skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@_rutinerad got it - on macOS you can select text in any image, and I just assumed you could do that on windows as well (I figure in the context of linux it would be much more dependent on specific configuration so unilateral assumptions on behaviour would be questionable).

It's honestly annoying as it frequently interferes with dragging images out of safari, except on those occasions when I do want the text when it's super useful. I think the iOS interface just tells you there's text in an image or photo and gives you the option to copy it rather than cursor based selection you get on Mac.

[edit: from other comments it sounds like windows can do this but it's not always present, and not present in all circumstances, which makes me wonder how many cases in cocoa/uikit/swiftui it does not work]
Clearly even modern devices are nowhere near 5ms but hey, let's just agree your perception is more forgiving.
Where did you do your stats course? Who taught it? What was the textbook? Asking because it sounds like your experience taking stats was a lot better than mine and I wonder if I could learn some more if I studied it again in a way more similar to what you did.
I guess validating a payment card is going to be the next step to sign up for whatever. Don’t allow pre paid BINs and let’s go. Gonna be pretty miserable, however someone needs to find something as I currently would rather pay 0.01$ instead of solving a captcha. Especially the select all the bicycles; it’s a waste of life.
This is a good write up: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-op...
It was actually the turing complete post that reminded me of this project, hence why I posted it here.

Honestly surprised it hadn’t really been posted on HN before (afaict from search).
No cost is better than almost no cost
Now imagine if there was only one giant apartment building everyone had to live in. People then don’t have a choice.
This post title struck a chord with me. I was PIP'd from Amazon earlier this year and am currently on a medical leave which is going to end very shortly. I'm going to have to go back to work and probably will just take the severance and GTFO because culture in my org is toxic and unreasonable, and my first PIP was designed from the start to be impossible.

I was a high performer, but have no real mentors. I have a couple friends who can provide referrals, but their companies all have hiring freezes right now - as do many tech companies from the looks of things. It's every week I see another post on HN about a company doing layoffs, and I expect more to come.

Even if I could find the motivation to grind leetcode (goodness, I hate interviewing in tech), the economy and companies are currently in a very touchy and cautious state it would seem. I'm in a HCOL area and rents since COVID are at an all-time high, and to make matters worse I need to find a new apartment in the next few months (and no job = no approval, so that's fun..)

I know I will probably be best served by finding a less paying job with a lot less stress, but that isn't exactly an easy thing to narrow down.

I'm not exactly sure what I hoped to achieve by sharing this, but I suppose it's just nice to have some camaraderie in these times and know there are others struggling too.
Came here to say thank you for adding "(macOS)" to the title. Nothing more frustrating that clicking on an interesting Show HN, read comments that make you even more interested, and only then finding out the software is for an OS you never use.
If they don’t age they wouldn’t die. Death is a gradual failure of the body. It’s just that humans can’t tell because we can’t see their skin.
man access
Agreed, the issue isn't AI, it’s poor taste. Nobody wants to see what looks like an uncanny valley picture of all large ethnic groups smiling weirdly in a circle at each other. This bizarre soulless corpo art trend started well before AI generation rocketed in popularity.
Cratons don't get subducted, that's a common misconception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craton
Exactly! And another person in your class that is interested in painting could become world class in it while you will be struggling to learn basics.
Maybe the difference is free floating bouyancy in air and actively opposing gravity on the ground.
Is this the wind farm, in which case it's only 8 years old?

https://www.rwe.com/en/the-group/countries-and-locations/koe...
An international identity card :-/
Negative historical examples of what starving people do to survive are sufficient in number.

But from a positive point of view, there is an entire food industry run by people making food for people. Food will be available. Growing food and bartering for goods and services are common among people. It's just that in the historical economic samples, there was relatively little wealth generated compared to today's economy.

People in the future may have a Basic Income provided by the state. They may spend their time "day-trading", "click-farming", "video-viralising", or "brigading-for-dollars". ^_^
How new is this insight? The failure of teams of highly capable individuals is often due to egocentric silver-haired gorillas in the room:

>They spent excessive time in abortive or destructive debate, trying to persuade other team members to adopt their own view, and demonstrating a flair for spotting weaknesses in others' arguments. This led to the discussion equivalent of 'the deadly embrace'. They had difficulties in their decision making, with little coherence in the decisions reached (several pressing and necessary jobs were often omitted). Team members tended to act along their own favourite lines without taking account of what fellow members were doing, and the team proved difficult to manage. In some instances, teams recognised what was happening but over compensated - they avoided confrontation, which equally led to problems in decision making.
the minigame thing has been defeated for a long time. it's trivial to solve when there are only so many subsets of a game, however randomized the starting states are.

I guess there is a silver-lining in the premise of AI generated one-time-use games for that sake, but then there is a significant "can a human even do this?" problem to conquer at that point.. and worse the same AI tech is going to be established on the opposite side of the wall trying to defeat the thing.

I think it'll all boil down to some sort of state-license fallback method like "please enter a CC or ID number to continue" -- which is ultimately a defeat of the user, unfortunately.
In a similar position. I stopped my life for a couple of years due to health issues. I'm in a slightly better spot now, where I can start looking for work and getting my career/life back on track. I don't have any connections or a public profile, so I can relate to the feeling that it's possible I might never get a job.
Isn't that a myopic view? While sure, if someone is forever depressed they may not help others (beyond sharing their experience others may relate to). Imagine the people that are in a rough place for a period that come out the other side. I hope those types engage today and share as things change.
Friedrich Nietzsche — 'We have art in order not to die of the truth.'

When an artist captures a qualia in a medium we experience an alternative truth, more potent than death. Qualia are hints at the existence of eternity. An art exhibition has the potential to be a part of a peak experience in someone's life. We currently speak so much about the rights of artists that it seems we are neglecting these important duties, as keepers of the gate.
"Large companies and financial institutions also often "play the float" with larger sums for-profit—namely, the interest income they earn on an amount by speeding up its deposit into their accounts or slowing down a presentation for payment[1]."

IMF eLibrary with some example scenarios[2]. Granted they speak of most of the float data being analyzed with checks, it doesn't seem unreasonable to replace "check" with "credit card" transaction.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/float.asp

[2] https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781557753861/ch10...
I read HN as a single HTML page in a text-only browser. For example, it's about 7MB today.

To read the flagged submissions I do something like

sed -n '/\[flagged\]/p' yc.htm > 1.htm
links -no-connect 1.htm

This excludes the comments so I can evaluate the submission myself without the noise.

Or, if I'm reading yc.htm, I might search for the pattern "[flagged]" in the page. In the browser I use, searching is done with a single keypress "/" and then "n" for next match an "p" for previous.

Popular browsers might require more complex keypresses or possibly mouse clicks; they might be sluggish with a 7MB HTML file. Not sure.
That’s excessively optimistic. The most likely scenario is that we’ll have captchas for the next 30 years but only humans will be bothered by them.
from a reputable card brand who doesn't allow usage of stolen cards? lol maybe the internet just implodes.
simple - if the user solves is too well, reject
Someone will get rich turning this into a browser plug-in.
Use recruiters. They can probably get you in the door somewhere as a contractor, and from there on the trajectory is up (assuming you are any good).

Honestly, the worst part of my 6 months of job seeking after I resigned from my last job was that the interview loop is just soul crushing.
Re. replies.

Comparing to r/depression, their subreddit rules are so strict about replies, that the only ones you see are "I feel you." Not allowed to analyze, try to help, etc. Likely for the better.

So in practice, I think this site does with hearts what r/depression does despite replies.

I wonder if it can have the virality without interaction, though. Or will it simply end up with posts being replies with quotes. I don't know the history of r/depression, if it grew before the rules, or with the strict rules.
And for the UK: https://grid.iamkate.com/
Does the girl from modelling agency thing not work for AI startups?
In 2014, I relocated to the Bay Area with my spouse and one-year-old child, armed only with $9k USD and 2 bags of belongings for the whole family. I had secured a job, but unexpectedly, the company ran out of funds within six months.

The first week after my termination, I was just lost in space and time, freaking out. Over the next two weeks, I applied to every possible software engineering job, sending at least a thousand emails. I spent all days long on the phone, switching ears when one became sore from holding the phone.

It took me only two weeks to find a new gig. In the end, I allowed myself a week to decompress and then joined the new company, four weeks after losing my previous position. The stress was intense. My bank account hovered between $3k-$6k, and the stakes were high. If I didn't secure a job soon, my family and I faced the real possibility of going under the bridge.

My advice to those in similar situations is this: don't let despair dominate your thoughts. Instead, think about your family, or imagine you have a child, or will have in the future, and now it's your time to prove you can do it.

I believe this mindset is crucial. IMO, intensive preparation for leetcode is less important in desperate times. It's better to continuously apply to jobs. Leetcode is more suitable when you're already employed and can afford to spend time on it, ideally over a span of six months to a year, to thoroughly tackle those 300 popular questions.
I understand this is a lovely story, and I'm not going to win any fans with this comment, but it seems possible to that this could be BS of one sort or another.

Can we really believe in the science, without considering the possibility of flawed humanity in the equation? Eg scientists have visited Midway Atoll for at least 70 years. The scientists managing the tags are not known to us, but we can assume that it is not just one scientist.

In all those years could one of those scientists made an error? Could one have even intentionally sought this sort of fame, on behalf of the species that they will have invested so much time going to visit etc? All it would take is to mislabel a few tags - sticking the same number on younger birds and who would know the difference?

These lies could even be justified altruistically - by making these wonderful birds appear to also be the most long-lived, one would raise their profile and with that increase the funding that becomes available to help them (and the researchers that monitor them). Alternatively, there is the possibility that some people simply have a 'loose screw', or see a potential benefit from lying.

Put simply, I don't know if this story is true - I'm not assuming it to be so. As for any claim, I do see reasons why it could be orchestrated, and I don't have any evidence for why it should be taken on trust.
Because instead of one company with 95% market share, it's two companies with 50% market share each. This makes every argument more complicated since you have to refute "if you don't like one you're free to buy the other"
Are there any open local models for basic alphanumeric picture captchas to save on 2captcha?
Windows has gone sort of the opposite way, copy/paste is now often hindered if the engine recognizes the string to be sensitive or otherwise un-wise to copy to your clipboard.

I've had a few instances on Windows 11 and surrounding software where ctrl-C as well as the context menu entry for 'Copy' were greyed out for this reason when skimming through logfiles, presumably because there was something about the line that triggered the MS "that's a password!" regex; stuuuupid stuff.
That’s what I said, and I think it’s opt-in. GA is just one of many who silently opt out of iCloud.

> you must enable sync to your account
Those original expectations weren’t based on evidence though.
It's a common problem with decisions made by one administration affecting some point in the future when a different administration would be in charge. I don't think they ever thought it was a good idea --- it was, however, the politically opportune thing to announce at the time. You'd think that an administration that decides to phase out nuclear power would have alternatives in place, but it's much easier to kick the can down the road to make it a problem that will be dealt with in the future.
>> better turn low entropy into high entropy.

I took a double take and thought you'd made a typo, because I've never heard that assessment before.

I see what you're saying about dissipating heat and work... but life organizes. Most of that wasted heat from any organism is the result of its processing, consolidating and transmitting information. Which is probably the only counter-entropic (extropic) process we can observe in the universe. My view has always been that life fights against entropy.
Because they are probably not clinically depressed but just annoyed, despondent, kicked in the balls etc. Basically this is a group of friends letting off steam.
I think the only car company that I’ve heard of doing something like that is Ferrari, who will ban you for various lengths of time (including for life) from buying another Ferrari.
Sometimes you don’t have a choice. Sometimes even if have that set up, the service will still send an SMS.
You can already buy captcha solves through browser plugins. The only difference is they currently use clickfarms full of underpaid workers from third-world countries
I think Windows now does it as well, but of course (as all things Windows) it works only in very few apps (forget Win32 ones, for example).
Good. Hardware authentication is where it's at.
I’d agree with the idea of just trying to build something in public, and ideally something people might use. Or which you yourself would use. It at least demonstrates competence and drive and at best could become something bigger.
I don't understand what you're arguing at this point.

Given the rates of vehicle deaths in the US, the penalties are clearly not high enough to act as a deterrent.

The "default" for this charge absolutely involves at least a year of jail time (that is, in fact, the defining difference between a felony and a misdemeanor), and the plea deal in this case is an affront to justice.
Nope, the moment this becomes a viable solution then spammers will pick it up, making captcha useless amost overnight.

Websites will very quickly pivot to alternative solutions like payment card verfification, etc.
A medieval map that made cartography into a science
eSIM is a failed technology. Instead of making it easier to move, they just gave the operators more control. In some cases, transfers are simply not possible (like with most eSIMs on Airalo)
Nothing beats Lotus123 :)
look up indian UPI. "validating payment card" and all that snazzy bits are error prone, old, archaic and cost a fortune to businesses.

in upi system, you are presented with a QR code or you input your UPI ID, you click pay and it gets through.

if you are worried about "fraud protection", why rely on an intermediary like ebay or credit card company and instead should take up with your bank or the seller or courts.
A market of human-oriented hardware keys, where the keys are only intended to be sold to actual human beings, with legal or otherwise cash bounties in place for people who can provide evidence of the keys being sold to or otherwise falling into the hands of non-human entities.
For sure, I often just look at the beginning and end
It's not just AI art. Memes and unrelated stock image have also been used. It might be due to some SEO belief.
I think this is interesting - maybe I will incorporate rescue images in my efi partition to recover or clone the system.
Nothing. People will have to realise that when you put things out for the world you put things out for the world.
There were a bunch of still video capture solutions you could hook an NTSC camera up to your 8-bit home computer era (Apple II or C64)
You can use both at the same time as well.
But not all the core Data features are supported yet. I use Core Data abstractions in my app and can’t port that part over to Swift Data yet.
We have a long way to go before we get to the end of the road in where we can go in chip design. The real sore spot moving forward is the grind it's going to be to improve price/performance ratios.

Increasingly I'm adjusting by being willing to spend more than I would previously consider reasonable on big ticket tech purchases, rather than waiting for prices to drop.
Kurzgesagt also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ

And just like the paper, it acknowledges the challenges in detecting such evidence due to the limited and complex nature of the geological record.
> a standard issue human can pass that a machine somehow cannot?

may be the premise is wrong.

Why prevent non-humans from registering/using/viewing?
Increasing density has caused chip cost per FLOP/s to decrease exponentially over the last decades. But nowadays the price per transistor doesn't go down as fast with increased density like it used to.

E.g. new Nvidia GPUs are getting smaller for the same price, which means they are getting more expensive for the same size. At some point, the price per transistor will actually increase. Then Moore's Law (the exponential increase in transistor density) will probably stop, simply because it's not economical to produce slower chips for the same price. (Maybe the increased power efficiency will still make density scaling worth it for a little while longer, but probably not a lot longer.)
No, I see the animation as I scroll. Very little information though, and no links as far as I can tell to more anywhere. The one clickable element to contact them seems broken.
>he reported some unexpectedly poor results

The results are only unexpectedly poor if you assume individual ability directly composes into team ability. I think this was a common assumption in the 1980s, but I believe that managers nowadays will not be surprised by these results.
val delay = 500 + Math.random() * 3000
Please. Last time I had to solve a captcha it was wasted 15 minutes (not exaggerating!) of my life, clicking on an endless stream of bikes, motorcycles, buses and stoplights. As punishment for using a vpn.
I don’t understand generated API. It’s useless and doesn’t save much typing to begin with
Or to the next unsolved problem in machine learning. The whole point of ReCAPTCHA, at least, is to convert all this human labor into training data.
or just use Worldcoin
Even just the concept of an AI startup [as what that means now in the age of LLMs] is already epochs worse than anything 90s douches could dream up. But sure, paying models always helps if you're nihilistic enough to use people as props.
Not a hiring manager but I've interviewed/hired in the high tens to low hundreds of people on my own dime in the past decade. Many from cold applications. I intensely dislike this criteria and want to share my own:

People who perform really well at their job is who I want to hire. Solid skills, team player, proactive attitude. I have no proxy for that except digging down on recent projects and personality while talking to you. Do whatever you want in your downtime. Show those 3 things and you're golden even if your skills are a little misaligned or if you've been out of the game for a bit.

(Might apply better to smaller businesses where you're interviewing with the owner)
In reinforcement learning, everything is a game
Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14
True, maybe a gif is a bit of an inane ask for a relase of this sort.
Because automated systems operating at scale outstrip the ability of the administrator to maintain the service provided.
Bank of America and Citigroup are in all states, small banks still exist in large numbers.
That’s how we end up with digital feudalism and cartels

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
Tor is practically unusable for me because it triggers so many captchas. I end up using Mullvad Browser, which is similar but byo VPN.
Yours is the important hidden point in the direct parent comment:

As an instrument of enthusiastic speculation with rapid gains and fungibility, cryptocurrency became concentrated holdings of wealthy and unscrupulous speculators.

Oh, and of some governments.
Solving captchas is pretty rare nowadays. Now you usually just press a button and then it does some sort of fingerprinting to determine if you're a human.
Who pays for the bandwidth and download resources then?
I've always loved this word. I've owned the domain fscking.com for a long time.
If you have the funds, build something you’ve always wanted to build, from there the path forwards will be clear.

Right now you’re paralysed.
The price we pay for obfuscating the trust signals on our connection is that our connection is untrusted.

As an American, I have a similar experience when I travel across the Atlantic. It's always funny to me when I land in the UK, start using websites I use normally at home, and get cookie verification modals from hell to breakfast.