skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would prevent the bots from using the same system?

The minor cost may be offset by the fact that getting a post through to a site that has almost no spam because of its filter is valuable in itself. If the bot is sophisticated enough that the stuff it posts is hard to distinguish from a human shill or shitposter it may even prefer sites protected with such a system.

Useful for the vintage VIAGRA HERE link dumpers perhaps though, but those can be filtered out with a content filter.
Quality software is not just a matter of the customer demanding it.

Medical software usually comes with medical devices. You'd need a manufacturer that is good at developing both the devices and the accompanying software, and have a medical organisation that is good at their core business (being doctors) and knows enough about medical equipment and software to choose the manufacturer that has good quality in both. Even though another manufacturer may have superior or more affordable equipment and not be as good at the software side, etc (if that can even be judged before using the stuff for a while).

And all sides need to stay profitable while doing this.

Who says going for the manufacturer with the quality software is even worth it? Maybe it's better to go for the one with the better MRI scanner and make do with the crap software, etc.
As a side note, the Calatrava hub was a result of federal 9/11 reconstruction money and couldn’t be redirected to normal maintenance or capital projects. They did try; before Pataki left office his big pet project was extending the LIRR from Brooklyn to the World Trade Center to revive Lower Manhattan, but the feds didn’t buy that it was a reconstruction project.
That's ingenious. One of the "obvious when you think about it" solutions.
I'll add another one to the list: DMT.

I normally wouldn't recommend it, because, while the good trips are profoundly amazing, I've also heard of some pretty bad ones and unless you have some experience with psychedelics and have good mental health, it can be a traumatic experience, but since the guy has already decided he wishes to die, maybe it doesn't matter.

I personally find Ketamine quite therapeutic, at any dose. The recent research suggests it may be effective as an antidepressant, although I guess its still too early to say for sure that its a good long term medication (and of course, self-medicating is never a great idea).

(Of course, for anyone reading this, please do your own research before doing any drug and be safe!)
loudspeaker whine

Sir? Put down the Petri dish and back away slowly.

Seriously:

I highly suggest you read up on Bioethics of synthetic biology and its potential applications.
Ethically: yeah.
Opulence and overengineering aren’t the same thing.
Generalized Additive Models in R – A free interactive course
There is no user agreement, let alone a contract, between Facebook and me.

I use none of their services and properties.

So are you arguing that it's right that they spy on me regardless? Like they do on any other human being who is not in a business relationship, whatsoever, with this company?
I am in one of the regions where Truecaller is growing rapidly.

And I've found out that the best defence is a good offence: registering my number myself but with totally false information seems to supersede what other register about me. And that's what I did. Not with Truecaller, but with another app (CallApp) that seems less greedy with permissions.
I think they're assuming that readers will excuse them for a bit of sloppiness for brevity's sake.
Does humanity even know how to make quality software of the size where it costs on the order of hundreds of millions?
Let's not go about creating fungi that kill animals en-masse.
Sorry to hear that - I've had good experiences in the past at Hackathons and other developer-focused events rather than general "crypto" or "blockchain" events.

Good luck!
Actually we have implemented something like that for HTTP requests.
Features would be:
IP (first 3 octets are probably enough), posting time, length, time to solve captcha, time between clicks, country where the IP is located, post contains certain words (can be learnt from spam posts), does the post contain a link(y/n)

I think I would start with these, probably looking into what other people are doing.
Unrelated to the article, just found it interesting how he’s using github to literally auto generate his blog via their md-to-html thingy, and issues for comments.
I would buy that book in a heartbeat.
> "other UTFs" assume it's in one UTF to start with

Maybe I should have been clearer. I just meant "other UTFs" as in "UTFs that are not UTF-8", ie, UTFs that exist primarily for historical resons.

> That's incorrect modelling and a well known error, as discussed in other sub-threads.

It's only incorrect if you impose arbitrary meanings on what "text" is, thus leading to multiple string types that require internationalisation experts to use correctly.

An example of a modern language that seems to handle this stuff fine without weird distinctions between filenames and other strings is Go (and possibly Julia, based on discussion in other subthreads) .. which incidentally was largely designed by one of the designers of UTF-8.
oh, you mean like people with internet explorer 7 paying more because their browser is crap?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979
Good to know! I am going to check this out.
Yep. Safari desktop market share is less than 4%.

Also Safari does a lot of tracking and cookie prevention out of the box: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16308138/apple-safari-11-...
Or they have simple ways to get the data in and out of their software so the features don't need to be in there. The best software stays small and resists having all those features added.
There are different kinds of concrete and there are some that are specially made to be used in such conditions. Best example will be concrete bridge supports which are constantly in the water.
In the research as described, the mosquito nets they used work more effectively than the proposed solution.
We have to take into account that with climate change the area where the mosquitoes live will probably be wider affecting more people so extending malaria to bigger populations. IMHO, can be wrong , that we have not made a lot against malaria because till now it affected only poor countries but from now on it will probably arrive to richer ones.
You can populate pools of standing water with fish that eat mosquito larvae like Gambusia affinis, Phoxinus phoxinus etc.

https://pondinformer.com/pond-fish-that-eat-mosquito-larvae/
Roughly half of the habitable land in the world is used for agriculture. Of the remaining half, only about 1% is developed in any sense.
You don't need to give WhatsApp access to your photos.

If you want to share a photo you just have to leave the WhatsApp app and start the sharing from the Photos app and select WhatsApp as the target.
These threads about whether it's moral to kill mosquitoes en masse always seem to end up being about unintended consequences and ecosystem collapse.

Some points to consider:

- Those who study the strains of mosquito (a generous 50 out of ~3500) which spread disease in humans regularly state that they are not a primary food source for any one predator.[1]

- Malaria killed 429 000 people in 2015, 90% of those being in Africa, and many of them children.[2]

- All of our current control methods have unintended consequences. Take for example that NGOs who offered insecticide-treated mosquito nets to communities found that they were being used in waterways for fishing.[3]

- In developed nations we are happily deploying much less targeted solutions without significant levels of complaint (and to counter relatively less serious mosquito-borne diseases), such as the indiscriminate aerial spraying of insecticides over large areas and waterways.[4]

Everything is a trade-off, admittedly, and we can never know the full set of consequences in advance (see: the impacts of introduced species), but it might be a useful exercise to weigh your concerns against the benefits to sub-saharan Africa as a whole (and to individual African families) that could materialize were these particular strains of mosquito to be eliminated.

And give a little credit to those educated people doing the research into the likelihood of ecosystem collapse and producing reasonable peer-reviewed results.

Edit to add: That said, I'm personally partial to the efforts which release genetically-sterilised males. That seems less like the plot of a Hollywood doomsday movie than a spider-venom fungus.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/13/what-would-hap...

[2] https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/31/global-u...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/zika/vector/aerial-spraying.html
@Katzenjammer, I have to think it's a combination of signaling, timing and specific available nutrients (mammals and mollusks only) and biomass.

It's even weirder, because the lungs cough up, eat, swallow, poop the eggs. Snails eat rat poop, and then hatch the eggs and poop larva in their slime. Rats eat the snails and the larva infest and follow the nerves up the spine. Once sexual maturity is reach they go to the lungs to spawn and die. The distance is too far in humans, so they actually only have enough time as sexually mature adults to cross the distance of a rat's body. When they die inside a human, they've spent too much time and traveled the distance of longer than more than one rat's body.
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Do you know of any good alternatives? I would love to get rid off recaptcha but it is a very convenient and quick to set up way to stop most spam bots.
How would one go about setting up a container?
Bots might be smart enough to uncheck that from the label; maybe text near the top of the form that says “please uncheck the checkbox near the submit button”?
Do you have a suggestion for a good alternative?

I dislike Google reCAPTCHA, however, it brought down contact form and comment spam to almost zero. (With the price of an unknown number of false positives and some frustrated users.)
I’ve also noticed the perspective that a majority people seem to “have an angle”, whether that’s an outright financial scam, emotional manipulation, some sort of hustle, wanting to monetize your brain by employing you, or whatever. Interested to hear other people’s observations related to this.
> The monopolistic position of qualcomm has not only driven up prices,

What is your evidence of such claim?
The platforms on Vancouver’s Expo and Millenium lines are 80m long. The Copenhagen Metro uses 39m long trains. If you need to build stations twice as big an escalation of double costs doesn’t sound that ridiculous.
But what if you steal the batteries? Hell, steal the electricity, too! We're talking Bitcoin here!

The real money making opportunity is running the security firm that guards all those remote expensive rigs and batteries from being stolen.
> People without culture? I don't think that's a thing.

It happens sometimes—feral children who are neglected or abandoned in various ways.
> Because Google isn't even allowed to sell anything in China to begin with.

The only thing Google isn't allowed to sell in China is access to uncensored information. Their advertising business is alive and well (albeit censored), as this article about them disallowing VPN ads in China demonstrates: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-vpn-ads-in-china/
>This is disappearing from western society.

Hikis are most numerous in Japan. Japan's society is not forced to open up by ((them)).
I'd much prefer the (theoretical) gene drive.

Bad outcomes for gene drive are either that it doesn't work, or the mosquitoes go extinct in nature and cause more ecological issues by their absence. The worst problem is fixable by keeping live specimens for reintroduction. In fact, since malaria is the target and not the mosquitoes, reintroduction might be a good idea after malaria becomes extinct.

Bad outcomes for the fungus is it becoming uncontrollable and starts killing other insects. Reintroduction becomes impossible without engineering a new, immune mosquito. Or that evolution backfires on the spider and causes them to go extinct. Or all of those happening together.

Comparing the two, the fungus has all the downsides and more, with zero upside.
> ...but standard VMs allow the use of standard operating systems that solved all the hard problems decades ago, whereas Docker is struggling to solve those problems today.

What are these supposed "hard problems" the author speaks of?
Semiaccurate also said Intel's 10nm is dead. And Nokia was going bankrupt.

So please, please, stop bringing up SemiAccurate on HN.
The link goes straight to the "Data Model" section.

The Introduction section is a better starting point. There are other sections (Getting Started, Architecture and API Reference) for programmers who want to know the details.
Is it really that strange? Windows email clients tend to run code in attachments just by clicking them (or, in some cases, just viewing them). So the risk factor in letting these emails in is quite large.

That's not as common with other platforms. Even the common GUI platforms on Linux would require the user to manually save the file and explicitly marking the file as executable. Nobody would conflate user friendliness with the ease of running untrusted code.

Defaults does make a difference. Even as these users are "left behind" in email filtering, we're seeing limited effects of malware with the more popular Linux platforms such as Android and the various desktops.
Aedes Aegypti can breed in jars, tires, basically anything that holds water. No need for pools of standing water.
You quoted my example about the journalist calling the source while the source is around the people she is investigating. That’s a situation the journalist should be well aware of.

I would expect journalists to have some opsec training by their newspaper/publisher given maintaining confidentiality is a given in this line of work. Even if they didn’t have such formal training, I’d expect them to pick up a few things like this with experience.
Why?

Sorry, I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything, I'm just trying to understand your point of view.

The way I see it is if he's made up his mind, then there are really three possible outcomes by suggesting drugs: 1. best case, he feels better, yay! 2. worst case, it makes him worse, he kills himself, but was going to do so anyway. :( 3. he has an interesting experience before the end.

I don't see any ethical issues with suggesting something that if it goes wrong, leads to the same outcome as not doing anything. To me, it seems like he has everything to gain and nothing to lose. I'd like to hear your opposing view, though, so I can understand where the flaw in my reasoning is, if there is one.
I know this is completely tangential, but just wondering if Apple ever came up in discussion.
>The monopolistic position of qualcomm has not only driven up prices

There has been no evidence as such. Even in court.
> The problem isn't that the data is collected, it's that Tesla is the one collecting it and not the owner.

If the data is recorded, it will be in Teslas possession by the next over air update or service, right?

> imagine if Tesla had to defend their driving systems from lawsuits without having access to this data.

Well, that's exactly what the automotive industry has been able to do up to very recently. Just because technology allows for it doesn't mean society or the consumers should.
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Technicality, but it's a chromium base, not Chrome, which is Google's browser
One of the things I worry about is how much of raw materials we have left for various compounds. As a civilization we are consuming enormous amount of stuff and dumping them in sea or underground every year. Things like iron, silicon, aluminium are abundent and we easily have supply for probably few 10s of thousands of years (at current rate of consumption) however what about everything else like gold, iridium, rhodium, platinum etc which are required to make many many things we treasure dearly. When might this party end?
A more accurate title would be “reforestation for carbon offsetting hasn’t worked so far”. I dislike this title because it implies the idea is flawed, when it’s the implementation. Maybe it is unworkable given human nature but that’s something else entirely.
Which would be a much bigger evolutionary leap compared to losing the spider venom. And dauntingly big for a fungus that kills off 99% of hosts in the region that quickly.

I presume that the fungus is obligatorily parasitic, meaning it can't thrive outside its host, except as a spore. This is true for most pathogenic fungi.

From the article it's not even clear that the fungus "spreads" well or at all in a mosquito population. I think they intend to grow the spores large-scale in a lab, and infect most of the mosquitos directly, and not through secondary transmission...

Also: The fungus already exists in the wild. It just doesn't kill the host that quickly.
Ever since I learned of Jevon's Paradox[0], headlines like this make me a bit anxious. Between the lines I tend to read "don't worry, we can pretend that we don't have to actually own up to our wastefulness for a little while longer, and make the problem even worse in the process!"

I'm fully aware that that is just how I interpret things, and maybe I'm being too cynical, but it does feel like we are focusing on the wrong long-term solution if we just keep looking for new ways to extract resources, if you know what I mean.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Sure, the mechanism is the same, but the scale and effectiveness are not.

In your scenario, if someone wants to spread rumors about you in bad faith, they have to spend a lot of time and resources to make sure everybody you might interact with knows about the rumors.

A service like TrueCaller makes this much easier, which I personally think is very problematic. And as others have noted, another issue is that people even might not do this in bad faith. Just as a little prank, without realizing the potential consequences.
Here's the landing point I use:
https://www.3gpp.org/specifications/specification-numbering

In particular, serie 36 is for the LTE RAN (radio access network) while series 38 is for the NR (~5G) RAN. But other series are relevant, for the core and services parts among (many) other things.

All the specs are publicly accessible, and also the change requests (CR) submitted for discussion at the standardization meetings, as well as the minutes. From a spec page you can get to its history and the related CRs. Now of course, there are side discussions but the process is still very open in practice. But it's really huge, don't really expect to make sense of it with a little casual looking around. It takes some real time investment and commitment.

Another point to keep in mind: the cellular industry has one of the most demanding certification process for consumer grade devices. And operators often add on top of this. You don't want buggy devices messing up a shared medium, particularly when it's a scarce resource in many places (high density urban area at peak time). If designing a cellular modem is hard, making it go successfully through certification and also work well in the field and pass the tiers 1 operators field trials (drive tests in particularly harsh locations) and interoperability tests is even harder.

A lot of people miss this part. It takes millions in test equipment just to get ready to enter certification, and that's not the main cost. Even if it's painful, it's also important to make sure things work reasonably well in such complex, multi-parties systems. Which is why certification is legally required to operate in many places (e.g.: Europe requires GCF certification). There are open implementation of LTE, but none certified and legally usable in the field because of this.
I am very interested to see

- comparison of the share of deaths to the share of google searches;

- comparison of google searches to the media coverage of deaths.

Would it be possible for you to generate those two?
> Equalizing on privacy level would go against their business model...

More importantly it would go against the mission statement.

Mozilla isn't around to make money, it's around to make progress toward a mission.
(Search revenue helps fund that, but revenue is not the end goal for Mozilla).
> How about a micro-payment, something like $0.01, instead of solving a puzzle?

This approach may turn legitimate people away, namely:

1. People from regions where it is uncommon to have means to interface with payment processors.

2. Minors who, for one reason or another, are not able to obtain a debit card/credit card. Similarly, PayPal refuses minors.
"Survey shows US ad-blocking usage is 40 percent on laptops, 15 percent on mobile"
https://marketingland.com/survey-shows-us-ad-blocking-usage-...

"In 2018, roughly 25 percent of internet users were blocking advertising on their connected devices. This figure is expected to keep growing"
https://www.statista.com/statistics/804008/ad-blocking-reach...

"How many people in the UK are using ad blockers?

Rates of ad blocking in the UK remain relatively low compared with other Western countries tracked by eMarketer. We estimate that 12.2 million people in the UK will use an ad blocker at least monthly in 2018, representing 22.0% of internet users, compared with 28.7% in France, 32.0% in Germany and 25.2% in the US. ... We expect 43.0% of UK internet users ages 18 to 24 will use an ad blocker this year."
https://www.emarketer.com/content/ad-blocking-in-the-uk-2018
> suicide is a valid way to remove a weak seed from the gene pool

The smartest people are always full of doubt. The fact that you can express yourself in coherent sentences without any grammar mistakes makes you already part of the better half of humanity. Besides if you don't procreate you are already removed from the gene pool. No suicide required.

> I’m meditating in preparation for the unknown void of the afterlife.

Be aware that being alive is the only way to experience anything in the universe. When you are dead there will be nothing. There will be no afterlife. Even being a passive observer is preferable to not existing at all. Believing in an afterlife makes it all so easy.

> I’m not in search of advice nor assistance regarding my situation.

Thoughts like the ones you are expressing are very common among people with severe depression. All caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. You have to get your shit together. You owe it to your family and friends. What you are doing and planing to do is in fact incredibly selfish. There are many ways to successful get out of this.
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Thanks for that. I like your improvements to my idea too! :)
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You could have signed into Whatsapp as well.
This doesn't have to be the case.

If you TDD your implementation then it's all covered by tests. If you refactor as part of the TDD process then you may factor out other classes and methods from the implementation. These are still covered by the same tests but don't have their own microtests.
I have come across quite a few articles that mention that for 99% of 'big' data problems, Hadoop and the like are an overkill. Simple tools, with a beefy machine is just as sufficient for the task.

Is that the reality of today?

Personally I too feel that distributed computing is an overkill for most 'big' data problems.
wut? are we really comparing 21st century society with a tribal one?

by that measure we've solved pretty much everything.

when in reality the contrary is true: politicians are mostly career based opportunists and the inertial nature of our society pushes us to peace and prosperity.