skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do what you have to do. Keeping the platform safe is your job. Others might put different values above yours.

If you want drop in replacement, Cloudflare a turnstile as mentioned. Otherwise fully behind Cloudflare. CDN won't help much due to nature of content but WAF rules can be used to easily turn on invisible captcha based on rules.
> Think about $15/hr people

Actually let's think about them. What could they buy in Q4 2021 (when BTC was 60k+)? If they were in the US, then probably some random stocks or some index fund, which has gone down in value (-20% for S&P, to -65-70% for "blue chip" ones like TSLA or META). Definitely not real estate. And forget about commodities.

Outside the US? I'd wager similar scene in other advanced economies. I don't even know what good options they have in developing markets.

Even today, I'd wager that BTC* will have a better outcome than S&P over the next 10 years.

*to me, BTC is the only reputable crypto. ETH, if you understand how it works. Forget about everything else.
Indeed that is the correct advice.
There are compressors specialized for FASTQ that are faster and denser than zstd. FASTQ is the the most common format for storing DNA sequencing data-- a text file including metadata, sequence, confidence scores, etc. http://kirr.dyndns.org/sequence-compression-benchmark/

fastqz (not the best name!) supports reference compression too, for smaller files when they're reads compared to a reference genome.

Here's an 2013 paper considering the problem: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Still, zstd is widely available and a simple drop-in replacement for gzip.
If one lane is sometimes too few, then it seems to follow that widening highways is sometimes necessary or at least good, even if it doesn't "fix" traffic.
Not Tarantino? Admittedly I didn't see the Hateful Eight either...
Haha there are easter eggs as well:

> Okay, if you really want to see a photo of my cat and have resorted to looking at the source HTML, here is a photo: https://gail.com/boxcat.jpg
$7k is an absurd amount of money for 99.9% of the US (Recall the statistics on who has at least 3 months of income saved up? This is a similar amount of cash to have available). I've seen good friendships lost over a lot less money than that.

I agree with the parent - don't give it with the expectation of receiving it back. Save everyone the heartache.
This is a terrible example though, there is no reason why those shouldn't be normal query parameters.
Yes. It's the only federated news aggregator, which works well for a community that wants to share links related to their common interest, and discuss them.

Being federated allows them to use their existing identity or create one for the fediverse, and general or like minded communities to see the discussions as well. The same reason people use subreddits for fanbases, but not being beholden to reddit.
IME, Hacker News titles tend to be edited to fit within the character limit; I actually opened the article despite low personal interest because of the ellipsis.

BTW, I was able to catch the updated title before the "unflag" action disappeared, so I was able to remove it. Thanks!
and green peace super soldiers
Radiation deaths? Lol guys, I get it, but please don't try to make a bigger fool out ouf you by ridiculing about a point noone ever made.. it is like someone would tell you that our lethargic sitting life styles makes us sick and you stand up and shout: "But noone died from sitting, while tons of people die from sports a lot!!!"
It is just continuous QA for Waymo. Measures how well existing ML is working in the real world.
Yes, lots of big cats are called panthers by various people.
PSU and VRMs all check out. Went through the basics first.
The problem is that most of us work for companies ACTIVELY TRYING to use this stuff to replace human beings, INCLUDING THE ACTUAL DECISION MAKING and slapping black boxes everywhere in their bureaucratic processes because "machine says no" is a SUPER beneficial thing to a business, especially the modern massive corporation that doesn't really have competition and is mostly profitable because it ignores problems.

I give it five years until even we here are unable to get the attention of a tech company employee to fix our wrongly locked out account because not only are the primary touch points """automated""" but the appeals and appeals of appeals are also entirely automated.

Everyone here will get to enjoy "machine says no" a hundred times more often. Every tech support or bill support or anything support will put you through half an hour of terrible "AI" interaction before you are even allowed to be routed to a human, and businesses will use this to get rid of even more call center employees.

Hate not being able to understand the thick accent in your support call? Get ready for 1% of the time the AI in the phone call puts together sounds that don't actually form words, or just straight up misunderstand what you say, and nobody will believe you because "it's so accurate". Get ready to be gaslit by your fucking phone.
My regrets abouts current eEnk readers:
1) Too heavy(for 10”) - 400 grams and more. Too wide borders. Still 2 cm on Kindle Oasis!
2) Low level of UX, compared with modern tablets - slow screen refresh, touch events comfort far away from tablets.
3) Too much of unneeded features. Who needs audio player or web browser on reader? Invest your time in technology inprovements!

Looks like even Amazon lost interest for ereaders R&D. City needs new hero.
Have you read the packtpub book? I'm very weary on buying from that publisher as I gotten burned too many times. IME they are often both poorly written and horridly incorrect. This was around 2018-ish so maybe they've gotten better but they definitely have the "self publish" stigma with little editorial guidance in my view.

Not saying this is the case here, as the other looks decent and has a history of writing content.
Nothing wrong with rolling with something like that until there are more than a few people working on the project and you have actual customers.

Overengineering infrastructure early on is fun, but unecessary and something that can relatively simply be tackled later.
I never thought burning an open flame inside was a bright idea. I went induction quite a few years ago - once you get used to the instant control and power (good conductive cookware is key) it's hard to go back to traditional gas or electric. New house I bought the builder only offered gas so I had them wire it for electric and swapping cooktops was one of the first things I did after I moved in.
EU citizens don't need (and in fact can't get) a permanent residency card.

For that reason, Germany introduced a "non-identity" (i.e. not doubling as a photo ID) e-signature card in 2021, but apparently almost nobody is requesting it, so most administrative offices don't know how to issue one...
To put that in perspective, consider that a large portion of the file is literally a nucleotide sequence, e.g. "GGGTGATGGCCGCTGCCGATGGCGTCAAATCCCACC" and that the rest of the file format is also fairly repetitive. If we just imagine only the nucleotide sequence, one way to compress that would be to take advantage of going from an 8 bit alphabet (ASCII encoding) to a 4 bit alphabet (CGAT). Naively, you'd expect ~50% compression from that alone, and be left with a bit stream that's still compressible.
SPAC Math No Longer Adds Up
at least when I asked it to give me some examples of how to avoid antivirus software it warned me:

I can provide some examples of rootkit techniques, but it is important to note that creating and distributing rootkits is illegal in many countries, and I do not endorse or encourage the use of these techniques.
This is entirely configurable by the site owner. hCaptcha has entirely passive score-based detection, 99.9% passive mode, and more aggressive options as needed.

(disclosure: work there)
I just designed and built an RPI-hat style PCB with JLCPCB that has multiple MCUs, power, and a 40-pin connector on-board.

Each 100mm x 100mm board was $~10 a piece, assembled and delivered to the US (the cost mostly consisting of my specific parts.)

It's pretty cheap, low effort to prototype a real PCB.
I’m not sure it’s “immoral”. The UI for things will have to change as products have features added, and older UI concepts might not work as well with new features. I believe JetBrains is trying to solve a problem that actually exists here: any flavour of IntelliJ is VERY confusing since there’s many different places where actions are kept. They’re running into a wall where anything new ends up adding more icons in various spots where there’s room (eg. the Jetbrains space plug-in that adds a little space icon into the top bar, a side panel, some context options, and extensions into the app menus.

Seems like it’d need a top down rewrite at somepoint, and they’re open about taking feedback. But “don’t change anything” isn’t really feedback.
> I don't think it's reasonable to use it as grounds to suggest that anyone should have their servers DoSed by Google with no recourse

Of course not; this entire thread isn't necessarily hugely on-topic here, but it got brought up, so ... well ... here we are. And in fairness, you did bring up your ban in the posted article.

> The linked comment was indeed out of line, and perhaps you feel justified in thinking that it should be sufficient grounds for a permanent expulsion from the community. I won't argue with that, fair enough.

No, I don't think anyone should be banned for a singular comment, no matter how egregious. Everyone deserves second chances, and third ones, even fourth ones maybe. There's some decent data from Stack Overflow that shows that after a ban many people keep posting and many don't get a second ban (i.e. their behaviour improves).

> I have good reason to believe that this incident is unrelated to the reason I am presently banned.

I think the thing is that it's part of a pattern. Usually the "final straw" isn't the worst incident, or even that bad of an incident in itself. Incidents like this aren't isolated and previous behaviour does tend to factor in: "oh, that's the same guy who called us a bunch of morons last year".
Darwin is still very readable.
Explain the trash islands
I suspect they have a problem with this DDoS by default unless you ask to opt out behavior. Why is anyone getting hit with these expensive background refreshes until you have a chance to do it right? Why is it still not done right 2 years after this was first reported?

Maybe it should be an opt-in list where the big providers (such as github) can be hit by an army of bots and everyone else is safe by default.
Try "tar -caf myarchive.tar.zst dir/"
> Having someone experienced within arms reach would be the best bet when/if shit hits the fan.

Not just that. One can learn a lot from the mere presence of someone more experienced. How do they prepare, what do they bring, how do they pace themselves, how do they make decisions. Basically it makes it more likely that you don’t even get near the bad situation.
I've heard that too, but I think it would take a decent developer 1 hour to make a first pass at such a thing. It doesn't have to be complicated nor perfect. I think it should not require images nor javascript. It should probably be a server-side LUA script that caches the puzzle and answer.

I found a few starter ideas [1][2] and concepts [3] but I would prefer to use something like figlet vs gd generated images. Figlet or something like it should be much lighter weight. I just have to find one that is readable on cell phones.

[1] - https://github.com/lua-programming/lua-captcha

[2] - https://github.com/mrDoctorWho/lua-captcha

[3] - https://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html
You don't have to enumerate, just acknowledge. Some people think trying to get a selfie with a buffalo is a good idea. You don't have to tell them all the was it could end badly, just that it likely will. Same for the person hiking something like Zion. They should be prepared for any relatively expected contingency, and if they don't know what those are, they are unprepared to do so.
Who would implement this suggestion? Is it an appeal to folks at large writing tools that interact with genomics data?

Due to higher decompression cost, the opportunity here seems localized to long-term storage. It feels like it would make more sense as a project (or product!) that implemented an efficient long-term archive (perhaps with a less compressed LRU cache in front).
There you go: www.geekzone.co.nz
Interesting. Just to make sure I understand — that url contains all of the IDs and user inputs, and then you parse out of the key/value pairs and feed those inputs into the app?
I once worked maintenance at a department store, and one of my main responsibilities was electrical repairs (despite lack of formal training). The lighting circuits were all commercial 277 volts. A fluorescent light appeared to be burned out, but as I was changing it, I learned that it was actually a wiring issue when I was installing the new tube atop a 12 foot ladder. My knuckle grazed the fixture and I lit up like a Christmas tree. The resulting reflex caused me to crush the fluorescent tube, but somehow I managed to not fall. Oh, hello death, I acknowledge the brush.
I think he might be done. The challenges of triage in space boggles the mind - you literally have to provide remote support to a device on another planet. Hope they succeed, but chances are slim.
> You can use lent and borrowed in both directions (I lent X to him; he lent X to me -- I borrowed X from him; he borrowed X from me)

Those are both unidirectional: lent is always “the (possibly implicit) direct object moves from the subject to the indirect object prefaced with ‘to’” while borrowed is always “the (possibly implicit) direct object moves to the subject from the indirect object prefaced with ‘from’”.

Birectional would be where the subject could be the source or recipient depending on, e.g., the preposition used to relate the other party as the indirect object.
>Second, I think the "money well spent" part is that you helped her in some small amount, when it was obvious she was suffering, and you didn't expect anything in return.

Let's be clear here: the "out of gas" story was almost certainly a lie and OP knew it. He helped her buy a small amount of drugs.

I have a sibling struggling with drug addiction for the past 6+ years, constantly "borrowing" money from others and never quite hitting a serious enough "rock bottom" to decide to get help/rehab. My brother "borrows" $10+k/year from my dad and it's poisoning their relationship and draining my dad's finances. (my dad recently took out a 401k loan because he's so cashflow-negative and that money's gone already) My dad enables him every day while dreaming about moving to another state and cutting off all contact.

$40 for OP to cut ties with someone like that is indeed money well spent, IMO.
Yes, I believe you want to loan money to friends less than what the friendship is worth. In other words, $7k might break the friendship for some, for others not really.

It also depends on how easily money comes to the lender.
Mostly cardio. Maybe I should be upping my sodium intake?
Seems like the same approach as using a different kind of lock on your door: the groups with resources will simply already have the tools they need to get through it and it only really stops people who aren’t at that level yet
I've had to drill out a screw on a nexus 6 at home. That damn phone had somewhere north of 20 screws holding the back together. One got stripped and I drilled into it till the head came off and it was a post instead of a screw from then on.
If I were to make a product, I would hope that I'm making money because it's a quality product people like and want to buy because it's good, and not because I'm delivering the minimum possible value not considered fraud to extract maximum value from the customer.
That's a fun guess? Do you flip a coin every time you make a decision or...

I can assure you that if CLIP and ALIGN exist, there is objectively no reason for them to collect what would amount to a dataset for...solving Google CAPTCHA's? Which I'm pretty sure is a solved problem even without the data.
> They just replied with "no, I will not change, fuck off".

As a former Rust moderator, this, so much. So many people don't see this part, where you reach out to folks and spend long grueling hours trying to get them to correct their behavior, precisely because no non-psychopath wants to drop the ban hammer on anyone. (Unless it's for obvious spammers and drive-by trolls.)

And the people saying "well I'm not suggesting do nothing, but just use better tools." Well, yeah, great, let's use better tools. Who's going to get GitHub to implement them? Or whatever other platform you're using? Some platforms have better support for this kind of tooling than others, but GitHub's is (last time I checked) pretty bad and coarse. It is slowly getting better over time. It used to be virtually non-existent.

But in the mean time, the people actually in the trenches doing the hard work of moderation have to do something. If the platform doesn't have this sort of idealistic tooling that's easy to navel gaze about on HN, then they have to do the best with what they have.
"I _constantly_ try to evaluate where I stand with people. "

I am, or rather used to be, quite similar. Now I am much more relaxed, as I think I understand better what a gift is. It is free and comes ideally with no strings attached. Otherwise it is an transaction. And it is a bad idea, to mix them up. My default is to consider a gift as a gift and nothing more.

I just give and take freely.

If you think too much about it, it can destroy a lot.

Also, there is more than money. Maybe the one guy bought more rounds, but then he unloaded his problems on the others. Or not. So what? Life is not a balance sheet, that needs to sum up. But if you try to make it one, you might find the joy is getting lost somewhere in those numbers.
Or we can complain, suggest alternatives, and hope that it motivates a change. Hacker News is, after all, a place for conversation—people are entitled to express an opinion.
Same experience for me. Viewing screens, with their unnatural light and uncanny hyperrealism, rattle my nervous system, and I can feel a subtle internal fight in my brain about what I’m doing. Somehow it’s also easy to get trapped, like you get magnetized. I see this in everyone. It can sometimes cause arguments trying to get someone to break the spell and have them reengage with the world. It’s not just the normal aggravation of context switching, our nervous systems get slightly hijacked.

Starting to read a physical book sometimes is very difficult after spending time on screens, but if I can break thru the first 15 minutes where I can’t get my eyes to track the page effectively and let myself slow down enough to fully pay attention to the words in front of me, with no possibility to click anything, then I find that my mood changes and I feel happy, calm, creative, inspired. After an hour I only reluctantly give up reading the book.

Rinse and repeat everyday. Some days I wish all computers would stop working.
Agreed. Any sufficiently complex tool needs a good explanation of it's workflow. I was using Photoshop occasionally for years, but when I saw how people use it in real life (the photoshop guys episodes were great) a lot of stuff clicked and made much more sense so it was way easier to use.
My whole journey to freebsd started because I had a very old PC that I used as PPTP server while running not-so-legal ISP in the neighborhood. FreeBSD happened to be the greatest for this because of in-kernel support thanks to netgraph, but the real reason why - Linux couldn't finish the installation on that machine without crashing. FreeBSD meanwhile kept working until I made enough money to buy a better hardware.

Just for that reason, I will forever love it, but won't be using it on desktop - I can't use 10 years for GPU drivers on my main rig.
>>operate on PDL because they never learned about risk in general

Yup, humans are generally awful at understanding and managing risk, and it is in no small part because there is almost anti-training about risk outside of high-risk activities, and even some of those are very low on guidance and high on PDL.

>> I still wouldn't feel bad - that's the way they chose to live thier life.

True, 'tho I feel like it is my better to not die soon-ish doing what I love, but enjoy many decades of doing what I love; doing it a little smarter and sometimes not quite at Warp-9 every second, so I can do more Warp-9 seconds later.

I used to be an alpine ski racer, downhill my best event. At one national championship, the lower half of the race course was pretty flat and the race organizers decided to spice up one of the drop-offs with a bigger jump, building an illegal ramp before the drop-off (the FIS rules for Downhill stated that features cannot be sloped up before the racers leave the ground, level or down-slope only). I decided I had the knowledge I needed without pushing it on that feature in training so shed some speed every training run. For the several days of training runs before the race, every afternoon we were visiting friends in the hospital with fairly serious injuries from that feature (one back injury never raced again and never fully recovered). By race day, they'd decided to make it legal and shaved off the ramp. I have never felt that I missed out on anything by being aggressive on the top and skipping the Warp-9 attitude there...
may I ask what was the name of the club?
Life is lived in those moments one later calls stupid shit. I wish I did a lot more stupid shit when I was younger.
Yes the OP doesn't understand the first one therefore the second one might be false.

QED.
I just use the propane turkey fryer burner (stopped using it to fry turkeys a long time ago) outside to wok with. Way hotter than any inside residential stove will get and all the smoke and residue is outside too. Wok cooking inside of most homes is a recipe for disaster - far easier to just do it outside.
Many of the suggestions so far are assuming you have taken undergraduate linear algebra and calculus. I'd start with those two subjects, you really can't build a foundational understanding of modern AI techniques without them.
The financial disconnect in tech versus the rest of society is crazy. Casually handing out $7k is a wild statement for most of the world.
https://archive.ph/bTPx5
Aeropress ftw. There is a somewhat intricate mostly sequential workflow (inverted method):

- fill and start kettle
- measure and grind beans
- clear and rinse coffee maker
- assemble coffee maker and invert
- collect grounds, funnel into coffee maker
- remove funnel, replace as stand for coffee maker
- check water temperature, heat or cool as necessary
- pour water into top of coffee maker, 2/3 full
- stir for 10 seconds
- allow to rest
- pour hot water into cup to warm it
- insert filter into holder and rinse it
- add remaining water to fill coffee maker
- attach filter cap
- dump water from cup
- invert coffee maker over cup
- press slowly to fill cup

Doubles as a dementia detector. Forgot the filter? Hot muddy mess on your counter. Forgot to dump the cup warming water? Too weak to drink. Forgot to set the grind properly? Too weak or un-pressable. Forgot to finish making the coffee? It's cold.

Get it all right and it's probably the most satisfying non-espresso cup.
Technology Connections on youtube has an awesome video about coffee makers! its 35 minutes, but i highly recommend it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9H0MO-qS8

i think it's actually amazing how much design went into these "dead simple" coffee machines!
Everyone should read “Timon of Athens” - some say Shakespeare’s worst, but it’s my favorite.

Whenever I think about lending, or asking for a loan or help (I am terribly short on money and very sad about it) - I remember this story.
Very comparabale! And also sheer luck the main plume went there too..