skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this specific case, the Wikimedia Foundation has explicitly stated that "It is the Free Software release of GitLab that runs optional non-free software such as Google Recaptcha to block abuse, which we do not plan to use." So, not incredible helpful at the moment.

Also, is manual approval for new signups a good idea for a large FOSS project? It seems like a pretty big barrier to legitimate discussion.
Same experience, for a wiki and forum with less than a dozen users. When I changed the questions I had some peace for a couple of days, then started flooding again.
Use better tools.
I use a telegraf, influxdb, grafana stack. I find the cost in maintainance and initial setup quite low.
Telegraf is super easy, just uncomment the things you want it to collect from the config file. Influxdb is just adding the correct users and a database, never touched it since.
Grafana can be a time sink if you want to bikeshed your dashboards, but there are a lot of pre-made ones that handle common usecases.

It's really nice to have some metrics when for instance a service goes down. It's super easy to spot a OOM situation or other vertical scaling issues.
We run Prometheus with 60d retention (2TB), and an Elasticsearch cluster for logs (also 60d, about 30TB cluster) with Kibana on top.

Prometheus is by far the cheapest, both for infrastructure spend and for human cost. The only time we spend really working on Prometheus is configuring our service discovery, which is the shipping component you’d have with any monitoring tool. I estimate we spend about 1 developer day a month un Prometheus upkeep.

Logging is much more fiddly, and required a large up front investment. Now it’s running though, we get a lot of value from our setup. It costs much more though, think about $10k/month in infrastructure spend and about 3 developer days a month to maintain.

Grafana is effortless to run, really dead simple. You can consider this to be ‘free’, both for infra and maintenance.

Hope that gives you a sense of this? I think we come out equivalent to managed services for cost when you account for infra and human time, but have far more flexibility in how we use the tools and develop the skills to properly leverage each product along the way.
I really wished I had done with my grandfather what you and your sister did with yours!

Your friend can email us at contact@heyartifact.com. George, my co-founder, will follow up from there.

Regarding biographies - great question. We don't currently do this, but it's an idea that make a lot of sense as extension of "Life Story" Artifacts. And in a lot of respects, "Life Story" Artifacts, which occur over 3 to 4 interviews, end up feeling a lot like an "audio biography" - with that intimacy of having the person's voice right there.

Thank for the suggestion and please do have your friend email us!
Actually, yes. Obesity is a very real issue and 90% ofthe population is quite unfit in general. So we can walk, technically, it is nowhere as fast or as graceful as it had been.
Today my hospital was the victim of a “Ryuk” ransomware attack
My bad on the specs, I was following along in a live thread, not watching the stream.
Tangential to this topic, but Isaac Asimov wrote a book called "The Chemicals of Life" in 1954, just after Watson and Crick identified the double-helix structure of DNA. Many people don't know this, but Asimov was, at one point, a professor of Biochemistry at Boston University.

The book provides a high-level overview of the biological functions of the body and why we need certain components (essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc.). Certain elements of it are dated (scientists didn't understand the purpose of cholesterol back then), but the general principles hold true.

If you're a tech-minded person who understands very little about biology, you may find the book illustrative. You can find a used copy on Amazon for relatively cheap.
>However, as someone who prefers to not wear headphones for long periods of time, it sounds like an extremely useful technology.

Very random but: Have you considered full-sized open-back headphones? They're at least an order of magnitude better experience, in sound and comfort.

I use/favor/recommend Sennheiser's HD600.
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Are they looking at solving the fact that spending appreciated "assets" will lead to a tax bill at the end of the year? Do they plan to sell extra to cover the gains, and then withhold them? If they don't and crypto collapses again, people might actually be out money at the end of the year for using their card right?
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> Your ignorance is ironically proving his point.

How so?
I wonder how smart this system is going to be — it’d be wise to have the rewards & purchasing happen on a stablecoin to avoid this. Then make users have to choose to then stash it somewhere they won’t draw from and trigger these events, if they want to “invest in a crypto”. It’d also be wise because coinbase can then charge their fees as they so do.

This is also fundamentally not so different from e.g. having spend vehicles with your brokerage. But the addressable market may be higher / different for coinbase which could cause a lot of headaches, like this one, if not carefully managed.
> There has been a proliferation of guides and online communities to teach kids how to build their own games and plugins for these platforms (Lua has never been so popular).

Right, Lua. That's how much the "no code" generation is arriving?

> In business today, it’s not enough to just open a spreadsheet and make some casual observations anymore.

Using office applications is also "no code". Spreadsheets have some aspects of code in that there are formulas that use the value of other formulas, but it's not really code.

"No code" arrived about forty years ago. With the advent of personal computers in the home and in offices, most computer use since then has been by non-coders.

> [T]his new generation is prepared to connect multiple online tools to build an online storefront (through no-code tools like Shopify or Squarespace), calculate basic LTV scores using a no-code data platform and prioritize their best customers with marketing outreach through basic email delivery services. And it’s all reproducible, as it is in technology and code and not produced by hand.

Well, reproducible today, and maybe a week or two hence, until some details in the technology change. Invariably, the technology either has no regression tests which cover your use case, or else consciously declares your use case irrelevant. You know, they "prioritized" the software for "their best customers"; too bad that wasn't you!

Since it's online SaaS, you can't even do the usual troubleshooting of comparing the behavior of the old and new version of a program. Between two refreshes of a browser, the black box can change what it is running.

In prior decades, you might use some query language to scan a customer database to prioritize them according to "best", and export the results to some word processing mail merge to generate correspondence. All "no code".

This article is really about shifts in the kinds of tools that no-coders are using, away from locally installed or in-house software toward SaaS.
Exchanges like https://localbitcoins.com/ or https://bisq.network/ should work for you. Personally, I have only ever used services like Coinbase (BitPanda, anycoindirect), but I guess person-to-person deals aren't bad either. You might even get better prices.
Actually yes :) At least the optimization crowd don't use the phase 'heat treatment', which helps somewhat. But who I really feel bad for is the recruiters trying to hire a chemist who specialises in the element lead.
I'll try to provide my thoughts on each of the issues you've mentioned, let me know if there's something I missed.

On using blake2b:
I chose blake2b as I was looking to use a hash function that is small in implementation, readily available and already optimized. With WebAssembly the solver can achieve (close to native) speeds and be least be an order of magnitude or two closer to optimized GPU algorithms.

Using specialized hardware, image tasks (and even more so audio tasks which must be present for accessibility reasons) have the same issue that they can be solved by GPU algorithms (i.e. machine learning, in which even a low percentage success rate would already be enough). If you search on GitHub you will find there are more ML captcha cracking repos than captcha implementations - they are probably even easier to get started with than adapting GPU miner code.

Image/Audio Captcha vs ML is an arms race that can be beat for split seconds of compute (even on CPU) or cheap human labeling: it's just as broken. FriendlyCaptcha optimizes for the end user (privacy + effort + accessibility) by not engaging in the arms race - I think it makes a better trade-off. Like the sibling comment pointed out the captcha solving can happen entirely in the background so that hopefully it doesn't even make the user wait.

As for rate limiting/difficulty adjustment: it's not perfect and it could lead to problems if you share the IP with a spammer (and let's be realistic: even with a million users on one IP there won't be tens of users signing up to some forum per minute). Also normal captchas have problems here though: users from these locales already get presented with much more difficult+frequent recaptcha tasks (I also doubt they are localized: American sidewalks are harder to label if you've never seen one in real life). Setting a reasonable upper limit to difficulty may be good enough here.

On not using blake2b:
I have considered mutating the hashing algorithm every day randomly to make writing an optimized solver for it all that more difficult - but that would mean one could no longer self-serve the JS+WASM and be done with it. I won't rule it out for FriendlyCaptcha v2 if this does ever become a real problem.

Swapping out the hash function should be easy (the puzzles are versioned to allow for this). If you have a different function in mind and someone implements it in Assemblyscript (so we also have a JS fallback) then we can definitely consider it.
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Could you share how this works, getting 3-4% owning a stablecoin? Are there any risks associated with this, or is it a viable alternative to money that would be in a savings account?
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Unfortunately the parent up there never mentioned the type of job or any other context to help us understand if dishonesty could be an issue in their actions. In my code example, definitely an issue. In DanBC's comment below RE: regulated professionals? Definitely an issue.

We all know there are bad or stupid rules out there. But honesty's not a rule, it's more of a moral principle. Gray areas for sure, but when dishonesty becomes a habit, or makes one lose trust, or actually breaks a rule meant to prevent an issue, it's a problem.
You're on a thread about a United States Senator, a Republican who is consistently measured as very far to the right in the US, and you keep bringing up things like "liberal" and "Democrats" and talking about Europe.

Your insistence on labeling behaviors using terms that don't apply in the context in which those behaviors are taking place seems unhelpful to me.

Again, this is about a Republican US Senator shouting at the CEO of Twitter, a US company. No Democrats were involved at all until you started talking about them.
But it's a fork. And what do you mean by 'requirements'? It's compatible. Forget it exists if you don't want it.
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Yes. In fact the thinking is that increasingly grid batteries will be sodium-ion, because weight is not that big of a deal. Additionally, we have enormous quantities of sodium available, which is why it's predicted to be significantly cheaper in a decade.
> It's now much easier to see my Google-related tabs and there is a decent consistency whereas before calendar, gmail, and drive looked totally different.

Sure, if "Google-related" is the meaningful category you're trying to distinguish from other tabs, rather than a particular task or application.

So, yes, branding-wise these logos all look related (inbred, even), but is that really the single most important quality for them to have? The outcome is that these logos aren't distinctive enough from each other, and have been abstracted to meaninglessness. A better balance between those two concerns could have been struck, primarily by relaxing the apparent constraint that every logo has to include every color.
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many scientific computing applications are considered to be bounded by io
Javascript numbers (as in JSON) can safely represent integers much higher than a 32 bit integer.
> web browser needs a rewrite with thin web specs

Flutter was started by Chrome engineers asking the question "what would the web look like if we could strip out all the things that makes it slow without worrying about breaking compatibility?"
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I'm curious if Facebook has done anything to fix this in the 3 years since this article.
Corrected headline: An employee at Sony says Flutter and Wayland is the best practice in embedded systems using Linux.
Why not jobs? I can certainly see a whole new cyber economy cropping up to cater to the whims of cyber denizens.
I've always been confused by the Clean Architecture and even somewhat dismissive, because the terms used are so "not Clean" (from my perspective biased towards startup/indie/freelance). Multitier Arch is already 10 times more appealing just by using more appropriate words.
> At least we know how to hobble the ME.

No, we just think we know how to hobble the ME.
Just change the name. It'll be easier and more cost effective in the long run.

I've started working with some software called STACK recently, and it's almost impossible to find anything by searching (go ahead and try!). If it was a commercial product they would be sunk.
Is just adding the attribute rel="nofollow ugc" to any links in submitted content may be good enough. This tells search engines to not index, or tag them as suspicious, allowing them them to identify SEO spam more easily. [1]

Having both options would be great.

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569
Instead of focusing on the person, maybe focus on the article? It seems to be well written and contains some valid points.
This whole "sites with UGC will have to shut down entirely rather than face liability for their actions" nonsense is tiring. Facebook and Google are not going to decide to simply shutdown their eleventy billion dollar businesses because they will need to occasionally employ lawyers to defend themselves from lawsuits.

We need to actually and actively stop pretending this talking point is a thing. Sure, they can threaten to leave Australia for regulating them (as they have recently done), but unless you think some of the most valuable companies on the planet are going to literally pack up and leave the US because they'll be subject to the law (like every other non-tech-company already is!), I have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.

Section 230 is a blanket immunity that allows Google, Facebook, and Twitter to avoid any sort of liability of any kinda for automated harms to society. That's it.

Sure, Section 230 technically applies to smaller websites, but it is effectively immaterial: Smaller websites and communities have reasonable, defensible human moderation activities. The United States court system is not some madhouse that you can exploit with bad code: It's built on firm pillars like intent and reasonableness. We have judges that rule on cases based on the facts of the specific issue in question, who are elected and accountable to the people.

Which is why, no, without 230, every website owner isn't suddenly going to jail because someone posted fraud. The intent isn't there. Intent is a crucial pillar of the law.

Meanwhile, Google and Facebook have harmful intent. Their intent is to raise engagement as much as possible, even if it radicalizes users, and causes actual harm to lives and liberty. Because at the end of the day, their moderation decisions are solely determined by profit. If it's not profitable to have adult content on the site because advertisers don't like it, adult content is banned. If it's very profitable to take political ads that claim falsehoods, you bet they're going to, because it makes them money. And if scammers and fraudsters pay top dollar for ad space, you know they'll be favored customers.

That is where Section 230 really applies: When bad people doing bad things can use it to hide behind any consideration of what they are doing. Section 230 doesn't defend tech companies, it dismisses all complaints against them, regardless of their merit.

Sure, it's going to cost Google and Facebook more to reckon with what they've done without immunity. So they really really want to keep that immunity. And they'll pay off every lobbyist, think tank, and so-called expert to tell you Section 230 is crucial to the Internet.

But when it's gone, they will suck it up and stay in business, because at the end of the day, they like money, and they'd still rather be in business even if it means they make a little less.
Decided to not renew my Spotify subscription. I know it doesn't matter but I think this is despicable. Facilitating someone who calls kids who were the victim of a mass shooting crisis actors and rants about the 'Jewish Mafia' and accuses Bill Gates of making people sick with vaccines during a pandemic, this isn't 'diversity of opinion'. It's just greed for clicks.
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Ask HN: How relevant is the technical work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb?
I am referring to his technical works like "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails" or his journal publications (the question is not about his books for the general public like Black Swan). Is his work relevant in any way to your daily work or to your field of research?
I was curious so I watched. It's a good video. I ended up going with the 3090 because of the extra vram and I'm familiar with CUDA but I'm not under the impression that this thing is a "Titan" even if it is all arbitrary corporate market segmentation. Relevant bit is at 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23GvbQfyLA&15m1s
> It is based heavily on inheritance and uses lots of memory allocation and virtual function calls.

Interesting - can you talk a little bit about why those specific design choices are questionable from a modern C++ POV? How would you do it differently, given the problem & domain PBRT covers?

I ask because my mental "sweet spot" in terms of understanding and writing C++ is approximately C++11. It's pretty easy for me to go into symbol shock when I see some of the latest stuff in C++17 and C++20... and I suspect I'm not the only person that happens to.
How about stuff like being able to select text in the UI? I tried a couple apps in https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ and none of the text was selectable like in web and desktop interfaces
She could forge a letter from the prosecutor saying that there was no need for an exam because the case was nolle prossed. The problem is when the forensic examiner sends in a bill, unless they are on a retainer and don't have to submit timesheets.

One issue not addressed is scale. Law doesn't scale. A prosecutor with more than 500 cases will have difficulty staying on top of them all; if you had to deal with Google or Twitter numbers (tens or hundreds of thousands) you wouldn't notice if a case disappeared off your docket.
No, because you keep comparing nonquestionable to nonquestionable or questionable to questionable.

Your point really isn't coming across well here.
Please stop posting this disinformation.
Let's see, who has been mixing up political positions and parties, shall we?

> I agree with the left on so many issues -- and have voted for them consistently for a few decades -- but I'm really disgusted at how they have become the party of censorship and limits on free speech. It's telling that they are now the party that is overly cozy with the largest, most-powerful companies on the planet.

See that? "the left" has "become the party" of things not actually evident. They are "the party" that is somehow cozy with Twitter, although again, I don't see how a Republican yelling at a company's CEO necessarily means the other party supports that company.
Depends on how tight the beam is and how high gain on the receiving antenna. For a point of reference: radio transmitter => light source, focused beam => light focused with a lens, antenna gain => strength of lens. If you have any questions, just visualize the system (or draw it out) as a series of light sources and light sensors. RF and light are both radiation and follow the Maxwell equations. (Optics are sometimes considered to have additional properties mostly due to limitations in our current understanding of certain RF spectrums, see terahertz bandgap but by and large they follow the same rules).
I don't use sketch, so I don't know anything about it. It's mac only and while i have an ipad pro and an iphone, I don't own a mac and dont want one, and thats a mac only app.

I'm not sure why sketch would have the restrictions they have except that forever supporting old formats might be more expensive than they could justify.
I agree those features are essential for an Xorg replacement, but you're missing the fact that the Wayland designers excluded them intentionally, so Wayland is intrinsically hostile to the features and the power-users that use them. See my comment at the top level of this thread.
Not sure if it's true, but SparkFun's platform still appears to require manual design, just it looks like their staff will do it for you. To test-drive it I selected an ESP32 with a humidity/temperature sensor, and it quoted a board cost of ~$35, with a one-time ~$1k design fee.

So presumably they give the component list to a real human who does the board layout for you.
It is one of those technologies that is very well hidden in effect behind Youtube's compression. Given how aggressive compression is on Youtube the gap in what it looks like in front of you verses on the tube has widened quite a bit. DLSS seems to be indistinguishable on Youtube but in front of you on a monitor it clearly introduces some odd artifacts and is not native looking. The gain in performance is usually worth it but its definitely not just magic free performance with no impact on image quality.
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