skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, I did link to Jimmy Dore

Yeah, that's "the left" I would identify with.

> We might disagree with what "the left" means, which is fine. I use it to apply to "any Democrat or leftist-leaning independent".

That unfortunately hasn't been true for a long time. The Clinton "Third Way" doctrine basically means "we're centre right economically, don't hate gays and support abortion rights". That is why these kinds of democrats play identity politics so hard, (while smearing minority candidates, ironically enough).

In the UK, the policy that closely represents the Democratic Party establishment is actually represented by a party called the Conservative Party, that should tell you something.

> being a libertarian

I am glad to hear that. While I probably massively disagree with you when it comes to social spending, I 100% agree however with libertarians on their anti-war stance as well as far as personal liberty goes in a large number of areas.

> And it's just that Pelosi is freaking speaker of the house right now. The people and interests that are controlling the Democratic party are pro-war.

I know, trust me as someone on the left, it's incredibly frustrating to be "represented" by such leadership.
That has nothing to do with the purpose of the transparency report, which is specifically about third-party requests:

> Every year, Reddit produces a Transparency Report to provide users with information about the types of requests that we receive from third parties that want Reddit to disclose user data or remove content from the platform.
What. How did you watch it and NOT think it was a scam? He (Billy McFarland) literally lied to the investors. He lied to people who were paying for the event. Lies on top of lies. He WAS intentional deceptive. Not sure how you missed that aspect after watching it? Yeah, he MAY have had an actual dream of a real festival during it, but that doesn't negate the fact that he still deceived and lied to many people involved with the project.
Are you kidding? It absolutely was a take the money and run. It was obvious weeks out that they were not going to be able to deliver on what they sold and instead of issuing refunds and cancelling the event, they took the money and ran, and continued to hire folks to build the thing without any money to pay them.
I work on bot detection at hCaptcha.com. (Hiring: reach out if you want to apply machine learning to stop bots and help websites monetize their traffic without ads)

In order to successfully execute a replay attack you would also need to pass the Turing Test, i.e. click the correct images. If you design a bot that starts a combinatoric attacking by trying random guesses we can easily confuse it, so most attackers try to use a solver service.

We can also identify how you interact with semantic content in the images when you click on the image and characterize your mouse interaction as human or non-human. Since confidence increases as more results come in we can also run them after the initial pass and then shadow-ban bots. (And notify the targeted website that we have determined e.g. a particular signup is a bot.)

Ultimately, many techniques beyond simple correct/not-correct are required to defend against the main attack vector: humans hired to solve captchas en-masse and make thousands of fake accounts. Modern ML is pretty effective for these kinds of problems. Browser obfuscation does not add real security, and today's reCAPTCHA (all versions) is easily defeated in practice.
Yea, older Toyotas are really dependable. Late 80's, and early 90's are dead simple. Make sure it's a manual tranny.

I'm in the process of buying a newer car/truck for a family member, and it's depressing. So many sensors, and computers that dealership mechanics barely comprehend.

I understand it's for emissions, but so many of those sensors are for comfort systems, and selling gizmos. The problem being is when they malfunction. A dealership mechanic will not tell a customer we are basically learning on your new computer on wheels, but they put that in the price to fix.

I went to automotive school in the ninties, and these new vechicles still scare me.

My trusty Snap-on Mt2500 is practically useless on newer vechicles.

And there will ge the guy whom claims, "I just plug a scan tool in, and that lovely system (CAN Bus system, and multiple computers), just spit out a PID, and the fix is found."

It's just so much more complicated.

On a positive note, my New Years resolution is trying to master these new electrical systems.

There's a market for a simple vechicle, like older Toyotas.

I don't see any company offering a simple vechicle? And yes, I understand emissions are a problem, but it doesn't seem like an impossible problem to get a manual four banger, with just the basics on the market.

And I won't get started on automatic transmission problems.

Sorry for the rant.
I can spend days and days trying to find a legal copy of an album I can purchase in reasonable quality (read FLAC) so I don’t have to pirate (done in less than a minute). And I often fail, because the content is strictly geo-fenced and incredibly complexly licensed and as a EU-citizen I cannot have those ones and zeros.

The system is madness and sometimes impossible to navigate, even for strongly dedicated humans.

And here the EU expects that any website which has user uploads should make a “best effort” effort to try to automatically license all the copyright of anything ever.

How the fuck can they claim to mean this seriously? No really. Just how do they plan for this to work?
I'm really sad that the mission is over, it was an amazing piece of hardware!

Thanks Opportunity, for all the knowledge you gave us. Thanks for the amazing pictures you sent us. Rest in Peace.
Hey Brian. F0cal provides a suite of tools to help design, test, optimize, and deploy computer vision systems. We're currently developing automated pipeline profiling and hardware simulation features. Let me know if you're interested in hearing more.
Are they actually buying or opening new leases? If you want to spread out your employee base from the bay area, that seems financially wise. If it's just buying buildings, that is a bit different.
> My timezone has not changed, my IP address and rough location has not changed, my screensize has not changed, my broadband speed has not changed, and my general computer dexterity has not changed, yet I am relentlessly targeted. On chrome I never saw these challenges, but on firefox with the privacy plug-ins I am always always always challenged.

That's because Google isn't just profiling "Tor users". They're going after anyone who values privacy in any way or technology.

Simply put, you're being punished for ensuring privacy. And anybody who uses Google's captcha services is an accessory to that.
Older Toyotas rust horribly, especially the trucks, but are mechanically very solid. I've had rust issues with Nissans also. Honda seems to have it figured out.

I've been quite happy with Ford also.

Chrysler products are the worst I've ever owned from a reliability standpoint, most of my issues with them have been electrical not mechanical though.
Google used to HATE my VPN, couldn't do anything on Google through it without a dozen damn pics to choose from.

My VPN must have gotten white listed (or cracked down on some of their traffic patterns) because that stopped.
Corporate income tax accounts for a whopping 9% of federal taxes for 2017. It's projected at 7% for 2019. Pathetic. Historically, this tax as a percentage of GDP is pretty low: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/corporate-income-....

Those "good reasons" appear to be "because our representatives like to keep their paychecks coming and fashion the tax code in a way favorable to corporations". You can complain about "populist sound-bytes" all you'd like, but it's absurd for a company to use so many public resources and pay nothing.
So the article doesn't seem to mention any of the ongoing efforts to stop or reduce caller ID spoofing, such as SHAKEN/STIR. I'm not clear if that will do anything, and it's certainly far too little too late, but the industry is doing something.

On that note, does anyone know how SHAKEN/STIR is supposed to work? I understand that it basically sets up a PKI with JWTs in SIP headers, but from what I can tell there needs to be some sort of trusted CA which creates and signs these things, but I can't tell who that CA is or if there even is an agreed upon central CA.

I'd also be interested in any corrections/expansion on any of the things I said above, I really don't know much about it and would like to.

edit: after making this comment I did a bit more research, and it looks like[0] there will be per-country CAs that can issue certificates to owners of phone numbers within that country. I'm specifically curious about which CAs will be trusted in the United States.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-burger-stir-iana-cert-00.htm...
Just click whatever you suspect is needed to pass. Don't go above and beyond trying to give the actual right answer; you're just feeding some proprietary database owned by Google. QA for it is their problem.
Three words: Silicon Valley, Bachanalia
Thanks for putting it in a single sentence!

I would say that + focus on emotions vs facts.
> Google isn't going out of their way to punish you for trying to protect your privacy. They're trying to stop unwanted traffic. By unfortunate happenstance, (...)

This does not agree with my experience. I browse without cookies and severely limited javascript (using umatrix), and I also encounter the myriad of ridiculous inconveniences that the OP was referring to. On the good side, however, the web is much faster and generally less annoying.
Bringing Manufacturing Technology to the Construction Site
Robocalls are terrible and a valid reason to have regulations. We should sign up every Senator and Congressman’s cellphone to N number of scammy sites. See how fast the issue is solved. SS7 issue be damned, AT&T and Verizon will solve it if you force their hands.
Distributed systems also deadlock in ways that local watchdogs can't account for. You still imply the global watchdog of the brain of the systems designer to navigate those problems.

All of your examples require a human homunculus to steer a system away from deadlocking.

The brain doesn't have an architectural homunculus to do that for it, and yet, it does not deadlock in any way resembling the deadlocks we see in computer science.

My question is how did the brain do this without a system architect? How can natural selection have a bias that prevents deadlocking in neural compositions?
Then again, Hulu paid an undisclosed amount of money to Billy McFarland for an interview on a documentary after he scammed a whole bunch of people.

Noone can throw the first stone here.
If a generated ”random” person happen to be identical with a real person then you must say the person exist. It’s very likely that some images describe real people and therefore the domain name makes no sense. Like if a process happened to generate a real equation it’s not the case that the equation doesn’t exist.
Another thing is that suggestions from users often suffer from the "XY problem" issue. So even when a user has a ridiculous suggestion or request, there might be a legitimate issue behind it.
It surprises me that people could claim that the inverse would ever be true. As in, why would the default be to assume that animals are not conscious? Claiming that consciousness is unique to humans seems like quite a high-horse proposition for us to make about our species.

The question as to how far down consciousness goes is still a matter of debate. The idea that consciousness goes all the way down, i.e. to rocks et al. is called panpsychism in philosophy. I don't think that's likely, since our best bet is that consciousness is maybe/probably an emergent property of information processing in the brain. How complex that information processing has to be to result in consciousness is an interesting proposition, and could be hard to determine given the subjective nature consciousness to begin with.

Still though, I can't imagine experiencing consciousness, responding to stimuli the way I respond to stimuli, and thinking that animals/bugs that also respond to stimuli in the same manner as we do are not conscious. The fact that this assumption has permeated culture throughout history seems like a very obnoxious oversight and has probably led morally sane people to enact morally insane abuses towards animals and I think that is a shame.
Did you tell them we're trying that and algae can only sink so much carbon? ;)
Until the copyright people, after noticing that the profits they expected aren't up to their expectations, start digging deeper in search for gold that isn't there.
Where do you see warrants?
Good + heavy $$$ punishments. My father had heart attack few weeks ago and my brother refused to pickup a call, because he was thinking that it was a robocall. It was a call from hospital in VA, they a left voicemail.
Their official page -

https://www.youtube.com/saveyourinternet/

As I understand it, YouTube, even with the biggest and best content library and matching system, can't take the risk to be held liable when copyrighted content gets through the filters. Especially with Deep Learning leading the system, they likely wouldn't be able to explain how their content ID system works if the EU asks them questions about the specifics.
That's a very interesting take, I've never considered it that way before. I guess that goes to show I need to work on my empathy.
Quick correction, I don't think "doing something" (italics omitted) is the legal standard for regulatory intervention
Physicists might have created quantum entanglement in bacteria (2018)
You can't build repeatable models of space for high-accuracy registration with big drone or car hardware either, I've worked with both. The geometry of space may rhyme but it never repeats. Those links don't address registration.

If you measure the environment with high-precision and use that to construct a geometric model of the space, and then come back a week later and measure it with the same instruments, the two spaces won't be congruent even for objects we normally think of as invariant, and the variability is sometimes surprising in magnitude. The noise floor for repeatable measurement out in the physical world is centimeters in most cases, regardless of the instrument precision used to measure it. This isn't a problem if you don't need particularly high-precision but people are inventing applications that do.

The software challenge is trying to position relative to previous measurements of the same space when the myriad positioning cues are contradictory. Knowing which of the totality of cues are relevant in context so that the software can appropriately adapt its positioning behavior to the change in geometry is the part that is usually deemed AI-complete by the people I know that have been working in the space a long time. There are many infamous example cases of humans being able to correctly register contradictory positioning information in context that we don't know how to algorithm our way out of currently.

Some of the drone work we did was actually measuring how the geometry of "fixed" spaces varies over time. The world around us moves a lot more than humans can perceive.
Equity comes with a whole host of conditions (which can be unpleasant for founders) that Earnest Capital's deal doesn't include.

I think it's more than fair to say they don't take equity.
Save Alice . Why does the PTO feel the need revive the broken world of abstract software patents?
Fyre Festival was a scam from the perspective that they were selling something they had no means of fulfilling. This became evident early on, and rather than refund/notify customers, the Fyre team intentionally hid information and pushed attendees to load more money onto a vaporware payment system that didn't exist.

Even in the Netflix doc, it was shown that the founder, Billy McFarland, was raising festival funding under falsified information. The fact that he went on to scam the Fyre account list with fake tickets later just shows that he was scamming from the start.
They seem to keep adding categories though, which makes me suspect that it is all about ML training. Recently it's chimneys and bridges (although that one may be older).

It's always annoying though.
Doesn't explain the Porsche tie with Toyota unless you're suggesting Porsche drivers are more like Toyota drivers than BMW.
"They Shall Not Grow Old" is probably the closest popular documentary I can think of to your ideal (that focuses on humans at least) -- and it still implicitly needs to weigh in on some narratives, for instance the evolving thinking on "did the generals undervalue their soldiers' lives or were they learning as fast as they could?".

If you really care about what happened at X, you have to read/watch/listen to multiple sources and synthesize. No one will do that for you without injecting their own conclusion.

fwiw, watching 2 documentaries and reading a HN thread is already more research than I ever expected to do on a failed festival.
Which are governments, which levy taxes...
It was such an amazing mission and it went so well.

The idea that we send a robot to another planet and it drives around for that long still astounds me.
Ask HN: What's your method for self-studying coding books efficiently?
Hi HN,

Lately I've been reading multiple programming books at the same time on separate languages and libraries.

I find that even though I read and complete the exercises, I'll just end up forgetting a command or recipe for some task.

Paper notes take too long but they do help me recall better. Doing projects helps but I still end up forgetting as I switch over to another language. I'm trying notes in Jupyter notebooks now so we'll see how that goes.

What's your method for studying coding books efficiently?
No, this is all just wrong. The efficiency is because you dont throw a load of enthalpy overboard as in a gas generator. The phase is _exremely_ second order by comparison.

You’re all over this thread being wrong and confused.

Source: am a rocket engine designer.
This is illegal under current laws.

The truth is, there's really only a couple hundred thousand families in the US with enough money to do stuff like this. And the IRS should have the resources to make sure they aren't making $10M+ per year and reporting income of like $15k.
EU negotiators strike deal to revamp European copyright rules
>only see more stories of this level of social media marketing manipulation

Yes. See the news about Burning Man and the Humana Camp. Mobile right now can't grab the links easily but I will try to come back with them.
If the bank does not take race or gender into its decision-making process, it is not subject to race/gender discrimination. Period. If the outcome produced is that people of a certain race or gender receive more or less loans, that does not mean that there is anything wrong with that system. The banks isolated system is not at all discriminatory, it just receives different inputs that happen to differ, on average, between population groups.

If you're concerned for the capability of a given arbitrary population group to have a different outcome, then the goal posts need to necessarily be moved back. Why did that population have lower credit score, lower income, lower wealth? Historical racism? That certainly has some role, but that has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not the present system is itself racially biased. Is it the code or is it the data?

Regarding your anecdata, consider an interesting thing I saw recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk3tVSJSkQM

This was meant to highlight injustice, but really just shows how differently people can interpret the exact same events occurring to them on the basis of their preconceptions.
There is enough interest to lobby it through. And politicians are braindead sellouts..
Was curious about your mention of Stennis, so I looked it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis_Space_Center#E...

Sounds like SpaceX has, with NASA and the State of Mississippi modified the test stand to support methane.
Largest segments expected: CERN-ARPA (Americas+Switzerland), BEREC-RIPE (most of Europe+most of Africa), RKnZ (EEU+OIC), OCCA (PRC). North Korea, South Korea and India will determine the future of internet by choosing which segment to join.
Can anyone point me to the virtual machine and encryption mechanisms used by Google, as was alluded in that link?
The use case you just described is another reason to cheer for Electron. It allows the web page version of the app to be identical to the desktop version without any major effort on the developers part.
All ideals are contradictory and unachievable, but the tension they create motivates action, which can lead to interesting forms of change.

There are as many stories as there are participants. Yours is one kind of story that some people have. There are other people, who have been participating in Burning Man for years, for whom the party and the art are nothing more than useful motivating excuses for going to Black Rock City. Some of them might say that the event is a laboratory for experiments in forms of social organization and activity which contrast with those most commonly seen in the "default world". All of these stories are true at once.
"In most cases, we’ll agree on a long-term residual stake for Earnest if you ever sell the company or raise more financing. We want to be on your team for the long-term, but don’t want to provide any pressure to “exit.”"

This seems to imply that they get a % of an exit or future financing even once the cap has been reached. That is functionally warrants right?
> I browse without cookies and severely limited javascript (using umatrix), and I also encounter the myriad of ridiculous inconveniences that the OP was referring to.

Isn't this also something that many bots do (don't run javascript and don't have realistic cookies)? It seems like just another instance of reducing your distance from the "bot" cluster in agent-space.
Good luck finding a congressperson's personal cell phone.
EU countries, lawmakers clinch copyright overhaul deal
Is NPM at it again?
I have exactly the same experience without using Tor, living in Germany...

I personally don't care too much about the hassle, but I really don't like the idea that I'm basically playing Artificial "Intelligence"/doing clickworking for the not so community oriented efforts of Google.
"It's fairly established the NSA has everything tapped and collecting/storing all traffic."

That's nonsense though. Even a basic understanding of internet technology would show that such a thing is impossible.
The npm package ownership process is flawed. Anecdotally, I received an email from npm support saying someone requested publish rights to a package that I manage. The default was that the access would be granted if I did not respond within 30 days.

It's very possible this went through npm support, they received no reply within the window, and the transfer was granted.

There are good practices around domain names to lock transfer, perhaps npm should consider adopting similar mechanisms.

--edit-- for the curious, here is the redacted email chain. I don't want to call anyone out on this. These things are hard and handling edge cases are very difficult. I love npm, and host several packages there. I really appreciate everything they've done for node and javascript, and I think folks are harder on them than they should be due to some tricky decisions they've made. But I want things to improve for everyone, so consider this a disclosure for analysis on how things can get better. https://pastebin.com/636v8YSP
Pilots Are Exposed to the Equivalent of 75 Chest X-Rays per Year
Actions like these are inadvertently a donation to the value of everyone else's bitcoins.
Europe’s Megalithic Monuments Originated in France and Spread by Sea Routes