skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even granting everything you've just said, which I do only for the sake of argument, I see no good end to normalizing the idea that even pedophilia qua attraction, as you have it, is in any way okay.

Sure, I can see where that'd be a cross to bear. Bearing it in public silence, with the support of others who share your affliction and are willing to offer understanding, seems like a strongly preferable option. I don't understand what you hope to gain by this crusade, and I am unconcerned with whatever judgment you may make of me for saying that I doubt the rectitude of your motives in pursuing it. Even the people who molested me never argued to anyone that the urge which helped move them to do so wasn't a problem. They'd be as horrified and disgusted as I am to hear you argue that it's not. They were ashamed not only of what they'd done, but also of why they'd done it. They should have been, too. But even after what they did to me, I have more respect for them than for you.

(I'm gay, too. Don't conflate that with this. We had enough problems being associated with NAMBLA through big-tent naïveté back decades ago, and no one will thank you or think well of you for arguing we should make the same damnfool mistake another time.)
I think 20Mbps is ok if you are the only user (I would rather 30 at least). But if you live with other heavy internet users it can get congested easily.

Someone streaming something, someone playing games, someone downloading something, this all adds up quickly and it starts to be noticeable.
How about different revocable secret keys to your mailbox given only to those who you wish to contact you
That does sound nice. Ideally though the company wouldn't chose to enforce the non compete because the new employee hadn't picked up any secrets worth sharing in a month.

Actually, this might incentivise a new employee to hunt for secrets so they could quit as soon as possible and enjoy their serverance. That might not be ideal.
Why its a given for professional tech jobs in the UK.
> The article keeps mentioning this company repeatedly. Is Deutsche Telekom really the only game in town across the whole country?

Pretty much, yes.

"Deutsche Telekom" is the company that came out of the former state telecom company. So they own the national telephone network.

Appart from a few local networks the only alternative is Internet through the tv cable network. However that never got complete coverage in Germany.

So for a lot of people Telekom is the only company that can offer them Internet connectivity. All the others are just reseller offers.

Also there have been some pretty nasty strategies where they actively prevent other companies from building parallel infrastructure: Places where Telekom didn't offer fast Internet for years, then a competitor builds a fiber network and coincidentally just shortly afterwards Telekom offers fast Internet, so the competitor looses because he can't get as much income as expected.
Okay, maybe I should clarify.
I’m not a Clojure-lover; I use CL as my side project language and I love CL.
I was just suggesting a way that CL can be more appealing language so that CL can reach more adoption (as CL has it’s strengths that Clojure can’t follow along).
That speedtest graph in the article is a great example of why averaging statistics is often a bad idea. The US fixed broadband mean is ~120mbps, but the median is more like ~70 mbps [1]. A few people with gigabit-ish connections are hiding the many people stuck with crappy sub-25 mbps connections.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad...
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Why Facebook faces no competition today
ACH transfers can definitely be reversed in the US.
Except solving reCAPTCHA shouldn't be necessary in order to read a website. I get (though still don't like) the justification for any modification actions, but GETs shouldn't ever trigger a reCAPTCHA check.

Of course, the Tor folks told the CloudFlare folks about this many years ago and CloudFlare still acts as a giant censorship machine and continues to block anonymous users from reading content on the internet. Not to worry though -- you can install their extension[+] to "protect your privacy" to bypass the reCAPTCHA that CloudFlare themselves erected in front of other people's websites! It's definitely not in any way comparable to an arsonist selling fire insurance as a side gig -- at least with fire insurance you actually got something out of the exchange!

[+] Which does have a paper that explains the security of the cryptosystem, but a single paper does not make a protocol secure by default. I'm not a cryptographer, but the Tor folks did raise some concerns in the issue where PrivacyPass was discussed, and there's no doubt that combining Tor with a system that is nowhere nearly as battle-tested should be a major point of concern.
Show HN: Plunge – A “simple” funge-like esoteric language
I’m not familiar with any savings accounts that dont permit you to take money out whenever. You might mean CDs, which will, as per the agreement, assess a fee against you if you take it out early. But you still have title to the cash whenever you want. It’s yours. And if a fee happens, the fee is still money that is now owned by the bank instead.

Down the line you suggested depositing money creates money because now you and the bank have a dollar. That’s not true, because the bank doesn’t have title to the dollar.
My thoughts exactly. A bot doesn't care if it takes 2 seconds to fade the images out and in for another challenge round, but a human viewing it perceives it as a frustrating delay.

I've become accustomed to just closing any page that presents me with a v2 reCAPTCHA.
>Both men said they are owed nearly $4,000 in their last two paychecks.

Wow! Either they're getting paid once a month or they make a LOT of money.

>Their second-to-last paycheck, already deposited, evaporated out of their bank accounts.

Uh, no. The checks were deposited and did NOT clear as they bounced. Because they were bankrupt. Omitting relevant facts to push a narrative is bad journalism at best. It makes it sound like the company removed funds from their accounts, instead they wrote bad checks.

>and their paychecks from the end of June bounced, leaving many with negative bank account balances.

https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/resource-session-he...
> Make a browser plug-in support U2F

https://krypt.co/
You clearly have no idea of what you are talking about.
OP Seems to be confusing trade secrets and noncompete
Yeah if it's suddenly possible and legal for employers to start withdrawing from their employees accounts via direct deposit or something else then we have much bigger problems.

Your bank doesn't represent you, where did you get that naive idea from? I'd think a decade of Wells Fargo actively trying to rob their entire customer base in a blatantly illegal and out in the open scheme would shatter any of those illusions.
Fold clothes and distribute them to the appropriate closets/dressers when the machine finishes, dislodge the carpet cleaning robot when stuck, fill the mopping robot with water and soaps, cook a decent meal that's not a microwave meal, put the dishes away in the cabinets and wash all the dishes which cannot go in the dishwasher (pots/pans, knives)

There's a lot more happening that you give credit for even when doing the minimum.
Try using Tor with one of those captchas -- you will get a whole load of puzzles and picture matching goodness (usually having to solve multiple in a row). It can easily take me several minutes to pass a reCAPTCHA challenge when using Tor. And even then, sometimes Google will even refuse to give you a challenge at all!
The Euro has an exchange rate and forex spread, too, hence neither of those things are disqualifying as a cash equivalent.
The checks were deposited they did not clear. Depositing does not mean the funds are, or will be, available.

https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/resource-session-he...

> and their paychecks from the end of June bounced, leaving many with negative bank account balances.
Judge a (Clojure) Programming Book by Its Cover
I’m curious, what’s the best option for protecting web forms if not using reCAPTCHA? Specifically for things like account sign ups?
Even their warehouse workers sign abusive noncompetes. (Edit: they apparently stopped the practice for hourly workers once it hit the headlines https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-removes-non-compete-c...)

Don't work for Amazon. Don't give them money if you can help it.
It's not clear how long ago the check was deposited but maybe it was stuck in pending. Direct deposits can show up in accounts before they're 100% processed through the transfer system so maybe they were in a pending state then when the company closed up all the pending transfers were canceled?
It was in the WiFi standards before it was anywhere else, and before it was seriously critiqued. This is how crypto standards bodies work, and why some people are really jaded about crypto standardization.
AMZN even recruits evilly.

I once got an email from them that was an email blast to 100s of people.

"Congratulations <RECIPIENT>! You have qualified to go to <INSERT CITY FAR AWAR> for a recruiting mixer where you may then apply for a chance to then be interviewed."

I want to work for a company where people care about me, at least enough to email me in person and treat me like a human being.

I think people think that working for a powerful evil company is fine because at least they are powerful. As if, if you go in with your eyes open and try and get as much money as fast as possible and get out you'll manage to leave emotionally and spiritually unscathed.

Who wants to deal with that though? Life is too short to have to live in a kind of horror show.
>At least China's errors are visible.

I'm not sure I would describe it that way. There's a real lack of visibility in China I think.
People thought that about record stores and book stores too but prices were competitive enough to crush competition. Will be interesting to see how something even more intimate like yoga sessions and if they can be similarly assimilated.
I just asked 3 friends for fun to fly to the US to meet him. I'm half joking, half serious.

I think I want some variety in my life :P
I love the Lensrentals teardowns! I just finished reading this teardown of a then-flagship Sony camera that was exposed to saltwater.

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/10/about-getting-your-...

Or if you're a Nikon fan, here's their teardown of a Nikon flagship a year later. Note that this camera wasn't suspected of exposure or abuse, so not really a comparison but I'm fascinated by how modern pro cameras are built, their weaknesses, and how they may or may not be serviceable.

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2018/10/teardown-of-the-nik...
> Is Deutsche Telekom really the only game in town across the whole country?

For DSL, essentially, yes. Everybody else rents their infrastructure from them. Cable is a general competitor, but it suffers from other problems and will often be much slower than advertised during peak hours.
Please, stop promoting this false conception of how banks operate. It makes really difficult to have serious discussions about the modern economy.

From the Bank of England, banks are not intermediaries of loanable funds:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2015/banks-are...
$4k/month is only $48k, bi-monthly it is $96k, which isn’t unheard of for people working in natural resource extraction.
I just bought Rust in Action a couple weeks ago (after having gone up to chapter 11 in the No Starch book). It's definitely good to have both. I'll probably do 1/2 the new book, finish the 1st one and then finish the new one.

I did pretty much the same thing with Dave Thomas's Programming Elixir book, bailing halfway through, using a 2nd resource to consolidate, and then returning to finish it.

I like learning Rust so far. The main thing I wonder is what kinds of projects are good to do while learning. I went from Node to Rails to Phoenix and normally I just rewrite web apps I've previously created in the language I'm learning. With Rust, it feels like I should build something different, something lower-level like a tool, an emulator or a 2D game.
A lot of articles posted on hacker news are by people who don't really understand what they're talking about, but use a lot of emotionally charged language. A lot of times this is fine, because it's articulating something that bothers a lot of people and wastes their time. But in this case it's absurd. I don't think he understand just how much crap bots were/are putting out there, especially before we had good services like cloudflare and the whole web hosting cloud to filter it. It's not Google's fault every small/medium sized company decided to put important customer services on a web portal which could be easily abused, they just capitalized on it. Sys admins can't stop random executives from making crap decisions like having an inherently insecure system, but at least they can pitch on reCaptcha to fix it a tiny bit. But they wrote an article where they used a lot of CAPS LOCK, so they must be an authority.
Same here. I'm pretty aggressive in trying to block trackers (ublock, Firefox containers, privacy badger), so perhaps it's due to that.
I'm glad someone is talking about this and we can have a healthy discussion about it. Things like PrivacyPass[0] are a step forward, but for those who don't know about such a tool, they will continue to be 'tortured' and get repetitive strain injury from constantly having to solve recaptcha v2, at least, well if they browse under Tor heavily and will have to pass recaptcha's test multiple times, and even after proving they were not a bot countless times.

[0] https://privacypass.github.io/
> Here in Australia the employer generally can never reverse funds out.

Not sure of the logistics but in USA direct deposit or ACH can be reversed without any authorization from the account holder.

One of my clients erroneously deposited somebody else's payment into my account, when I let them know they said they would fix it, I was surprised it didn't require any authorization from me, but it was gone the next day.
Author here. Like any job, it's an exchange of value on both sides for mutual benefit. I'm incredibly privileged in that I could afford to turn down the offer; not everyone has that privilege.

I strongly suspect that if I were willing to sign the clause I'd be welcomed aboard--but that's not really viable for me anymore. In many ways (such as writing this post!) I'm a garbage employee; I'm just glad I recognized it in time.
Unless it is also broken into...
The most frustrating is “select all pictures with bridges” when not one picture contains more than one bridge.
No. A browser is required to load resources whether or not they come from they come from the same domain (otherwise you break all sites using CDNs, multiple servers for load, etc)

The browsers (well Safari at least) actively work to break those things being used for tracking, but fundamentally (and the reason FB, etc require you to embed JS that loads their trackers) tracking companies treat user privacy systems as an adversary and continuously update to defeat it. Look at Google circumventing it in the past (and being hit with fines because of it). Nowadays they’re simply more clever in not crossing legal lines.
Unfortunately one of those pages was the Equifax settlement. And other similar “important” sites. I never seem to come across them when it’s a service I could easily quit or avoid.
Basically everyone who really wants to. All IT pros move to cities, because anyway rural life is nothing like Western picture.

End even for suburban areas, there are options for high speed air links.
One problem with giving up our principles to own the <other tribe> is that these plans can backfire pretty badly:

https://twitter.com/auerbachkeller/status/900376181458911232

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/241981/googles-new-hate-spe...
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>“The whole problem in Germany is the lack of fiber-to-the-home strategy by Deutsche Telekom DTEGY -0.52% and other carriers,

No, it is not. The problem could have been solved decades ago. Helmut Kohl of the CDU (conservative party) turned back a decision of his predecessor to role out a fiber network across Germany that would have been constructed from the 80ies until the millenium [1]. Germany could have had fiber to the home for 20 years at the least reachable areas and for 35 in major cities.

Rumor has it that nowadays, Telekom is postponing fiber because they don't want to sublicense their network to other carriers so they wait until they are getting a better deal. This is funny because Telekom is owned by many German small sharesholders (since that's how they have privatized the former public agency) - which has led to a situation where Germans don't get better internet because they are hoping for higher profits.

[1]https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Der-Kam...
The books in question:

1. Deep Learning for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with CUDA, OpenCL, MKL-DNN, Java, and Clojure

2. Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with GPU, CUDA, OpenCL, MKL, Java, and Clojure

[1] https://aiprobook.com/numerical-linear-algebra-for-programme...
[2] https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/
I recently moved to Germany. I used to work as a software dev in India before this. I was horrified to learn that (urban) India has way better internet than Germany. When it comes to mobile data it's even more depressing - back in India I used to get 1.5GB _daily_ 4G mobile data for 200 rupees (around 2.5 euros) a _month_. Even after adjusting for purchasing power, 2.5 euros a month for virtually unlimited mobile data is super cheap. In comparison, I pay 10 euros a month for a _monthly_ quota of 1.5 GB with O2 here in Germany. Not to mention that it's slower, and yes, there are a lot of patches with no data reception.
Considering that Germany has otherwise superb infrastructure, the internet was a let down.
Wow this makes sense now. I switched to Firefox as my primary browser 7-8 weeks ago and enabled strict blocking; and as of the last ~week, I've been greeted with reCAPTCHAs on a ton of websites which previously just let me in.
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I'm guessing the checks were drawn on an empty account? Banks will commonly front you the money before the check clears so that you have the money available before the longer process of the check clearing is completed.

See also: The common scam where somebody purchases an item from you and sends you a check, but the check is for more than the item cost; they ask you to send them the item plus the extra money the check was for. You deposit the check, pull out the extra, send it along with the item, and a week later the check bounces (or is discovered to be fraudulent), and the bank removes the money from your account, and they obviously don't refund the amount you withdrew to send to the scammer.

It doesn't normally happen with payroll checks, but it's not an unknown mechanism. If there's no money in the account that the check is drawn on, the bank won't furnish money out of the goodness of their hearts for the recipient.
Because of:

1) the effects (esp. the long-term effects: permanent depression and suicide)

2) the addiction and dependency they create

3) their association with mental health

4) their abuse within the mental health institutions

The ordering may not be very accurate.

Also please note that depression rarely, if ever, results in violent behavior (other than suicide).
Author here. To be clear, the stated reasons Amazon gave for enforcing the non-compete in their filed lawsuit are already covered under trade secret protections. I'm not the one who's conflating the two. :-)
Yep! Building from the C source. If you check out the demo I linked in another comment, it’s just a couple additional files in the CPython repo.
Ok I did as you suggested and then went to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

Took me all of 5 seconds to solve
Curious the reason they gave for you losing in court???
wrt. casing at least Nikon's pro offerings were always top notch in terms of body ruggedness etc., although up to 2008 or so they did have occasional issues with the rubber coming off at the edges. Some problems with chemical resistance as well. Newer models use a different, notably stronger adhesive. Fewer problems wrt. chemicals it seems, too.
This 100%. "What gets measured gets managed" is a 70 year old quote by Peter Drucker and it is no less true today. It reminds me of a great anecdote by Mark Graham Brown about "chicken efficiency", which is a great term to describe these situations. https://corporater.com/en/the-chicken-kpi-be-careful-of-what...
And I can assure you that the trains are much much better than in other parts of the world (eg: India). In India, trains running on time are an exception, not the rule. At least all the German trains that I've been on were on time to the very minute.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the politics of Herbert Hoover if you'd call him (or any of the republicans like him) authoritarian.
How would you implement a vast, unbounded virtual world, like the Oasis in "Ready Player One"?

More info: https://github.com/kalbfled/jit-geometry

If you know anybody who works in the gaming industry, please share this with them!
I clearly said no moral obligation. That covers your claim of Free Speech as a principle. A private organization does not owe you their bandwidth.

> then you're essentially saying that it's okay if it costs millions of dollars to speak freely on the internet.

No. Go buy a RaspberryPi for $35. Now you can host your own site and say whatever you would like on the internet. Again, nobody owes you anything. Nobody is obliged to carry my message. You have a right speak freely. You do not have a right to be heard.
The running gag of mobile internet in Germany is EU-roaming (no-charge use of you cellular internet service abroad in the EU): I can travel the 1-4 hours to any neighboring countries for the perfect cellular internet access I paid for. The only country where it doesn’t perfectly work is the one I live in. Germany.
IIRC, ACH Deposits are also often pre-auth'd. When I worked at a Credit Union in college, we would get an ACH file that had preauth'd ACH deposits - usually from employers - and we would go ahead and credit the account that day. The actual deposit would come in the next business day.
that was February
its unfortunate that universities are the gold standard for education and accreditation. University was one of the most corrupt experiences in my life
> orderly deleveraging. Instead we get trade wars and nationalism.

How else are you going to politically sell deleveraging? Nationalism ("made in america" stickers) weren't effective in the past. I do not believe it's going to be effective in steering capitalism now.
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Germany's internet is slow because it relies heavily on unbundling, implemented poorly: https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/f.... Telekom has little incentive to invest in upgrading its infrastructure because it has to lease it out to its competitors anyway.

Contrasting Germany and the U.K. offers a really good illustration of how important it is to set incentives correctly. The U.K. also relies heavily on unbundling, through BT. But when British Telecom was privatized, the U.K. intensely studied the issue of how to set the appropriate incentives: http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/cri/pubpdf/Conference_semin.... The end result was a regulatory structure where rates were set such that BT ended up being very profitable. (Last year, BT's profit margin was around 16%, versus 3% for Telekom.) That created the incentive for BT to invest in pushing fiber further into its DSL network.