skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the technical founder of FriendlyCaptcha [1], a privacy friendly proof of work alternative to reCaptcha that doesn't suck for end users (and also doesn't need any tracking or cookies so legal/compliance teams like it too). While not a one-man company anymore, I've been the only engineer of it for a long time that I think it qualifies :)

* We use cloudflare workers for our API endpoints which have given us amazing reliability and scalability (which is of course very important for our service)

* We use cloudflare KV and cloudflare cache for some caching and logged in user sessions.

* Mailgun, FaunaDB, Sentry, LogDNA, Stripe, BigQuery.

* The web app is good old server side rendered html and css with a tiny bit of JS here and there.

* The widget is open source, written in Typescript (and as it has to run in really old browsers there's Babel to transpile. The solver inside of it and the proof of work library is AssemblyScript (i.e. WASM), with a JS fallback.

* PHP for our wordpress plugin.

The way we operate is that we provide free (or very low cost) plans for hobby users and stuff like small (wordpress) blogs to hopefully make a dent into recaptcha's market share, it's a bit of a social mission. Larger companies pay for more advanced protection features, EU-only endpoints, (as well as custom agreements and other paperwork). That balance has worked well for us, and even the small customers that use the free service contribute to our protection.

The past half year or so we learned that our customers that bring in the lion share of the revenue really prefer it if we keep their processing and data in Europe (our privacy friendliness and our EU-basedbess are big selling points, even more than improved ux+accessibility). So much so that we are heavily investing into that, and we are slowly moving in favor of our own infra in Hetzner (Germany).

There our tech stack is fully Golang (Fiber framework), with Redis, Postgres and Clickhouse as data stores. The way that our system works is that we look at patterns of access, and we can tweak the difficulty of the proof of work challenge on a request by request basis. One nice property is that it's not all or nothing: if we suspect a puzzle request is from a spammer they will get a rather difficult puzzle which will take a while to solve, but at least it won't lock out any false positives. Clickhouse is fantastic for this purpose (putting in millions of events is not even close to its capacity, it's lightning fast). Of course the widget itself also has the most basic of anti headless browser checks, but that will only deter the most naive spammers.

Of course no captcha system is perfect and will protect against a spammer who is willing to spend real resources (e.g. pay compute, or human labelers) to spam, but so far we're happy with its effectiveness, and it warms our hearts when we receive messages from blind or even deaf-blind users that encountered our captcha and web out of their way to say thank you :). I hope that at some point captcha labeling tasks can be a thing of the past.

[1]: https://friendlycaptcha.com
This is true. Paid services also tend to parasitise their legitimate users and maximise revenues.

A key difference is that in the Twitter case, there's no monetary penalty which can be imposed by the host class (that is, the unpaied content contributors).

Much of the "harvest as much data as possible" element is also driven by fundamental power and monopolistic differences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
I’ve parked in places where I’m pretty sure the only option was to start a timer (it’s why I made the comment).

EDIT: yup, RingGo in a city centre in England. Just checked. Only option is to start a timer. And it stops in 5 hours time if not stopped (£5.60 for the first 2 hours then a fixed £3.80 for the time until 10pm)

When the old systems worked just fine, and there is no option to prepay, no, I will not take ownership of my “oversight” - it’s dark patterns designed to prey.

It’s more inconvenient for me yet they charge me a convenience fee (especially if you drive a lot of rentals, registering each car is a PITA).
This sounds a lot like lazy manager.
They didn't use the robocalls to promote their side, like the robocalls that you get, they used them for voter suppression.
The simple answer is: password resets. I’m sure majority of people would be very upset if they lost everything by forgetting a password.
At the same time he never consented to a nude image of himself being plastered on one of the most popular albums ever made. Even if it is a cash grab I think he's got a point.
It occurs regardless of status.
I remember the NFT hype from 3 months ago. Is it dead yet?

Also what happened to Chia?
This was my experience working in data science. I was extremely unhappy with the impact/results that I was able to deliver in my organization. Almost all of my analytics focused projects ended with a presentation to executives who promptly forgot about it and made decisions based on intuition anyway. It's draining to repeatedly push and push to a finish line that has no impact other than self-aggrandizement. Again, maybe this was just my organization - I'm not making statements about data science as a whole.

Over time I found that I love coding/delivering useful solutions to users - so I gradually positioned myself onto progressively more pure dev projects. I'm starting my first "real" software engineering role in a couple weeks, and I couldn't be more excited. :)
Lots of good tools out there, but Obsidian is the one I've settled on, for better or worse. I use the $48/year sync service. It does a perfect job syncing my files on my Linux desktop and laptop, my Chromebook, and my phone. Turns out Linux ARM (for my Chromebook) isn't as well supported by various apps as I expected, but their build is available and works perfectly.
> Why is it somebody else's home when they might have never even seen it?

It’s their home because somebody bought the land, put in the effort to build the home, and then either decided to rent it out or decided to trade it to someone who earned the money to buy the home.

> The state needs to actively physically move my body in order to protect the property that is owned by somebody else because they wrote a contract

No, the state needs to actively physically move your body because you are breaking the contract that you signed by not vacating the home after your lease ends, and in doing so, you are violating the property rights of the homeowner.

This perspective taken to its natural conclusion would imply that homes are built on trees (pun intended, they are made of wood).
This is Reading Rainbow, the subscription version. As a parent of a very young reader, here are my thoughts.

- a video component to a reading program is a distraction, not a value-add, until around grade 4. young kids are mesmerized (this should be in all caps) by video, and before around grade 4 video will create a contest for kids' attention that reading will lose. they won't think "I want to read more so I can follow these programs" they will instead think "I want to watch tv".

- to teach kids to read, and to encourage them to enjoy reading, you need to read with them. there is no substitute for this. talking to them about reading, watching videos about reading, etc. are time wasted that could be spent patiently reading, together.
You're suggesting that an answer which explicitly makes "area" a synonym for "market" is a defense against the suggestion that using "area" is an attempt to obfuscate that they're really referring to "market". That, uh, doesn't add up.
For the sake of correctness, Bezos is definitely not in a $500M jet. The only jet at that price is owned by a Saudi Prince.

Also, the idea that Bezos and people like him never sell stock is just completely wrong. This stuff is public record, you can look it up. Here’s an article that did it already [0]. Which means, yes, Bezos and all the other über rich pay taxes and don’t borrow money to avoid taxes until they die.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/06/24/heres-...
> 50% of Americans use jPhone, and many as their primary computer device.

Isn't this article about Korea? Anyway.

> You can't reach them without paying Apple Tax

And? If it's that bad just don't do business with iPhone users. Can you not make money on the other 50% of users who use Android? If so that's kind of telling on its own. Or is it that you want your own business to be more lucrative? The thing is what is happening is that Apple is passing costs on to developers instead of consumers, and as a developer you don't like that. As a consumer, I love it. If they stop passing those costs and stop collectively bargaining against developers for me then the cost of the iPhone goes up.

> Margins are tight as it is. Apple makes it substantially harder. Before Apple, people were satisfied with websites and Windows programs. Now everything has to be an App.

Maybe you just don't have a good enough business model? If it comes to having fewer apps on the Apple App Store or having multiple stores, as an iPhone user I prefer fewer apps for sure.
It didn't lose to the extent that indemnities could be imposed on it.
Emacs... it's likean extension of my brain ar this point. It allows me to record my thoughts org-mode, draw (plantuml), take notes of whay I learn (org-roam) and program.

My silent Bosch dishwasher... everytine I don't do the dishes... a say a little prayer for the engineers that built it.
Kobo devices have out of the box integration with Pocket, which Mozilla supports natively.
I think part of the problem of Macaroons is the belief that there should be an ecosystem of them, and a standard, and standard libraries. They make work best when they're custom tailored to the applications that really want them.
Well, the thing is that the ID asserts that there is a government party that is a guarantor to that you exist and you are who you say you are. So by showing them the ID they know that all the work is done to assert this and they only need to match the persons face/bio to the card to assert the identity.

All banks in the EU are bound by law to assert that the person doing a transaction is who he is and is identifiable. So it’s not just because their “role as a societal service”.
> When are we going to see a Medium or Substack for pornographic content?

That's...what OnlyFans is?
I’m going by what I’ve read here, not having owned a timeshare myself. The main issues seem to be, in fact, cleaning and maintenance, plus the hurdle of organizing everything. This stuff is very straining on relationships. Someone has to do the purchase paperwork, deal with permits, hire cleaners, builders, inspectors, check their work, schedule, payments, and so on. Sounds like a ton of annoying work, and they are targeting a millionaires market already - I bet a lot of people with 600k to spare think it’s worth the 12%.
Basically what a large chunk of the PC world was for a few decades.
The gems in Java 16 and Java 17
What that study shows is that unvaccinated people in the study cohort were twice as likely to experience a reinfection. A lot of things could explain that and it's a far cry from establishing that it boosts immunity. The study period was also during the point when effectiveness of the initial mRNA vaccine doses was probably peaking.
Weird subjects.
There is a terrible trend to control other people in this country.

It starts in college where housing, food, and healthcare are all provided but you can be expelled for the wrong opinions.

No wonder people look around at the free world and whine that someone should do something!

It's gonna take way too long for all of this to make it to the
supreme court so that all these little fascists can get their hands smacked.
Surely that's just any halfway-competent pay/sign-up wall, rather than specifically anti-reader mode?
Check out ArchiveBox. Not as much of a bookmark manager but great for archiving pages.
That's why I included "Photos from real estate listings?" in my list.
I wish Adobe would listen to me when I write in "I am cancelling because you do not support Linux".
Yup.

I've seen a lot of shitty companies like this where the programmers are expected to do the management as well as the programming.
Especially if you buy from a Chinese vendor :)
If they pass false positives to authorities that will open them up to legal action.
Or it was never really a banking problem and they got a metric ton of free PR?
This is of course completely valid, but to provide a countering anecdote, looking for companies that do this kind of recurring retreat is a strong positive signal in my current search for a remote dev job.
The term has been reconstructed even further back to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and cognates exist across a large number of related languages. https://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-s_t.htm#30099 Of course that doesn't mean it's used the same in all of them.
That it has origins in the same language family doesn’t make it the same word. Once again - it has a very different meaning to taboo.
Getting that first job is almost always the hardest. I went through nearly 100 interviews (I have no degree) before I got hired. I wouldn't call it unfair though. I've been on the other side of the interview table since then and I can tell you that the vast majority of applicants to a junior role are so far from employable that its barely worth it to hire a junior. No one wants to wait years for an employee to become productive. The fact is that most schools are not preparing graduates to work in the industry. I know several CS graduates who were almost totally unfamiliar with SQL databases. Considering that the vast majority of SE work these days is on the web, it is shocking that there isn't more focus on fundamental web technology.
Miller is not new (at least 6 years old is what I can gleam from the Github page).

It is somewhat similar to JQ, but specifically for record based formats and not documents.

The example page [0] has quite a few nice examples.

A recent snippet from my own usage, looking for duplicate ids in a large-ish csv.gz:

mlr uniq -c -g id then filter '$count > 1'
mlr --ijson --ocsv filter '$success' then stats1 -a mean,min,max,stddev -f duration

[0]: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data-examples.html
Premium Economy bridges the gap.

When has there been any alluding to or promise of being able to work in economy? It always seemed best effort. Eg if your laptop was small enough, if you’re at a seat with power, if the person wasn’t reclining.

IMO you should not book economy with the expectation to work for any decent portion of it uninterrupted.

(Again this an EU/international view. I’ve not flown US domestic)
1. The US did not make any sort of declaration
2. Not everyone with a walkie talkie will have this new guideline applied to them. Even just going off the article, someone with a radio could be treated with suspicion by these new guidelines, as they could be a spotter.
3. They are not defacto a "target" as described above^, although that is what the poster claimed.

The poster's statement was hyperbole to the point of being an outright lie.
Sure, you can claim that. And the GP can claim that the author tends to have unreliable thinking patterns.

From the authors own viewpoint, he would want us to investigate that for ourselves.
My personal cloud is the rack sitting next to me, not someone elses box that other people are also hosted on.
It's a pile of files on your hard drive, so encryption is up to you. If you buy their sync service, you get encryption: https://obsidian.md/sync
We're specifically discussing people with immunity from having recovered from a prior Covid infection, in whom serious life-altering illness from a reinfection is also extraordinarily rare.
Google VCU Video Coding Unit at Hot Chips 33
Edit yes, but whether your edit survives whatever person is king of that particular corner of wikipedia is another matter. Try making an edit from a brand new account. Correcting errors on a website isnt worth such fights.
Yeah MIT CS grad on OF means

1) Bottom 5% tier grad who has less than zero social skills, thus would also be a low earner on OF

2) Extremely picky about jobs. Instead chose OF for lifestyle/earning reasons.

3) Serious health, legal, psychological, or family problems that would prevent them from any job and probably also would have made attaining their degree very difficult. This is MIT OnlyFans person I feel the saddest for.

4) Some other 1/1000 possibility

The idea MIT grads are on OF in mass just to make enough to eat and put a roof over their heads is some serious sympathy farming.
> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.

Once they know it's possible, people want a one click solution for anything. The subject being taboo has nothing to do with it.

This is one reason why Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix did such a good job combatting piracy for music, video games, and movies, while ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 20 year old consoles. Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix made content easy to get. There's no equivalent for most ROMs, so they're still widely pirated.
How is the service currently being funded?
I did have a job previously that required 2-3 days of travel 4 times a year, and was able to make it work.

In fact, a 2 week trip to a cabin to focus on work and team building sounds fantastic... for me. My spouse, on the other hand, would not be having a great time. It certainly has a whiff of unintentional ageism.
How do you advertise a porn platform to the mainstream? By (briefly) pretending it's not a porn platform and getting coverage in virtually every major news provider!
I meant I feel the same regarding k8s.
Weight Training Changes the Brain (In Rats)
I think this is a good question. I'm writing up our Macaroon implementation as I roll it out --- it'll be a few weeks before I publish --- and, if I've done it right, I'll have answered that question clearly.
I downloaded the latest Google Camera from APK mirror and turned off all network access in Datura Firewall (comes with CalyxOS). This is a pretty common recommendation on /r/CalyxOS. Another recommendation I've seen and wish I'd done is to extract Google Camera's APK from your stock Android via adb before you flash Calyx, thus avoiding APK mirror.

Only trouble is after you take a picture and tap the thumbnail to view it immediately, it wants to open it in Google Photos and that is apparently not configurable. Simple enough solution - downloaded Google Photos from Aurora and blocked all network access just like Google Camera. Most stuff in Google Photos doesn't work but it's fine for a local gallery viewer.

From what I gather no other camera app will even come close as the Pixel series works closely with the Google Camera app to bring software optimizations to the photos that specific camera module takes.
A longevity expert shares the diet, exercise, sleep for a longer, stronger life
All reactors have neutron embrittlement problems.

Operators just hope it doesn't get as bad as the case in England, where they could barely move certain metal containers without them shattering.
There’s a typo in the title. Should be “fructose”.
I don't know. I don't really spend a lot of time dealing with gamed process priority. Would this be all that different?
Interesting that there's a limit. That's also probably many times more than I have withdrawn in my whole lifetime.
they said "a legitimate target", not "everyone was targeted".
Show HN: The Decider, a Slack app for easy decision making
Framed another way “plain old common sense” could be better worded as “using critical thinking to form an opinion about the root cause of a geopolitical clusterfuck”.

If people who have an opinion that differs from “sources” is now a Qanon believer then we’re in for a very rocky road ahead. It’s almost like we’re only allowed to have same opinion as our overlords who own the “sources” we venerate. That’s a problem.

It’s not much of a stretch to believe that defense contractors lobbied lawmakers to extend a war that made them so much money. Certainly not enough of a stretch to compare it to Qanon.
Hey HN! I wanted to share a little Slack app I built to help my team and I reduce meetings and make better decisions remotely. It's called The Decider (https://thedecider.io).

As a remote team, we use Slack for most of our day-to-day communication and decision making. Unfortunately, with so much going on, channels often get too noisy for focused conversation. When we use threads, the progress and final decision often get lost.

For a while, we manually created breakout channels for every sub-discussion, but that was a pain.

We built The Decider as an easier way to enable these kinds of conversations, e.g. "Where should we go for lunch today?". It automatically opens up a temporary subchannel and invites whoever you choose. Members can propose options, discuss them in the channel, and vote among them. When you've made a decision, you can automatically close the subchannel, and report the results back to the parent channel.

Check it out and let us know what you think!
Do vision transformers see like convolutional neural networks?
I see this sentiment posted in reply to nearly every post on hybrid work without any real justification. As someone who had a hybrid setup before the pandemic, going in 1-2 days a week, I did not value being able to live far away from my employer. Conversely, I did value having a place nearby where I could go to work and reliably be physically proximate to my coworkers.

It's not like there was no freedom to work elsewhere either. When I wanted to work somewhere else for a week or two I'd work it out with management, no problem.

Some people really want remote work, more power to them it looks like there will be plenty of that post-pandemic, but let's not pretend that many people won't be happy with the office being a regular part of their week.
Downvoted for missing the point, that the OP was EXPLICITLY ACKNOWLEDGING that every single component is suboptimal or "wrong" but that they still liked the result. So a response that an ingredient is wrong is not particularly useful.
This is certainly a common thing at large companies, but it also is one that goes back ten to twenty years, possibly more. Millenials hit this frequently, it's not just a Gen Z change.
SingleFile [1] has some basic options allowing you to archive pages you add in your bookmarks.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Most people would consider the impact of planting a forest with tall trees on air currents to be mostly benign. I imagine this is the same, except with less fire risk.
That's a significant difference.

I both want myself and others to experience Old Reddit. So I use Old Reddit URLs, both for my own interactions and when posting links to the site.

And if I do that, I do not remain on Old Reddit.

With JS disabled for New Reddit (one mechanism for reminding me not to use it), the interface doesn't persist.

Note that this has similarly been a long-standing issue when using i.reddit.com, the lightweight mobile interface. So long as you're clicking on interface-related links, you're OK (e.g., posts within a subreddit, or short-style links to users or subs: /u/<username> or /r/<subname>). But if there's a hardcoded fully-qualified link to a given Reddit URL (post, comment, wiki, user, etc.), then whatever the governing host-part is is applied, and bang, I'm off my preferred interface.

Many subreddit sidebars explicitly code the fully-qualified hostname to their Wiki or various support pages. This is especially infuriating.
I've been burned at least 3-4x now by bookmark sites shutting down, I just stick with Buku now: https://github.com/jarun/buku

Local, text/cli based, sqlite.
I'm trying to cancel my SimpliSafe service, but their offboarding-friction is much lower-tech than Adobe's. To cancel, SimpliSafe makes you call their customer support during business hours, and they just don't pick up!

It'd be easier if my credit card let me audit and block recurring charges from my end, without ever having to interact with the company I'm giving the boot to.