skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lesson I learned is look for hacks to do something without writing code. It’s hard when your idea really needs it though. Then it’s more about removing features from the mvp as much as you can.

Another one is an idea journal. Then over time you have a collection of things and can choose which one is exciting.

It can be hard, but if you can get potential customers to have a conversation with you and give you money ahead of time you’ve proven you are on to something.

I’ve been wanting a framework that makes mvps easier to ship. Planning on working on one that leverages server rendered react for ui with Airbnb Hypernova, rails for data and security, aws fargate for auto scaling compute, and aurora serverless for an auto scaling sql db. Would also be nice to auto generate react/redux crud like rails does. Or just use standard rails for stuff that doesn’t need polish.
Vectrex in a Browser
Oh boy. I guess you haven't noticed but it's ubiquitous. Every communication channel for a popular program is filled with help requests and feature requests. It might've been alright back in the day when there were much fewer people on the web and apps like VLC were for enthusiasts.

A bug tracker with feature requests for a popular app is like a gang rape these days. Hundreds upon hundreds of “Why is it still not fixed, it should take just ten minutes!!!” The weirdest thing is, trackers for things like Intellij Idea or Node.js are similarly filled with every problem, wish and opinion that users have—you'd think that programmers should know better but apparently not. “Tab to exit parentheses is essential for me, I'm not migrating from Eclipse until this is implemented!”

I almost completely stopped posting issues without code when I saw the scale of this phenomenon.
Yeah SalesForce NEEDS Tableau. It is like a missing puzzle piece in their suite. Einstein is essentially enhanced reporting for SalesForce even though they sell it as an analytics tool.
13% of UK adults have reading comprehension problems.

FTFY.
Body Cameras and Tasers Are No Panacea for Police Violence
This article is kind of dumb, basically saying that you shouldn't be a night owl, but I will admit that my quality of life is improved when I'm in a natural rhythm of going to bed "on time" and waking up early-ish, getting at least 7 1/2 hours of sleep per day. Around 2-3 cups of coffee per day seem fine, anymore and I need to scale it back. One cup doesn't do it for me. I also now get to work early and don't stress if I'm occasionally late.

The early bird gets the worm, so no matter how much we'd like to adjust society to be accepting of different sleep schedules, early risers will always have a natural advantage.
This cannot be entirely correct as I use Chrome and Firefox with as close as possible configuration, with uBlock Origin with exact same settings, and the behaviour I've encountered is very similar to the one shown here. I'm logged in to my google account in both browsers as well.
"I left shortly after IT discovered they'd been cut out of the loop on a critical business process and demanded that the whole system be rewritten in C#."

been there, done that. you have to get them on the phone early and do the whole "oh you're so great" song and dance to prevent ego bruising.
My power company (the sole government-run provider in my area) now has reCAPTCHA on their payment form.
No, it's called sovereignty.
No, the OP is showing v2. v3 doesn't have any UI for end-users: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3 It is simply a scoring system, applying an ML model to typical actions for your website.

It's up to the site owner to determine how to handle those that don't meet v3's score, which can be a traditional CAPTCHA or hopefully something more effective and forgiving to humans: https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/
A sensible outcome if communication and other network losses from lack of co-location outweigh the costs of high peak transportation requirements and the costs of those being under-provisioned.

Which was probably very true in the past, and while changing is probably still true.
>Apple's walled garden's the only place a pro-consumer, pro-privacy stick has been successfully used against the broader software industry

Except that Apple has given the iCloud encryption keys of millions of Chinese users to the Chinese government [1], after forcing users to move their data to the Chinese data centers [2]. This gives the Chinese government access to Apple user photos, docs, messages, and other user data at rest, demonstrating that Apple is more for-profit than for-privacy.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-chi...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/24/apple-to-move-chi...
What does the percentage mean exactly? Sounds like you can have a preference but it's really under your control?

Did other animals develop a similar group sleeping pattern? Humans wouldn't be the only ones to potentially benefit
0.0.0.0 ≠ localhost
Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) is a much more flexible idea IMO. You ultimately own your content, and it's the source of truth, but it gets automatically syndicated out and linked back to whatever proprietary or open platforms you think people will see it on.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
My present Recaptcha policy:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102054627041751386
I'll probably buy it. I've been using Firefox for almost 15 years. Mozilla has never really let me down. I would much rather pay for an integrated vpn/cloud storage provider than maintain multiple accounts with multiple providers. Not to mention Mozilla's general focus on privacy protections that not all platforms share.
Run a Python Script with and Alexa Voice Command
Or maybe 'AlwaysOwnYourMainPlatform(s).com'?
All my personal data and posta are copyright by me.
Some day I'll sue.
That's my retirement plan.
Some types of messages do require immediate attention of the user, or are of highest value if delivered immediately. Instant messaging apps have been using notifications for a long time and did not require a foreground service. Expecting instant delivery of that class of messages is not abusing the system.
You can even plug in a keyboard and mouse: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/ease-of-access/mouse...
Maybe just google even a little bit about the FSF.
I don’t think people understand the difference in quality of sleep and so the whole next day for a night owl when they go to bed and wake up at a time that works for them. I have been measuring my sleep for years now. I try to keep early hours and wake up early. I have tried melatonin to bring a rather early sleep schedule ...etc. And yet, my body reverts to a midnight sleep time the first chance it gets. Also, there’s a marked improvement in quality - less movement, lower heart rate, less awake and longer sleep and more wakeful the next morning when I sleep at or after midnight and sleep 8 hours. I do have flexibility at work and yet I feel the shame walking into an office where everyone comes in at 8 and leaves sharp at 4/5. So, I go back to waking up early and feeling tired all day.

Now, I have been keeping this tracking for at least 4 years now. I did a 23andMe test recently and according to them my natural wake time is 8.04am.

Like everyone else night owls want to be successful and perception matters. So we end up waking up early and fitting in. However, I don’t think it’s good and I hope it changes.
> The title here is just blatantly false

intentionally. you don't need to point out the "error". it's a rhetorical device.
For Google Recaptcha, I use GreaseMonkey with an user script:

"Speed Up Google Captcha"

"Makes Google Captcha works faster by removing slow visual transitions and unnecessary delays."

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/382039-speed-up-google-cap...
That something is configurable doesn't negate the ability to have sane defaults that most people won't touch.
Oh great, my general ledger is now free, but in return I have to route all my data through a semi-trusted 3rd party with unclear motives, who is financially incentivized to act against my interests, and who can force-deploy workflow-breaking updates whenever they choose, and maybe is secure but who can ever tell...

Rant over. I actually like WhatsApp. It’s pretty far from perfect though.
I'm using the audio too. The image captcha is simply broken, it often doesn't let me pass even though I've provided the only valid answer.
I would like to add control-g to the list. It is frustrating for new emacs users that it can be easy to get stuck. Control-g is the general "quit" which will get you back to editing text from most annoying situations.
I doubt it's easy, so I prepared such a setup myself, i.e. I keep a separate browser with a Google account and use it only when I really need to. Helps in cases like this one, but of course you give up some privacy - hopefully just the minimal bit.
"user data for advertising purposes doesn't really have differences in value; to an advertiser, data about one person is just as valuable as data about another person."

That's not really true - there are certain coveted demographics that are worth more than others. In general your value to an advertiser is proportional to how much money you're likely to spend on their product. People with a lot of money are worth more than people without lots of money; people who are likely to spend a lot of money are worth more than people who will save it all; young people are worth more than old people (they have more years of purchases ahead of them); socially connected people are worth more than loners (they influence the buying decisions of others); and people who are easy to influence are worth more than cynics. Also certain industries have very high revenue potential, while others don't; this is why a click on [mesothelioma] or [auto insurance] can fetch over $50, while a click on [f2p games] might be a dollar or two at most.

In old-line (print & TV advertising) they could only determine this in various broad strokes (which is why you'd hear about the coveted 18-34 demographic, or pay more for primetime TV than daytime TV). On the Internet you can divide this up in much greater detail.
This is the experience with the `privacy.resistFingerprinting` flag set to true.
A while back I made a few try to see how the behavior change with different settings and extensions, you can see the result here: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268#issuecomment-...

I solved the problem by using an extension that toggle that flag: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-resist...
I assume owning your platform is also the reason why this is loading so slowly.
being logged into gmail and the status of that account affects captcha as well
Have you had a look at rclone? Pretty sure you can copy or even sync files from one remote storage to another. E.g. copy from S3 to B2.
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/
Huawei's laptop division cancelling orders amid rumors of exiting PC market
I think it's all related to the sell-side of adtech, publisher revenues have been going down for years while Google keeps on growing, with AMP and Google News as weapons to keep revenue hostage from publishers.

Added to that the permanent threat of SEO de-ranking (as the Daily Mail complained about recently), the relationship between publishers and Google is fragile.
Part of it.

Also many people seem to think it is ritually unclean to use wires so they use WiFi in cases where ethernet would perform much better.

From a business perspective, that is what makes it so hard. You could do the things and spend the money to get low latency at some steps in the chain and lose it all because of something that happens sporadically at another one.

That is why I Bring Riot up as an example because the "vertical integration" there reduces the number of parties would could be involved and makes it a little more possible that they could invest in facilities and have customers perceive the results.
Microsoft and Oracle to Interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud
Dear techcrunch: I will NOT disable my adblock
I've had sleep problems for as long as I can remember. I self-diagnosed Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder, where your body clock is typically slightly longer than a 24 hours, and so you feel tired later and later every day, eventually going to sleep is nearly impossible. It makes keeping to a normal routine extremely difficult.

The fix for me was morning blue light lamp, as soon as I wake up, for one hour. And 1.5 hours before bedtime, I take 500mcg melatonin. These 2 things worked like a miracle. I kept a log of doing these things, and the exact time I performed them, for a month. After a month, the habit was there, and I know have a normal sleep pattern, so long as I stick to the light and the supplement. It's had a huge impact on my life.

EDIT>> 500mcg, not mg
If anyone is interested in some long-form writing, Vi Hart posted a very well-reasoned article about the same subject (and much more besides) a few weeks ago: https://theartofresearch.org/ai-ubi-and-data/
I'm truly happy for you, that you're one of the many people in the world whose sleep schedules are not more tightly coupled to the patterns of the Sun. Many of us are not like you, and we suffer for the lack of empathy expressed by such anecdotes. I wish it were that easy for me.

Based on my reading, delayed sleep-phase disorder has two components: a natural sleep phase that is delayed from the societal norm, and an inability to adjust that sleep phase relative to solar activity. The sleep phase is not based on solar patterns directly, but is regulated by a couple of mechanisms, one of which is the circadian rhythm. The body regulates the circadian rhythm by the daily cycle of light -- but what I think most people don't realize is that this only makes the sleep cycle regular, periodic. It's the distinction between precision and accuracy: we are consistently off the bullseye.

Changing timezones only shifts where the bullseye is. We cope with that just as anybody does: the body regularizes to the new norm. We're still a fixed offset off of the bullseye.

There's a related disorder known as shift-work sleep disorder, where an individual normally exhibits a sleep phase compatible with societal norms, but when called on to adjust that sleep phase (e.g. for late-shift work) is consistently unable to do so. In other words, shift-work sleep disorder manifests only one of the two components of delayed sleep-phase disorder.

Your anecdote shows that you definitely don't have shift-work sleep disorder.
Some of the citizens voted to elect the government, and even those who did might or might not agree with every single decision of that government.

Being an elected government does not make every decision you make a legitimate one.
Also, since 2008, Java and C++ have been tripping over themselves to try to accommodate coding in that style area.
19118 is listed as “later” but what does that realistically mean? Too many trees towering over rooftops in Chestnut Hill to provide coverage to most residents?
The problem with recaptcha alternatives is that they either are insecure or require time and money to continue to be ahead of bots.

All of the "interactive stand-alone approaches" from that page can be beaten with run-of-the-mill OCR (other than perhaps the 3d challenge) and with almost any mobile phone speech recognition engine (and, if the attacker has the money, can send it off to Google's cloud speech-to-text).

All of the non-interactive approaches from the page require this constant tuning and upkeep to make sure bots aren't able to sign up/abuse systems. There's also not \that\ secure if your website is targeted and scripts are made specifically to avoid your anti-abuse methods.
> But I feel like anything that kills bacteria can't be "safe for prolonged exposure".

One application could be a UV lamp that's only on when there are no people in the room. E.g. a toilet.
Just out of curiosity, why do you use reCaptcha?
Russian biologist plans more CRISPR-edited babies
Have you tried https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode which works with C++ ?
I like this a lot. Tools, tricks and shortcuts to reduce experiment cycle time are invaluable. Not aware of existing tools that do a great job of this though, especially for novel, non-trivial use cases.
The point is that you need more tests. In statically typed languages, you typically don't make it "just work" and hence need fewer tests.
That's a needlessly confrontational statement. Yet I find myself in agreement. Sigh.
Exactly. These sorts of "Always" messages end up being overly simplistic. People should approach it as a business decision and part of that includes risk. I recruit a lot of authors into my publications and I'm hyper aware of the cases where we might not be offering a good deal. For example, for authors aspiring to write mainstream books, the size of their book advance is going to be heavily correlated with the size of their mailing list. So I always point out that these types of authors would be better off publishing first on their own site with an email collection CTA and then only secondarily republishing to other places like the pubs I run. However, not all authors have that goal and so they end up with totally different factors to weigh.
It's called breach of social contract
The HN "Hug-o-Death" can be handled by a potato unless your product is layers of bad code. No reasonable app should just die from 20MBps of traffic.
> What if you cannot do that report because the reporting itself needs memory that can fail?

Allocate and reserve error-reporting memory early. For example, your ErrorReporter instance is initialized at start-up, and doesn't call malloc() when you make a report.
I've been wondering for a while: why does google play require a sign-in to install apps?

Mozilla lets anyone download addons from anywhere, likewise I should be able to download an apk to my desktop and install on my phone.
You realise you've just described why this would distinguish between bots and humans.

(And yes, I'm also driven to rage by slow-fade animations. A practice I can date back to Microsoft's Clippy, which, when you punched it in the fact to go away, had just one more gratuitous animation just to twist the knife that just more.)
Surely the same is true if you block these things in Chrome?
In Chrome Incognito mode, I saw it a few years back, but less frequently recently, it also happened to me with other browsers like Edge, Chrome in iOS, etc.
Not sure if this is "officially" supported but I believe you can proxy the `api.js` file yourself without issue.
Try Chrome Dev Tools, you'll never go back.
This article wasn't about profits from ads on news sites though. You're replying to a strawman.
This article is troubling. It raises an important point that, yes, all technologies are always used to subjugate and control other people. But emphasizing this aspect in the history of photography is really overstating the case.

The person most responsible for the popularization of photography and its transition from the domain of specialized experts to the purview of the common man is George Eastman, the founder of Kodak. His sales strategy of "You press the button; we do everything else" and his invention of cameras and centralized film development which made that strategy possible transformed photography into the snapshots we know today. It had nothing to do with slavery or oppression and everything to do with simplifying a technical process so that it became available to more people.

Leaving out this fact, which impacted photography more than the use in documenting slave ownership, is a misleading telling of the tale.
Special report: Profiting from prison
You're teetering on the brink of an epiphany there with the phrase "in our society." Being a night owl wasn't a problem until we built a world that didn't include us. The problem isn't night owls. It's the insistence from others that everyone be exactly the same, inborn traits be damned. So yeah, it's offensive.

Also, imagine being someone whose natural body clock is a 3-5am bedtime and 12-2pm wake time. You've adjusted your clock by a couple hours, but some folks are being told to make 6-8 hour adjustments. And for what? To accommodate a refusal to accept that not everyone is the same.
Those prices are only for the first year, I recently learned that when my $39.99 100/100 plan jumped to $55, and the customer service rep said it will jump to $65 the third year.
I'm in the same situation. What blue light lamp are you using? How did you settle on your current melatonin regime?

Also, any other advice that you may have would be appreciated, thanks!
I am in the midst of planning a major move and it looks like I am going to wind up in either a tiny home or a single-wide mobile home so that I can afford to build up the company I'm trying to get started.

I think this article misses a major problem that people in precarious circumstances in their lives face when trying to secure housing that isn't either traditional residential mortgage or rental in corporate owned apartment complexes... and that is exploitation.

Until exploitation of the working classes is reduced there are going to continue to be problems with housing.
The Castagnoli polynomial is apparently faster to calculate, and it’s not exactly nonstandard.
My site has been on the front page a few times.

Concurrent requests were usually in the 400-800 range depending on where it ranked and what it was about. That's going by Google Analytics too which means it's likely higher since devs tend to disable as much tracking as possible.

nginx won't even break a sweat if you're on a low end VPS and are serving static content. You'll have pretty much the same latency as serving 1 concurrent request (single digit milliseconds + whatever network latency there is between your server and the visitor).
If you come up with another way that is as effective in an ever growing world of bots trying to break anything in their way, I would love to use it.

I've had to pay 100x bills on my monthly quota once too often, and as a hobby developer, I just can't afford trying to fight off people abusing my website every day.

Yes, resorting to fingerprinting is not ideal, but what's better, asking everyone to solve that hard captcha, or only some users?
If your application fails at start-up, you don't need to worry about saving state and graceful failure.
I'm building one called Ohayo: https://github.com/breck7/ohayo

It is still beta but should be ready to go in weeks.

Here's an example of the top 100 stories on Hacker News:

https://ohayo.computer?filename=help-for-hackernews.top.flow...
When You Lose Weight, Your Fat Cells Don’t Just Let Go of Fat
Abo-abo's Emacs packages are truly fantastic. One that I personally love is Ivy-mode (with Counsel and Swiper): https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
I was assuming that most people were using v3, my browser was flunking the scoring test, and v2 with the UI was being shown as a backup. Did everyone decide not to use v3 for some reason?
That CT image of the breast cancer patient... Ouch. Not easy to look at.
Sounds like Firefox containers should support this kind of usage.
Really? A blog post about how to use a glorified `rsync` was needed to instruct people building services for Fortune 500 companies to back their user data up?