skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Masking has never been sufficiently proven to be effective against the spread of respiratory viruses. For SARS-2 specifically we have one randomized controlled trial, DANMASK, which showed no effect of masking (note the primary endpoint was self-infection not community transmission, but self-infection is a decent proxy, and furthermore community transmission is incredibly difficult to study, which is why it is so evil to me that the public health establishment convinced people that "my mask protects you, but not me" when there's actually never been evidence that it protects others as evidenced by the utter lack of studies on that part specifically)

For the pre-2020 studies, they were more or less in agreement that masks didn't help, even in healthcare workers, who tend to be better trained and more compliant with masking protocols. Indeed Macintyre et al provides strong evidence of the risks of cloth mask wearing; while this study compared cloth masking to standard practice, not no-masking, it at a minimum establishes the very real risks of cloth mask wearing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903751/
The strategy I use for generating 4 to 6 digit passwords (for pin keys) is to imagine drawing a shape over a keypad. For example an N shape would be 7193, a T would be 1328 and so on.

Edit: I'd be interested to see what others do!
This is about subjectively experiencing the different spaces of a city, mostly as a pedestrian. Which is cool and all, but I was hoping for more of what someone dubbed "Real world UX" just yesterday. The world needs more real world UX.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28093652
Maybe they want to turn iCloud fully e2e, so cannot actually scan anymore on their servers.

They have to scan for CSAM by US law.
In my view Google does a lot of analogous "rehostings" -- they just have a lot more lawyers and lobbyists to get away with it. Consider some of the places they tried and failed at this: the Google Images/Getty settlement; the YouTube/RIAA settlement; the fines and shutdowns of Google News snippets in multiple countries. Any one of these failures could plausibly destroy a smaller startup, or even send a person to prison. (I mean, Google News snippets -- isn't that just "deliberate copyright infringement on a massive scale", if you squint?)

They're qualitatively not all that different from SciHub.
With all the legitimate criticism of Captchas, this is really a made up one. It doesn't matter. You can get some stuff wrong and still pass, and you can skip/retry if the picture is not clear too.

Captchas aren't a "score 100 percent at this minigame" thing, they're more of a "loosely follow these instructions while I watch your cursor and analyze your results to figure out if you're a human or a selenium instance."
transitive verb - To bargain shrewdly or unfairly with. Often used with down.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/jew

edited (I got the whole M Jackson backwards, removed it)
I am going through this process at the moment… at 30. It started when I was younger with art film*, but was stinted for years by a bad relationship. The process started again with an amazing relationship (aren’t wives wonderful?).

I still slip into viewing the world in “comfortable” black and white logic with clear cause and effect when stressed, often without realising. I lose my humanity and enjoyment of life in the process.

I absolutely agree with being consciously blind, but subconsciously 100% unaffected by our surroundings. It felt (and often feels) like everyone is experiencing the world so very differently and yet they’re so often happier! The people I thought had no clue about how the world works… it turns out that often these people understood so much more than I at the time.

We seem so poor at teaching children how to live, how to manage emotions, and ultimately what it is to be human - in the west at least. Too busy spinning the daily hamster wheel to show our children what exists outside of it. Perhaps this is just my experience though.

Thank you for putting this into words so succinctly. It helps.

* I agree with Kermode’s view of film being an “empathy machine”, as he calls it. Spending an hour and a half of your time viewing the world through someone else’s eyes really can change a person and enhance one’s empathy for our fellow humans. Ultimately, as you say, the world takes on colours that you never imagined could even exist. For me, at least.
Set your developers free[video]
If you mean this to be a direct reply to me then you're putting quite a lot of words in my mouth (leephillips is much closer to the position you're arguing against). I don't think the APL language or environment is ideally productive, and I think there are large barriers to adoption and probably wouldn't choose an array language for a commercial project. I made the narrow point that symbols have significant advantages over words—and if you'll go to link I posted you'll find that I also argued that symbols have significant disadvantages as well and shouldn't be used for everything.

If I was to consider anything ideally productive it would be my own array language, BQN. Obviously if APL was so good there would be no need to make such a language. Nonetheless I think BQN is far from a perfect array language[0], and that the array paradigm is not a good fit for everything. The feature I miss most is algebraic datatypes or even tagged unions, so there are many contexts where I'd choose a statically-typed language. BQN also (intentionally) makes dictionaries and mutable data harder to work with than other languages, which isn't always a good thing.

It's hard to even figure out where to begin with barriers to APL's adoption. Proprietary implementations, storing source code in binary format, lack of publically-accessible documentation? Do note that APL grew rapidly in the late 1970s and by the 80s was close to mainstream. Personally I don't think it has what it takes to become mainstream in the future, but I'm glad that Julia is doing well. There are a few barriers that have largely gone away, which include the total embarrasment of only beginning to switch from Goto to control structures in 1996[1], text encoding problems (there are still some font issues), and difficulty in trying or obtaining Dyalog APL (GNU is not a good substitute: it, uh, doesn't have control structures). In case it's not clear I still think the APL situation is quite a mess, which is why I'm working on BQN.

As you've noted, APL is a niche language. Why the need to smack it down? If you're not interested there's no need for you to try it. I advise you to stay away. If you want me to make you interested, I can't. If you're worried APL will take over and force you to use it… well, it won't.

[0] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/commentary/problems.html

[1] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Control_structure#History
In addition to the sibling answers, one could have verified an algorithm mathematically, but made a typo in the code.
nope
it died out.
The sad reality of anti-male sexist harassment in tech. WISH (ContextLogic Inc)
If scanning works on filesystem-level, just storing images in any non-standard format would be enough, you don't need root for that. Most likely even storing images in an sqlite would make them inaccessible for those scanners. Trying to force all apps in the world to use some scanning API for their images is unrealistic. Also you can use web apps with some website hosted in a free country with canvas drawing.

They'll just use mass-bombing by targeting most popular apps and services and that's about it. It's unrealistic to expect 100% solution, because 99% solution will be good enough.
Shop lifting gangs do this to get a local drop point for repeated shoplifters to grab stuff and store it - go out for more. Later they assemble, box and ship it out. Usually higher value items tools etc. If caught the innocent owner has potential problems to answer and the intermediate tenant is long gone.
The TV syncs to the clock in the input signal that the console generates. The console knows what line the TV was on because it's the line that the console is currently outputting. Analog TVs were very simple devices where the signal coming in via the wire or antenna was basically pumped directly to the CRT to manipulate the beam. While at the user's end it looked like a raster, it's all analog tricks.

Imagine a text file pushed out theough a serial port, all the data is just dumped on to the wire and the other end worries about interpreting carriage returns and line feeds. You just imagined how old line printers worked!

When the TV wasn't able to figure out the sync signal you'd get rolling [1] or tearing [2] where the picture was being displayed the best the TV could make out.

1: https://youtu.be/bGXEqzCS4nE?t=28
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVOVk3psy-w
The article suggests just allowing engines and scoring players by how far they can deviate from the engine and still win. But this is no longer chess - it’s more like golf - so it doesn’t solve the problem of people cheating at chess.
If they come up with the exact same words as me along with the alphanumeric salt they deserve the account.
I really don't think there's that much alignment in organizations in the sense you're speaking of. While it's nice to think that these places are acting in best interests of blahblahblah - I think selfish interests hold true more often than not and accountability is basically nigh impossible in our world.

We have so many people who have been abusing people in so much worse of ways than "write me a report on Russia" and they have little to no accountability.

The public doesn't care about how a company is managed - they care about the share price going up so they make their money.
> also in later years I suspect made the job of emulator writers something of a misery

Most certainly. These tricks force developers to emulate systems down to individual cycles in order to get the timing right because getting them wrong will result in visual glitches or worse.

https://mgba.io/2017/04/30/emulation-accuracy/

https://mgba.io/2017/07/31/holy-grail-bugs-2/

Byuu, the author of bsnes, wrote some very detailed articles about this as well. I can't seem to find them anymore though. His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.
>I imagine it’s awful for people with English as a second language.

Exactly captcha is too much English oriented. I don't have anything against American English or British English but majority of people on the internet are not native English speakers anymore or are not familiar with all the words and variants/nuances of English.
How can you possibly be a good architect if you're a bad manager?

Every skill of a good manager - having good working relationships and pleasant interpersonal relations, understanding conflicting needs from different teams, building trust, being able to schedule and prioritize work, etc. - is also a skill of a good architect. If you're off in a corner developing things by yourself, you're not an architect, you're an individual-contributor team of one (or if they're not getting implemented at all, you're just wasting the company's money). If you're actually designing architectures that other people will be following or implementing, you need to be able to work with people.

The balance of work is different, of course: for instance, architects will less often (but not never!) need to have difficult one-on-one conversations. I can understand someone preferring one role or the other, of course. I can't really understand how you can be a good architect, not just a mediocre one, if you're a bad manager, not just a mediocre one.
This.

And I guess we'll find out.

The horrible thing is, of course, that this whole process will probably be automated and there'll be no recourse to a human with any power to work things out properly. If there are thousands of cases, they'll have to take to Twitter to shine some light on it. Except that in this case they're self-identlfying as suspected child abusers. How many people are going to risk the negatives that go with that? Will we ever find out how many people were actually false positives?
People buy weed in grams, eighths, quarters, ounces, and pounds typically. Not tons. I assume they went with grams because that is the most common purchase amount and people can possible get a sense of quantity.
You cannot go faster than the speed of light.

But what you can do is imagine what would happen if you reached the speed of light.

Length contraction means that while you and your ship appear to be the normal size, the universe around you shrinks along the direction of travel. The faster you go, the less distance there is in front and behind you. At the speed of light, the entire width of the universe shrinks to zero.

Also, you are at the same time experiencing time dilation. Although time on board your ship advances at the normal rate, time outside the ship appears to slow down. When you reach the speed of light, the rate of time passing outside the ship goes completely to zero.

Together these mean that the universe outside your ship effectively vanishes! It occupies no volume, and has no events in it. At the speed of light, your current position and your destination are the _same place_, because there is no distance and no time separating them.

This is why you cannot go faster than the speed of light. There aren’t any speeds faster than that.

This video takes a round–about route to get there, but it has a nice visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6t8QvGZmA
Oh, this interesting little thing I noticed just now: jodrellblank also mentioned "enclose bind grade_up index self_right" hours before me in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095934

And I had read that comment! It just didn't register at all when I read that comment; even though I read it word by word, I did not realize that he also wrote the sort train (until I read it again now and converted to symbols in my head). Yet I would have immediately recognized it had I seen it written as APL symbols.

Visual pattern matching can be strong. (It's what allows you to recognize and read words that you do not know how to spell correctly.)
"still a bully"

Labeling someone a "bully" has become the easy way to bring a person down. There could be personal vendetta. I've read the accusations against him, and they cannot be called "bullying". Need definitive proof.
- kratom is certainly not a miracle herb, but its characteristics do make it a lot less addictive and lethal than its more popular relatives.

Yea, that's what you read online. But after going 2.5 months without sleep (I would doze off for half an hour once a twice per night), 4 months of acute depression, and umm like a year of PAWS, I beg to differ. If you're going off of personal experience, congrats, you didn't abuse it.

Someone already linked the quitting kratom subreddit where you can hear all kinds of horror stories.

Finally, comparing Kratom to traditional opiods isn't all that useful. Kratom has a shitload of other active alkaloids and very little research on their effects. Saying it's less addictive than other opiodis is like saying you'd rather get hit by a car going 60 vs 100.

Personally, I would have been much much better off if Kratom had been illegal, and I am amazed it still is.
Well that remains to be seen, and best of luck to them.
In Illinois, I felt the original medicinal stores were more warm and very friendly and helpful esp to first time users. Compassionate to first time users who are dealing with legit pain and medical issues.

Newer recreational stores have popped up everywhere with many many more to come, but the few I’ve visited are cold and the staff act like they could give a shit.
Yes, it was an outdoor farmer type market in a suburb of Buenos Aires, there were signs saying for example, butter costs 10 pesos a kilo(or whatever, sorry I can't recall the values). Maybe I misunderstood but it seemed to be a notice that the consumer shouldn't pay higher than that price, to keep inflation controlled. It was not a tourist market at all, everything in español.
Great look. Not yielding to the obnoxious cancel culture.
I think the article was being disingenuous juxtapositioning that the president had the sputnik vaccine, then mentioning they got coronavirus.

I'm sure the decision to use sputnik or moderna, Johnson etc. is not deterministic in getting COVID-19
Animals are host reservoirs for COVID as well, meaning the fantasy of 100% vaccine coverage also does not solve the problem.
IMHO the author is saying that these pictures represent one way that we humans have surrendered a piece of our lives to a soulless process and machine. Any human with any photography skills would take lively pictures of interesting things, but these pictures have no life and tell no story. What's mildly depressing about this is that we're missing an opportunity to connect more and see more of life.

Now, if I were to take this piece literally, I would be concerned for the author's mental well being. If I were to record everything I see all day long, nearly every picture my eyes capture would be mostly lifeless. Does that make me subconsciously depressed? Um, no. Not in the least bit. I evaluate pictures based on their purpose before I assign any aesthetic value.

Still, the author has a point: the current state of CAPTCHAs is a missed opportunity for something with more life.
Bit of wood, with a hole the size of my belly cut out using a jigsaw, lifted by a layer of foam.
> I'll make up an inane and unproven theory too: Orgs that have leaders that shit all over its employees have large turnover, thus diffusing insider knowledge far and wide.

I see a hint of underlying logic in this part, though the theory needs more thought put into it. Two comments:

1. Try to quantify the harm to people that get "shit all over". Some portion suffer personally and professionally, which leads to the organization who is 'next in line' having to carry some of that burden.

2. Try to quantify the value in the "insider" knowledge being shared here according to such a theory. Some might be technical, fair enough. But a lot of it is likely related to how much of a jerk that boss was... Remember, not all information has a net positive value for a given time scale. For example, information about a previous toxic workplace may increase anxiety and hurt trust -- and in many cases, such information is often not net positive.

> It's a good thing for the world to have leaders be this way.

No. Not broadly (since there is no mention of harm) and not even in a narrow sense.

Consider the kinds of leaders who help their employees grow so that:

(a) knowledge is shared far and wide internally

(b) employees grow into new roles, some outside of the company
On a night with good conditions I can recognize for instance Andromeda Galaxy, Orion Nebula, and the hazy stuff around the Plejades with my bare eyes, though faint, and not colored like with astrophotography. Are you telling me I couldn't see them better without atmosphere? Do I have owl eyes, or what?
It’s called a name, and names have real meaning, because they’re created with social agreements. Paper money, too, is valuable only because we agree to do so.

Ergo,

Saying “all this hullabaloo over a bunch of green paper” about money is… both true in a physical sense and misses the mark in a sociopolitical sense.

Saying “a giant rock causes harm” is both true in the physical sense and misses the mark in a sociopolitical sense.
> Argentina has been poor since the advent of Peronism, and yet the average person- perhaps like how a fish might not be aware of what "water" is- continues to support the same policies that continue not working 80 years later.

Much has been written on this very topic. Compelling logic, written by very smart people. Yet, it has become impossible to talk about. Such intellectual waste.
I found it handy and I often use it outside of emacs as well when describing shortcuts to people. Mainly C-something for ctrl.
LOl you're the guy being a dick about how in depth the field of fantasy novels is then your personal recommendation is Harry Potter. Why not become a snooty sommelier and recommend stella rosa while you're at it. Then you recommend writers you haven't read because get real if you're gonna actually read stuff before you talk about how much research there is hahaha
Ok, why was it a pity Oracle lost?
Looking into Odin and Zig
It's actually a sign of bad ergonomics and disrespect for your time and effort. There are already sites that know you're human by your mouse/touch behaviour. Only if js is blocked do they need to resort to those ridiculous multi-level games they make you play.

My surprise if the sites that do those things turned out to be using humans for free labeling of images would be an exact, unsigned zero.
> o - you have to ask - are you willing to lose your job over it? If so - great - see ya! If not - then take your lumps and get it done.

This is ridiculous. Jobs have pretty clear, if arbitrary at times, functions. You wouldn’t ask a chef to brief you on Russian political history, a field of itself that is vastly nuanced just as much as AI itself, nor would you ask a data scientist. It isn’t because job function can’t change it’s because people have careers and an AI researches is not likely to be able to actually brief one on Russian political history without doing a deep dive and learning the field itself.
Yep. For the record I will literally die on this hill - if from COVID-19, or whatever variant, so be it. Freedom is much more important than safety right now.
however you guys come to terms with being forced to review your capitalist hellscape of franchise boxes, concrete and misdemeanor signage for your AI Overlords is on you, no EQ required, just submission to the reductionist chaos game~
/jk
https://friendlycaptcha.com/

Requires the browser to complete a Proof of Work challange.

Not for verifying humanness, but against spam / dos attacks.
Damn, it sounds like you guys need a new place to live. That's just fucked up, no other word for it.
The loads and operating conditions are quite different for bicycles and airplanes.

As I wouldn't use the characteristics of my steel coffemaker to predict the behaviour of an LNG vessel I wouldn't do the same with bicycles and airliners.
It is a crime of opportunity that "you" created. Had "you" not been lazy, the situation would not have existed for the thief to thieve. "You" did it to "yourself"
I did that (provide a false answer) with a yahoo mail account and got myself locked out forever... when they introduced the security questions it was a measure to double check when changing the password. as i was using a password manager i just provided nonsense and didn't store it anywhere. years later yahoo decided to make it mandatory to enter the security question when logging in from a new device. no chance to get in there anymore...
> I was exactly the same way when I was younger.
> my emotional awareness was... exceedingly underdeveloped.

Are you implying the GP's emotional awareness is "exceedingly underdeveloped" and that they'll grow out of it?

> you just haven't had the practice/opportunity to develop this side of things

> there absolutely is a reality that you haven't developed skills to see

Yes, it does seem like that's what you're saying. What kind of condescending bullshit is this? If they don't feel the same way you and author do then they're "underdeveloped"?

Not feeling the same way as other people about something is not some kind of disorder to overcome. This is the meaning of the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." People have varying preferences. Some like sports, some like this sport or another over that one. Some prefer music. Some don't get anything out of music. And all this is because of how they feel in relation to whatever subject and has nothing at all to do with a lack of development.