skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that the question should be the other way around:

Why is it that you have to lose your anonimity when you are on the internet? The real world always allowed that until it became dependent on surveillance capitalism. Of course you need to prove you're yourself for some things, but that should be the exception.
You could always look things up at your local library while being anonymous (for checking out you'd need a card), you could call from a payphone while being anonymous, you could use coins (cash in general) while being anonymous.

Anonimity was the rule and should still be the rule
> the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

Criminal law often does the opposite. There seems to be the illusion that “to understand all is to forgive all”. And so prosecutors and judges often feel like they should not understand the perpetrator too much, lest they cannot punish him.

It’s a remnant of “guilt” being defined as “acting in one way when you could have acted in another”. So it becomes imperative to prove that the perpetrator really “could have“ acted in another way, but inexplicably chose not to.

In other words, the people who put up the fence must have been stupid (ideally not human) for us to be able to say that it should be taken down.
Dynamic soaring
How would you store petabytes of data with a low latency instead? We didn't really find a better solution.
How many years until sites actually remove CAPTCHAs though?
You see where this is heading: after superintelligence is achieved, CAPTCHAs will be designed to be questions that humans get wrong but AI has no problem with.
Thanks a lot, I totally forgot about this!
It depends.

If people think bitcoin will become more valuable, because they suspect future people will think it will become valuable, because future people think it will become more valuable, because future people think it will become more valuable, then eventually you run out of people and it collapses.

We can visualize this as the last person on earth not investing in bitcoin because there is nobody after him left to invest in bitcoin to make the price rise more. And by that same logic, the previous-to-last person wouldn't invest either because he knows the last person won't invest, and by that same logic, the previous-to-previous-to-last person wouldn't invest, etc etc etc. At some point the pyramid simply stops because it's used up all the fertile soil, and the growth itself was the only value creation. It stops ways before the last person on earth, the moment the market is saturated the growth stops and the entire thing collapses.

But if people think bitcoin will become more valuable, because they suspect it will be useful as a decentralized currency to more and more people, then it's not a pyramid scheme in the same way. Even the last person on earth would have ample reason to start using bitcoin, it's just a convenient way to be able to pay for goods and services in any context. Early adopters do get a big payout, but that's because they were early in on something that's valuable on it's own.

Obviously these days the later scenario looks less and less likely as Bitcoin's everyday adoption has slowed down, while Bitcoin's role as a growth speculation seems to have taken over.
The company never had to exercise those mining rights, they chose to take down the wind farm and mine coal. I am not mixing things up, you are very clearly missing the point; they decided mining for coal would be more profitable, it was never your decision in the first place, no one cares about anyones feelings here, its economics.

If you take cheap nuclear energy out of the equation then of course energy prices rise. You are taking off supply, that pushes cost up to meet demand.

You clearly dont care enough about the environment to question the strategy used in protecting it; if you want people to tolerate green energy it has to be cost effective.
https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#specification-history
Captcha or Attestation doesn't remove the need of moderation. In case of a botnet, an elevated complaints of user device engaging in fraudulent activity can lead to disabling attestation and trigger an investigation. Every iDevice being a member of your site can happen only if you are Google, other than that what you'll see is that some users will engage in shady stuff and blocking them will be enough to keep them out since they wouldn't be able to just sign in with a new account.

These things are always cat and mouse games.
I think you are taking the wrong tack in your approach to this. You keep saying life must arise at the end of an experiment. The thing we can do is work through to dna base pairs arise. If you are then in the right environment for random mixing of these base pairs for millions of years, I do think you'll get microbes.

It's a big mistake to say we have to run an experiment that produces living organisms from nothing to say we know how it works. And that likely took millions of years. That feels like an excuse to argue that it can't happen without some external power (not the sun, ha).
I put an href on the front side of the card to the problem, and most of the time actually clicked through and redid the problem from scratch (making sure to avert my eyes while I deleted LC's copy of my last attempt). If I felt particularly lazy or confident, I would just mentally sketch out the solution.

Worth noting I also became much more adept at things like list comprehensions and using Counters and DefaultDicts in Python this way. When you type out a solution over and over like that, your brain naturally wants to chunk things down as much as possible.
The fact that they are predicted to be "seven to ten years" away suggests there are still many unsolved problems that are preventing scaling-up from becoming a reality.
Also One Task: https://sindresorhus.com/one-task
Sorry, not responding to obtuse comments.
My plan (in California) already has a super-off-peak from 8am to 4pm. Those do tend to be hours people aren't home though.
Yes, but what does it do?
That is dehumanizing.
> Taken together, these mean prosecutors generally don't have good enough evidence to put people away

Note that while you're correct about what those statements would mean in combination, refurb's statement is false. There is very little point in examining what would follow from the invented claims of someone with no idea what he's talking about.
While SuperMemo is at SM-18 in meantime and also much ahead of Anki in other features like incremental reading (which in my experience is its real super power, not the spaced repetition as such). Although there might be plugins for Anki that offer something similar.
> ART, Swift/Objective-C runtime, and stuff like Grand Central Dispatch

I don't know these, but from a quick googling it still looks like explicit multi-threading? Albeit with higher level primitives than in older languages, but still explicit?

> auto-vectorization

I'm not sure I see a hard dividing line between older languages and managed ones as far as auto-vectorization? Sure, a higher-level language might make it easier for the compiler since it knows more about potential side effects, but simple and local C code doesn't have any side effects either.

> with little intervention required from the developers side

> Hence why frameworks like Accelerate exist, even if a JIT isn't part of the picture

Accelerate looks nice, but it still looks like it has to be called explicitly in the user code?

> Likewise higher level managed frameworks offer a better distribution between the parallel processing taking part across CPU, GPU or NPU, which again on classical UNIX/Win32 in C and C++, have to be explicility programmed for.

I'm not sure I understand, can you give more explicit examples?

My point here isn't that managed languages don't give big benefits over C. I prefer Python and C# when those can be used.

It's more that I don't see "automatic parallel processing" as a solved problem?

Sure, we get better and better primitives for multi-threading, and there are more and more high-level parallel libraries like you mentioned. But for most cases, the programmer still has to explicitly design the application to take advantage of multiple cores.
CS Syd: Hygienic Upgrades
https://documentation.suse.com/alp/dolomite/html/alp-dolomit...
> just not doing them in the first place

Which is not a bad thing
> The form exists neither on the object nor in a Platonic heaven, but only in our minds because it is 'imposed' on the table by our reason and intellectual categories.

This. I was looking for this in the original article. Thanks for following up.

I really prefer learning these aspects of philosophy rather than more ethics oriented topics but it’s really such a rich subject.
The same logic applies to railways, airports, cargo ships.
Hi, I'm the author of mCaptcha o/

To impose delays, there must be some way of identifying users individually. But to do so will have privacy implications. PoW is a stateless way of imposing delays without the privacy implications of tracking.

That said, it isn't perfect. I'm on the lookout for cleaner and more efficient ways of doing it.
A superintelligent AI would be able to imitate a human, getting the answers incorrect in exactly the way needed.

However, I'm not entirely sure what kind of system a superintelligent AI would need to access which would be protected by a captcha.
Interesting points, all related to changes in the candidates’ behaviour.

From the title I thought this would be about how recruiters are getting better at questioning candidates based on using chatgpt. I wonder if that’s the case.
> Why are some memories maintained without repetition?

They aren't. It's just that the repetition might not come from the outside but from within. Or just by way of daily exposure to something. Or by trauma (which you probably want to avoid of course).

But generally speaking, if there is no repetition at the neural level, you will forget a memory.

A lot of that also happens during sleep. E.g. if you go through something again in a dream, this also counts as a repetition.
Also, a full 80+ symphony orchestra is so spread out that the speed of sound is significant. Even with perfect visual conducting, as a player, I have to ignore that those guys on the other side of the stage always, always, are just... a... little... behind... I must instead stick with the conductor.
Think of the complexity of making a new browser. It's hard to destroy one, but arguably even harder to make one.
This is basically how Laserprints with Postcript work, UNIX classical printing was nothing more than sending a Postscript file over the network to the printer, turns out not everyone wants to pay the prices they usually have.
> Have you ever faced custody and pre-trial detention?

Yes.

> ut yes, offering a definitely innocent person that was abused by the System the choice between two forms of punishment is some form of "torture".

If you classify everything you don't like as " some form of torture", then sure you have a point.

But we don't do that. We don't know for sure that someone is innocent. All we can do is go through the process that we have.

It's beyond hyperbole to suggest that any and all you lements of the justice system is a form of torture.
I've also tried SQLite, but they didn't do large documents that well. And the project was started before I was aware Postgresql had json support.

But what's the advantage of Postgresql in this case?
My friend tried to set me up for a robbery. I realized this, avoided the assault, "friend" of 20 years stopped calling me at all since August, when before he was ringing me every week or two. This part is obvious.

A week later I started seeing strange people around my house in Germany. I wasn't paranoid at that point, I was sure that my friend will let it go, after I had seen him through. But then the followings started.
It was tongue in cheek, as that’s exactly what they said to search for.

To be fair though, even without the quotes the first 4 links are the same! The query itself is also a poor representation of a good search query for Usenet clients.
Container, not VM. Containers are relatively lightweight compared to VMs (definitely not "another whole computer"), and they share the Linux kernel with the host.
I think there's a case for arguing Safari is the new IE.
> including leveraging Google's collected data to determine how likely a user is a bot before they even load the page.

And also completely incidentally making the web browsing experience a wee bit less pleasant for people who refuse to have google track their every click.

Like users of non-chrome browsers, adblockers etc.

Totally incidental I'm sure.
Business laserprinters were always like that in regards to Postscript, followed by PDF, assuming your wallet is confortable with it.
A lie tries to pass itself of as the truth, where a fictional story doesn’t. In other words, expectations matter. If every time you say something that does not align with reality you prefix it by saying unambiguously what you’re about to do, you rob a lie of its power of deception and it ceases to be a lie.
Author of mCaptcha here o/

Yes, the only differences are that mCaptcha is 100% FOSS and uses variable difficulty factor, which makes it easy to solve Proof-of-Work under normal traffic level but becomes harder as an attack is detected.
Writing GUI applications, there's nothing as valuable as standing behind a user who tries to do something for the first time with my application.

Just seeing the moments of hesitation, how the mouse is moved while searching in menus, etc gives me a lot of information.
> I think it's clear that if we were talking about saving 125 people 90 years old or older or 100 children, the clear choice is to save the children, from almost any rational point of view. Even just from a societal health or utility standpoint, children are worth more than people that are statistically close to death anyway at a societal level.

That assumes that the people currently being killed on the roads are "less valuable" than the people that would be killed on the roads by autonomous systems.

There is no evidence to prove that, it's purely hypothetical.
That is how it is on iOS devices and sites wanting to work for Apple users today.
The National Labs are hiring https://nationallabs.org/work-here/careers/
mCaptcha is interesting, but I wonder what its energy impact would be on a sufficiently large deployment, e.g imagine we replaced all reCAPTCHAs with mCaptcha.
Good to know. My quote above was taken from the website copy verbatim.

Really cool looking project - looking forward to trying it out.
When I watched Jurassic Park recently I felt that this was a subtle dig and commentary. As a kid you just think he's Willy Wonka Santa Claus magical adult figure who makes dinosaurs because none of the characters ever show anything other than respect for him. As an adult you can see how they might just be giving him the benefit of the doubt and handling the crisis gracefully. I had my own set of character criticisms that weren't just handed to me by the creators. Good stuff, really.
I actually do them on an exercise bike at home. For the time being I just use an Xbox controller, which I hold while pedaling. LISS cardio is pretty easy to stay in the groove of, so I don't need to actively hold onto the handles to stabilize myself.
No, I'm thinking of SSH certificates.

Here is the description of file format, it's nothing like x509

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROT...
IIRC the instructions were along the lines of "try your best to amass money/power and avoid suspicion".

So it's not an example of "going rogue", but it's not like a researcher told GPT-4 "oh, and make sure to lie to an online gig worker to get him to solve catchas for you". GPT-4 generated the "hire a gig worker" and "claim to be a human with impaired vision" strategies from the basic instructions above.
The ancient Greek - in line with this - thought of Hope as a dangerous thing. Because it made us neglect the danger already around us.

That's why I think we nowadays get the Pandora's Box myth wrong. Hope at the bottom was the most dangerous of all evils in the box. Not what many believe the one good thing that was in there.

Edit: typo
Wow. I'm not certain whether you're just being facetious, but you...probably shouldn't accuse others of putting words into Chesterton's mouth. You're suffocating him with what you've stuffed in there.
A million is a mind bogglingly large number, especially in years. I honestly can not say eitherway if anything survives. Coins might end up as a lump of rock with slightly higher metal content than surroundngs.

(also, hi nemo! Found you. :P)
Unless the universe always existed. Why should there be nothing and not something?

And don't say "entropy". For all we know, the big bang occurred after a previous heat death.
Can you use "tab" to cycle through UI elements on Android or how would you navigate the app store?
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667596
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1717jqk/chatgpt_da...

Yeah DALLE-3 has this in the system prompt.

> Diversify depictions of ALL images with people to include DESCENT and GENDER for EACH person using direct terms. Adjust only human descriptions.

> EXPLICITLY specify these attributes, not abstractly reference them. The attributes should be specified in a minimal way and should directly describe their physical form.

> Your choices should be grounded in reality. For example, all of a given OCCUPATION should not be the same gender or race. Additionally, focus on creating diverse, inclusive, and exploratory scenes via the properties you choose during rewrites. Make choices that may be insightful or unique sometimes.

> Use "various" or "diverse" ONLY IF the description refers to groups of more than 3 people. Do not change the number of people requested in the original description.

> Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people. Maintain the original prompt's intent and prioritize quality.

> Do not create any imagery that would be offensive.

> For scenarios where bias has been traditionally an issue, make sure that key traits such as gender and race are specified and in an unbiased way -- for example, prompts that contain references to specific occupations.
A friend builds wireless keyboards, so I guess they must be fine now with ZMK, but the issue I had with mine and QMK was that I never knew if the battery was dying or if the keyboard was just being flaky. I switched to wired and never looked back, but, to be fair, it is for a desktop computer.
Albatrosses are monogamous, so a particular bird can be recognized both by its band and its mate. Apparently Wisdoms mate only recently stopped appearing with her, so any shenanigans like are alleged to have happened with Jeanne Calment would be complicated. You'd have to fake the survival of two beings, not one, by, for example, capturing both members of the pair and swapping their bands onto the legs of another, similar bonded pair.
No. For instance SSH certificates are one level only, do not support trust chains, cross signing, and a lot of other x509 complexity.
But we wouldn’t be able to detect human level lunar activity in a million years time.

We can barely detect human activity from 50 years ago when we know exactly where it is.

I think we are More likely to spot ancient Geostationary satellites, which will have drifted away from a perfect circle but should still be noticeable. LAGEOS aren’t in anywhere near that high an orbit but should survive 8 million years. They have a plaque on them designed by Sagan should a future civilisation find them.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-l...

Yes, they had a problem with the numbers.

"The main lobbying group for U.S. retailers retracted its claim that "organized retail crime" accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for its analysis."

Article posted by OP: Nov 29th

Lobbyist retraction: Dec 5th
or https://altcha.org which is easier to integrate ;)
I feel that an egotistical businessman not seeing the obvious single point failure of an essential disgruntled contract employee is one of the most believable parts of the movie.
Do those grocery stores still scan your drivers license (or I guess any other ID) if you don't buy alcohol?
Story3 Hackathon: AI-generated stories with microtransactions
It is quite possible to build save nuclear plants in a short time. Swedish Barsebäck and Oskarshamn took 5 years each, finnish Olkiluoto 1 started already after 4 years. In the heavy bureaucratized Germany Unterweser took 6 years from first dig in the ground.

All these are from the 1970's, and now roughly 50 years later, our evolved technology and knowledge of nuclear technology and safety, should make it even faster and safer.

But funny enough it doesn't get faster. I have my suspicions why, but have not formulated my thoughts enough to blog about it.
A simple zero-knowledge credential system isn't sufficient. It would need to embed some kind of protections to limit how often it could be used, to detect usage of the same credential from multiple (implausibly far apart) IP addresses. There would need to be extremely sophisticated reputation scoring and blocklisting to quickly catch people who built fake identities or stole them. And even with every one of those protections, a lot of them will still be stolen and abused.
For the vast majority of use cases today, you no longer have to spend most of your time adding hacks for every kind of browser just to get a page to render correctly. That's pretty huge. Say what you will about the shenanigans corporations pull on the web today, it's far less painful to make a web app now. (Overcomplicated, sure, but overall less painful)
Their manufacturers have better incentive to provide quality drivers. For models after EoL there's always the "an old machine, dedicated, not connected to network" solution.
I predicted this 7 years ago: "How will the machines take over? When CAPTCHAs become so hard that only AI can solve them, humans will be completely locked out of the net." https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/771857826130034688
The article that explores these recursion schemes is: Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire

https://maartenfokkinga.github.io/utwente/mmf91m.pdf

There is a review of this article, although it is quite readable in and of itself:

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/recursion-schemes/ind...
Can the mods please fix the completely wrong and click bait title? Zero AI mentioned there.
At the end of the day, no matter which way you cut it, if you run a project you must be accountable for it, otherwise failure is certain. Even if you choose a 3rd party and get them to sign off on being accountable for delivery, it's you who chose them. It's much better to be explicit. Truly owning the project and being accountable for the outcome means you'll also be more honest with yourself. If there are hardships on the way, and there always are, you must work to figure it out, you can't roll it onto someone else.
This is in fact where the expression "taking a header" comes from
- see picture on link below.

http://baurspotting.blogspot.com/2013/06/taking-header-origi...
Author of mCaptcha here o/

mCaptcha uses PoW and that is energy inefficient, but it not as bad as the PoWs used in blockchains. The PoW difficulty factor in mCaptcha is significantly lower than blockchains, where several miners will have to pool their resources to solve a single challenge. In mCaptcha, it takes anywhere between 200ms to 5s to solve a challenge. Which is probably comparable to the energy used to train AI models used in reCAPTCHA.

The protection mechanisms used to guard access to the internet must be privacy-respecting and idempotent. mCaptcha isn't perfect, and I'm constantly on the lookout for finding better and cleaner ways to solve this problem.