skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that you feel "I'm hungry" when your blood sugar drop below its typical level. The typical level can be increased by eating a lot of sugary processed food over a long period of time. In other words, sugary processed food change your body chemistry to make you addicted to them. If you largely eat healthy food and are at a healthy weight, then "I'm hungry" is a reliable signal for "I need more calories". If you are not, then it becomes a one-sided biased signal.
The Wireless team has been reorganized, but they have still been pushing out updates for AirPort routers. It seems like they delayed the release of the fix in this case based on the language used in the responses Apple gave.
It has a lot of problems that just show how incompetent politicians can get on a bad day

Mind elaborating on them?

The only potential issue, which I see, is some ambigiouty. However, I don't see how you could craft a legal frame work without some ambiguity, which needs to be resolved by the courts at one point.

Unless your business model is dreck, I really don't see any issues with the GDPR as such.
The point is that if you can make more money selling machines than printing money, then it isn't a very good money printing machine, and you're just another bitcoin scammer, refusing to eat your own dog food, selling an impossible dream to suckers.

To purpose of simply using the machine yourself instead of selling it isn't preventing others from making money, it's to avoid wasting your own time and money on sales and marketing and customer service and hiring employees and paying for their health care and leasing office space and manufacturing and shipping products and giving refunds to unsatisfied customers, when you could just be shoveling money directly into your bank account instead, without all the overhead.

If the machine was really so great, then you could just print all the money you needed, and give the machines away for free.

Now if you could invent a machine selling machine, then you'd have something.
Popular sites? If they work only with Chrome they aren't popular sites for me, and I'm happy to know that I shouldn't trust them too much.
Yeah, it’s pretty amazing. I kind of wish they’d spent the money to do a bit more on the actual subway, though :-)
> The only way to defeat spam

No, no, no. There are many ways to combat spam, and there is no silver bullet. "Determining whether you're a bot or not" is just one tool among many, and one that lets human spammers through, or gets too intrusive and starts blocking humans.

IMO the best approach still is to focus on the content they post rather than trying to figure out who/what they are.
Thousands of insects and animals species appeared and disappeared before humans existed, countless of times, so I wouldn't give that much weight to existent equilibriums; what we can do is being aware of the changes, e.g. if we detect a sudden increase in spiders population we can check what is killing the frogs and act accordingly
I do already block ads via the /etc/hosts file and it largely works pretty well but it completely fails on YouTube and Reddit. I've read that YT is at best tricky with pihole as well, so for now I just use Firefox for these sites and qutebrowser for most other purposes.

But great to know there's some progress.
The fact that CAPTCHA sweatshops exist is a testament to it's failure as a protocol, let alone the privacy implications (just run X.exe to continue).
Wouldn't impairing a foreign nation's economy increase economic migration from that nation? I'm no economist, so maybe I'm missing something.
Presumably they were talking about this: https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/master/mi...
Good efforts! I'm still slightly partial to that other approach where they genetically modified the mosquitos themselves to only produce male offspring, in such a fashion that the gene was dominant and thus soon there would be only male mosquitos.

Still, if there's been a snag in the road for that approach, this appears to be a viable alternative
You appear to be trying some sort of reduction ad absurdum, but in many cases work on some change to the software starts with deleting all the related tests because they're going to be irrelevant and changing them isn't worth the extra work.

That that deletion is necessary means it apparently did make the code a bit worse.

Also all the time they were in while the code wasn't being changed, they made running the application's tests slower.
Do these agents evolve to communicate with each other (e.g. by wiggling)?

With OpenAI5, it would have been cool to restrict inter-agent communication to an audio channel. Would a discrete language evolve?
The problem I see is that politicians don't seem to have any good days.
Since they introduced the square-selecting captchas I have always assumed that they use it for identifying the user. I bet that depending on how you solve the captchas they can identify who you are if their system already has a theory of who you might be.
Here being HN, I don't even understand if this is a sincere or ironic remark?
Amazon's stock is expensive, however markets - investors - do not price stocks based on past results typically. Stocks are priced largely on future expectations. This has been particularly true in the case of Amazon for a long time.

They'll have near ~$30 billion in profit within the next four to five years, which will bring their PE down to a high, but not ungodly, 30x.

AWS is worth $300-$350 billion now. Very soon it will soon be larger than Oracle and it's growing extremely fast for a large business (a high multiple would be granted). Their ad business is worth $100-$150 billion. In the next four to five years, those two businesses together will be worth as much as the entire company is today. That's a big part of what investors are betting on, along with the expectation that Amazon is going to continue to find new profit centers.

Sure, you might say, why is Amazon priced for earnings four or five years out? Well, that's the standard practice of pulling future returns forward. Almost always happens with growth companies, inevitably leads to a stagnation period. Amazon will continue to grow into their market cap and their annual returns will drift downward.
I had a strange idea about solving this problem: How about a micro-payment, something like $0.01, instead of solving a puzzle? In that case maybe you won't care if many bots login to your website.

I think that I by this time I have the technology to make something like this work, I was wondering if this is a good solution though. What do you think?
Drywood termites fly.
I don't think the article says this?

> The malware will attempt to find the dynamic linker binary within these paths. The dynamic linker filename is usually prefixed with ld-<version number>.
Payment processing is nontrivial to set up, and doesn't make sense in a lot of contexts.
Works great in Belgium!
>At first glance, the idea has merit. There are more than enough examples of tasks that used to be really hard, but today are simple. One such example is the task of building a website.

Well with money yes.
I read this as "Mass Tinder" and it gave me an idea for a group dating app that helps organize strangers into meeting up as a group for "activities".
As per google "reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your website from spam and abuse" but instead one can argue that reCAPTCHA is a service that transfer spam issue from the provider to its users, so at the end one provider will be free of spam (I guess) but all of his users will be spamed, tricked, fingerprinted and abused to actually constantly work for free for this 3rd party ant-spam service
I know someone who loves giving this response. "Safari is junk, use Chrome and it'll work".

I also love sending him patches to show how easy it is to fix his stuff so it works in Firefox, Chrome, Edge... and of course Safari.
They did not. Read up a few levels, Skype refuses to work with Firefox, because it's inconvenient for them.
Having to make a payment to join a website is maximum friction and makes your website seem dodgy. It seems more likely they are trying to steal cc details by asking for such a small payment.
I tried using the unlisting UI, but it says I need to install the app and deactivate my account before unlisting. When I install the app, it refuses to run unless I grant it all sorts of permissions. So it seems before unlisting, I need to give truecaller my data. This absolutely ridiculous.
I don't know these, do you have an example?
This is correlation on a self selected group. A different statistical correction is needed for those. (These people are not being fed this diet despite their wishes, so there are lifestyle, metal health and other correlates.)

Thus causality can go either way with multiple factors interfering.
The experiment is not powered enough to actually derive a conclusion. They'd need at least a 2 million sample sizes for each group to show anything other than noise, and that's with the ultra fancy multilinear math used in genetics to untangle multiple factors. (Advanced variants of FAMD.)

Welcome to land of observational studies.
Portfolio looks great, are you in any marketplace like upwork, fiverr, UserCV ?
That's like saying "why don't you use algoritms and code". Like, sure, but what is it you're proposing? What features would you learn from and match against?

(For those unfamiliar with algoritms and code as solution, it's a reference to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5ylndv/so_... )
Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker
^this.
some things are better done by career bureaucrats. democracy is not a universal tool
> It's not a truism if "text" includes bytes that are not UTF-8.

"other UTFs" assume it's in one UTF to start with. If it's in a random non-encoding, possibly no encoding at all, there's no point in attempting a conversion, you can't turn random garbage into non-garbage.

> A program would probably naturally model a filename as being text

That's incorrect modelling and a well known error, as discussed in other sub-threads.
While I agree with you -- I'd also like to point out that >90% of malicious traffic to the websites I administer comes through the Tor network.

It shouldn't be the case, and I don't want to block people who have a legitimate reason to use Tor. Unfortunately there isn't a "block Tor traffic from assholes" option, so all I can really do to reduce the malicious traffic is block exit nodes.
Akismet has been doing this for some time I believe. The downside is that you have to send the form submission and other meta data (IP address, etc) to them. This can be better than the current reCaptcha v3 though.
> implementing features exactly as they define and "are paying for".

The reason they're paying so much for it is that you didn't do the refactoring last time. Every time they refuse a refactor, all their future costs genuinely go up.

If they ask why the refactor is needed, why you didn't do it properly first time round: “You're constantly refining your business processes to satisfy ever-changing business needs; that's what I need to do to the code.”
What if we had a mechanism that makes this kind of setup very trivial, and also risk free for the visitor? Then would you consider this kind of solution?
EDIT: Same question for tty2300 (:
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There you go!
https://www.3gpp.org/

At the beginning of my corporate career I was working on implementing LTE layer1 (PHY) in internal testing tool. It sometimes took us weeks to understand a single page from the specification - those were fun times ;)
Looks like a good reason to delete these apps.
We (Mozilla) are planning to enable tracking protection by default. It's a relatively slow process, developed and rolled out incrementally, since we have a larger user base than Brave and need to make sure not to break the Web.
'In addition, in order to check if your system is infected, you can search for “ld.so” files — if any of the files do not contain the string ‘/etc/ld.so.preload’, your system may be compromised.'
But I do agree that the journalist should have practiced better opsec and advised her sources that they probably don’t want her name to show up on their phone if she calls them at an inopportune time such as when around the very people she is investigating.

How do you secure against something that you're not even aware exists?

Maybe outsourcing operational security? But how can a journalist aford that?
Leap Motion Plays Its Final Hand
Apple only takes payment for apps sold through their own platform. Only if, on the other hand, they also demanded a cut of revenue from sales on competing platforms, you could talk about a situation similar to Qualcomm.
Well considering that Google already specifically blocks Chromium based Edge from its current YouTube version may be Recaptcha will not work in it soon too.
You can make that checkbox visible by default and put label "I'm not a bot" and uncheck + hide it using JS, that way noscript users will still see the checkbox and uncheck it manually.
Goodworks
Yes, I know - we had this discussion about a potential standard set of user configuration URLs just recently here on HN, but in my comment it was meant as not possible right now.
Andres Freund: Pluggable Table Storage in PostgreSQL [pdf]
> Firefox will now detect if your computer’s memory is running low, which we define as lower than 400MB, and suspend unused tabs that you haven’t used or looked at in a while.

I have a laptop with spinning rust and I try to occupy only 12/16 G so no cache is evicted. Its filled to the brim with 12G. Maybe Firefox should leave 20% of the memory free.
In San Francisco there are some block with maybe five different bus stops on them. In general many routes stop every block, or nearly every block. Part of the reasoning is that there are standards for stop spacing. Off the top of my head I don't remember the specifics but it's along the lines of x% of the city's population must have a bus stop within y feet that provides service at least z hours a day. Stops along a line must be within n feet unless it's on a grade > j% in which case the distance is some fraction of n.

This all works extremely well in theory but is incredibly resource intensive. There've been plenty of discussions on how to speed up service by eliminating some stops — but this is complicated by Muni being a system with a dependency on transfers and by people having their own favorite pet stop. So what happens? Muni goes after lightly used lines — like the line that served Treasure Island. Of course the geniuses at Muni didn't seem to care that you can't walk/bike to Treasure Island. It's personal or public motorized transit only (or it was when they first tried to gut the 108).

The night buses in San Francisco are a godsend, and quite unique in the Bay Area, but not particularly well utilized — partly a visibility issue I'm sure. The stops are generally about as frequent but the service itself is much less frequent (once or twice an hour typically — or roughly 1/2 to 1/4 the daytime service) and there are fewer routes (a few routes run 24x7, there are bus lines that replace the rail lines stop for stop, and two or three dedicated "Owl" lines). Aside from the really infrequent schedules, the biggest challenge is that runs go missing all the fucking time because absolutely none of the street supervisors even notice when the first run or two doesn't go out. Of course once you get on a bus, if you're on an owl route… good luck figuring out where the driver is going to stop.

Meanwhile in London I remember taking the bus from Liverpool St station around 1am ages ago (the 23?). The service seemed reasonably frequent and there were plenty of stops (same as the daytime as far as I could figure). The big challenge I had was understanding the driver — I couldn't see very well out the window. I remember the bus itself seemed fairly crowded — compared to SF where the night buses really empty out as you get away from downtown / market st.

The one thing I've seen that I think would benefit SF (and to a lesser extent London or any area looking to beef up their late night service) was in New York. If you're on a bus at night the drivers are allowed to let you off anywhere along the route as long as it appears safe to do so.
Thanks, I was actually wondering why I had heard of no fuzzy searcher in Rust, seemed like a natural fit
So, step by step:

1. take my profile as a male, non-smoker of normal body mass, aged 18 to 50.

2. Put me in a room with 20 others that match my profile with the exact same age and birthday.

3. Break us up into quartiles, 5 individuals per section of the bell curve. 25% of the group take doses of [(0|1), 2, 3 or 4] servings of meals including highly processed foods (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert) each day for a year, starting at birth.

4. The first group, group A: (0|1), no matter what you do, at this level the effect is the same. You can totally avoid and abstain or dose just once, at any meal and the outcome is the same. This is the normal death distribution. People in this group get to go about their lives and die as the reaper would have it, natural causes, accidents, foul play, all in line with typical circumstances around the world.

5. For serving groups B (2), C (3) and D (4), each group is handed a Charter Arms Bulldog five-shot revolver to play Russian roulette with. Group B puts one lead hollow point round in the cylinder, and each subsequent group adds a round. On their next birthday, every member of the 15 men in these groups must point the gun at their head and squeeze the trigger once, and then the next man takes their turn.

6. By midnight of the birthday party, we conduct a physical examination of all members, and find the bullets laid out exactly where we'd expect. Group A has none killed by our special gunshot wounds, group B: one dead, group C: two dead, group D: three dead. Cause of death in all cases: cranial lead poisoning.

Suffice to say, processed foods are a form of Russian roulette but instead of bullets, the weapon is loaded with harmful adulterants.
Reporters talk to lots of people, who practice very poor tradecraft.

Which suggests: everything this story describes also applies to intelligence and law enforcement services. Imagine you're conducting espionage, or are tracking money laundering or drugs smuggling.
They've already decided on suicide, so does it really matter?
Oh wow that's really unfortunate. I met some crypto people locally but almost all of them are trading focused. I also attended some "blockchain events" but most of them are just people shilling their coins/how to become a better trader.

Maybe I haven't tried hard enough finding the builders.

Thank you Roneil, and good luck on your endeavors!
Can't argue with 1. For 2 it's still an instruction set separate from uops so you might not be as sensitive to changes you still get a level of indirection. For 3 .. it depends. You might gain in power if you use the newer one more and you might as well make the older one simpler to achieve 90% of speed maybe. But maybe the decoding of instructions that counts is not that expensive compared to OOO branch predictors and 512 bits ALUs
I look at it more through a behavioral lens. If you know a lot about someone you can use that information to modify their behavior and decisions. I'd prefer to minimize behavioral triggers like and retain more influence over my own destiny.
FWIW I just use a keybinding to open mpv for Youtube. There's also https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium which can prevent ads (though I'm not sure if it still works, it was broken at some point).
Ugh. Reading this guy's account is just making me depressed. There is not a single convincing or meaningful response to gorhill's excellent and concise twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1134127701583904770

All I see is handwavy posturing and tweets like this: "I should know better than to check Twitter after a painfully long day, but I am not dumb enough to actually reply to any of this crap."

This is the person who (by his own claim) is making the call on something that will fundamentally change the entire Internet?
> There would be no niceness, no pleasantries. All environmental reviews would be ignored as a matter of national security, it would be a violent rush to production no matter the initial cost

This is how you get things like http://nmindepth.com/2014/07/07/remembering-the-largest-radi...

How many people would you poison to, essentially, make a point against China? Besides, the whole project of demonstrating how the US is a superior place to China by, er, nationalising a mine at gunpoint, poisoning the surroundings, and disallowing people legal redress for complaints?
I have one which picks a bunch of random single-digit numbers and a math operator, then asks you to type the result.

I spent days trying it out with screen readers and tweaking it to work with as many as possible.
Louisville, KY: Tom Cruise (born in Syracuse, NY, but parents born there) replaces Muhammed Ali (by far most famous native).

Seems a bit unfair.
You are living in a complex, mostly functioning nation state where the majority of conflicts is resolved in a civil manner. Not in a small tribal society where you might be murdered by someone physically stronger than you simply because he lusts after your partner. That simple fact proves how hyperbolic and naive your statement is.
If it's a problem with spammy blog comments I would recommend to just remove any kind of input on the site and ask people to send you an email with their questions and concerns.

Be sure to use a separate email and give it to readers on your about page via some language like "questions (dash) and (dash) comments (at) (this domain)".

If it's for account signups just send an email confirmation link and possibly include a code in the email that has to be submitted manually as well.
Already tried to compile such a list, "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Falsehoods Lists": https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be... :D
MapsMe is open source app. As far I know, when you compile yourself, ads are disabled by default

https://github.com/mapsme/omim
I haven't tried finding crypto communities on slack, maybe I can find some good ones there.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Moving Design Decisions from Ego-Centered to User-Centered
There was a widely reported and tragic story of a young man doing the same thing in Australia some years ago (Sam Ballard). I would have to assume his fate was unknown to the current patient.
Geetest is one of them, I've seen it on crypto projects generally, binance for example.
For bots which are not specifically targeted at your page i simply add an invisible form element named url. Bots _LOVE_ to share their viagra urls. Any request which submitted an url is discarded.

This trick is simple stupid and should not work but somehow the simple spam bots have not improved.

This does not work for sophisticated bots (never met one) or the ones programmed specifically for your site (happens very rarely).
Thanks ! How did you find it on the site ?
We already do with cryptocurrency. Many people are incredibly hostile to using their credit card anywhere that isn't a physical location.

My parents don't even trust Amazon. They use Visa prepaid cards that they fill up at CVS whenever they have to.

Arguably they're doing the right thing and we're all doing the wrong thing. Either way, micropayments are one of those "ideal world" scenarios that are unlikely to transpire anytime soon.
they're there for denying access to automated scripts.
Not sure who this document is aimed to. It's not technical enough to appeal to programmers that are working closely with Pilosa. And it's not written in a way to make it easy to understand for people that don't know anything about Pilosa (such as myself). I mean a subtitle called "Time Quantum" is enough to make me confused. Would appreciate a more generic "what is this" intro if possible.