skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer I'd happy LG Gram style MacBook Air with 16-17" screen that also bumps resolution a bit. Going from 15 to 16 inches made not much practical difference in terms of fitting more info on screen, it just made existing stuff larger.

I don't have a need for huge compute power, but I do want a large screen as I don't like using external screens...
Yes, American fire hydrants are very different from NZ ones too. Ours are under a yellow steel panel flush with the ground, so not something self-driving cars need to identify.
> inevitable

One of the greatest PR successes of the modern era has been the effort to convince the masses that an unacceptable relationship between labor and the owners of capital is inevitable.

It is not. As should be no surprise to anyone with a knowledge of history the inherent tension between these two groups has formed the basis for nearly all political competition.

When confronted with an example of that conflict persisting, such as today’s labor action described in the article, it’s not particularly good analysis to assume away the basic premise of what’s happening in step one.
A good majority of HNers may also be Redditors.
That might depend on what 'truck' means to you! Is it equivalent to the British 'lorry', or does it include pickup trucks? I'm Australian, and for me 'truck' means 'lorry', pickups are a kind of ute, utes are a kind of car, and so trucks and cars are clearly distinct. (QED!) There seems to be endless room for cross-cultural ambiguity here though.
It's explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG6O4N3wxf8
Multiline fixed string search and replace with CLI tools
Gävle Goat
My risk vector isn't someone breaking in.

It's whether insurance pay out.
Then what prevents the app from being the path, in either/both directions? Reporting on the activities of the devices it can see, as well as sending firmware updates to them?

Your printer gets firmware updates from HP, whenever HP wants, right past all your firewalls and vlans and non-routable subnets, in the form of print jobs from your pc.
So we have "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans", "uBlock Origin" and what is the last one?
> low quality lookalikes

and if the low quality is really as low quality as claimed, consumer would stop buying it. But if the "low" quality is actually great quality/good value for money, then consumers will buy it - regardless of the naming. Using law to prevent competition is worse for the consumer.
Puzzled by this. France is exactly the country most people would think of an an example of the effectiveness of collective bargaining and unionisation for shorter working hours and better working conditions (and maybe the Nordics too).

Check out the hours worked per worker, for one. Working hours per year are a lot shorter and French people enjoy much greater leisure time and quality of life as a consequence.
Wasn’t there a story about Steam’s culture, a few years ago?

I seem to remember a quote about Gabe Newell, and how he actually was very much in charge, despite there being no managers.

I have no real feedback on whether or not this structure is effective. I was a manager for a long time, and hated it. I would have much rather been an engineer; but that is probably more a reflection on me, than the practice of Management.
Surely the problem isn't that a specific AWS region is down but that the developers put all their eggs in that basket?
Add variables to Python traceback
Is it? Controversial opinions are downvoted here, too. The Overton window is real.
Like they are not familiar with overcomplicating things that should be simple, just for their own weird large scale performance benefit that applies to them only. Maybe a few other huge companies in the world.
In current times Uber (and similar) are getting much more popular than taxis.
The thing is that "probably" is the entire issue. You might just be training an AI that "truck" is a specific thing in the USA and something else where you happen to live ... or you might also be trying to guess what Google already thinks a "truck" is.

The stakes might be low (you get presented with another captcha) or astronomical (you get your account locked or something). There is literally no way to know with Google, it's a complete black box.
Which Optical Illusions Can Animals See?
Doing that tends to make stuff worse. I've lived in countries where I don't speak the local language and despite everything being configured to use English, via IP detection some sites decide to just show me content in the local language when I'm trying to log in. Paypal is notorious for this.
ZIP codes are American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code

NZ has postcodes, and they're 4 digits, which confuses some websites.

Yes, the dates are ridiculous. I've had to use an online assessment system with hard-coded backwards American due date formatting that I have to warn students about. The vendor just shrugged.
It's probably the most chaotic and unconvincing text I've read this week. Decidedly not on the same level as the famous article it aimed to demolish.
UK to impose new rules to limit tech giants' power
They could just ask to decypher one of those parking signs as well: http://www.polisassist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/confus...
Those aren't anything like the sort of questions involved in IQ tests. IQ tests rarely involve words at all, usually a series of geometric shapes where you're supposed to pick the next one.
I would agree with that if this was a "explain how we fixed X" style of blog post. It instead starts/reads like a general problem domain informative post, but then it only proposes their solution. If the title was e.g. "How Boomla fixes the database/filesystem problem" or similar that'd be more fair.
Yep, I was about to post this myself.

Another time I referenced his post I added some ideas of my own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250051

Edit: the site search (which is really fast and good!) tells me I have commented about this a number of times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Summary: I hope someone can build a browser that

- looks for well-formed pure documents, render them blazingly fast

- falls back to another engine for old-fashioned web pages

- alternatively there can be something in between that uses preapproved js packages to add some improvements like autocomplete.

Make this work, get Wikipedia and a couple of others to optimize their pages for it and maybe we manage to turn the web around again :-)
"Pedestrian crossing" in NZ. Or just "crossing", if the context is clear.
CAPTCHAs being american-centric, ableist, etc are all valid criticisms here, but I think people in tech fail to understand the value of them.

Being "robot-friendly" still doesn't mean it's a walk in the park, and it's a hurdle that spammers will have to account for. If your site is a low value target or the spamming in general is low-value, it's often effective. Running any sort of small time open to the internet blog or forum will make the value of CAPTCHAs abundantly clear. The issue here is being inclusive to people, not making them "work" against robots.
Try paid membership forums. People tend to behave better, and have an interest in keeping the community in order, when they spend money.
Nonsense. I've never been to America but never had a problem recognizing any object on a captcha (except some indistinguishable letters on letter-based captchas occasionally). Everything is obvious even if it looks somewhat different from its European counterpart.

I don't know how much exactly is a nickel or a dime but it's obvious to me these are coins.

Everybody I know (and most of them have never been to America) is Ok with these American captchas too.

The only problems with captchas are they spy on you (Google doesn't actually check if you are a human, it checks which particular human you are) and annoy you.
Well to start he didn't write "style" on the video screenshot preview, he just wrote Grana Padano.
Also he could have made a video generically called "How to make parmesan style cheese" but he decided instead to use the very specific protected product Grana Padano.
To me it doesn't seem fair use and there is a monetary incentive for the youtuber to use the term Grana Padano to have more views and/or get paid more by Youtube for views.
(further to this, I realised earlier that it got better again in Xcode 11 - it no longer double-indents wrapped lines)
Probably not, as statistically your answers are filtered out as noise. Remember, hundreds of people were getting the same images.
Зебра (zebra) in Russian too, especially if you're referring to the road markings themselves.

I find recaptchas downright humiliating. I think twice before completing one — is whatever it grants access to worth it?
The Amiga lost the war for completely different reasons. The competition at the time was MS-DOS 4 or 5, windows 2 (and 3.0) were still a toy — and they had compatibility problems.

BeOS had no chance to be evaluated on its own merits because by that time Microsoft had already applied anticompetitive and illegal leverage on PC vendors - for which they were convicted and paid a hefty fine (which was likely a calculated and very successful investment, all things considered).

The Amiga wasn’t even expensive for what it gave: it was significantly cheaper than a PC or Mac with comparable performance, and even had decently fast PC emulation and ran Mac software faster than the Mac.

It did not have a cheap “entry level” model, though, which was one big problem. The other (not unrelated) problem was incredible incompetence among Commodore management.
That's a very nice idea for casual learning/low number of items to remember.

Edit: Just installed it and the first thing it asks me to login. Sorry, no way. Learn from Momentum how to do it the proper way.
You talk at length about the 'cheese' part of the issue, but there is also the 'free speech' part. Do you think a brand of cheese can be so special as to justify censuring speech?
It's an argument against US cultural imperialism using a more benign example (US-centric captchas) than the politically charged ones we tend to see cropping up a lot.
A minimum wage as currently practiced redistributes money from capital owners to labor.

If you assume that the market clearing price for non-minimum wage labor is set, as all market prices are set, by the interaction of a supply and demand curve, then it becomes clearer that there’s no mechanism by which the redistribution from one worker to another would happen.
I would like to hear more about this. I'm not an expert or programmer, just a user.
Thanks
I have no doubt you can get information that drastically increases your odds.

A long time ago, I worked for a retailer who sold lottery tickets. In order to sell tickets, I had to attend a government training session, at the actual government lottery center, which educated me on the different games and how they worked. It was probably the most interesting thing about the retail job.

The people doing the training were the ones that either designed or managed the games and payouts. Some were near the end of the their career and were happy to share the history of the games and the ups and downs of managing them.

I distinctly remember a couple tidbits where even my teenage mind went "well that's pretty relevant information to someone looking to game the lottery".

1. There was one game where the gov't actually decided to end the lottery because nobody ever won. The number of digits, the total possibilities and the number of people who actually bought tickets meant nobody ever won. So the gov't shut it down, but then players complained that they loved the game so much, so they started it back up. Still nobody won.

2. Scratch off tickets were sold in foil sealed packets of 20 tickets. The trainer dropped that there was always one winning ticket per pack, and only one. I had assumed that winning tickets were randomly distributed - some packets might have none, some might have 2 or 3. Nope, just one per packet. Now as the person selling the tickets, that's kind of important. I never mustered the energy to actually pursue it, but you could imagine how that could drastically increase your odds of a winning ticket.
With a finite range, you can bisect directly by splitting in the middle of the range.

With infinite ranges, you can't do that; so the usual way is to start with a small number and increase exponentially until you find a number that is too large; which is what is done here. When you got that number, it becomes the upper bound of a finite interval.

So that's a two step process, which we can see here. The first 32 is in the exponential growth step (so is 64), and the second one is in the bisect step.

This will always happen exactly once (unless the expected result is 0) and for only the first pivot in the bisect, so it's not that bad; but indeed, they could get rid of it by bisecting on [1/n; n] instead of [0; n], as they already know that 1/n (and numbers lower than 1/n) isn't a valid candidate from the first step.
One thing to remember though, is that the M1 chip is super optimized for macOS and perhaps these optimizations do not make it the best fit for any other os:

According to John Gruber:

> retaining and releasing NSObjects is so common on MacOS (and iOS), that making it 5 times faster on Apple Silicon than on Intel has profound implications on everything from performance to battery life.

https://daringfireball.net/2020/11/the_m1_macs

https://www.singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-black-magic/
Thanks!
I will try to make adjustments to the copy
oh yeah, those are so annoying.
Paypal forever shuffling that stupid credit card button of theirs in place of the 'pay now'. What the hell, don't they have enough money they dont have to use dodgy tactics to get me to sign up to a credit card of theirs.
I don't know about a lunar mission, but for the deep space probes, you need a global array of 70m dishes, and the knowledge of exactly where to point them, before you can even have a chance of communicating.

Honestly, I'd be extremely impressed if hackers managed to issue a command to a spacecraft.

Some hobbyists tried to salvage an old NASA probe (with NASA approval): http://spacecollege.org/isee3/ and they were able to fire thrusters once.
It's a joke based on how, for executives of public companies, it's sometimes easier to get charged with that instead of something more concrete.

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
Yes, but those limits are part of certification processes like those done by companies like https://www.highintegritysystems.com.

Usually playing with numbers in these kind of deployments isn't part of the package.
As a leftist with anarchist leanings, I have thought for a long time about the purpose of social hierarchies in humans. It is clear that humans have deference to authority as one of universal values, why is that?

There is a sort of standard ("right-wing", "evolutionary") explanation that argues that social hierarchies are of biological nature, similar to hierarchies in some species, they are related to sexual selection and simply somebody has to be an "alpha". Ultimately, I rejected this explanation because I think the evidence for it is contested. Some humans are actively willing to submit, it's not just the threat of violence that causes them to do so, and the deference to authority is not always sexual in humans. It seems that not all hierarchies are simply a struggle for power, although arguably in large-scale human groups, it often becomes the case.

Currently, my favorite explanation of authority as a natural human value comes from the idea that the authorities represent "institutional memory" of the particular human group. So for example, the first authority you meet, your parents, exists to give you knowledge and experience of their life, so you wouldn't learn from zero as a child. Similar goes for the social group as a whole, the authorities in the group (typically the elders) are the people who lean conservative, and make sure that lessons of the past are remembered by the group.

Given this explanation for the role of social hierarchies and authority, I am not sure what replaces this "institutional memory" in "leaderless" organizations. If nothing replaces it, it must become inefficient eventually by repeating past mistakes. Or the leaderlessness might be short-lived and the authority which holds the institutional memory will appear.

However, I agree that in modern large companies, the management is often turned over much more frequently than some employees. This, assuming the actual role of hierarchy in human groups is to gatekeep institutional memory, would explain why some conclude that management is useless. But it is not clear whether going further and entirely removing it is going to be better.
> Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.

Come on, the Internet is vast, of course there are many communities like this one. But most people in those communities, like myself, do not advertise them. We do not want them ruined. You find them either by chance, or by invitation.
"Sometime before 7", yes.
A. I don't care

B. I pay for things that are actually good. With news it's mostly network effects, which is worth circumventing but not worth losing money over.
Don't they sell ads in the web UI like many other free email providers do?
It is unacceptable to try to track someone down about money through their parents.

You are conflating this with that other conversation you keep trying to force happen.

This conversation has nothing to do with mirroring tech leadership or personally identifying with employers. I am not an employee anywhere and you failed to predict what I do as well. Moving on before your next ad hominem finishes rendering, they could consider using states and game combinations where anonymity of winners is protected and maybe they already are. There is an argument to be had about anonymous winners.
> Typed intermediate language. GHC has always used a statically typed intermediate language, one of very few production compilers to do so. (Maybe even the only one.) Let's keep that property. Richard's thesis makes it clear that doing so is not straightforward.

-- Simon PJ (https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/378#issu...)

So it looks like it's rare to even have a typed intermediate language, let alone one whose structure forces it to be well typed. The latter would require some sort of dependent types.
Maybe try Swedx [0]. I dont know how good their TV's are but I know they have some dumb one available and should ship to more locations.

[0]https://www.swedx.se
SponsorBlock?
Doesn't sound like IQ tests at all.
Minor nitpick: The Amiga had preemptive multitasking (and thus didn't depend on user code to willingly give up their time slice, in that regard it was more like UNIX, and unlike early Windows and MacOS versions).
The article linked here is talking about using gene-editing to create a kombucha culture that can produce it too.
Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070114082053/http://www.theope...

It actually refers back to the Joel on Software blog post in the comment above.
Most people will still continue to believe in the myth of Swiss “neutrality.”
See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/User-contributed-template... for more
I like the Pegasus crossing. It has an even higher button that can be used by horse riders without dismounting.
Adding insult to injury, it seems pretty easy to write a quick image filter + path finding algo to solve these... as apparently all the walls have solid borders, while none of the walkable paths have them. So a targeted bot should have a much easier time solving these than a human.
Please don't use "the consumer will stop buying it" type arguments, there are so many examples in real life where you can see trash will absolutely be bought (mostly by people that don't know the world could be not trash). It is a bad faith argument.
Yes, there are _many_ private subreddits with high quality content.
Clojure Babashka scripting notebook
Why do you think so? My language sets, which I study every day, contain over 3000 different flashcards.
“Identify free healthcare”
And also they are optimizing for TP while ignoring the FN. Is it possible that some of the candidates they rejected could have been interviewed by other interviewers and made it to offer stage?

It probably doesn't matter to them as long as they get their positions filled, but its prolonging their hiring.
They do not ask the same questions since the beginning. At first, CAPCTHA has been used to make old books digitally accessible, which meant that you solved those potato quality scans of old books. When bots became advanced enough, reCAPTCHA was used to improve Google Maps by reading house numbers on poor quality cropped street view images.

Then the zeroCAPTCHA became a thing, which turned out to be even more annoying than others if you slightly cared about your privacy (meaning you at least installed an abblocken) and faced those multi-stages challenges. By looking at those challenges I think it is pretty obvious what CAPTCHA is used for nowadays, for training a recognition model for a self driving vehicle.
I believe in some environments (when you have designs already) building off normalize+react-aria(for logic) and thought-out architecture could be as productive as tailwind, especially if you already have some helper functions on-hand. For me, storing mixins for common behaviours inside theme allows to construct lightweight variations where I need them, and you can dynamically modify it in react.
I used to work for a Japanese company, and a big part of the corporate culture was “Don’t complain, unless you also have a solution.”

This was basically a way to shut people up, and prevent feedback.

It also resulted in really unsatisfactory, badly-thought-out “solutions.”

"There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong."

"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake."

—H. L. Mencken
Interesting enough to dox them?
Most probably all these names just indicate market day...
As far as I can tell the Air and Pro get basically the same performance for the first 10 minutes. After that the Air will throttle. There is no task I would do that will max out the CPU for 10+ minutes so I don't see any reason to spend the extra for a slightly brighter (but otherwise the same) screen and two more hours of battery life (18 vs 20).
Obviously, this is the result of the tyranny we get when we have a lawyer run IP protection program. They serve to protect, but the results of their activity is to bury all interest and knowledge of the IP they protect. I suspect that most of the Italian Grana Padano cheese makers are perfectly fine with the video this guy published, even glad for the interest he has in their product.

I love the t-shirt, btw
Your work's much appreciated, DanG, thanks.
Don't get me started on how infuriating Google's ReCaptchas are on Tor Browser.

Buster captcha solver fails immediately. And when you do actually manually solve the captcha correctly, sometimes Google still thinks you're a robot.

And sometimes it asks me to select all "bicycles" in the images and there are NO GODDAMN BICYCLES in any of the images whatsover. So I hit Skip and eventually google thinks I'm a robot.

Everybody please either switch to hcaptcha or..., although I've not seen a website use this yet, upgrade to ReCaptcha v3 maybe?

I read somewhere that ReCaptcha v3 is far less annoying than v2? Is that true?
If you take good enough or enough separate measurements it gets challenging to game it. Its like a delivery guy gaming his route planner.

I wonder if MS employees are sufficiently encouraged to game it.