skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the Constitution expressly places the approval of judges into the hands of the Senate, that is a bit of a non-sequitur.

McConnell took a gamble that paid off for his party- if the voters had chosen Hilary there is a very good chance she would have nominated a more leftist judge than Obama had. In the end it was actually a very prominent campaign issue and therefore was directly a choice before the voters, which in my mind would make it more legitimate in a 'democratic' context than the usual.
> it feels like Google's entire strategy behind reCaptcha is to make it harder to protect your privacy

For the irony, I'm still logged into GMail and it still works perfectly, as basic HTML, even with google.com forbidden to run scripts. But it's the flippin' reCaptchas all over the place that make me temp-allow google.com, and then a reload later, temp-allow gstatic.com and reload again. Only then I get to use someone else's site normally, and I can disallow again... it's irritating. And then, this.

BTW that page plainly says the scores are samples and not related to reality. Refresh a few times and watch it change. 0.3, 0.7, and 0.9 seem to be my lucky numbers. I see everyone else getting those and 0.1.

Please stop reading things into it oh it's too late. Maybe they suddenly started seeing this page hundreds of times in the referrer and added that bit afterward, I don't know.
Everyone is different. I've switched back and forth between an SE and am XS and the SE is the superior experience for me in pretty much every way.
Don't 'whatabout' us and change the subject, we're talking about reCAPTCHA now.
If you must know, the key difference is that you can block Analytics and still use the site, but are denied access if you block CAPTCHAs.
Imagine if nuclear killed a similar number of birds and bats. Would you suddenly say that it wasn't green enough? Of course not, that would be stupid. Wind and solar are green enough. The environmental damage caused by either source is trivially small.

Also, any complex project will be subject to politics. That is just reality. If you want to defeat climate change (a political objective) you have to put forward projects that will be approved by government.
Firefox sync is amazing and one of the reasons I never got hooked on chrome (I tried using it for a full year). I often do research on iOS for coding related topics. Send tab to device - boom, it’s there when I need it and I’ve got my text editor open.
That's what you'd hope! Supreme Court Justices have lifetime tenure and are completely unaccountable to the public. We're not meant to be governed by a panel of philosopher-kings.
I get 0.9 on my Firefox
These have been the rules for nearly 250 years. Why are you only up in arms about it now?
This should be the URL posted, not anything on Facebook
It also gives examples of much better ways to solve the same problem.
It is certainly a bit extreme. To be fair, it was clearly a warning shot fired a "safe" distance ahead of me. Most of the folks I've met in rural Texas aren't itching to shoot anyone and everyone, but they do value privacy to an extreme and will go to great lengths to protect what is (in their mind) theirs.
Good analysis. Any idea why mixpanel leaves off everything earlier than a 6s though? For the more recent data, at least as display on my mobile browser.
I've been using it and it has been actually pretty good. It already has Firefox Sync and ability to send tabs to different devices. Only thing I miss is the ability to open tabs in background. This was my favorite feature in the previous Firefox for Android.
That's wrong, and wrong in really interesting ways.First off if we want to argue from the founders districts were never supposed to be more than 10k people and the number of districts would naturally grow with population. We threw that out the window in the early 20th century precisely to make the representation of power less democratic.

Ignoring all of that history, and taking your statement in good faith, it still is reductive to pretend that we're in the same state as the 18th century. Voters are much more diverse, and the technology exists to precisely draw districts to achieve very precise outcomes. The increased precision and ability to do things at scale is a differentiating factor, as well as the increased consequences; a voting population that's just "land owning white males" might see gerrymandering as less extreme that the much more diverse distribution of beliefs we have in the current voting population.

The current problems with gerrymandering are huge. Issues that have super majority support among the population (reproductive rights, immigration reform, drug reform, gun control) are controlled by an increasingly small population of voters. You can (and even may be correct) claim that this represents the wills of the founders; it's a much harder sell to claim that this is a "good thing" that the people shouldn't be able to push back against.
To be fair, government at all levels did the same for Adobe by mandating that things be done in the PDF file format. Consistency of government operations sometimes requires that certain private companies be preferred vendors, and of course there's going to be a snowball effect there as big players get increasingly larger shares of available funds. Every government in history has had a government-industrial complex with winners and losers - some of this boils down to human nature.
Please don't bring up the most irritating detail you encountered in an article. Discussions here are supposed to be driven by curiosity, and that's not curiosity. This is covered by the site guideline: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

This is especially important when there aren't any comments yet, because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The point about hiring good lawyers and accountants is important. I’ve been misguided in the past project by both lawyers and accountants that didn’t know my type of business very well, but acting like they did.
Not GP but they most likely meant the second. The V2 prompt blocks people from accessing services, which could be construed as damages at scale.

You do bring up a good point about the V3 being potential antitrust issue, but that has always been a potential problem even with earlier versions of recaptcha. With V3, it's also deferring the liability to the webmaster. The action that the website takes with the score is up to them - in the end it's just a number.
My ideal for mobile: Firefox + uBlock Origin + Containers

Now: Firefox + uBlock Origin (no Containers)

Upcoming: Firefox (no uBlock Origin, no Containers)

Seems like we're moving backwards, no?
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Remember Bush v. Gore? SCOTUS had no hesitation in taking the case then, knowing full well it could decide the election.
I designed a PCB with KiCad in 2014-2016, with version 4.x and then had to make another one in late 2017, and gave KiCad another spin and am absolutely mind-blown as to how awesome it has become. I even opened up my old designs from '14 and they just worked, some complaining about an old version, but it got all the footprints (lots of custom ones, too!) right and I could just pick up and continue.

I'm not sure how KiCad scales up to the $10k+ EDAs, but I am thoroughly amazed at it's quality and useability, especially considering that it's FOSS.
Main thing I don't like about Firefox for Android is the lack of support for containers. I want to use sites like Facebook within a container.
I think the Supreme Court is the most political body in US. Ideology is at the core of every decision where the executive and legislative bodies have a much wider focus. Politics without elections removes the polite fiction created as everyone tries to look good to the general public.
iPhone with a good (not amazing) adblocker: 0.7

Safari macOS with the same adblocker: 0.7

Firefox macOS with a lot of adblockers: 0.1
Entropy is running. Entropy is always running.

That doesn't mean you have to help it.
Yes, this is at runtime as far as I can tell
I love addons for firefox mobile so I'm not sure if I can give that up just yet :/
> if I were you I would just get a controller and just get started.

This is basically my plan. Except that I'm deliberately putting it on hold until I'm done with the book I'm writing because I really don't have the time and definitely don't need the distraction.

> It's heaps of fun, as long as you don't put too much pressure on yourself!

But putting pressure on myself is like my #1 personality trait. :)
Bats don't have many babies so the death of individuals is much more damaging than with say rabbits. It's a relative of course.
Errors in GPS systems are common enough that various US state and local departments of transportation have developed special warning signage. Here's one for the Mormon Emigrant trail in the California Sierra Nevada:

https://www.facebook.com/eldoradonf/posts/morman-emigrant-trail-two-wheel-drive-and-all-wheel-drive-vehicles-are-prohibite/912508805550215

Even so, every year people still drive past the sign trying to get through to Carson Pass.
I guess the big question is accuracy -

If you have a brand new dataset, couldn't bots assess the first few thousand images randomly and get through (since there is little or no basis for what is an accurate selection)? And if they do, how would that affect future real human selections (assuming it learns over time what selections are accurate)?

Another concern is that it's very likely that Google's existing Cloud vision ML could handle most classification challenges your clients are trying to train (since you're basically working against a much wider-deployed mechanical turk dataset, recaptcha). High-profile websites (such as ecommerce sites) may have attackers (such as those with stolen CC's) willing to spend the money needed to run all of your images through Cloud Vision. So I guess my question is: are other data points collected to prevent bots from getting through?

I would understand if you can't answer some of these as they may fall under "trade secret" territory.
It seems totally reasonable that Google knows you're not a bot if you have a Google account. This isn't the problem, although it hides the problem.

The problem is that they aren't trying harder for users who aren't logged in.
I love containers, but the lack of ability to sync them really annoys me. Every time I get a new computer (or re-install, or setup a VPN to test with, etc) I have to manually create all my rules to always open my bank stuff in a special container, and always open my work sites in their container, etc. It seems like these rules should just sync.
The choice can be less obvious in northern places. In some countries there are permanent roads and temporary roads through frozen rivers and lakes. The proposition of crossing a muddy field maybe does not trigger any alarm in this areas if the road is opened in winter season and closed in summer.
Superhuman, which plugs into your existing email account, works with only Gmail and Google G Suite addresses for now, but the company plans to expand to other providers soon.

Some of the app’s features — such as ones that let users undo sending, track when their emails are opened and automatically pull up a contact’s LinkedIn profile — are available in other third-party email plug-ins. But there are bells and whistles that I hadn’t seen before. Like “instant intro,” which moves the sender of an introductory email to bcc, saving you from having to manually re-enter that person’s address. Or the scheduling feature, which sees that you’re typing “next Tuesday” and automatically pulls up your calendar for that day.
They are going _all out_ for this next election. Look for more and more censorship coming from these big corporations. Wolves in sheeps clothing.

This political cartoon sums it up nicely. https://i.imgur.com/kLkMthu.png
That is very obviously not what happened.

https://dribbble.com/turnislefthome

50k followers, no new shots since February. This isn't a "rogue account" posting "inappropriate content."

Don't you think it is suspect that his account (no activity in months) is "flagged" on the same day the CEO blocks him on Twitter for legitimate chirps?
Ublock Origin + NoScript on FF 60.7.2esr and got 0.9 as well.

[edit] tried in a private window and got the same score.
It would probably be a big help...

I feel like you would be losing more than sum of one day's productivity on both Mondays and Fridays.
Precedent for its opposite also stretches all the way back to the founders. And before, both ways, lest we succumb to the hagiographic portrayal of the founders as supermen who came up with every idea in the constitution totally by themselves. As long as we interpret "political" vs. "legal" as really meaning judicial vs. congressional, this is not a bad argument, but precedent is not the decisive factor.

Also, remember that this is the same court in which three justices (Gorsuch/Thomas/Kavanaugh in Kisor and Thomas again in Gamble) have openly called for ignoring stare decisis when it doesn't suit their political objectives. For them to cite precedent and/or judicial humility in any decision at this point is dishonest.
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In general damages are proportional to the harm you've suffered. If you only own a tiny amount of the company then you still spend a lot on a lawsuit but only suffered very low levels of economic harm.

If this is what you want, though, you could just buy a share of each public company. (An index fund wouldn't work, I don't think, you actually need to own the stock.)

(not a lawyer)
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it was in another article. "Local sources say the road is not owned by Denver or Aurora but is actually private property, though they are unsure if it's open to the public." https://abc7ny.com/travel/dozen-of-drivers-get-stuck-after-b...
Travelling from Durango Colorado to Reserve New Mexico, Google Maps routed me to a "road" that was simply a dry stream bed, in the middle of a large Indian reservation, in high desert wilderness, many miles from any human habitation.

It happened gradually. First I was directed to a well maintained gravel road, then to dirt track, which slowly faded away to nothing.

Same thing happened to me near Lancaster, California. You make the turn because it looks like a road, and eventually you're in a place where you can't turn around spinning your wheels on sand with a "Transmission overheat" alert on the dashboard.

Thanks, Google!
You might not, but others would. It's a completely subjective criterion.
I think it might be more profitable to just be a lawyer to the folks suing.
Theoretically, a regular expression can be expressed in constant space, and that's profoundly limiting, so anything that requires so much as a stack is not a regex.

That includes basic things like capture groups. That doesn't mean you can't use automata in a regex-plus implementation, though.

I can't find the paper, but I think there is a hybrid engine that tries to get the best of both worlds; constant space where possible and using additional space to provide more features.
Im not a fan of this line of thinking. This ignores the systemic reasons people might not be able to vote. Can you get time off of work, are the poll lines unreasonably long, are the polls close enough to you (you don't necessarily have a car), was your registration purged for reasons unknown (bigger than nonvoters is the population of people eligible to vote, but unregistered), did you just not register because of identification issues or bureaucratic nonsense?

Claiming that "people that choose to stay at home" are all independent of the system that effectively disenfranchises them is problematic.
Seems like at this point we need Congress to step in to address this. And given 1) they don't seem to want to work with each other at all at this point and 2) regardless of party this conflicts with their own interests I can't see much progress being made on this anytime soon.

Disappointing indeed!
Love the blog, but this is one of the weaker pieces. There is ABUNDANT data on this topic, which all point to the large majority of people being mostly content with their life. This result holds true even for low income countries, but not for the poorest countries.

Even without looking at data, the author should consider that his patients come to him to specifically talk about their problems, and not what is going well in their life. It gives him a skewed perspective.
Presidental and Senatorial, yes. For the House, those red districts in blue states and vice versa can help influence the majority.

At the state level, it depends on the number of districts. Some states are at large (one district) so it doesn't matter greatly, and on the other end of the spectrum you have places like Texas and Cali where there's so many districts that it would be hard to affect. But if you hit that sweets spot of like 2-5 districts (which represents 15 states) than the Map could have a huge effect on things.
I share your frustration, and I have nothing but admiration for Mitch Kapor -- he would go on to be one of the founders of the EFF after all.

For me, what causes me the most pain in hindsight is how easily we could have ended up in a world where Lotus, with its ethically conscious leadership, could have ended up with the degree of influence on the digital landscape that Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook would eventually have over the digital world. Just a few million better spent dollars and a few more groundbreaking products shipped, and who knows...
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> That the shift was not a reaction to consumer interest, but rather in anticipation of it.

When it comes to Apple, I believe it was not anticipation, but overreaction to the Galaxy Note. Phablets quickly became popular in East Asia[1], and "pocketability" turned out to be a complete non-issue for the many women who carry around a bag all day. But instead of just serving the phablet market, they've gone all-in on it.

That said, I absolutely agree that companies often converge on weird standards. I'm glad that the glossy screen hype seems to be mostly over, but now we're losing inverted-T arrow keys :(

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/02/phablets-...
Wow, it's surprising how much difference a proper post title makes. The v1 of this post had a long, but technically correct title without a link, but with a long, boring description about technical details with links. The post got like 5 upvotes and 1 reply. So I've deleted that post, shortened the title, removed the description and set the link to github instead. Now it has 150 points and 120 comments. And I really appreciate all the attention to my little project!
Add extensions support and disable telemetry/remote-control by default (pushing updates where you control the code is remote control, don't even try to argue against that one).
Maybe the Supreme Court is not the right entity to decide this issue, but gerrymandering is obviously anti-democratic. By permitting it for political gain, the court allows our two dominant political parties to act as “kingmakers” by controlling the relative level of impact for each vote. With the sophistication of modern data collection and modeling, we’re increasingly seeing politicians win popular vote counts in state races while losing the election.

We need a wholesale reconsideration of our election fairness and security practices in this country.
No worries. Chocolate is terrible for animals, particularly dogs and birds. I was shunned for a few weeks by some Marines when stationed in Japan for sticking up for some seagulls. Our barracks was situated along the coast (literally) and there was an elevated seawall that ran for about 5 miles around the base. Marines would purchase Alka-Seltzer tablets by the box and walk along the seawall tossing them into the air where the birds would catch them. About 20 seconds later, the bird would explode from the tablet. I rained verbal hell down on them and was told I was a pussy and all that, but I explained to them they are damaging an ecosystem that is balanced. Typical idiots with no care or knowledge of anything. I earned the name green weenie and tree hugger in the platoon even though I'm neither. I just believe in being a good steward of resources.
Totally agree. I've also had it just completely forget all my "always open in container" settings in the past. But that hasn't occurred recently, so hopefully those days are over.
The word "intersection" showed up once. The word "intersectionality" did not appear in the article.

What is your complaint about the term?
Can you link to that abundant data and provide evidence for your claim?
Or Dribbble is lying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's crazy seeing Reserve, NM mentioned on HN! What you experienced is so common around here, I encounter travelers a few times a year in the Gila NF that need assistance after following their GPS nav on the "scenic route" ...most are calm, some are in panic mode and happy to see someone.

Did you happen to follow a road in to the Acoma reservation in the El Malpais?
Of course subsidies are used to pay off investors. That's the whole point. Without a return no one was ever going to invest.
Interesting as expected of Dijkstra. I found this part funny:

> "That name ['programming languages'] was unfortunate because very soon the analogy with natural languages became more misleading than illuminating. It strengthened the school of thought that tried to view programming primarily as a communication problem, it invited the psychologists in, who had nothing to contribute, and it seriously delayed the recognition of the benefits of viewing programs as formulae to be derived. It was the time of Edmund C. Berkeley’s “Giant Brains or Machines that Think”, it was the time of rampant anthropomorphism that would lead to the false hope of solving the programming problem by the verbosity of COBOL and would seduce Grace M. Hopper to write a paper titled “The Education of a Computer”. Regrettably and amazingly, the habit lingers on: it is quite easy to infuriate computing scientists by pointing out that anthropomorphizing inanimate objects is in science a symptom of professional immaturity."

This school of thought that Dijkstra decried is the one that eventually triumphed in our industry, and nowadays it is widely held that a general-purpose programming language "succeeds" primarily when it enables communication with/between programmers. Armies of consultants and bloggers and Uncle Bobs make a living out of this idea. The whole "languages are first for programmers to read, and second for computers to run" shtick.

I'm not sure which is my own position, but we do know which was Dijkstra's and that he would not be happy today.
Welcome to the Asian century? They like big phones, phablets. We get what they like...
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In this case the issue is not just the trade-offs but also messing up an existing paradigm.

I’m of the opinion that going against the status quo needs extra justification, and in this case the arguments are arguably weak (there are implementations that don’t break the well know user flow, and no alternative has an overwhelming advantage over the others)

Basically we’re stuck with sites that broke the original frame of reference without bringing a much better alternative.

Sure it’s a business requirement, but executed poorly. Can’t we be upset about it ?
You have erased the usefulness of the distinction between facts -- which are statements about the world that we believe to be true -- and opinions.

The burden of proof is different.
From my computer, where I browse fairly equally with all three of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox (albeit different sites), I get the following scores:

Chrome: .9

Safari: .7

Firefox: .1

I have adblock running on all three, and I use containers on Firefox.