skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a huge, huge critic of Starlink. I think it's disastrous for the beauty of the night skies, while solving a problem "the long way around" unnecessarily. I am currently developing a glamping resort in a relatively remote part of an island in the Philippines. We have very little light pollution, giving us a gorgeous night sky view that is so rare to enjoy for people anymore.

At our place you can see the Milky Way on a clear night, it's amazing. I don't want his ejaculation of junk all over our beautiful night sky view. For internet? Guess what else we have in this remote, not wealthy part of the Philippines? A cell tower, a few hills away from us, newly installed. I get better data speeds there than I do in downtown Shanghai. You don't need satellites for good internet. Just run a cable out to where people are and put a tower.
Tiny helipads
Illustrator. I'd be surprised if bank notes aren't in a vector format
What about DoS? Surely the resilience of the live system to unauthorised or unintentional load on expected receiving channels is critical here too?
Thanks! Forgotten about that (I see that Jonathan Pryce is young, so my lapse is to be forgiven).

This was what I meant: http://www.27bslash6.com

He's well worth the read.
All mathematics is abstractions of addition.
The twitter example seems more like those Nobel prize winners that later reconvert to crackpots.

I definitely agree that conspiracy theorists reject authority and are contrarian, but most don't strike me as curious except for a superficial level.

That said, I would agree with the general idea that independent minded people can be less approachable, mainly due to the fact that they do not "need" anyone and people like to feel useful.

As for the list of things those people may or may not enjoy, the sheer amount of things polled and the small sample size give me doubts.
1) I guess you're saying "don't play this game"

2) That could be used quite easily if you're the guy in the shop and you encourage people to scratch right there in front of you. If it's one out of 20 you barely need any info to come up ahead, since the odds/payout is probably within a few % of breakeven and each card starts at 5% of the pack. One or two losers and the rest are worth +ve, alterntively a winner and the other 18/19 are worth even less -ve.
What the hell is that thing?! Is that normal in the US?
I'm pretty sure recatcha has a punitive/tarpit mode where it had already decided to reject you but just gives a series of slow tests which it will never pass you on anyway.
That sounds close enough that it would probably work just fine. I used my laptops on my terrace in winter, but as i never had any of them 'overcool' i never took note of the temperatire.
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I suspect there's no way to pass some of recaptcha's challenges, they appear to work like a tarpit.
I'm not sure what's supposed to be "new" about this theory. The idea that the ancient Church's prohibition on cousin marriage might have incented cooperation across clan lines is not novel in itself.
Yep, those hidden costs are a PITA, like...

Are you buying organic vegetables? You just voted for 80% more land use, 50% more emissions, more water, labour etc. And endogenous pesticides in your food which can't be washed off.
> they're considered trucks about as much as a catfish is considered a cat

Well yes, but someone without this knowledge will get confused.
Why would independed minded person necessary came to conclusion that loudly openly questioning authority is good idea, in situation in which it is predictable that it is going to lead to bad result?
If you bought a Core I7-990x in 2011 you got 6 cores at 3.47ghz. l3 cache of 12mb.

If you bought an average cpu last year it was 6 cores at 3.5ghz. l3 cache of 12mb.

The latest chips might have a couple more cores but also tend to be less frequency; or the 6 core is 4.1ghz. Instruction sets havent even changed much. The only thing that really made things faster got killed by Spectre. We really havent increased in speed over the last decade.

So what happened? Nothing, nobody noticed.
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ReCaptcha v3 is basically a means for Google to let the site owner take the blame for bad UX patterns while still getting browsing data from much of the web.
Governments worldwide are trying to attract remote workers
> Bryan Caplan in his book The Case Against Education suggests that employers value college degrees partly as a signal of conformism, and that that's the reason college is so hard to replace.

That is such an interesting book that I'm surprised there is any HN discussion about it.
I don’t think reCAPTCHA was designed to reinforce American culture. I think it was simply designed to make ML training sets for their other projects, and they neglected to make it accessible.
https://youtu.be/ySqEvijSDGE?t=229

In case anyone else is interested, that is from the PBS documentary "Triumph of the Nerds", an absolutely brilliant historical record of the personal computer.
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Like I said.
The phytoplankton of that time, is not the same phytoplancton we have today.

There are evolutionary drivers that push lifeforms towards efficiency.

A thick, protein rich, acid resistant shell is much more expensive, than a thin, calcium rich one.

Well... until the day a new outlier species comes along and turns back the clock by 3 million years, in 100.

To put that into perspective, it's like asking you on vacation to the bahamas giving 7 days to pack your stuff, and when the time to leave arrives I yell: "Surprise! We're actually going to siberia, time to pack your winter coat, the plane leaves in 20 SECONDS!"
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Perhaps you would enjoy the sequel, then: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
> To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already know.

To be a brilliant scientist - maybe.

To be a successful scientist - I think (unfortunately) the opposite.

If you rock the boat too hard - by challenging or contradicting other scientists' work, then you'll be gently rebuffed on technical grounds by the peer-review process, which will make it harder and slower to get funding, which means you spend more time stuck in bureaucracy than you do in science.

Publishing things that confirm the status quo is a much easier way to be successful as a scientist. Correctness is less important - many published papers are not 'correct'.

I doubt that the other examples (investors, startup founders, writers) are different in this respect.

It's easier to be successful by taking the obvious and safe path competently, rather than taking the very high risk of a completely novel path.
If someone from HCaptcha is reading this, can you please increase the size/highlight the words that we need to see.

For example, make the word(s) 'Car', 'Fire Hydrant' bigger in the sentence
My hands have historically never been happy doing fine motor work at those temperatures.

Even though I’ve acclimated to doing outdoor work in colder and wetter conditions, I’m having trouble believing people are actually working on their laptop while most of us would be wearing gloves.
Organic producers are not pesticide free, and some of the pesticides they apply are more harmful than modern pesticides used by non organic producers.

Most paper and cardboard is produced from managed forests, where the harvested trees make room for more trees, the forest isn't destroyed.
>Which GMO species are invasive?

Specifically - it is impossible to know until they play out in particular eco-systems, just like with any other species. There is a reason why many organizations worldwide are working to forbid transporting certain species in and out of different habitats.

Potentially - all of them.

>And how do you know which genetic coercion methods pose a greater danger of mutating a non-invasive species into an invasive one?

Most mutations are deadly to the organism... and even among those that are not, it is possible that something similar has happened before and the eco-system has dealt with it (by rendering the mutations harmful to the ecosystems ineffective)... and the range of what is produced, even with mutations is limited. Sometimes, the mutations are dangerous and effective... but they are much rarer to the point that we can ignore it. GMOs are combination of already "effective" traits by design a lot of these combinations would not have occurred before.

If taking a species to a different island where it is not native to is bad enough, creating specific ones which have never existed anywhere ever is a major ecological disaster waiting to happen. This should not even be a discussion... but it's a thing only because the organizations that are working to fix the problem of invasive species are not even close to powerful as those who want to push GMOs for profit... and therefore there is a lot of pro-GMO PR in the media.
For 99,99% of Linux programming io_uring and eBPF do not have a point and developers couldn't care less about them.
On a similar note: we rarely make use of abstractions that 'compile away', instead using abstractions that bring a runtime performance cost.

An example of this is declarative GUI design. It's a good design idea to use a declarative language for this, as it helps with GUI design tooling (drag-and-drop editors), and eliminates the bugs that could arise from doing the work 'by hand' in a programming language. Most solutions end up parsing XML (or something similar) at runtime, rather than compiling down to an optimised binary. It's possible to 'have it all', in this instance.
Looks like he sold Viaweb when he was about 34. Too early for you?
> You see this pattern with startup founders too. You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it. You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know isn't

I immediately thought of Drew DeVault's initiatives...
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Currently a software engineer.

But entrepreneur at heart (as well as in the past and future).
I rented a car there and I was amazed at how much text there was, instead of symbols. Eg they have signs in turning lanes that say "Right lane must turn right". By the time you've read that, you've turned right.
I have a p30 Pro and have problems updating ota on mobile data.
Oh, this reminds me of the Radiolab episode about cosmic rays from last year. Fascinating story!

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-f...
A starter no-brand beige box was always cheaper. And iirc, for a long time you couldn’t get an el-cheapo monochrome monitor for the Amiga - only color or TV, which was ok for the C64-upgraders but not for the PC competition.
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Just annoyed that everytime a big SV CEO is interviewed no journalist asks questions about Captcha/blind-support. They seem to get lost in asking about quantum computing or future of AI...
You seem to be operating on the assumption that I don't know how stock valuations work. I promise I do. My argument was moral, not economic.

I don't actually care about Amazon's stock value. I care that Amazon does not pay its workers enough to have a reasonable standard of living. If it's to be a bridge job to something better, the argument usually made for why retail/fast food pays poorly, they should make enough to actually do that.

They do not.
Certain static analysis is out of the question for sure. You absolutely need a more powerful computer for that, or rather you need more memory.
Start with assumptions, and try modeling them. For example, my brother and I had a similar question so we wrote an extremely simple actor model in Python. Then we started adding more and more rules to the model until various metrics we were watching matched reality.

From there, it was a matter of adding/changing rules to match what desired and seeing the outcome.
Now think about money as a metric for human prosperity. Which creatures really roam the markets and where is mankind's place there? Is any dynamic stability of intrinsic value to us? (Not trying to be edgy, or deep, I just think those are the questions indeed usually not answered by free market enthusiasts.)
It might be worth noting that your Grayscale equation is the Y value in the YIQ colorspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIQ#From_RGB_to_YIQ -- a technique similar to using the lightness value in EG HSL for picking a foreground or background color (similar to what the article does here: http://notes.neeasade.net/color-spaces.html#h-cb3c6479-7d62-...).

(I'm the author of the article)
Precise maps of millions of bright quasars show our place in the cosmos
Like many of PG’s essays about psychology or society, the problem is that this essay is basically an aphorism or a self-help book: there’s no logic here, no citations, no connection to facts. It’s just a bunch of feel-good BS for libertarian-minded tech workers. I get the impression that the length is (at least unconsciously) making up for the absence of rigor.

A few paragraphs of “stuff that has no real argument but basically sounds right to PG” is a fine short essay as a “maninfesto of independent thought”.

But when the essay is full of detailed “analysis” of “facts” such as “it seems that independent thought is a matter of nature rather than nurture,” then PG is just wasting his readers’ time. This essay is a genuine clunker.
No big deal, just head over to the caviar bar. They still serve champagne too.
hCaptcha team here - thanks for the feedback, we'll look into this!
> You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it

Which would show you that there is a market with customers. Now the question is, can you find a niche in that market and do you have enough to separate yourself from the competitors, also is it possible to attract attention to your product or is the market already saturated. No need to invent something totally new, it's fine to improve enough to make the pain to switch to your product worthwhile.
It might be the same, but it is way more subtle:

"What's Work Insights?
Work Insights is a reporting tool for G Suite that gives you insights into the impact of your G Suite deployment. Using easy-to-read charts, you can see metrics on your organization's G Suite adoption, productivity, and collaboration."

So they are putting "productivity" there between "adoption" and "collaboration". This tells me that it is selling usage metrics which might be the same thing, but I don't see an aggregate score per employee named "productivity xxx" which is the big issue with MS product.

Also google's metrics are anonymous (see "Work Insights and user trust"). This seems to be a big difference.

Looking at metrics is fine. You need to know how the tools you are paying for are used. Grading employees according to those metrics is bad.
I don't think there is a need for "thinking for yourself" for those to whom it doesn't come naturally.

I believe that the human population produces certain number of people with contrarian attitudes as a defense against too much conformity, which can trap the population in local maximas or even wipe it out of existence if it fails to adapt to the changes. When the natural environment is changing, there is a bigger need for contrarians because there is a possibility that the changed environment is detrimental to the population or there could be better opportunities because of the changes to the environment. However, in stable times, contrarians are a nuisance or even a threat to the stability of the society. It's much more valuable most of the time for most of the people to do what you know and keep it at that.

As a contrarian, I am fortunate enough to be in the current time and place where I'm less likely to be executed for my "wrong" views because some of it is applied in places where it is very useful and I'm a net benefit to the society. If and when things become stable again, our kind will be silenced and curbed.

I would want to have a future where it is understood that the human population is bigger than the individual... and these variations exist because it is beneficial to the the population in the long term... and these differences should be celebrated... but maybe the effort required to maintain this understanding in the population is not worth it overall over getting rid of us by silencing or executing us. So, my kind will make do by understanding that this is happening and learn to shut up and stay low until when things change and we're needed again.
> Everything you buy comes with a hidden cost which outweighs the monetary cost by several orders of magnitude.

Unless you buy your stuff in a specialized store e.g. a zero packaging store. Even when you buy stuff in a normal store, if it says 100% recycling paper and has a high price tag, you can assume it doesn't involve deforestation and probably not everybody in the supply chain has been screwed over.

I won't argue that everyone has to buy all things in specialized organic stores because the effort would be unreasonable. But everyone with a high salary should have a bias towards things with the higher price tags from relatable brands/producers.
Just a small feedback: I scrolled through 3/4 of the page and still have no clue what is the product. An integration to other apps? A twitter bot? A separate app like Anki? A website version of Anki?
As listed by others, popular crossing types in this group (the UK has a set of rules for how this should work and then local government can do paperwork to get something else appropriate if none of the existing designs are suitable)

Zebra has striped road markings, with flashing yellow marker lights so that vehicle users have plenty of advance warning of the crossing. Pedestrians have right of way on these crossings at all times, other road users should slow until they can discern whether any pedestrians are trying to cross and if necessary stop.

Pelican is an older design, though still used in new crossings in London and some other places. The pedestrians controls are in a box at hand height but the signals are on the far side of the crossing. These trigger road signals in a pattern with an extra flashing amber phase meaning "road vehicles may cross only if there are no pedestrians using the crossing".

Puffin is a replacement for Pelican with two innovations. Firstly the pedestrian signals are with your controls on your side of the road and they're placed so that to face towards them you're also facing oncoming traffic (this will most often be the right side of the crossing since the British drive on the left, but not in every situation). Secondly there is no flashing amber phase, the Puffin has infrared detectors so it can discern whether pedestrians are still on the crossing and extend the red phase slightly if they are.

The Toucan and Pegasus mentioned elsewhere are variants of Puffin rather than Pelican.
My lead would have a conniption if I ever did that.
Mémoire morte is for PROM onboard chips in practice where you find bios, firmwares these kind of things. Mémoire de masse would include optical discs, storage in general. I'd say CDs are generally thought of as storage and are interchangeable and you need a CD drive/player to read them, not directly.
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To me it seems like this is also a very US American thing. In Germany for instance it is common, even for the most tabloid papers to never publish full last names or clear pictures. Most of the time in pictures faces are made blurry etc.
I am not downvoting, but i feel it misses the point - if you are managing, your enture career is built on soft skills, they are usually in better shape than some random developer eho 'doesnt like social gatherings' or whatever.
They're just forcing Amazon to invest more in automation. It's not going to go their way, not in the long term.
YES! Ambient lighting and the viewing environment are hard things to take into account.

Thanks for the links, interesting discussion to follow up on
Would you prefer that successful people keep their ideas about how to be successful to themselves? That doesn't seem very equitable ;o
So with a minor assurance that I'm not criticizing you for doing so, are you using "large ideas" to mean "things that are interesting, but have very little practical application"?

I ask because it changes my answer depending on whether the sample question is representative and how you are thinking about it, either as an author imagining an ideal situation or as a political theorist trying to understand human behavior of as a political reformer writing out a five year plan.

The issue being that politics is a team sport, and it doesn't really matter what you think is the most ideal system so much as what 100m people will agree to.

(Which isn't to say I have a problem with thinking about the ideal situations which have no chance of being implemented; I spent far too much time yesterday coming up with a proposal to redefine the foot-pound-second units as 1 second = 9.5x10^9 caesium-133 oscillations, c = 1 billion feet per second, and 1 pound = mass of 10^25 atoms of Si-28.)
Keeping quiet about things only helps so much. People can feel if you question them or not. I mean, there are two workers, A is always excited about everything his manager suggest and do while B mostly keeps his thoughts to himself. Who is more likely to get promoted?
This is happening to me right now!

I just took edibles daily for ~5 weeks. I haven't taken them for ~1.5 weeks and my perception has completely changed. They pulled me out of my head and thoughts, I am now much more aware of my body sensations and visually aware of the things around me, colors, angles, layouts. It feels like a completely different world.

In my early 20's I had similar experience that I would have absolutely described has hppd. I smoked heavily for ~6 months and when I stopped it was so unsettling and caused me extreme anxiety and mental anguish; my visual perception of the world was completely different. There was a 'before' and 'after' perception and my mind couldn't accept it. I had crippling anxiety, would avoid people, couldn't hold a job, would have panic attacks and believed I was going crazy. It was literally hell.
Fan of PG's work. Question from me would be, were these the values he attributes to his business success, or discoveries after enlightenment and actualization?

Follow up essays, "how to prevail on others when you've thought for yourself," and "how to leverage other thinkers who just don't fit," would be extra interesting.

There is a significant element of "Foxes and Hedgehogs," in this, and what I talk about to business clients as "indoors cats and outdoors cats," as well.

I like that this essay brings to mind what it means to "en-courage," or to give courage-to someone. It's not flattery or justification, it is meant to genuinely imbue people with courage.
They could easily make that point by commenting right?