skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The blog post you linked to specifically explains that Cloudflare are using PATs to replace CAPTCHAs. Do you find yourself filling out Cloudflare CAPTCHAs on a regular basis when accessing 80% of web services? I personally do not, nor have I heard anyone complain about such a thing.

I regularly see applications deny me service simply because my Android device is rooted. The RiF app, back when it was usable, led fanfiction.net to loop around Cloudflare craptchas in its in-app browser because FFN had the anti-bot settings turned to the extreme and something deemed my device to be dangerous.

I have zero reason to assume that once Cloudflare has enough market penetration they can and will switch on a rule to kill off "modified" desktop devices just as well - especially not if rightsholder alliances such as the MPAA, Netflix or whatever demand yet another piece of crap signal to judge my device worthy. Just look how rightsholders almost got Microsoft to implement Palladium for their crypto crap decades ago, and now we got the same shit on virtually all mobile devices with Widevine refusing service if you dared to install an aftermarket firmware or root it. Or how the rightsholders got HDCP embedded everywhere. Or how Secure Boot got all but mandatory.

Thanks but no thanks, everything that even begins to veer in this direction has to be stopped from the start. Cloudflare is in a too powerful (and for media rightsholders, way too tasty) position, and we have seen it in the past (as detailed above) how eventually the rightsholders get their way.
How does running a Python 3.4 app in docker help? 3.4 is deprecated and will get no more security patches. Running it in docker doesn't change this.
It would if you had some past history to work with. Let’s say that you measured the same object awhile ago and you want to incorporate that prior information in a principled way, while also letting the new measurements dominate if they give a very different result.

If you encode that language into a linear Gaussian model, you get KF.
I have seen it multiple times at BestBuy.com and HomeDepot.com, and probably others.
A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology
> These bugs are really hard to find in C - basically the worst case for debugging because the problem could be literally anywhere.

> 5 minutes later I had found and fixed the bug. In C, I’ve had similar problems take hours to days to fix.

Modern tooling like a memory synthesizer and good debugger makes this kind of debugging relatively easy.

In some case, the bug would have been detected even before you run with proper warnings.

> Bugs like this aren’t possible at all in Go or C# because of their memory model.

Except in their respective FFI or unsafe block of code.

> But in those languages you pay for safety by sacrificing performance.

That's a bit of a strong statement. Even if we accept (i don't) the performance aspect, GC languages give more safety,convenience and dev prod. than rust and at a significantly less complexity overload.

> As an example of how this helps, a couple years ago I was working on a complex & clever rope data structure. My code segfaulted - and I can count on one hand the number of times my rust code has ever done that.

This might simply be an indication that you were using the wrong tools in the first language. Most native languages (D, C++ etc...) have facilities to avoid unsafe behavior. Use them.
Could be, and maybe that is also the reason for the emerging mental health crisis. Or it's the other way round. Nevertheless, if one asks: What was different say 50 to 75 years ago? Was it the smaller social reference group (you couldn't compare to the worlds elite in every single aspect of your life)? Was it the way of live laid out more clearly (you could get somewhere with a corporate job, own a house, etc.)? Or is there a more fundamental reason mental health is declining and thus more and more people are NEET?
Probably repeating those people "you're a failure" doesn't help much building that resiliency. And current society does mostly (only?) that.
Magnets have an annoying tendency to stop working when they are heated.

And it's ridiculous that I'm saying that on the context of testing a superconductor. But well, here we are.
Somehow I doubt those are the only two options.
Yes, and std::optional is a janky implementation of a sum type in a language that doesn’t have them. The ergonomics are bad, and it is easy to make your program blow up if you forget a check.

In a language with sum types like Rust, Kotlin, and Swift, if you’re following the default “happy path” of coding, you are not allowed to forget a check. The compiler will not let you.
agree so much. Projects that aim to build a data resource and then let AI use that resource are missing the point. The AI is the data resource.

Some projects claim that knowledge graphs or other data assets can help the AI retrieve 'true' knowledge. Personally, I believe that the better approach is to develop methods that allow AIs to create their own data assets, the weights in their networks is one of those assets.

The question of truth is still a very hard one. How do you tell an AI that some knowledge is more trustworthy than other knowledge? People have this issue too though.
To get it to that level of performance, you need to have expert java programmers, and the result will be hard to maintain.

For instance, you can’t use String on hot paths. Also, NPEs can happen almost anywhere, and the compiler doesn’t enforce thread safely (by which I mean “statically checked to be data race free”)

Also, the 10-50% slower rule of thumb only applies to throughput. Tail latency is generally much worse than that.
I found it a bit strange that in a photo captioned "Metaverse socialising events are one of the measures being used to ease the hikikomori back into society," Takimoto is watching a YouTube video of the (excellent) Final Fantasy 6 soundtrack.. Just poor captioning I guess.

Interesting that he "cured" himself by having an internal debate between his hikikomori self and his ideal self. Sounds a little like cognitive behavioral therapy where you identify and challenge your negative beliefs to determine whether they're correct.
What was most surprising about this is not the fact that there is a group of people exploiting Stripe’s payments, but that the author had ChatGPT write a script to automatically handle payments processing, specifically for chargebacks. And based on the context in the article, the author sounds like they lacked the technical skill to write or validate these scripts themselves.

This author is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. ChatGPT is cool and all, but the fact that they’re trusting it to write critical code for handling their customers money speaks volumes. They’re incredulous at how they feel Stripe violated their trust in it to manage fraud, but then go ahead and blindly place it in another technology they don’t understand. The problem isn’t Stripe (though, yes, they should fix this), it’s the fact that they are just giving away trust and hoping for the best.
Not even banks, only vendors are responsible if they do not upgrade their POS systems since sometime in the late 2010s I think.

See EMV fraud liability shift.

https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/mccom/en-us/documents/...
Fedora uses btrfs by default these days, so that's likely what's coming for RHEL.
Usually these transactions are automated with the checkers. Some are as simple as a PHP script replaying a request, some are more sophisticated that use residential proxies, some are parts of huge enterprises like try2check. If you have a list of IPs, you can scan them for 80/443 open and sometimes catch simple checkers in action.
This is a wild take.
I get what you're going for, but I think you've got the problem wrong.
The issue is that society has been constructed (deliberately or accidentally) by corporate interests to make the average person feel devalued and useless to the point that they be don't believe anyone cares about them, so why should they care about themselves, especially when they fall on harder times.
The idea that shame is somehow missing in society is wrong, many of these people feel intense shame, but that is outweighed by the perception that society doesn't give a single fuck about them so they stop moderating their behavior as a coping mechanism.

You're essentially "victim blaming" here, shame is not a healthy motivator. The "social contract" has been eroded in favor of "if you're wealthy/beautiful/healthy/etc you're a more important member of society".
"If you can provide more money to the corporation, you are more important"
This is an appeal to authority and regardless, if you pass off something as proven fact you should have to be damned sure. Being wrong and claiming later that it’s a coding error should not cut it. This should result in a total loss of credibility
There is a subset of the tech bro that believes everything can be reduced to a problem with clearly defined taxonomy and as such every problem can be solved by an engineer with no subject knowledge. This article very much reads like one of those people wrote it.
In my experience, there's far less of this than one would think.

E.g. Yes, even my workplace requires crappy Outlook email, but the web is just as bad-slash-good.
German politics/demographics seem balanced carefully between {need for immigrants to maintain population growth} and {cultural reaction to immigrants}.

Although, credit to Germans, at least they're talking about the problem like adults. Mostly. Or moreso than other countries.
TBF change is partly driven by legislature, which doesn't really apply at neighbourhood levels.
And now, of course, it's deprecated because you wrote it in a version of Python that's no longer in support or used a library that hasn't been (or maybe won't be) ported to 3.11.
Well that's a hell of a specific block message.

Always interested in checking out new Linux distros but not interested in drama.
> Look I know ANNs and NNs are quite different, but the experimental evidence with NNs shows that what I described above, a mix of feature detectors that just approximate the structures of the data to deeper and deeper detail and are just all somehow applied to see what works, is much more plausible than some constructed algorithm a neuroscientist or philosopher would write down.

Precisely. Deep CNNs were directly inspired by studying the structure and behavior of visual cortical tissue.

The algorithm is just recursive feature detection, where the visual elements are transformed into abstractions, based on both sensory input and projected expectations. If anything, that's the real exciting part of the visual system, why do illusions occur, how does expectation affect perception, etc. Not "how do line drawings evoke similar concepts to images". That's just bypassing the first few layers of filters. Basic ass tiny MNIST nets can do this.
As compared to what...
JVM is neither particularly advance nor particularly performant.

Can't quite comment on the GCs though
This is quite a strong opinion from a sample size of 1.
What's amazing is people who program for a living, who people would normally think of as being "experts", have so little knowledge of all the different types of programming that is done by, well, people who program for a living, and the tools they use to do that programming.

Not only then is it gatekeeping, it's also a sign of an inexperienced programmer.

I'll give one thing to Python programmers, they tend to work directly with their end users and build solutions that matter to them. Anyone that's done that kind of work knows it's difficult, regardless of programming language being used.
there is one, open source, on github:

https://github.com/danielshorten/k9t9
I've been wanting to make a deeper study of Kalman filters and related sensor fusion techniques for a while now, this looks like a decent resource but perhaps the hacker news horde has some even better suggestions for articles/textbooks/videos. If there is a particular piece of media that has really helped you grok this sort of thing please leave a link below!
I was talking about the first bomb.
> That system only works though if you have a growing population.

That's true, but there are other systems. Japan prints more money. They are the poster child for modern monetary theory.
My favourite things about Python are the huge community and the rapid iteration. Don't got me wrong, I like Go, too. It was the primary language I worked in at my previous job. But sometimes you just need the big community and the huge pool of documentation, or you want something to work now instead of fiddling with it, and Python is great for that feedback loop.
I'm with you on this, but again, far fewer people even need things as heavy as Gimp/Photoshop with the web alternatives around. Stuff like Canva, even.
b/c that's exactly what happens: they keep on driving and going to prison. Drunks are stubborn.
When my legs give out from below me, I don’t shout “loss of hydraulic pressure!” like some kind of arthropod.

Yet we’re obsessed with framing ourselves as chains of matmul.
Yeah but it's often hard to get the timing right, to not just drop straight off the front page.

But point taken.
HN taught me that checkups aren't really useful...
Schools are openly discriminating in favor of the female majority, while having no programs to promote the success of the male minority. Schools are less equal than when Title IX was enacted.

That’s misandry.

And it’s been happening for longer than I’ve been alive… as a middle aged man with a bald spot.

To say nothing of family court, criminal court, etc.
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Dogmatic idealism is the enemy of progress.
I'm not sure how much extra I pay but the hassle free peace of mind I have seems worth it.
Enterprises want stability and front end technology has been everything but stable.
Dunno but when I tried it and it spewed nonsense for a while I asked what had just happened Why does it send me all that text and it said I must be confused I haven’t asked it anything yet. So I did d it again and it spewed more text.
> Business Source License

Standard open-source but you can't use it in a competing commercial offering.
The dialogue at the end of the transcript (Find "OK, Lauren, so it sounded when") does a good job at outlining the difficulty of clearly demarcating the concepts of ownership and intellectual property.

Our metaphors are undeniably outmoded and there is a powerful corporate faction vying to be the one to cement the new metaphors that are favourable to their profits.

>I think I'm just saying that ownership is always a construct, and, you know, owning a house, owning the land that it's on, owning any object is a construct. Like money as a construct or corporations as a construct. All of these things are constructs that we've built, we've created, to make society work, and we can choose to change them. And maybe what I'm saying is it's not obvious to me that it's wrong to change the construct of ownership. I think where I come down on the same side as you is that the common thread in all of this is that corporations are getting more power over individuals, and they're getting to choose for us what can we have, what can we see, what can we change, how our experience is shaped. And that feels uncomfortable. It's, it's the power and control part. It's less even about the concept of ownership itself.
ever bought a keg?
> Would you rather they just keep their source completely closed then?

I just want them to stop using deceptive language.

> I just don’t understand the criticism of a company transparently acting in its best interest (in what I would consider to be a completely reasonable way).

They are lying in order to benefit from the good will and legitimacy that open source brings.
Then it's a good thing that many banks in the EU now have 3DSecure validation through the phone app instead of SMS
That's why we're stuck with Gmail as the state of the art 10 years later.
I've been programming in Python for most of the past 10 years, and I've never experienced a regression in backwards-compatibility between minor releases. What problems have you had?
asked 3 questions

1st question = got the ticker wrong. asked about company A - gave info on B
2nd question = please give info on A. it says sure
3rd question = please give info on A. pops a modal asking to pay
fail - "generalized gender problem" is not the lense that will understand, diagnose and prescribe for all people in all places. Rather it serves to unilaterally hijack the conversation into self-referential back and forth that is unresolvable in the general case, almost by definition?
As much as I personally dislike python, I completely agree with this, but want to flip it. If pythong meets your needs, absolutely use it. Don't complain about how Visual BASIC doesn't work for you on your way to downloading whatever version of python is current this month.
Not Haskell style lazy but more of declarations are just another statement that aren't evaluated until those lines are executed. This means you can have function definitions inside of ifs which can be very useful for conditional programming / meta programming. Similarly, all variable accesses happen at runtime. This makes it so you can't truly statically verify the program but that the only way to know for sure how it will behave is to run it.

In an odd twist, function argument defaults are evaluated at function definition execution time rather than call-time (so half-way in laziness) so a `[]` as a default is shared between all users of that function and if you modify it you are changing a global. I heard that this led to a vulnerability within some security software.
While that's true, halting problem is completely useless in the real world (nobody designs user-facing apps while thinking about whether the program halts), whereas picking data from speech is a much more useful one that was long unreachable for "clean" closed-formula math.
Auto-translated > This is the first time I've been joining Twitter to this question. Looking for the source of this video. My fellow researcher said he received this video from another colleague on Telegram.

So the "source" is someone asking if anyone knows the source. This video could easily be a hoax.
So not open source.
I also looked into this a little more, and I believe these are out of date. It looks like it's much closer to evenly split than previously believed.

"A government survey has revealed that women make up almost half of the estimated 1.46 million people aged 15 to 64 who have withdrawn from Japanese society. It was previously believed that most of the recluses, known as hikikomori, were men."
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2391/ [April 2023]
> I submit that the extra-ordinary claim would be the parties with the control of money supply and taxation structure, and the parties without it, are on an equal footing here when it comes to debt.

Well, obviously.

There’s limits to the parallels you can draw here, but unsustainable spending into debt is bad for both households and states. Period.
https://dimeadozen.ai

I've used this to get similar insight into ideas I've been thinking about.

It generates a pretty big report and some of the sections provided some challenges I hadn't considered.
By that broad metric, running low but positive inflation at central banks is a Ponzi scheme.

A fuller definition would be that Social Security is predicated on a growing working age population.

Which historically, has been a valid assumption.
a good allocator could mitigate most of the allocation effects
> Ascribing it to “economic conditions” blinks reality.

No, it reflects well-established reality.

> Americans are economically better off now than they were in the 1960s, when TFR was much higher.

Yes, exactly. Globally, on a by-nation level, prosperity in general and social safety nets in particular, as well as access to birth control, are close and immediate drivers of reduced fertility. When family is your only old-age, disability, or unemployment support network, the economic incentive to have a large family is greater. When those are socially provided, raising children is a cost without as much of an economic purpose.

> But Muslim Americans, who are also wealthy and educated, have a much higher TFR than whites and other Asians.

Muslims in the USA are not more educated than the general population, having college degrees at about the same rate as the general population (31% in 2017, vs. 34.2% for the general population). [0][1] They also aren’t more affluent, being similarly likely to have an income over $100,000 but more likely to have an income under $30,000 than the general population. [0] Also, Muslims aren’t categorically Asians or categorically non-White (in fact, more are White than Asian, racially [0]), so you should either not use “other” for either racial category or should use “other” for both; the non-parallel use suggests you think Muslims are categorically a racial subgroup of Asians.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/07/26/demographic-...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attai...
> BSL is not open source.

No, but Apache 2.0 is, which is what we revert to after three years. The better analogy would be, "I've decided to become vegetarian, starting in three days." But then actually legally guaranteeing that you'll follow through vs. always pushing it off into the future which is what it sounds like with the vegetarian example, I know I wouldn't believe myself if I said that. :D

[disclosure: I'm Head of Open Source at Sentry, which owns Codecov.]
Amazon may have met its match in the grocery aisles
The biggest AWS mistake I never made was staying with their free tier.

Instead I quit. Because it was quite apparent AWS was locking me into both a dependence on their workflow and a sunk cost fallacy that it'd take as long to set up something equally functional somewhere as all the hoops and AWS way had there.

Jump before you're consumed dear friends.
Safe Haskell sort of addressed this, though I didn’t find it useful in practice.

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_gui...
Getting timely, accurate data from the insurance companies on this intuitively feels hard. What are the guarantees around those APIs? There are so many path-dependent factors, like outstanding claims, readjudication of old claims, or "revenue optimization" games on the backend.

Happy to connect if it would be helpful for you!
>Also, we have no clue if the US or other military has already discovered and been using this and for how long.

Highly relevant: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967333> and <https://np.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15fy1xw/superconductor...>
Full stack web apps in Python with Reflex dev
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And arguably, is the more "important" work, or at least the stuff requiring the most attention?

I know that's a tough thing to say -- but yeah, the irony is that a really really good "low-level programmer" is destined for obscurity, because things just work and once they're working people forget about it. Shouts to Linus Torvalds.
If Archive.is doesn't want to respond to valid DNS requests then I don't see a reason to use or support them.
Please see [1] regarding the concerns around attestations and PAT and [2] for what has happened outside HN, which a simple reading of that thread wouldn't otherwise suggest.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972051

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971869
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