skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"whoever gets the most votes wins, end of story."

That seems to be a really bad idea if you want minority representation.

How would this play out in a racist 1950s scenario?
Yeah I was thinking more "Provable".
Not to mention the pace killing scenes where nothing happens for minutes at a time. They paid for those incredible fight scenes with interminable shots of the interior of elevators or close ups of Shinji's walkman.
Private Planes Could Soon Go Carbon-Free
I don’t have an Android device handy but you might need to use chrome to get Google Pay.
My solution to this is loading them up with iOS and macOS devices, enabling iCloud backup, and having them live near an Apple store for hardware issues.

They can click on all the shady links they want, but I haven’t had to field tech support in a long time.
Amazon Trims Portfolio of Private Label Clothing Brands
Many new "smart" TVs have "ACR" that sends info about what you're watching (regardless of whether on netflix or hulu or a set-top-box) to the TV manufacturer. [1]

Pro-Tip: At least for Samsung TVs you can un-accept the privacy-policy to disable this. This will also disable Netflix and all "smart" features but that's..exactly what I want in a TV. Alternatively just don't give the TV network access, but you may want to do a yearly software-update.

[1]: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
Userland, a dataflow environment for end-users
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Parts of AWS are down
RDS & S3 is down for me right now in US-East region and apparently some parts of Frankfurt are also down.

There own favicon is timing out:
https://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/favicon.ico
Job markets are mostly national, so the site would benefit from stating their coverage on the front page. Especially if they are (mis)using a country top level domain.
In other words, Google needs captcha and the data it provides.
If the US was going to fabricate allegations against him, why in Sweden and not in the UK?
This is already a thing. In the upcoming video game Death Stranding, Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn both play physical roles without having taken part in the motion-capture or voice acting. They gave the rights for their likenesses to be used without actually taking part.
I don't think it works though.

Unless you are careful, partisan voters will likely vote their candidate maximum and other candidates minimum - this is called bullet voting on Wikipedia.

Non-partisan voters will likely vote genuinely.

Since bullet voting is the dominant strategy, the election essentially reduces to First Past the Post and contains all the bad (majoritarian) incentives that FPTP does.
There should be a rule - no majority = no win.

Let alone - anything is better, than a simple plurality based system.
Not a bad suggestion, but are the optics really that much better? Definitely gives me a dystopian vibe of "paying humans pennies to help AI automate away what few other jobs they have left to them".
Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys.

"47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
The free 6 months of pay and insurance for staying for only 1 month!
> leads to fire-meets-petrol feedback loops

You'll notice that this is, in fact, exactly what I said.

The context that I was trying to bring up -- perhaps too indirectly -- is that rather partisan people on both sides who have been having a lot of rhetoric back and forth about this on Twitter for a few years now. Obbink's Bible Museum connections have been a serious scandal. One side is outraged by Hobby Lobby's shady practices, and Obbink's cooperation with them, and the other has claimed that Hobby Lobby's practices haven't differed so much from other museums, though they have certainly behaved ignorantly from time to time. The new accusations of theft, of course, are a black eye for anyone who has defended Obbink (which includes the organization now making the accusation) if they prove to be accurate.
Actually, this is a very helpful feedback for any company. And funnily enough, would Europe’s difficulty in creating a funding ecosystem be the key point that ...reinforces their startups?
That's what they show if you're not on chrome, especially if you're blocking scripts or on a VPN.
what is FIRE?
Networking and knowing people in industries that have a need =)

I've never really done the job board thing so no idea on that.
Here was an earlier discussion about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386
Regarding C++ compilation, here is the latest blog entries regarding Visual C++ compilation speedups,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/improved-linker-funda...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/msvc-backend-updates-...

Another ways of improving compilation times:

D has fast compiler as reference implementation, leaving the hard work for gcc and llvm backends.

Eiffel uses a JIT for development, with AOT compilation via the C or C++ system compiler for production releases.

.NET Native, which now also supports F# (so H-N comes into play) takes advantage of MSIL, the development builds are a bit lightweight in optimizations and only the deployment via the store does the heavy crunching of optimizations, based on Visual C++ backend.
Hcaptcha will soon be open source.
Up until an average person stops treating crypto as a magical get-rich-quick possibility, I would rather suggest to stay away from it. Currently, even if you come up with something truly remarkable and solving an actual problem, many people will still treat it like yet another ponzicoin.
We have squandered our privacy rights by using "free" services and software. Now getting those back will be an uphill battle.
There are a lot of subtle observations here that I wish I had more time to respond to. One general response though. You're pointing to something I've noticed about online communities like HN: what happens here is mostly determined by the fundamentals. The fundamentals of HN are that it is a large [1], open, optionally anonymous public forum. Those simple conditions already determine most of what happens here. They also determine how moderation needs to function, and why things that work in other contexts (e.g. blunt rebuke) are so dysfunctional in this one.

It makes me want to take a deeper look at McLuhan, because "the medium is the message" describes this phenomenon like no other phrase can. The more experience I have the truer it seems, specifically about HN.

[1] Large is relative, and HN is small relative to the big fish—5M or so readers a month—but still large relative to human history and to the communities humans are used to. In a discussion like this one, where the participants have deep experience with online communities, it would be more precise to call HN medium-sized.
This shows a (beautiful) theoretical point of view from Earth. I feel dumb asking this but will this event affect our solar system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Burlington_mayoral_electi...

I don't see the problem?

The third party won. That's not a spoiler. And several of the criticisms listed on that page are really dumb.

Edit: Okay, so someone else would have won using ranked pairs... that's a different problem from "a spoiler" though.
Honest question. What’s wrong with Google Recaptcha V3?

No need to select 25 traffic lights. Gives you a score from 0 to 1 so you can decide whether you let them in easily or not.
This is definitely an area that will get more and more interesting and profitable. It's extremely complicated and "centralized" right now to get things to work with each other in a secure and reliable way. You need to dive into the arcana of authentication mechanisms each with their oddities or complex and difficult to debug subsystems like IAM. An understandable and debuggable solution would be very popular and profitable.
I have marked my calendar so I won’t miss it!
There's a definite threshold between "their responsibility" and "the economy's responsibility."

I'd say generally the number at which you can no long afford to (a) put a roof over your head in a reasonably safe environment, (b) buy enough at the grocery to feed yourself and any dependents, (c) afford necessary medical care.

When you're trying to figure out how to make your paycheck cover only those things, we're not talking about disposable income anymore.
The answer seems to be that the only company that makes Chinese fonts just doesn't give a fuck about the latin characters.
> any CAPTCHA custom to a site will be broken very easily if your business takes off.

For me, this is an interesting and open question. I've taken the view that as long as it's easier to come up with new types of challenges than it is to create an automated means to solve those challenges, CAPTCHAs offer some protection. If you're ok with requiring JavaScript, mouse input, and images (e.g. you don't require your site to be accessible by sight-impaired users who cannot use a mouse), I think people can come up with varied enough challenges to present a problem to bots. How long will that be the case? I don't know.
Prison influencers are finding viral success on YouTube
I wonder how my younger self from twenty years ago would have responded to me now: I'd prefer to PAY money for software once rather than being suckled by subscriptions, annoyed by ads, frazzled by fingerprinting, or prickled by privacy problems. Give me a nice over-sized box to stick on my desk for fifty bucks and some clean, well-developed software.

Of course in the meantime Firefox and Brave are doing well enough. I still feel as though I'm being towed along and probably the browser makers feel similarly.
Weird couldn't find it in the Book.
Remember, we're talking about children, here. It's absurd to hold them to the same high standard as adults.
Some smart TVs show ads outright, most of them phone home on the regular with fingerprints of whatever's on screen.

If you need any proof that they profit off of this, "dumb" equivalents of various models, if they exist at all, tend to be significantly more expensive.
Yep - it's definitely that, although I typically avoid the nomenclature because laypeople think "robotics" which is definitely not what I do!
I doubt it's so clear cut.

With RCV the candidates are encouraged to play more centrist because they don't actually know how they will do ahead of time. If they play the extremist card and get only 40% and nothing else at the recount, then all is lost.

This isn't just a theory, I've seen a few elections where the candidates were praising RCV for the lack of negative campaigns (i.e. not extremist), which happened precisely because of how RCV works.

My biggest issue is that states don't also adopt multi-winner RCV, also called Single Transferable Vote, which is another form of proportional representation.

This would both make elections more fair by giving minorities a bigger voice in districts, and it would also solve the gerrymandering problem in one go as a mere side-effect of how it works (a single party can't dominate any single district).

Watch the video here to see how it would work:

https://www.fairvote.org/fair_representation

RCV is nice and all, mostly because of how bad the status quo FPTP is (along with other barriers the two parties have established against third-parties), but for much more democratic government you need a proportional representation voting system.
If your goal is to give outsider candidates who can't get as many votes as mainstream candidates the win, then no, IRV isn't going to work. But if your goal is to break the Duverger's Law spoilering problem a bit, to give third parties a chance to build up from small rather than their current direction of starting with President of the United States, IRV is good.

I've been living with IRV in Minneapolis for a couple of elections now, and what it's led to so far is tolerable, non-radical mayors. The most recent race was particularly interesting, as it took like five rounds to get a winner. I didn't vote for him, but he's been a much better mayor than I expected.
Outstanding project. Been using the beta releases successfully for a while.
Most likely not, but the reality is that in a couple of years GPL software might be relatively irrelevant in the FOSS world and we are back to shareware, public domain, demo licenses and such.
Last line

despite the galactic collision and the dazzling view from Earth, it’s extremely unlikely that any individual stars will collide because of the sheer amount of empty space in galaxies.
This maze captcha looks trivial to defeat
Interesting. Any downside of Brave? Small userbase, etc ?
And how many people would need that on a daily basis? This sounds to be a useful but somewhat niche area
Don't forget product placement or native advertising , so that you're being shown advertising directly in the movies or content that you're already consuming. It's turtles all the way down.
Even if the subject weren't publicly owned land, the implication would be the opposite, that landowners should control their own land and not everything around it that doesn't belong to them.
There's an ocean of quality difference between a video game and a (non-CGI) movie.
Uhh.... I've heard the "this can never happen" before.

5 and 6 DoF is tough, but there's tons of improvement everywhere in this realm. And we're talking of major improvement.
Ok, that is the first thing I've read that makes it sound like fun to be around in 4B years to watch it all happen.

It is also interesting to think about two galactic civilizations coming together over a common need to survive in the post collision Milkdromeda galaxy.
Ransomware Hits B2B Payments Firm Billtrust
> Those things aren't going to zero anytime soon.

Not with that attitude
From a user point of view on Firefox, Google captcha is a an absolute hell.

Every single time I have to pass few batches of captchas. I'm not on a private window and I'm logged in to Google. So I started to blacklist websites that use Google captcha. and forced myself to change reading habits.
I understand why you'd call it that but won't it be confused for Shibboleth, the single sign-on log-in system?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_(Shibboleth_Consort...
Not so much a parody as a deconstruction of the genre. It did to mecha anime what Watchmen did to superhero comics.
From https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors

We are investigating reports of occasional DNS resolution errors with Route 53 and our external DNS providers. We are actively working towards resolution.
How to Scale Distributed SQL to 1M+ Inserts per Second
I have some "advanced" language settings, but they are almost always ignored. For example google search ignores it and uses some kind of geolocation to decide what languages I want my search results from.
First drug that can slow Alzheimer's dementia
One thing to consider is that because gaming the vote is harder to understand, it may have less of an impact. People can easily understand that voting for 3rd party candidate is not voting for a candidate that actually has a chance. Fewer people will be able to understand the second example you give, meaning it will have less impact on people gaming their votes.
I don't buy it.

There are tons of software "engineers" who try to escape fintech for FAANGs or even startups, coming from top tier firms like Goldman and McKinsey.

Likewise, bioinformatics generally pays a lot less than traditional SWE roles.

So what I have seen is the exact opposite in practice: people with minimum coding skills in other fields trying to jump into tech firms.
Take money via taxes, and give it back in the form of laptops - oh but now there's strings attached.

That something is 'government owned' is no excuse for such a disgusting violation of privacy. Services paid by taxes should serve, not act as means to control people.

> We (as the school district) were wholly responsible for what the student's did on these school owned devices.

Why?? By what legal theory?? If person A gives item X to person B, why would A be responsible for what B does with X? Maybe if B was a minor and did not get parental consent - but that was not the case, was it?
I think I agree. It’s also just not a very good chart, error aside.
> McKinnon tweeted that “real champions want stronger competition,”

Ironic that he says this while not being willing to compete against other males.
If Google doesn't like a client (e.g. Firefox users) they can just set their score to 0 and break half the internet.
The unstated larger problem is that HTTP is a content-delivery protocol that is (ab)used to also serve as an inter-process messaging protocol.

If messaging stuff was factored out or moved to be the primary protocol (with content delivery implemented on top) a lot of the issues we have with security, latency and caching would just disappear. And no, WebSockets (the way they work right now) are not going to solve this. Neither will QUIC aka HTTP3.
Every time the topic of IRV comes up, people immediately wonk out and start debating the pros/cons of Borda, Condorcet and other alternatives to IRV. Even worse, they start intricately detailing all the ways in which IRV is "bad", relative to other voting systems that they prefer. And then people respond to them with with a long list of reasons as to why their proposed voting system is also bad, and actually worse than IRV. Finally, someone brings up the Arrow impossibility theorem and proves that all voting systems are fundamentally flawed in some way.

Can we put our wonk-hats away for a second though and acknowledge something: IRV may not be perfect, but it is heaps better than the current system. Every time we get into a IRV-Borda-Condorcet debate, everyone else tunes out, decides that it's best to just leave things well alone, and nothing ever changes.

Are there other voting systems that are better than IRV? Probably. But at this point, IRV is the most credible challenger to the status quo. It is simple, easy to understand, the average joe is open to it, and it has considerable momentum. Instead of tearing it down because it isn't perfect, can we just throw our weight behind it and help it make it a dent in the dysfunctional status quo. Once that happens, we can wonk out as much as we want, and debate what voting system to use in a referendum to determine the ideal voting-system for future elections. But it would be great if we could just focus for now on getting something done.
Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
We are investigating reports of occasional DNS resolution errors with Route 53 and our external DNS providers. We are actively working towards resolution.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Conventional wisdom is that we will have almost zero collisions between celestial bodies due to the vast distances involved; but it seems plausible that the gravity of a massive celestial body could disrupt orbit, enough to alter seasons or even destabilize orbits altogether? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet

I'm sure there are far too many variables to predict with any accuracy, but curious if a better space nerd than I has any guess as to the likelihood of such an event.
>identifying crosswalks, fire hydrants, traffic lights, and bicycles.
I don't necessarily mind contributing to googles car-driving AI

Wow. I just realized that's exactly what they must be doing with the data!
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The problem is coming up with challenges that are not trivial to automate and not annoyingly hard for users.

Botters aren't just making passive income, they can fix their bot every day as long as it's making them money. Many sites try "random" questions which are really easy to pattern match with a little regex.

The amount of effort that goes into botting generally scales linearly with userbase size (not always). But once you're talking about a botter with a profit motive when your site has hundreds of thousands or millions of MAU, I think trying to come up with challenges to beat botters would be prohibitively time consuming.
Having issues here in US East as well.
I'd rather pay them to do it. The last time I self-hosted, it was WordPress, and the temptation to tinker was too great and distracted from the actual goal of having a blog.
Mailgun's logging is great, and includes the full-text of messages.
Republican and Democratic parties are already conglomerates of ideologies.

Both should split up, for the better gauge of people's opinions.
In four billion years the Earth might be engulfed (or at least fried lifeless) by the Sun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
What's Your Hobby?
Years ago I was shared an anecdote of researchers affiliated with Scripps Research were able to predict a cholera outbreak in subsaharan Africa from reports in another country using analytics.
Just on the chainsaw point, take care: unless it somehow happened in the only corner of the city with police and protestors but without 100 smartphone cameras pointed at them at all times, it's utter bullshit.

These police have been totally disproportionate in their use of force and hence have a huge incentive to sensationalise the actions of those 15 year olds.
And it really depends on who your customers are. The amount of cash available during a recession doesn't change. It just gets more sluggish and people tend to be more reluctant to let it go. But it's there all the same.
This applies to everything. The idea is that the talent pool for a given job will increase, as jobs become easier and easier. Especially AI will drive down the needed expertise for a given job. E.g. nurses will increasingly be able to do jobs that require doctors today.
I've lost track of discussion and maybe some misunderstanding takes place, but I'll attempt to synchronize.

There are two distinct severe security issues. First one is leaked CA key, which allows to certify any key as a valid key for NordVPN server certificate key. I think it is not necessary to argue about this: traffic decryption to any Nord OpenVPN server became simple as network MITM. Not likely a state-level BGP hijack, but local attack targeting channel of small group of users. Anyway, we do not have cryptographical guarantees since this point.

Second issue is leaked RADIUS key. Why it is a problem for encryption? Because EAP authentication and key derivation runs between VPN client and RADIUS, and VPN server receives derived keys as attributes of EAP message: https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/EAPRadi...

> The eap-radius plugin does not implement an EAP method directly, but it redirects the EAP conversation with a client to a RADIUS backend server. On the gateway, the EAP packets get extracted from the IKE messages and encapsulated into the RADIUS protocol, and vice versa. The gateway itself does not need special support for a specific EAP method, as it handles the EAP conversation between the client and the RADIUS backend more or less transparently.

> For EAP methods providing an MSK, the RADIUS server must include the key within the MPPE-Send/Receive Keys; Unfortunately, FreeRADIUS before 2.1.10 did not include these attributes when used with EAP-MSCHAPv2.

So, despite session encryption key is not bound directly to long-term secrets which server possesses, they can be extracted from communication between StrongSwan and RADIUS server.

PFS has nothing to do with all of it. In first case it is possible to issue VALID certificate for eavesdrop VPN server and redirect users traffic to it. In second case MSK probably can be extracted communication between VPN server and RADIUS server (I can't say if it will require MITM of RADIUS session or it is possible to decrypt EAP payload with passive sniffing and posession of RADIUS secret key).
Very interesting idea (the invisible captcha approach)! Since you are a contributer, can you tell us how efficient this strategy is? I mean, do you still experience advanced bots being able to still act as humans?
Thank you for this. Now I look forward to seeing all the ways my TV behaves differently now (no voice search, for instance).