skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be sort of okay with the general idea of proving I'm not a robot, you know what really rubs me the wrong way?

It's how blatantly dishonest and disrespectful it is. Let me explain: google decides if you're human based on the data it has on you, such as your browsing profile and whether you're logged in to your Google account. Therefore it punishes you for trying to have privacy or refusing to use google services, at which point it will:

- Give you longer captchas

- Fade images in slower, something whose purpose can only possible be to annoy you for daring to refuse to submit to google's profiling, since bots don't care about that

- Even falsely claim you failed captchas even if you get them right

Fuck that!
If you're not in the US, all the time.

Just searching for documentation on not so well known libraries/errors will often trigger it for me, and I'm talking like 5-10 manual (read: typed by myself into a browser) searches will trigger a Captcha on Google.

Google positions that it suspects suspicious activity from my IP, but hard to guess how they classify this, as it's a stock browser with ublock* that I use every day.

reCaptcha and basically everything Google touches is awful to use outside of the US in my opinion. And I'm still not sure how their full window modal for Google Search Accepting Privacy hasn't been hit by a huge fine by the EU yet, since you absolutely cannot use Google without either blocking the model or going in and agreeing to "something" (you are allowed to turn off several options, but Google will send cookies and instructs you to set your browser to refuse cookies if you don't want them), which I'm positive is really not what GDPR was about at all.

This is part of why I'm against what a lot of US based tech companies do with the Web...they're happy to take money and personal information (forcibly) from non-US persons, but will not give them the same courtesies.

* Of course, maybe that does it...
How many times have you gotten locked out by a captcha?

I don't mean "try again," I mean the neverending cycle of "try again" that completely prohibits you from going about a particular piece of business.

My guess: you are US-informed enough, neurotypical enough, good enough at guessing constraints to fix underdetermined prompts, and use proxies little enough that capchas have never been more than an annoyance for you. Please understand that your experience is not universal.
It's not fair unless researchers in every country can access every paper. Not a subset, but every single one. Why should rich countries or rich institutions be granted the exclusive right to do research? It can do nothing but harm.
It would if he wanted to, and it’s what we generally expect of good bosses. I don’t think there is any rule requiring it anywhere I’ve seen.
The truth lie in the potential of the virus strain itself. It's getting every opportunity to mutate in this world. That is not preventable.
Certainly you get much harder and noisier recaptchas if the model has a higher prior prediction of your bot-ness. Try browsing around from sketchy Tor exit nodes or some proxies from the free proxy lists on the internet for a bit.
This is only beneficial in static scenes right? Otherwise you can’t get free labels across the whole video.
Telekommunisten.
That implies that everyone wants to work, AND that the people who are homeless at the margin want to live in a house.

Case in point: I live in a "nice" area up on a hill in my city and there are multiple homeless who sleep/have camps in the hillside directly adjacent. One of them drives a bmw and has been there at least 6 months. A couple sits in their car all day in the same spot doing who knows what.

There are many people who simply do not want to take part in society, while still living within it.
Diving Chamber
So that's 1.3% out of "more than 24,000 students at Oxford", i.e. ~310 students per whatever the counting period of that 24k number is. That's not a low number, of a population that's already heavily selected. Plenty of resourceful folks could find themselves in this group.
It does feel like a similar sort of thing to how fag packets are this horrible murky brown with bleak pictures in them in the UK.
I can't tell if you're unintentionally talking past the points everyone else with, or if you just think that your personal preferences/thoughts/observations just supersede the reality everyone else lives in.

Like

> they are all making similarly dubious promises regarding policy (like, closed-source encryption, no data sent unless you ask for it, etc.).

I just listed multiple of the most common pieces of software where Google and Apple make claims to wildly differing levels of privacy! Does your decision that none of that matters because both companies mention privacy in marketing somehow override reality?

> First, none of the topics mentioned are the "most important aspects of how [to?] secure a modern platform".

You're not sure if "to" is the missing word?

And if you think the number of updated devices is not one of, if not the most important aspect of securing a modern platform, then your opinion on security doesn't matter. And contrary to your implications, privacy and security are not something you prefer over each other, privacy does not exist without security.

> Second, I distinguish privacy from security. i.e. it doesn't matter if it was the most secure platform in the world if I have to trust all the data to a distrustful entity to begin with.

It doesn't matter if you have the most private platform in the world if it's not secure? You can control all the servers you want, if they're not secure your privacy is even worse off than it'd be with a 3rd party at least trying to anonymize it for an ad platform...

> This is basically trying to answer "to whom I put my blind trust?", so it's subjective. But in my experience it is usually the most "privacy marketing" companies that are usually the worst regarding privacy. See most VPN resellers. Most privacy marketing is just bullshit.

Lol so your hunch based on VPNs is supposed to just supersede basic reasoning that if a company can profit off not selling your data wholesale, and is openly designing systems that do benefit your privacy... they're somehow less trustworthy than one that is openly selling your data and requires that they do to exist.
The rub is that there are a lot of people on Earth. And, early evidence _might_ suggest that the vaccines that are available lose effectiveness sooner than originally thought. For example, [1] shows evidence of diminished effectiveness after 146 days.

Back to "Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts." and whether that implies that "for anyone who did not get the vaccine to get it." This sounds like a strategy that hinges on everyone on Earth getting vaccines and frequent-enough booster shots. What if that's unachievable though? The logistics for that would be unprecedented. What are the consequences of trying but failing to do it?

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261496v...
It certainly is so much easier to get documentation or read forum posts and ask questions today. Back then, we did have fairly decent dev systems though, could do breakpoints and examine code as it was running. It was also cross-development so you could edit and download from your computer onto the dev system attached to the console. To be fair, some people had much more primitive systems, I feel lucky since others could only test by burning EPROMs.
And yet, the problematic aspects of the paper are being highlighted by the readers here.

Many things make it to the front page of HN because they’re interesting. That doesn’t mean that the readership is endorsing problematic viewpoints.
That is an EXCELLENT question, fwiw.

They could have just had a local failure. I suspect there were a lot of arguments around this point - should they be making an attempt merely to prevent such content from their servers, or to detect/report behaviors which may be illegal and harmful.
> If you're not in the US, all the time.

I'm not in the US, never seen it.
A History of Clojure by Rich Hickey
Interesting you're so focused on the "vaccine hesistancy" side of the fence. Do you have any concerns about people using their prestigious degrees and credentials to frighten the population completely out of proportion with their actual risk from a pathogen, in order to persuade them to comply with top-down public health measures?

It sounds a lot like you just don't like the conclusion that this classic paper leads to: that the "societal benefit" of mass vaccination with an imperfect vaccine is not nearly as clear-cut as many have been led to believe.

My advice to people is to treat the vaccines as a personal risk reduction tool and little else. The only way to actually guarantee you won't infect someone you interact with, is to have acquired (and recovered from) the natural SARS-2 virus, which will build robust immunity. As far as immunity to reinfection, looking at antibodies alone, IgG levels stay seropositive for ~3.5 years:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.18.20156810v...

> Based on these half-life data, we estimate that the median times for IgM, IgA and IgG to become seronegative are 4.59 (IQR 4.12-5.03), 7.78 (IQR 6.71-9.16) and 42.72 (IQR 33.75-47.96) months post disease onset.

> This study suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust neutralizing and binding antibody responses in patients and that humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 acquired by infection may persist for a relatively long time.

and furthermore once those IgG levels fade you will still have immunological memory, which lasts basically forever and allows your system to much more rapidly and effectively respond to future infection, leading you to have a much lower peak viral load, lessened symptoms (usually fully asymptomatic) and therefore a near inability to transmit the virus.

For example for the 1918 flu, immunological memory has been shown to persist 60+ years later: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2008/08/research...
If that is the worse accusation we’re hearing from an entirely 1 sided story - that’s pretty mellow. I’ve seen people accuse some of ‘screaming at them’, when they literally never raised their voice and just disagreed with them firmly in a meeting
>It is difficult to make one's mind up on the matter without knowing what racial slur it was named after

Why would that matter? A racial slur is a racial slur.
That depends. During the ebola outbreaks one of the vectors were funeral practices that involved coming in contact with the diseased corpse.
Wow, narod.ru still alive. One of the first websites I remember.
Back when captchas were about optical character recognition, it was obvious which words came from actual books. Plenty of people would input offensive words instead of the correct answer. I hope it had an effect but it probably didn't.
> A more discrete combinatorial approach could imply a corresponding proximity to programming language theories and type theories.

I'm just curious, what theories are you talking about?
That's why Apple needs to unclench and give up its need for absolute control and just allow bootloader unlocking. Users who modify will always want to be able to modify and the only way to have that and have security as well is to allow specific ways for it to be done... not to force modders to rely on exploits.
“I Can See Us Leading This Funding Round” Isn’t a Term Sheet
I have idiopathic allergies and mold and mildew drive me absolutely batty.

There's really no way to avoid bringing those with you, and if the humidity control isn't just right, well then that stuff can grow anywhere that humidity accumulates. And it's not like you can open the windows and scrub the place down every six months to keep it at bay.
> However, despite completing this task on something like autopilot, your drive will still be intelligently adjusted to situational intricacies, such as how fast or slow the driver in front of you is going, or when the traffic lights change. In attempting to account for the intelligent dimension of habit, researchers have moved away from construing habits as unintelligent mechanisms and towards modelling them as a species of belief.

I wouldn't attribute this to an added dimension of intelligence because I see two "unintelligent" habits at play here. The first habit is the route you take to work and knowing which streets to take and what intersections to turn on. The second is your driving skills. "Intelligently" adjusting to situational intricacies like how fast the driver in front of you is going doesn't seem intelligent because it's just a reflex of an experienced driver. Put the two together and that's how you make it to work on autopilot.
Yes, there was testimony by the alleged victim: she said that she was ordered to seduce Minsky (the alleged perpetrator) by her pimp, not that she succeeded in doing so, and she never testified that she had any sexual contact with Minsky. Stallman did not claim that he saw nothing morally wrong about this situation (his public denunciations of the pimp have been vehement and extreme), but rather that, if she succeeded, Minsky wasn't the guilty party.
SMB3 will outshine a lot of games released today and I think that’s a good thing. Great game design is somewhat timeless.
It shows in English for me. Do you have a VPN?
It's for this very reason I'm so happy to see something like this article on HN, and I'm so happy to see your comment too.

I think I know exactly where you're coming from -- I was exactly the same way when I was younger. I was 100% extremely logical, and my emotional awareness was... exceedingly underdeveloped.

Long story short, I got into different artistic pursuits where I was forced to develop my emotional awareness of these things, multi-hour classes with other artists where all we'd do would be to analyze these types of things.

And after a long period of great frustration, all of a sudden, it's like the world went from black and white into color. There was emotional resonance everywhere where I hadn't seen it before. It was like I was finally speaking a language a lot of other people seemed to just be born with. And social interactions got a lot... easier.

I also realized that my emotional surroundings had always affected my mood etc., I just had never been able to pay attention to how. So while I was consciously blind to it, I was still subconsciously 100% affected.

So there's absolutely nothing "wrong" with the author's psyche... but nothing's "wrong" with yours either, you just haven't had the practice/opportunity to develop this side of things. You're not dissociating from reality... but at the same time there absolutely is a reality that you haven't developed skills to see. And it absolutely has nothing to do with age or country.

If it's a skill you want to develop, there's no single answer. The general idea of "emotional intelligence education" is one approach, fields like art history, film criticism, literature and poetry are others. Even activities like yoga and meditation can help since emotional awareness is both mental and bodily. Ultimately the more you expose yourself to things combined with seeing how other people respond to the same things and finding little pieces in common with them, it'll eventually start to "click".
N>1 - you see the past, N<0 - you’ll see the future. It's simple.
When all crops will be (presumably) manually pollinated, it might be easier with plants that produce a lot of pollen.
> And milk can get pretty expensive pretty fast in this country: It always come in 1 litre recipients, and the cheapest one (The one that is within the mentioned program) is right now at ~70 pesos (Some 73 dollar cents at the official dollar price, 40 cents at the current rate for the dollar in the back market... but foreigners can hardly get this price for their dollars).

That's actually extremely cheap by international standards, if this source[0] is to be trusted. Of course it seems expensive for most argentinians because wages are also terribly low.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings...
My solution was all about solving cultural problem of captcha as well as security by that I mean automated bots exploiting and solving captcha en masse. Ofc the service would guarantee you privacy I don't need to keep the video footage of you or the mic footage I would delete it immediately when the captcha task is solved.

You would need to trust the service the same like people are trusting logless VPN providers with their sensitive internet traffic logs.
it's easy to grow the plant, you can put seeds in your garden and it will grow. It's not easy to grow and then process (!) the good product people are used to.
Users with enough Karma are allowed to downvote on HN. That’s what the gray replies are.
For NES there are many development environments now... Probably dozens. The main modern advantage is emulators. I do enjoy folks who take a different approach like this dev who is using Lisp to make a NES game.
http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2019/09/10/what-remains-technical...
Buy pre-terminated fiber patch "cables". They have ends on them (LC is the common one) and plug in like pre-terminated Ethernet cables.

Terminating bulk fiber does require special tooling, but is generally not needed for a home installation.
That’s a pretty straightforward question to find the answer to - it’s just a bit under half, whith kids and seniors being more likely to get it.

[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-americans-get-flu-sho...
So I'm member of a a religious (yogic) organisation and we have our own little chanting on Saturdays. When Covid broke out this obviously became impossible so we decided to have our meetings on Zoom instead.
Now we have one woman in our group with some intellectual disability, a wonderful, sweet woman with the kindest heart in the world. Being 100% computer illiterate, she still decided to buy a tablet so she could follow the meetings on Zoom from her home.
It fell to me to explain to her the whole process of opening a mail (she didn't know what an inbox was), clicking the Zoom link, clicking yes etc.. every little detail I had to explain repeatedly. It was a challenge but we slodged through the whole thing and she stayed positive and courageous throughout.

Imagine how mortified I was when we reached the last steps and I had to explain to her 'and NOW.. after all that... you have to click on all the tiles with traffic lights'.

She looked at me and asked with childlike innocence and wonder "but WHY do I have to click all the tiles that contain a traffic light?"

I could not reasonably answer that question but I came close to saying "dear Kristine, throw this tablet in the garbage, none of this is going to make you happier"
TOTP is free, and can simply be made an option to avoid CAPTCHA.
You are right, you could do that. It would mean some changes to your KYC flow, and probably also a few chats with the bank to stay compliant. Lowering comissions sure. I am not aware of your costbase but could be doable. Now that you are here, why do you charge so high fees? And what are your thougths about Netease looking towards the west?
Parse it as "most covid patients don't die, so host death isn't a limiting factor in covid transmission".
The photos just look like normal unedited photos of reality. And I suspect that’s the issue. We are becoming accustomed to Instagram style photos depicting a perfect life style with highly exposed and saturated color grading. A raw photo of a street on an overcast day is “depressing” only by relative comparison.
AI researchers have so many options today. I’d be surprised if this hasn’t hurt Google’s and Deep Mind’s recruitment efforts.
That fantasy vaccine doesn't exist, and what if it triggers auto-immune syndrome?
Legalization in Canada has dropped unregulated prizes. An 1/8oz (3.5G) pre legalization could fetch $30-$40. Post legalization is maxed at $25. This might not seem like much, but as the weight goes up, it gets drastically cheaper.
It’s because Hacker News parsed the asterisks in the expression as italic markers.
This is true, and I wonder whether partial vaccination didn't play a role in the rise of Delta. But more transmissible != more lethal.
There was also a time where (regardless of if it were acceptable when they were a startup) this would be considered unacceptable at Google.

Not anymore, I guess.
Then use the fact that I am a paying customer of Hilton’s for years to mark my account as a human. I have the Hilton credit card, I am a Diamond member, what else do they want?

I know why they force me though, I use content blockers on macOS and iOS to block tracking and ads, but that is not a good reason.
"If my boss screamed at me, I would tell them to ** off"

The irony.
And how would one know the bit was set... polling?
This is incorrect almost from beginning to end. "Open source" was specifically coined to describe the same set of licenses described by "free software", and the OSD is a slightly edited version of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The only correct statement in your comment is that Chris Peterson coined the phrase.
Those responses mean that you still do get new variants without a vaccinated population. But this doesn't tell me anything about the effect of moderate partial vaccination. It might or might not be problematic but you can't infer that from what happens when there's no vaccination. In other words, "we know that A causes B, therefore C doesn't cause B" isn't valid reasoning.
People's health choices should be private.
I love the disdain that the ars writer clearly has for these morons.

It's nice to see a piece that isn't trying to be balanced, but is happy to just call them out like that.
> I've read the whole article, and I see so many comments agreeing or even adding detail to the post. Am I really in the minority if this kind of thing couldn't even cross my mind or feels like written by someone living in a parallel universe?

> A few poorly shot street photos are "unbearably depressing"? And there's even a detailed explanation breaking it down into points, each one feeling more alien than the last. They're just pictures from the street! Just how? How does a person come up with a whole emotional essay for this?

> I am failing to understand the author to the degree I feel like there's something wrong with this person's psyche or something is wrong with mine. Am I having a stroke and words are no longer making sense? Am I too young, or am I too old at 26 to "get it"? Is it because I live in a third world country and lack perspective or have "too much" of it? Is this homework for an English class and it's just trying to talk about literally anything for a given arbitrary word count? I almost feel like I'm dissociating from reality by an article talking about a freaking captcha.

Double +1.
And, thank you - you said it so much better than i ever could.