much.

(I get it could’ve been worth more if they provided it to ad networks somehow but that doesn’t seem to be the case according to the articles.)
CBO and IRS reports on taxes show the richest pay the vast majority of Federal taxes, and a significantly higher rate than the middle class and poor. Care to cite otherwise?

Here’s a summary of CBO data [1]. IRS also posts much more detailed tax stats with the same results.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-averag...
I just tried the ln(x²) integration example on my ancient TI-68 (built in Feb 1991) - unfortunately the accuracy depends on judicious choice of numerical integration intervals (it uses Simpson's rule). It seemed to give best results with about 25 intervals, taking about 7 seconds to come up with 717.7575466854 (more intervals result in overshooting the correct answer).
Particularly sucks for me because I'm on a kidney transplant list so may get a call any time of a potential match and they didn't specific which number will call me. So basically I end up answering all these unknown number robocalls in case I miss one of these matches.
At the very least it's a nice, public gesture and acknowledgement.
It was pretty big on 4chan at least at some point in the early 2010's.
And the unknown word was always the hard one to read iirc.
I believe this is related to anti-spam work that Mike Hearn did, and described at a high level on the ModernCrypto lists:

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780....

(search "Javascripts").
click on each star that is currently visable out your window :-/
> Why do we treat bot visits differently.

Because bots are used in multitarget and multisource spam attacks that humans can’t do efficiently; rate limiting on any particular target site, particularly for submissions from a particular source, cannot prevent such attacks.
That's what really kills me here. This is lock-in at least as bad as the Equifax situation.
Every time that thing asks

Select all images with traffic lights, I'm like, does the pole also count?

Select all images with cars, what about that car that is two pixes in the next tile?

Do I click based on absolute truth, or how they expect an average user to?
Lyngsat has a comprehensive list of satellites and transponders etc

https://www.lyngsat.com/america.html
Yes and a SpaceX rocket computer is not in space very long and is mostly in the low radiation environment of LEO. These Mars rovers spent years in a high radiation environment and received a large total ionizing dose of radiation. Having multiple computers doesn't do anything for total ionizing dose, they are all going to fail around the same time.

I'm not sure about the RAD6000 being discussed here, but its successor, the RAD750, is fabbed with silicon-on-sapphire to help with total ionizing dose. For single event upsets, there is triple modular redundancy for all logic in the CPU.
Most pilots do earn an annual salary. I'm not sure what the previous comment meant. Pilots simply have to work minimum number of hours per month, but the issue is that most pilots are now working up to the maximum number of hours therefore there are actually pilot union striking because of overwork!
Black Critics of Politicians Push Back Against Claims That They’re Russian Bots
The linked post doesn't give any concrete answers in my opinion. Can't a bot use a real browser to pass the CSS tests? Can't the behaviour of a human be recorded and mixed in with the behaviour of the bot to seem more human like? Why can't the encryption used be decoded?
It just depends on what your definition of a Martian minute is. If you define it as 1/(24*60) of a Martian day, it is different from an Earth minute.
Every EU law needs the approval of a majority of directly elected MEPs. They are up for reelection in May. Of course one can influence their behavior.
> "What makes you think Google's image classifer would think that's a mountain?"

Because every single time it asks me to classify mountains it rejects my answers if I don't click on trees on the horizon (and often trees on the horizon are the only "mountains" presented) and every single time it accepts the answer that such trees are mountains. I've gotten the mountains challenge dozens of times, the results are very consistent. If there is a group of trees on the horizon, that is asserted to be a mountain.

> "enough people saying "that is clearly not a mountain" would reinforce that it's, in fact, probably not a mountain."

Totally irrelevant because if I am trying to get through a google captcha, it's because that captcha is standing in the way of me doing something. My interest is in passing the captcha, not correcting Google's shitty image classifier. So I have absolutely no incentive to make my life harder by insisting on correct answers, and every incentive to tell Google what they want to hear.
Well, it looks like I found something that could qualify: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/451f11/lectures/lect1004.pdf
This is also happening in the US to some degree, fewer companies are going public and prefer to stay private longer, many times by letting investors/shareholders get some liquidity via private equity injection of capital. The way I try to protect myself against this is:

1) Heavily diversify in international (50% of my equity portfolio is in ex-us index funds), where the declining trend is not as sharp.

2) Tilt my equity allocation towards small cap value (20% tilt). Small cap value has been shown by academics to be a good proxy for private companies that a normal investor in the public market cannot typically own.

I hope it'll be enough!
They have some interesting software: https://feiwang3311.github.io/Lantern/
Do I understand correctly that leave.eu will be available shortly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19099150
> Call me crazy, but this does sound like...

This comment reveals what the current social climate is most lacking: open-mindedness and the willingness to consider the nuance of an argument before labeling the person giving it as a villain. For every opinion someone has, they have to qualify it and proclaim allegiance to the in-group, lest their opinion be stripped of nuance in an effort to ascribe that person to the out-group. The end result is a gradual dulling of social discourse amongst an increasingly, inevitably polarized electorate.