skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On site I find especially annoying is Humble Bundle.

Before I want to buy something there login. To prove that it is me owning the account I receive an email with a code I have to type in. Especially when I am on a mobile phone.

After that, when frigging ever I want to checkoutmy cartI am forcedto do these captcha again prove that I am a human.

I just stopped buying from them. Even if I like the cause.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, just want to add that as a European who lived in the US around 2000 for a while, it feels like a police state from time to time.
This is why Python 3 changed division to return floats rather than ints. ("//" retains the old floor division behavior.)
This already happens server-side now so what you mention here does not actually change.
Yep. They will charge much more in such remote areas with almost no competition.
Haha, thanks! I was surprised to see Pitcairn on HN.
Have you had any troubles donating to scihub ? (From bank refusing wiring to warnings from officials)

Best of luck with your child.
The line is here. And this is absolutely not OK.

It is ripe for abuse by governments, which Apple absolutely has a history of bowing to.

Saudi Arabia WILL use this to track dissidents and homosexuals. China WILL use this for whatever they need, on a daily basis. Hell even the US will use this, I'm sure.

The only way this would be OK was if the input data (the CSAM database) was cryptographically signed and no government, no single entity and not even Apple, could change the content, with the only signing key split in 10 parts to be held personally by Bruce Schneier, the Pope, Linus Torvalds, the Orthodox Patriarch, Keanu Reeves, a couple head Rabbis and a few of whatever their equivalent in Islam is, and they had to personally review the images one by one and certify that perceptual hash 0FB89C8A7DF6AA1945B is indeed CSAM content and agree to collectively sign it for addition.

This would only work if the full IOS source was fully published, and compiled as a reproducible build, so everyone could confirm the scanning code does what it's supposed to, and is not altered with any subsequent update.

P.S.
Don't nitpick on the names, it was a deliberately absurd list of people either with a good reputation or with a lot to lose in the respectively chosen afterlife.
How you can tell France is still a democracy:
(1) you can protest anything you want
(2) a majority of people still manage to shut out the idiots
Yeah, if your browser supports this and that, otherwise not. No audio? Bad luck. No JS? Bad luck.

Also, i'm assuming, maybe wrongfully so, that Google would make accessible CAPTCHAs harder to pass, with the logic that sound-based CAPTCHAs are much easier to break for a bot.

All in all, reCAPTCHA (and other modern CAPTCHAs like hCaptcha) are a usability/accessibility disaster. It should be a crime to enable that on a service to restrict access to your peers.
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> Elastic's playbook is almost diametrically opposed to this: they need to prove that they're worth paying a premium for, over AWS' offering. The repo activity clearly shows that they're working on more stuff, building faster, whatever signals you want to glean from that. Change is happening, and if it's good change I can see the gambit AWS is pushing turn into a losing proposition.

As an Elastic customer managing my own cluster, the main issue I have with their approach, and the main reason I'm tempted to switch to OpenSearch, is their all-or-nothing license model.

We only use ES as a place to centralize logs, look them up, maybe whip up a dashboard now and then. No fancy ML or what have you. We don't (yet?) care for those. But we also need access control. There's no such thing in the free version, so we have to pay up quite a hefty sum. We could also get by with 3 data nodes. Tough. Minimum is five. We'd really like it to have some kind of SSO, like pretty much all our other apps. We'd have to pay up even more.

So yeah, we'd be getting all kinds of ML-laden features and whatever. So what? Those bring 0 value to us today.

So my thinking is, what if OpenSearch doesn't have the latest and greatest features? Aside from a few things around snapshot management, I was never really interested in those. Plus the license premium is so huge compared to our usage, we could just be spinning a tad bigger VMs and keep everything on-line.

I wonder how many clients like us they are alienating with, what looks to me, a petty war. But as someone said on some other threads on this subject, Elastic isn't a mom-and-pop company, so our annual license costs are probably pocket change for them.
We do not know all the details. We know neither contract nor do we know what disciplinary actions and other communication happened. The title and position sounds better but it seems he lost direct disciplinary power and his closeness to the top also implies supervision from the top.

Disciplinary matters are secretive and highly individual. Cases from the outside may look different from the inside. Unless there is a pattern to look the other way I’m inclined to give Google the benefit of doubt.
Yeah, it's extra frustrating that you never know when clicking a tile that contains just a tiny bit of traffic light, whether the algorithm on the other side will see it too.
Well my main reasons outside them are:

A) Abuse. The assumption that only true, evil crimes mean surveilance technology will be used is wrong. It will be used to harass partners, exes, famous people, activists, journalists, people with the wrong skin tone etc. In fact all of this happened already.

B) Power. Giving a government global surveilance capabilities also increases it's power into a realm where the government's nature will change. It will declare things being its business that were formely none of its business. It will go good for a while because our aystems change slowly, but at one point authotarians will take power and then you provided them with the perfect tool to target, assassinate, control and enforce.

C) Vulnerable groups. There are certain professions and groups that enjoy protection from government spying for a good reason. If you accept surveilance for yourself, you are also accepting it for them. And the next time you might really need your client-attorny-priviledge or your doctor-patient communication to stay private, it might be too late.

These are mostly "systemical" perspectives, but they are much stronger for me than "It is gross, they should not watch it".
Thats a serious amount of electronics for a charger. I think it probably would have worked but Apple would have had to sell it at a ridiculously high price.
That's two or three weeks of groceries if you're on a budget. It can make a huge difference for some people -- especially the type of people who don't feel like they have any options but sex work. It's hard to blame them since OF is a relatively safe way to do it, too.
I tell you how it is possible: it is both a bug, and a design issue.

To say anything deeper about the whys one would need that investigation.
> the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human

Well put. I would add that it's even more humiliating that you have to "prove" it to a machine, who has no clue what it even means to be human.
I feel your pain - even though I've never been homeless, am male, from an entirely different country and demographic.

You are early, a good writer - and were able to convey the feeling of frustration and helplessness whilst maintaining your dignity.

Could you perchance share the links to your blogposts on here?

I'm sure there are many on here who would like to help in some way if they can.
Interesting article. I also can’t imagine that it’s either sisal or Americana exactly, both are so tough & fibrous, and are in such widespread cultivation that this preparation would be more well-known. The agave heart or “piña” used for mezcal is somewhat similar but not that similar. Agaves very quickly grow some massive asparagus-shaped flower stalks before they die, is it possible this is the base of an enormous stalk rather than a stem? Never seen one this big but maybe it’s out there.

I also would not discount the possibility that these are not raw exactly but prepared/treated somehow. Obviously the fact that they taste like water limits the possibilities, but maybe a stem is placed in water for awhile to make it way more engorged than it would ever become naturally. Or maybe it’s soaked or boiled after harvesting, and flushed with clean water to improve the texture and reduce toxic effects. Raw agave contains calcium raphides, a painful irritant (experienced by another commenter upthread, btw) so some kind of preparation might be necessary.

I always love a good nerdy mystery story. Good luck on your search :)
It is getting harder and harder to differentiate HackerNews from 4chan/fox news.

Was the Ycombinator world always a bunch of right wing frat bros getting together to bitch about how much you hate liberals, education and california while comparing activists to ISIS?

Or did this just happen in the trump area.

Hacker news? Nah bra, Maybe hacker noise.
Not on iCloud. They have all the content already encrypted on your phone. Can’t fingerprint after that. Them adding this as an on device process is due to that.

And the fact that Apple has been talking about privacy all this time (and rightly so) means their past mitigations makes this more painful. Any other vendor could just do it on the server, add a line to their Privacy Policy and nobody would know.
That's because they push spam to try to make the rumored 1000s a month.
> The US has a sort of Andy Warhol style egalitarianism of "a coke is a coke and rich and poor alike drink it" going on but not much else.

I think this is the key bit and that's really well put.
> Would something like this ever be acceptable on a laptop?

Apple announced this for macOS as well. It’s not just for iOS.
Taro grows, there's even an area called "Taro Ground". I'm a fan of kava and I know Tahiti has a kava tradition. I asked one of my cousins about kava on the island and they don't know of it growing there. Given that the island was populated previously by Polynesians it's possible there is wild kava growing there somewhere. Next time I go I'm keen to look out for it. It would be interesting to try and cultivate it and make it a crop for sale in the same way Honey, Coffee, etc has become a popular export item.
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Sorry man, but people should know when they are older then 10 that what anybody thinks is their opinion and not reality. There is no need to say it each time.

So you prefer people hiding their true thoughts instead of being honest? Its probably one of the major reasons for all the BS we have around...
which somehow encourages other users to look at their user profile

So, hinting that they're a woman on reddit?
"...court filings reveal that the arbitrator found Berry’s allegations more credible than Tesla’s denials, ..."

So this was a he said/she said case?
I have long argued that dropping the Russians from this program is the only way to go.

The Russians have turned into a hindrance. Every error that happens is a conspiracy. When one of their workers drilled a whole into their spacecraft they publicly accused Americans astronauts to be spies who sabotaged their hardware.

Those who say 'but then they will work with China', ok, go ahead, destroy their space station. Let China finance their broken industry if they really want to.

NASA needs to move on from ISS and move to a privately operated station with the main focus on the moon and Mars.
Look up "predictions markets".
Yeah this is basically it.

They have a system that checks for hashes of images to try and find specific CSAM from a database when images are uploaded to iCloud, this already happens but is now moving on device. When explaining this I've used the analogy that here they are looking for specific images of a cat, not all images that may contain a cat. When multiple images are detected (some threshold not defined) it triggers an internal check at apple of details about this hash and may then involve law enforcement.

The other one is for children 12 and under, that are inside a family group. The parents are able to set it up to show a pop up when it detects adult content. In this case they are looking for cats in any image, rather than specific cat image. The popup lets them know it may be an image not suitable for kids, that its not their fault and they can choose to ignore it. It also lets them know if they chose to open it anyway their parents will get notified and be able to see what they've seen.

This is a good rundown: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
You're confounding descriptive and persctiptive theory. Such conflicts are an obvious consequence of the setup despite deeper strategic analysis advising against it.

In his book, Mearsheimer

> readily acknowledges the inherent pessimism of offensive realism and its predictions because his world is one in which conflict between great powers will never see an end. [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Great_Power_P...
To be more precise, if the dog always barks and only missing positives are counted, it is inevitable to never miss. An obvious number cheat.
SpaceX destroyed the main funding for their space agency.

Raptor 1 is already better then any Russian engine along most metrics.

And Rogozin is a journalist made oligarch, he doesn't know shit. Accusing Elon of not being an expert is quite funny coming from him.
Note that although OF claims to do (or may even actually do) identity verification, some of these may be bots using other people's photos and may be components of larger automated spam campaigns/platforms. $100/month multiplied by a large N can be good money. And a small percentage of the bot accounts might make a lot more.
Fun fact:
My elder brother was Armando's TA in TAMU. Armanda probably was the brightest and most fun guy to work with. There were extra credit for building a fully functional software CPU and its vector pipeline supporting VLIW (mid 90s duh). Your advisor guy did it in a breeze. The instructor privately confided to my brother he was a legend in the making.

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Thus, representations such as SGML, RTF, HTML, XML, wiki markup, and TeX, as well as nearly all programming language source code files, are considered plain text. The particular content is irrelevant to whether a file is plain text. For example, an SVG file can express drawings or even bitmapped graphics, but is still plain text.:

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Oil came mostly from plant matter, buried in the time of dinosaurs and prior and subjected to time and pressure. The biomass of plants exceeds the biomass of animals by as much as two orders of magnitude.
It’s very muddy, though. The number of pictures on one’s hard drive is irrelevant to the fact that a child has been abused or not. In your example, none of the children would have been abused. Also, who gets to define how much “a lot” is? We can’t say that it’s ok if it’s your children (or grand-children’s, or nephews, etc), because most of child abuse cases involve close family members or close friends.

We definitely should punish exploitation of children, including sexual, and we definitely should punish distributing images of this. But conflating exploiting, distributing, and viewing, and then putting a big taboo on this, is really not ideal. These things are different. Otherwise what we end up with is righteous frenzy when someone gets punished for sexting.
From an outside point of view the ship takes 53K years to cross our galaxy, from inside it looks like an instant. Time flows at different speeds.
That's because London has a very good tube system, such is completely absent in the US. Except maybe NYC. Attributing preference for the tube to some sort of moral humility is a stretch.
Not having to fight the device to stop it from phoning home might also be a feature that's missing from Kindle devices.
exactly. For people in HN who probably make at least 6 figures on average, it's easy to forget that for many people, an extra $1.5k a year reflects a significant pay percent increase, like 5% raise.
I have had the same doubt. But just now I realized, that if this this is for training som self-driving AI, it is probably only the actual lights that matter. I.e the red, yellow or green signal. The rest is noise.
On a thinkpad keyboard, my thumbs fall naturally on the space bar (well, rather between the space bar and the left trackpoint button), so hitting the alt next to it implies an uncomfortable bending motion of my left thumb. Also, the x is just over that key, so doing M-x in Emacs would be a weird pinch-like move. Maybe it's a matter of habit, but using CAPS as Ctrl/Esc is literally a 2mm move of the pinky to the left from my home position.
You don't own your apple devices anyways. It is a happy walled garden for those who don't care too much, those who lost all hope and those who can lie to themselves very well.

Not that I am a open source extremist, but the moment where we couldn't control the way our own machines run is the moment where they stopped belonging to us. Supporting a true open source phone OS might be a good idea even if you don't use it. Because one day you might have to.
Water is far better for you than a coke any day.
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> The median take-home revenue is $136 per month. If you value a creator’s time at a $15 minimum wage, the median creator needs to be spending less than 9 hours per month on her OnlyFans to break even.

> Relative to effort, it looks like most accounts lose money.

I guess you could assume that. But I'm not convinced without data. If you asked me whether I expect the median OnlyFans creator to spend more or less than 10 hours a month, I'd definitely guess less. I'd expect there to be a lot of inactive or barely active accounts.
> Chinese manned missions to Mars in 2030 have long been announced

Total nonsense. They wont even make it to the moon by then.

Their Long March 9 rocket need for Mars will barley even fly before 2030, let alone will they make a Mars mission with it.
It wouldn't have worked. Wireless charging is just that much impractical, but it rings that "magic" aspect with which Apple bought people who never seen a touchscreen.
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If that would really be nice, you should set an alarm. Without enforcement of some kind, its really just a bla bla... :)

I can promise you I'll be there to answer any questions you might have, unless I am dead (or you). :D
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> In Britain, it is politically impossible to be prime minister and send your children to the equivalent of a private high school

Whoever wrote this is being a little disingenuous. The pipeline from a handful of private schools to the upper echelons of power (via Oxbridge) in the UK is very well known. The fact that the press wouldn't let the PM away with sending their kids to Eton or Harrow doesn't really change this or make the country more meritocratic, it just means we all pretend they're just like the rest of us for a few years.
I think FOSS didn't predict that work done by volunteers will be appropriated repackaged and sold by big corporations without sharing profits with contributors nor sharing any patches.
This caused people to develop defensively - contribute as little as possible and only for their own benefits. Developers no longer wanted to be taken as fools.
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So if AWS ALB HTTP/2 listener -> HTTP/1.1 target downgrade was vulnerable, and the recommendation is to use HTTP/2 end to end... am I reading the AWS docs [1] correctly that ALB only supports HTTP/2 -> HTTP/1.1 downgrades, but not HTTP/1.1 -> HTTP/2 upgrades? In other words, using HTTP/2 as the target group protocol only works for HTTP/2 clients, and HTTP/1.1 clients will receive an error?

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...
In some aspects I'd agree, though the drive by some companies to be seen to have some perfect gender balance, has seen meritocracy take a second seat.
I think if nasa had remained a part of the military, it would have done more and been better funded...
If you want to save yourself a couple minutes just look up a picture of 711 in Japan.

“You can find dinner there and it will be a top-notch dinner.”

Yea, I don't know about that. You can find much higher quality, cheaper bento at other stores, although the onigiri is nice in a pinch.
>caps years of complaints from Black workers that Tesla turned a blind eye to the commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line and was slow to clean up graffiti with swastikas and other hate symbols scrawled in common areas

Is this a shitty middle school or a company? I would imagine it's not very easy to get a job at Tesla, including for assembly line work. I'd be shocked if it happened once, let alone repeatedly, and let alone with a slow clean-up response.

If it were one employee making the accusation, I'd believe it, and since it's allegedly multiple employees, I especially doubt it's false.
I don't think you were able to read or understand what I pointed out. It's immaterial what you thought was or was not possible.

The relevant part is that the president of the US of A, along with his political party, thought it was possible to overthrow the elections they lost to preserve themselves in power, and executed their plan to overthrow the elections. That's what the Vice President stated. Which part do you want to deny?

Even though the VP stated he intentionally rejected the president's plan, let's keep in mind that the president's plan also involved assassinating him along with members of Congress as part of his plan to overthrow the elections.

Which part exactly do you not accept?
There are children on the island, and a school there. When they get to high school age they leave the island to attend school in New Zealand and return afterwards - or stay in NZ. At the time of my journey there was a child protection order on the island which means if you planned to take children under the age of 16 then you need to apply for a visa. Government jobs don't allow taking children. One of the unfortunate obstacles to people immigrating is there is no public long term plan that I've seen about when that order will be lifted.