skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think their cost analysis would mark you as a bot that got stumped by the captcha and thus a bet benefits. (Sales to bots are worse than not selling, else they wouldn’t implement this at all)
I didn't say it's not possible to raise the height. I said there always will be a bottom rung.
> One of the more insidious elements of ReCAPTCHA is its propensity to challenge users who have robust cookie blocking in place.

It is understandable and I expect HCAPTCHA to do the same thing.
The goal of a CAPTCHA is to identify you as a human. I don't know how ReCAPTCHA works, but I expect it to be like spam filters: they have a sample of bots, a sample of humans and assign weights to every aspect, in the end, the algorithm spits out a probability of you being human, and it will challenge you until it reaches a set value.

The thing is: if you hide everything for privacy reasons, you are making yourself indistinguishable from anything else using HTTP, including bots. That's the point, but it also means the only way to prove you are human is through a challenge.

Think of it like a private club. If you a regular and the bouncer is likely to recognize you and let you in without asking anything. But if you don't want to show your face, you will need to show your membership card every single time. That's the price of anonymity.
Seconding this, I use Aqua Zilents from Zeal and they're perfect for meetings and work as they make very little noise.
Immigration documents often need to be hand signed and scanned. This looks cool and everything but not sure if I'd risk getting an immigration application rejected :p

Will try on other less official stuff though ha
Decade-Long Novel Cross-Platform Apt Attacks Targeting Linux, Windows& Android
Antiparticles Would Deliver Mortal Blow to Einstein’s Principle
This Month in Rust GameDev #8 – March 2020
Just submit it as an ordinary link and people will be able to click on the link.
Idempotent != no side effects.

Idempotent == if you do it more than once, you get the same result.
I'll just say that it's fun to play around with... something different. It's like an alternate dimension. One of the first multi-user machines I worked on, back in the late 80's, was a VAX running VMS so I have fond memories of it.
It's because the standard webcam interface is based on a slow USB 2 interface which can only support enough bandwidth for 720p video. To upgrade your webcam, laptop manufacturers would need to make significant changes to both the interface and the operating system. Add that onto the lack of economic incentive, it's just not worth the cost.

Here's a good video that gives a run down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLgS7m0W94
I came in here to mention myNoise too. I use it all the time for noise masking. The office noise generator isn't my thing, but there are numerous other sounds to choose from--white/brown/grey noise, rain, ocean waves, a purring cat, space(ship) sounds, and all kinds of other stuff.

https://mynoise.net/
> It turns out "smart" people can be incredibly stupid and/or mislead by their own prejudices and political leanings.

If I had a nickle for every time I read "senior software engineer at X" in a profile that was spewing ideological drivel I wouldn't need to work for a living.
Well, to be fair, these are equal, not just equivalent.
The New York Blood Center continues to appeal for plasma donors via a form on this page, "Convalescent Plasma COVID-19 Donor Request Form":

https://www.nybloodcenter.org/donate-blood/convalescent-plas...
PsiQuantum is building the first useful quantum computer
To point #5 in the article, in my experience, ascending order of potential to generate value for business:

An astonishingly large fraction of Data Science output goes to die in pretty presentations.

From what's left, a large fraction ends up in Spreadsheets.

A disappointingly small fraction ends up in live services.
Provenance: https://freakonomics.com/2009/08/13/quotes-uncovered-who-sai...
Well, I mean, I’m sure it was a throw in claim made for sales. Sales is always a little sleazy. I just don’t think the company expected ... you know, the whole world to be using their product. Sleazy got caught :p
I don't use a static site generator
I can't read the article (well, past the first paragraph and a half) but I live in the area where the wolf population is returning (southern NM) and it is very controversial around here. When you get out of the city, and drive through little ranching towns, you see billboard and lawn signs about eradicating the Grey Wolf. At some level I sympathize with the ranchers. Their livestock don't live in controlled pens, they have grazing permits with BLM and they just wander the empty parts of the state, which makes them susceptible to natural predators. At the same time, my environmentalist nature applauds the return of animals like this to the ecosystem.
Let's assume cars kill N people a month, and the next pandemic kill N-1 old people a month and cancer kills N-2 people a month. We do nothing until we solve the cars?
What if it kills N-1 children we still do nothing?

I do not see the argument that the resources should go to cars, if you want to solve car accidents you can do it for free, I have the secrets here:

- don't give a diving license that easy. have decent tests

- if you are caught drunk you should never drive again

- if you are caught looking at a phone screen your license is gone for 10 years

- if you are speeding your license is gone for 10 years

- test the cars every 2 years to check they are safe and not polluting

- analyze the crashes find the causes and address them, if speeding is the issue find a way to enforce speed limits.

Do you have any evidence that if the lockdown did not have happened more lives would have been saved? Ironically probably less people died in car accidents so you need to find some domain where the number of deaths increased more then the lives saved,
Nobody has proven that it's not trainable, so I'd assume that it is. But what's a good training method? Maybe a visual hobby, like video gaming?

I'm someone who is exceptionally good at visual things. For the apple, I can do way better than the example picture (1) on the Twitter image. I can not only do 2D, but 3D. I can rotate the apple in my mind and slice it and then rotate the slices etc. Found out about this by accident, while watching YouTube videos with visual puzzles, that were completely obvious for me with a single glance.

And I spend most of my free time on visual hobbies, like playing video games or watching movies. But maybe I'm just attracted to those hobbies, because I'm a visual type.
But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server?

The lag is something that I can deal with. For me, the killer feature is the automatic reconnects. I usually only use mosh when I’m traveling and at conferences. In that scenario, I’m either using my iPad (with keyboard) where the client might be killed anytime I switch apps or I’m using the conference WiFi, with is always spotty. In either case, using a mosh client makes me less likely to throw my laptop or iPad down in anger every 5 minutes.
A interesting interview on remote/virtual design sprints
A startup CEO letter after the layoff
Is that an invocation of the `convert` tool from ImageMagick?
JAX is similar to many other autodifferentiation frameworks being developed for machine learning. It's a spiritual successor to the popular autograd framework (same authors).

The advantages JAX brings are

* Numpy-adjacent interface
* Auto-vectorization
* Great tie-in with XLA
* Higher-order derivatives (critical for some applications)
* Simplified, functional interface

The disadvantage is that it's younger and not trying to be a fully-fledged competitive neural network framework and thus is behind and less resourced compared with other libraries implementing auto-differentiation.

I think it's really exciting to see more people learning about JAX and beginning to use it for serious projects.
iOS: How to remove text from navigation bar back button
It's strange to see an article about the progress of modularity conjectures for elliptic curves that doesn't mention either Taniyama or Shimura, and instead mentions Langlands as the originator of the idea. This is bizarre historical revisionism.
I find this a little to convenient of an explanation and with the founder and CEO being Chinese.

"Accidentally" routing requests to China is something that should have been spotted easily by monitoring and logging. Request latency should have spiked.
Maybe a more straightforward test: can you watch a movie you've seen again, but in your mind? I can. (But I have trouble to keep the timing straight and will fast forward unintentionally to the parts that were interesting. I'm also constrained by my memory if it's about movies I haven't seen in ages.)
You can create your own sourdough just from wheat and water. Takes a few days till you have the first real dough, but from that on, you can keep the sourdough alive. There are plenty of YouTube videos about creating/using sourdough.
With sourdough you make the best breads and don't need any yeast. (sourdough itself contains yeast)
One of the non-obvious consequences is that any system designed to use technical measures to distinguish between humans and computers will wind up very sensitive. There's an arms race, and us real users are caught in the middle.

There's a vast army of computers doing their best to pretend to be human. The whole point of any kind of CAPTCHA is to try to catch them out - and every measure gets worse over time. So companies like Google look at everything they can see that helps them distinguish typical humans from robots.

This has a nasty side-effect. A lot of measures intended to preserve privacy have the incidental effect of making the privacy-sensitive user look more like a computer and less like a human. Not saving cookies and not executing JS are classic bot moves. This plays directly into the sensitivity that has been engineered over time in order to catch more computers posing as humans.

I don't know any easy resolution to this tension. Maybe you do? I really hope so. The internet is overrun with abusive behavior and the amount of work that goes into keeping it at bay is staggering.
Bernie Sanders to end his presidential campaign
It's quite nice to see some of the most talented minds in the tech private sector work towards solving our medical needs, I know it will end with the pandemic but part of me hopes it doesn't. The talent that's being monopolized at companies like Apple and Tesla (making ventilators right now) could do a lot of good for healthcare to everyone's benefit.

To be clear, I'm not talking about Cook or Elon, but the genius engineers they've cultivated to work for them.
Bernie Sanders Suspends Campaign
I remember when I developed Java for OpenVMS. On Unix you send a kill signal to get a thread dump from the Java process. On OpenVMS you sent a mail to the process! Something like a mail, it was not a SMTP mail but mail-like.
Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal
>...we never were able to show meaningful impact anywhere close to what was claimed. This was met with pushback, as before my team was created the company relied on external analytics vendors who always came back with results that were magically what everyone was expecting/hoping for...

This was why I left my last job managing a Data Science team at a large company. It's nearly impossible to complete with a slidedeck from an external vendor that shows exactly what people want to see. Especially when decision-makers and check-signers move on to different jobs in 2 years, so there is nobody to answer why that was done in the first place. Arguing against those vendors brings out the worst in the interested parties and you become the bad guy.
Where has all the data gone?
I think this assumes people don't have a choice about being "extremely online". As someone who quite literally grew up on the Internet in the early 90s (before that was common), I have pulled back my engagement significantly in the last 5 years. I'm not on social media at all.

And you know what? Other than a few Facebook Groups, I realized I'm not missing much. I rather enjoy living life offline; I'm not obsessed with checking the news 30 times a day or being performative with my posts. The last few weeks have actually been pretty hard for me because it's like being forced to take heroin when you've been clean for a while.

But I also have privacy. There are things in my life that I don't feel are even appropriate to broadcast widely, so I don't. You can't really Google me and find anything meaningful. The advertisements I see are not in any way aligned to things I would do / buy, which makes it way more obvious how much advertising we are subjected to. I feel it's a bit like peeking behind the curtain.
Dev/Null as a Service
DIY Face Shields
I have tried it and it works flawlessly when paired with an iphone 11. You can even use the main iphone camera, not just the front facing one. It is by far my best webcam (compared to my laptops and a stand-alone logitech I own).

PS. To make it work you need to install a driver on your PC, so it can be a no-go for many company owned computers.
Video Interviews Increase 101% in March
I've been using this app also. Works very well with linux. Haven't had any issues except when I updated my system and didn't rebuild the kernel modules.

Haven't sprung for the paid version though as I am hoping the back ordered webcam I purchased at the start of this comes in the next few weeks.

Remember to rebuild the kernel module if your kernel gets updated!
The Milky Way's satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy
Yup. Looks to be their email address.
Email is from PR firm Sard Verbinnen & Co.
For passphrases see also: https://www.rempe.us/diceware
With a quad-i7 MB Pro from late 2015, CPU usage is quite an issue for me during video conferencing.
Ask HN: Can somebody here create a food marketplace similar to chipdrop?
Chipdrop let's landscapers deliver their wood chips to individuals for free. It would be great to do something similar for produce. Allow it to function more like an exchange so people can get cheaper produce and the farmers can get some money (think bid, ask, lot size) and probably have individuals pick up the produce at centralized drop locations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-claims-unexpected-victim-florida-143106764.html?bcmt=1
Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (https://useparagon.com) - we're working on a platform for visually building API workflows.

As a frontend engineer and product manager, I've always wanted a way to quickly build out backend services without having to manually spin up a server, manage database connections, or write a ton of code. We wanted to create Paragon to make it easier to build and manage some of these services without being an expert backend engineer.

Paragon is a visual workflow builder that provides "steps" like API requests, database queries, and conditional logic that you can drag and drop to build microservices or integrations. Many workflows can be built without writing code, but we also provide Cloud Functions as a native step type in case you need to add some custom logic to your workflow. You can deploy workflows in one click and visualize the flow of data through each execution for easy debugging.

Today, we're focused on helping build integrations between your product and 3rd party APIs. We know there is a history of visual programming tools that promise more than they deliver. Paragon isn't designed to build your core product or replace your API, but we do hope to make it easier to extend functionality and microservices that integrate your product with other services (especially if you're not a backend engineer).

For example, our users have built workflows that sends weekly Twilio messages to their Firebase users, or that parses user file uploads via an OCR API and saves them to MongoDB. Here's an example workflow that finds your inactive users in Postgres and sends them re-engagement messages with Twilio or Sendgrid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVU8GCBMZj4

We launched Paragon in beta about a month ago and we charge a monthly subscription based on usage, starting at $30 for 1,000 tasks per month. If you're interested in trying Paragon, you can sign up on our website and and I'll fast-track you to the top of our waitlist!

We'd love to hear your experience building API integrations. Thanks, and looking forwards to your thoughts and feedback in the comments!

Edit: We don't currently offer a free tier or trial. The reason is that we currently provide custom onboarding for every user where we help setup your workflow(s) over a Zoom call, then add you a Slack channel where we provide realtime support. We invest a lot of time and effort to ensure each user is successful and are happy to offer a full refund if we can't. That said, we do plan to add some free version of Paragon in the future. I hope this clarifies some people's comments about our pricing, thanks!
I did the same thing, a week-ago. The interface may be more spartan; all the efforts have been put in the sounds themselves. These sounds have been carefully designed to put the listener in the focus zone, for those who associate the noise of their office with focus (everyone is different; most people actually want to block open office sounds... but a minority is actually missing them, when their environment is too quiet).

Here is how it sounds like on myNoise : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/openOfficeNoiseGenerator.p...
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Major Gmail Outage – Slow delivery and emails getting rejected
> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety".

We know the quote already. It's not doing any good to post it or repeat it. Simply saying this in response to complex problems is equivalent to saying "Thoughts and prayers" when someone is asking for help. It doesn't help and only makes you feel good.

People are willing to give up a lot for convenience, including sending many jobs to China. We allow this due to laissez-faire capitalism. Turns out people care more about cheap shit than the job prospects of their children.

People are also trained/willing to give up a lot for fear. This is caused in part by the very freedoms enshrined by your quote - there's a lot of fear and misinformation spread and allowed to spread because of the principle of free speech.

The situation is more complex and needs a more complex response than simply saying "hurr durr liberty".
Show HN: A job board focused on 100% remote jobs (free postings during 2020)
OpenVMS has an enduring fan base -- maybe who knows enough to make meaningful contributions is reading this!
Lack of Gym Time During Lockdown Isn’t as Bad as You Think
Seems a decent bunch of improvements; sharing system audio is apparently a useful feature (I don't care, but I see it mentioned enough), and device and muting changes are nice usability improvements.
Here's a (cleaned up) guide from our internal docs: https://miha.frangez.me/2020/04/08/wireguard-point-to-point-...
Over 350k Microsoft Exchange servers still open to flaw that's under attack
Probably someone internally emailed Alex's Stanford profile to their blog content writer - the sender had email tracking enabled and the writer blindly copied the link.
There is only one thing to blame:- De-facto segregated medical services so that the Black people receive less at all levels of medical support. Fewer hospitals, with fewer doctors, and fewer IC beds and fewer masks, fewer ventilators per capita fewer.....
This shows up in all death and illness stats, length of life stats, all the way down.
Solution:- education, education from 1-2 years of age in the 'village' (subsidized and enriched child care) all the way up
If you are in a buffer for a remote file, then M-x compile should run make on the remote machine.

Docs are here: https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#index-compile
The odd thing is that EARN-IT pushers want to ban strong encryption "for the children" but they want to excoriate Zoom over weak encryption "for the children".
Well, tmux supports scrollback with `prefix [`, then `j` and `k` and `C^u` and `C^d` to move up and down, Enter to select and copy text. Not good enough?
Is this how we get zombies? Would be a pretty neat way to see the world end.
> national ID smart card

National ID systems are an incredibly bad idea. You can already get the entire authentication benefit from using decentralized ID systems (your bank authenticates you with your bank card, your employer authenticates you with your employee ID), so all a national ID adds is the ability for corporations to correlate all your different identities without your knowledge or consent, which is nothing but a privacy-invasive misfeature. Note that without a centralized ID they could still do it with your knowledge and consent by having you authenticate using multiple decentralized IDs.

Centralized identity is also a huge single point of failure and compromise. It would attract far higher resources from attackers than non-monoculture ID systems do, have far reaching consequences when vulnerabilities are discovered, and take far longer to respond when changes are necessary because of the scope of use.
We had a friendly deal in our office for those kind of disturbances.

If you leave your phone ringing at your desk, you pay a round of drinks for the team.
They probably will also sell flour to you. At least here in Germany there seems to be the problem, that there isn't enough flour packaged in customer packages. Bakeries get their flour by huge sacks or even in silos, so there is no shortage of unpackaged flour.
Former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos to join Zoom as outside security consultant
I would think that the difference between a towel and water alone for cleaning hands is smaller than the difference between water alone and water with soap.
Not having to eat your own dog food helps a lot too... You lose your privacy for his benefit, not the other way around.
That doesnt answer why. I have a table saw that works really well, doesn't mean I use it all day every day.
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968
Switches have been out for a while. I had surgery at the beginning of March, figured it was a good excuse to finally play Legend of Zelda. Had to look a little bit, but I found one for online delivery from Best Buy for MSRP. Could have even bought an Animal Crossing special edition.

A week later, maybe the wife would like one: none to be found. You can still get a Switch Lite, though.
First, thank you! This is so cool!

Question for you -- are these types of methods used in labs already?

It seems the false positive issue could be overcome if you just re-test anything that is positive separately, wouldn't that work?
This is great, thanks for sharing!

Does it support multipage pdf documents and doing multiple signatures per document?

Related to this, perhaps a UI for marking all the spots where signatures are required would make this tool extremely powerful!
It's a tricky spot. Letting the prices rise keeps the folks who don't need one, but merely want one, from buying one, thus leaving some supply for those who actually need one.

On the other hand, prices quickly get out of control if left to their own devices. Some say that's natural, and perhaps it is, but that doesn't mean it's good all the time.

As for increasing production, this is one thing where raising prices can actually decrease the incentive to increase production. For literally the same money that I was using to create 100 units per month, I'm now getting the same profit that 10000 units per month would have given me. Why would I spend money to increase production, thus increasing supply which reduces demand, which lowers prices, which lowers profits?
>Seeing as encryption is illegal in China

Source for this? That would make any https site in china illegal.
12 years on, audit finds WA government entities still don't get infosec