skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget adding more draconian identity requirements. 95% of CAPTCHA use is simply unnecessary and could be straightforwardly removed or replaced with rate limiting login attempts per IP. Never mind sites that use it to prevent scraping. If serving static pages is that much of a burden that you want to discourage automated means of retrieving information that you're trying to publish, then work on your website performance instead of adding more user-hostile roadblocks.
I think we've been repeatedly shown that people don't care. From Cambridge Analytica, to what Snowden shared, to voice-based assistants (like Amazon Alexa), every instance is met with feigned surprise and then a collective shoulder shrug.

> Even for you, do you think you fully understand how your data is being utilised and what the consequences are?

I don't think anyone can say with certainty, but I read these threads so I'm quite aware they're collecting and monetizing every imaginable thing they can. It's difficult to articulate any measurable / real negative consequences to me, personally.
> implies that they've acquired some new power to read user data when in reality

They have added this power to read user data when you report it. All of which I have included in the title.

>for the obvious reason that reporting a user would be meaningless without that.

This is a change from past behavior. WhatsApp didn't forward a copy of messages when you reported people previously. Now they do. Which is what I clearly mentioned in the title. This meaningless way of reporting people was what users were used to.

None of the comments commenting about click-bait are mentioning what is factually wrong with the title. They are just saying they understood it different, which is okay.
Regardless of whether the collection of the data was incidental or not, this is a huge breach of public trust given the assurances made by the Australian government.

For shame.
There are some chicken-and-egg problems buried in there.

Are people more fat today because they are less active, or are they less active because they are fatter? After all, it is no joy to move around with 30 or 50 lbs of extra fat. There seems to be a vicious cycle at work.

"Calories in/calories out is the only way that the human body can change mass"

True, but unproductive when it comes to understanding the phenomenon of rising obesity. WHY people consume more calories? What drives them? This is not a trivial question and without being fairly sure about the answer, we will not solve the situation.

An analogy: the only way that humans become alcoholics is by drinking a lot of alcohol. But that does not explain root causes of alcoholism, it is only a relatively trivial observation of the proximate cause. The reasons why some people can't keep their alcohol intake within harmless amounts and slide all the way to the bottom are anything but trivial.
Is there any language 20+ years old without cruft?
I walk past PETA’s west coast headquarters in Los Angeles every week, and they have inset windows behind a small ledge that’s raised from the street and protected from the weather [1]. They have the raised metal studs near the edge of the ledge, which are called “skateboard deterrents” [2], but given that the ledge is a couple inches high and unsuitable for any sort of grind trick, the purpose is clearly to prevent the homeless from sleeping on the ledge comfortably. My take on the vegan debate is that people who do it are making a good choice both practically and morally, and I wish I had the willpower to make it, and I also understand that PETA represents a very specific brand of veganism and animal welfare, but I always feel pretty sad when I see that PETA building and its unethical treatment of humans.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/iDZ2TZV4o12DiKtL8

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/how-cit...
Money. Lack of alternatives.

Cheaper than GCP. Still less crappy than Azure.
Understandable - thank you for the explanation.
Ultimate trebuchet!
Sounds fun, also only the name factor made me click this post, it's eccentrical.
Read the Source Code of Linux Shell Commands
hCaptcha is more focused on technical solutions to privacy that minimize required trust. A privacy policy is one thing, but a mathematical guarantee is quite another.

We are working through the IETF and directly with browser makers to support provably private options like Privacy Pass, and are currently the only CAPTCHA service to support this.

Similarly, on the enterprise side we offer various technical options to let our enterprise customers guarantee exactly what data we can and cannot see.

(disclaimer: work there, comments not official, etc.)
In this case you’re right. I really doubt someone is probing the RCPT TO response to decide if a server is legit or not!

Certainly there are protocols where you might be required to accept an option or configuration value you can’t implement and so simply discard it. Perhaps some QoS request for example. Or termcap info for cursor movement when all you do is act like you’re talking to a printing terminal.
Oof, energy input is 1.8 MJ, output is 100 kJ. That's still a ratio of energy in/out of 0.05.
i.MX8 requires blobs for HDMI. The controller will only load an NXP signed blob. No blob, no HDMI (or displayport).

https://forums.puri.sm/t/the-i-mx8-cannot-be-deblobbed-nxp-s...
Walter Isaacson Likens Bezos to Einstein and Jobs
> "In reality, employers report difficulty hiring because the wages they offer don’t match the skills they’re after, she says"

I can't imagine that someone whose sole credential in software engineering is a three month course is going to be offered any amount that is too low for their current skill level. You are basically hiring someone to train on the job. That can work out well for both parties, but imagining that 3 months of training makes you worth $100k per year is delusional.
> I'm simply stating that raising them to eat is better than just gassing them immediately.

On what basis, though? From a humane perspective, the quicker you kill a chicken the less suffering it does, and it's not like the culled chicks are ultimately wasted.
I am unemployed but very interested in this field...

Can I get a demo unit? (Ill return it to you, but I want to to do a noob-unboxing-to-functional-use in a documented session... Can we arrange this? (its a good use of my pandameic time))
OP here, and full disclosure I work with the hCaptcha team. Yep, Cloudflare is a big part of this, but you'll find our enterprise offering (BotStop.com) running on many many other large sites and apps. If you've used the internet in 2020, you almost certainly interacted with our products :)
Your CAPTCHA accessibility leaves much to be desired. You require screen reader users to register an account to create a magic cookie that itself requires Safari users to disable security protections in their browser in order to use -- and then it doesn't actually work.

Please do better. You're blocking off a non-trivial amount of the Internet to blind users. You will eventually be sued for this.
We ripped open the walls. This was done in the context of a larger remodel and then a rebuild of the back of the house after a fire.
you compare stats, but there is an immeasurable dimension: heart.
I liked the conclusion of this piece -- looking at the total impact of your actions is what's key:

"“If you don't want to make this a side hobby and you're willing to spend some money to address your impact, ask yourself, ‘How can I make the biggest systemic difference? How can I invest in social or political or policy change?’” he said. “What you should brag about is not that you're carbon neutral. You should say, ‘I donated $100 to something I believe in.’”

After all, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to take responsibility for your emissions, but climate change is a system-wide problem that requires system-wide changes. And there is more than one way to be a part of that change—whether or not you get a certificate for your contribution."
I was in a medium sized city with college and engineering firms. I've moved to a major metro for my first job and then several times since for my partner, to non-tech heavy cities as their career is more specialized and isn't available everywhere.

Current city has repressed wages across the board. It's a place with a "low cost of living" and several universities that pump out local students who want to stay here at any cost and a very healthy foreign worker scene.

Currently, I'm willing to move.
How was it to move (or find) the cursor?

(I kid, I kid)
> 8K video decode isn't very useful when you can barely drive an 8K display, and certainly not for the average consumer.

You are talking in circles. This same exact hardware is used to decode lower resolution video. Benefits reach down to 6k, 4k, 2k, 1080p, 720p, etc etc. Any encoding you do.

> The correct comparison would be with the 7nm or imminent 5nm Renoir APUs that have accelerated decode on an actually good process. Which is what you should compare M1 against, anyway.

How exactly do you compare an unreleased product to an actual shipping one? Do we go to the land of hypothetical benchmarks where you just make up numbers for the unshipped product?

> And AMD does have high efficiency accelerated video decode on their laptop chips, and it also even supports 8K decoding, though it's almost useless.

Please share some details on these AMD based $699 systems which can edit 8k video. No-one is claiming you can't edit 8k video on other systems. The entire point is that you can do this on the cheapest system in Apple's lineup.
Honestly, only tangentially (at best). Nitrogen is fundamentally an Erlang web framework, however the OTP skills learned should be universal. but we don't dive too deeply into OTP. We introduce gen_servers and supervisors and leave it at that. Most of the book is spent with the specifics of Nitrogen.

That said, the demos[1] on the Nitrogen homepage can give you a pretty good sampling of how the framework works.

[1] http://nitrogenproject.com/demos
Same story in ECS. Seems like virtually anything Fargate can't spawn new instances.
Do we know the progress of this project?
Well it pretends to be a mouse so it shouldn't raise very much concern (how do they expect you to work without one? ;) )
It's interesting how charges of hypocrisy often have two completely opposite motivations.

Both sides point out the inconsistency between the stated value and the action, or, the "preaching" and the "practice". But the difference is in which side is favored.

In the more common usage, the charge of hypocrisy comes from someone who is in favor of the stated value, the "preaching", and is opposed to the inconsistent act or "practice". In this case, the belief that the Governors should follow their own coronavirus restrictions.

But you also see a lot of the opposite. People who rail against hypocrisy because they are against the stated value, and are more than fine with the "practice". In this case, people who are opposed to the coronavirus restrictions, but then are all too happy to scream hypocrisy anyway.

The latter case really aggravates me. It almost makes me feel their charges of hypocrisy are hypocritical somehow. At least, I wish the difference would be pointed out more often. It really is a different phenomenon. I think the former case has more moral authority, and the latter case is bad faith.

EDIT: Thanks for followup comments. After thinking about it more, I can think of plenty of other examples where I'm against the stated value and get aggravated at hypocrisy, so I guess I don't believe it is bad faith after all. The difference between the two motivations still interests me though and I wish more people would be clear on which side they fall on (when they charge hypocrisy).
> All these details seem to add up to a rather stark observation - there is NO shortage of highly qualified applicants for these types of jobs. Our geographic region has many tech employers so we aren't the only option for job seekers. We probably aren't even in the top 25% of employers for salary in our area.

Where is that?

> We are not a software company so we do not use deep algorithm testing as part of our evaluation process [...] My experience has been that of that candidate pool, we will have 3-6 candidates with well documented programming projects or job experience. These tend to be the candidates we interview - we use a simple rubric with yes/no for 5-10 categories we evaluate

You should try it. Right now it seems you are skewing toward hiring folks who already have experience vs fresh grads for entry level positions.

Whiteboard, if done right, gives a chance to college hires to prove themselves. Especially if there are other tech companies in the area. The pool of candidates that have one year of experience and are already looking to jump ship is very different than fresh grads (where everyone is looking for a job).
Apple Silicon has a runtime toggle for TSO to speed up emulation
This is the same reason I enjoy repairing electronics and machines so much. Even if it doesn't look good as new or the fix is a little bit of a kludge, it is incredibly satisfying to take something broken and return it to working order. And like the author, once I get started on a repair I can't stand to stop until it's done.
Whatsapp is the most popular messenger in this world. People need to know this new change in this update. It is end to end encrypted, but now they have started collecting messages, the first way being when you report them. You can't opt out.
Thanks, I remembered the article but couldn't find the link. This is a really neat argument.
What did you change it to?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_Unite...

Yes. It is easy to solve problems with a budget of $700,000,000,000 a year.

With enough money, you can develop training programs to make total dumbasses perform skilled work. But unless you plan on spending $7 trillion over the next 10 years on improving the healthcare system of this country, I don't think your comparisons to the military are very apt.
Someone did do this - finding discontinuities in the tax law - using formal methods, for the French tax law:

https://blog.merigoux.fr/en/2019/12/20/taxes-formal-proofs.h...
That people have to go back to 2005 Greenwald to attack 2020 Greenwald is always a treat. And they can't even get it right when they do [1]! The Harris quotes speak for themselves. The article I linked upthread has some more.

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/1/30/1182442/-Glenn-Gr...
Its probably the ergonomics police.
I'm hoping that if nothing else comes from this, that Ticketmaster suffers a fatal blow from this zombie apocalypses gap in live events. Truly a bane on any live event.
Installed to tryout it out. I dislike it requires yet another user account just to try it out[1][2].

Overall it is pretty simple to use with a decent UI and worked fine for my quick test of a Signal desktop app video call by selecting the mmhmm virtual camera in Signal.

It did not work in FaceTime as there is no way to change the camera from the built in one (however I was able to change the audio source to mmhmm audio fwiw). Not sure if this is a FaceTime limitation or mmhmm?

For £20 I would probably buy it but £10 a month (or £100 a year)?! No. Sorry.

I fail to see why this type of application needs to be a subscription service and a rather expensive one at that. Unless I am missing something it doesn't rely on a backend service the mmhmm developers would need to maintain and outside of adding new features it isn't likely the OS APIs used to access the camera will change much, if at all, on a desktop OS these days so on going development costs to the core camera functionality already present is likely to be minimal.

A nice product but not worth an indefinite £10 a month to me personally.

[1] Also there does not appear to be a delete account option anywhere on the website. I hate this when forced to sign up just to try the software. I have emailed using the address on their website to request deletion but it should be a clear option on the account management page.

[2] Also accepting an 8 character minimum (requiring upper, lower and special character) password while rejecting a 4 word (27 character) passphrase is laughable.
You mean you don't like paying $500 for 8GB of soldered RAM?
The article specifically references people going through a 3 month coding bootcamp. They are basically looking for an employer willing to pay to give them on the job training. This can work well, but their salary expectations need to be somewhat in line with what their skill sets are.
The actual TXT record shouldn't have the quotes at all.
Bring Back the Rowhouse
I'm in the UK and this now may have cascaded onto VISA

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/visa/map/

I am unable to order my Papa Johns pizza

https://imgur.com/u5QSszv
We've moved to hCaptcha from reCAPTCHA after Google surprised us with their pricing (blog[1], hn discussion[2]), and couldn't be happier. We use it in invisible mode and it does a great job at finding bots while getting out of users' way.

Also top-notch customer support. The CEO was personally in the slack channel helping us. Highly recommended.

[1]: https://blog.repl.it/anon

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25004476
> querySelectors are [..] slower [..] than static DOM methods

By static DOM methods, you mean the GetElementsBy methods?
Ah, interesting! I'm intrigued that it didn't come across, so thank you for the feedback. My app is fundamentally a text chat client like slack -- with markdown support, reactions, channels, DMs, and at some point threads and bots.

It just also allows you to speak via audio, and captures that audio inline with the chat, in both audio and text form, which is the key selling point. It is visually and in terms of day to day use very similar to Slack, or IRC. My desire to build heysync is literally borne out of frustration that this featureset is not possible within Slack itself, which I use daily.
Haskell? (30 years old)

Where are the Lispers when you need them? :)
Limiting command access to an SSH user account
What’s the best strategy of limiting user to a certain set of commands when logged into a SSH session. Thinking of commands like rsync and borgbackup etc. Already looked at rssh, but would like to hear other recommendations.
BambooTracker: YM2608 (OPNA) Music Tracker
Bypass Paywalls is a Chrome extension to help bypass paywalls (NYT, WSJ, et all)
GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code
This is how Google will collapse (2017)
They take heat... but not enough, yet.

Maybe if they actually had to live by the rules they make, they'd be a little less drastic in the rules they make...
A few years afterwards, the game began speeding up. The goal is from an earlier era. Before the backpassing was outlawed. Before tactical fouls earned a yellow card. Before hacking fell out of the game. One of the remarkable features of the goal is that he avoided being pulled/pushed/kicked down by any of the defenders.

Another remarkable feature is that it happened at 2200m, in July, with 1986 air quality. Futbol in Mexico still looks different because so much of it is played at altitude...and so much of European futbol is played near sea level.

Hopefully, its most remarkable feature will never be surpassed: massive geopolitical significance in the wake of the war in the south Atlantic.
There is a line on the inside and outside of the circles where the colors go in and out of sync with the circle as the arrows change directions - it snaps between trailing by half the length of the color segments, going being ahead by the same amount, or in sync.

When the outer edge of a part of the circle is trailing and the inner edge is ahead, the circle appears to move outwards; reverse this and it appears to move inwards. The parts where the circle appears to be moving up/down/left/right have one side set to the 'outwards' motion, the opposite side set to the 'inwards' motion, and the other sides in sync.

The human visual cortex has so, so many edge cases like this. It's wonderful!
I've tested it as well (seeing it on the latest Apple keynote) and have been having quality issues even when sharing slides via share screen, which is what they recommend if there's quality issues. Submitted a ticket around a week ago and haven't heard back yet.

Really excited at the possibility here. Staying tuned...
Given that Jan Koum and Brian Acton both left a few hundred million USD on the table, and the reason was supposedly "changes to whatsapp that FB promised they wouldn't do", I would assume it is going to become perfectly wiretappable.

As a other comments in this discussion pointed, e2ee means nothing because (a) the client is closed source, auto-updating, and (b) 98%[0] of the users use Google's cloud backup which is unencrypted (and I suspect was done that way to have a quickly-wiretappable change to the WhatsApp ecosystem without making it patently obvious)

[0] Don't know where that comment took the number from, but it jives with my personal experience. I don't know if it is encrypted on iCloud for iPhone users.
Why do they highlight games at every WWDC and product announcement?
This needs some nuance. The agencies were 'not caught', they responded to an audit from the Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS).

Of the six "TLA" Australian Inteligence orgs that fall under the the IGIS' remit to check and audit them, those that work with firehose type data all reported that they were aware that their feed might/did include Covid app data and that they had procedures in place to deal with the privacy requirements under Part VIIIA of the Australian Privacy Act of 1988.

As with a lot of government communications it is often what is not said (and/or the way they are said) that matters more than what the TLDR reveals.

The 6 Agencies are as follows:
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation;
Australian Secret Intelligence Service;
Australian Signals Directorate;
Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation;
Defence Intelligence Organisation;
and the Office of National Intelligence.

It is entirely feasible that those types of agencies would receive firehose feeds and that would include Covid app data amongst it.

The bigger picture I think is this - there are at least 6 Oz agencies that have the raw data feed ;-)

All details in this comment are taken from the publicly released version at [https://www.igis.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/Report%2...]
That's a terrible analogy because thousands of newly minted programmers come out of abbreviated code bootcamp type programs all the time, and go right to work.

Anyway, the army actually does this. Even the special forces 18D medic training (the most elite and rigorous medical training they provide) is only a year long, and they can do everything a nurse can do plus, for example, perform surgery on goats.
A lot more animals are killed to raise plants/vegetation. And I'm not talking a little more, I'm talking 1000X more. What will you do now?
Nice, our Minister of Justice and Security (the Netherlands) did the same thing, right after he had a big mouth calling people breaking the rules "Anti-Socials". But hey, at least we got some nice funny movies like this one out of the whole ordeal: [0]

[0] https://www.bitchute.com/video/FMHV2EgH7ZXF/
don't forget your glasses...
This is the time to raise flags about anti-trust, not years later when the market is hurting. There is no reason for this acquisition other than to kill competition with gross incompetence and $$$ acquired via other sources.