skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [1] What would the AI in such a tool do?

Solving captchas. In particular, not only solving the challenge itself (recognizing crosswalks, etc) but also handling input (moving the mouse, alt+tabbing, etc) as if it were a real human.

I was recently reading the Cloudflare turnstile announcement https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ga and it has the following links about this

https://uncaptcha.cs.umd.edu/papers/uncaptcha_woot17.pdf

https://www.vox.com/22436832/captchas-getting-harder-ai-arti...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01003

In those excerpts:

> The prevalence of free speech-to-text services has made it easy for bots to solve audio CAPTCHAs as well, with a recent study showing bots can accurately solve audio CAPTCHAs in over 85% of attempts. We’re proud to state that Turnstile is WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliant, while eliminating the need for audio CAPTCHAs as well as visual ones.

And

> With all of our emphasis on how easy it is to pass a Turnstile challenge, you would be right to ask how it can stop a bot. If a bot can find all images with crosswalks in grainy photos faster than we can, surely it can check a box as well. Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement while doing so. For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser. The current deployment of Turnstile checks billions of visitors every day, and we are able to identify browser abnormalities that bots exhibit while attempting to pass those tests.

So, this is a cat and mouse game, the cat is using AI, the mouse is probably using AI in some form or another too.
Mathematica has the best CAD capabilities for many/most tasks, but the language is rather horrible. E.g. code can not be commented, the program state is difficult to manage or even reset, it's very tied to the Mathematica "notebook". And it's quite idiosyncratic.

I sometimes have to use it where Sympy fails, and every time it's almost constant WTF.

And it's very proprietary and very expensive.
It's kind of a weird move for companies to make because it's an oddly pro-labor signal to tell employees ahead of time to prepare for layoffs.

I agree, I prefer it.. but also, it's weird in 2024 where corps basically try to fuck everyone at every possible turn that they're being so open about these layoffs.
I stand corrected, I didn’t read until the very last sentence of the ad, which finally got to VLC for Unity after all the unrelated stuff.

To future writers: don’t bury the main thing after half an article’s worth of unrelated promo materials.
Former H1B here. The abuse is real, but what many people assume incorrectly is that it's perpetrated by FAANG companies. Those are actually pretty good places for an H1B to be, generally speaking (subject to the usual caveats wrt hostile management etc) - they pay the same they do to citizens, and it's very rare to see revocation of status used as a threat.

But if you look at the overall visa numbers from a few years ago, they are dominated not by FAANG, but by "consulting" companies like Infosys. Those are straight up sweatshops who squeeze everything they can out of their H1Bs while underpaying them (and thus also undermining the local market).
Tested and rejected due to interference
Work from home?
It makes sense to manage the search and ad business quarter to quarter, but if that's all they do then they will soon get disrupted by the next big thing like AI. They also need to keep thousands of internal startups running in "change the world" mode so they can disrupt themselves and stay in the game long term. I thought thats what they were doing with letting everyone do their Friday projects.
Some supercharger stations can be used by non-teslas with a CCS port. And it seems there's a big move coming for more to adopt.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/tesla-nacs-charging-port...

Edit
Although I should add, even if they work, they may not support the full power charging. My Kia works, but nowhere near 250kWh.
For solving math symbolically when Sympy and Maxima fail. I don't like it at all though.
I was about to start writing exactly this, but didn't want to get into an argument with another Internet stranger about what the unspecified "we" (i.e. the general population) believes nowadays. Even the original explorers of that region, back when it was known as Verzin, were quite objective in their reports.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Voyage_Round_the_Wo...

The journalistic style at the BBC is to push an outdated colonization narrative onto everything, and I am also quite tired by it.
Aw, was hoping for live.
> But if you don't want people to be wrongly convicted, then surely that's a good thing, right?

Think of it like a diagnostic test, like covid tests. That sort of test has 2 measures, not one (anyone who just says "Test X is 95% accurate!" is selling you something) - specificity and sensitivity. Sensitivity is the percentage of true positives it generates out of all positives, and specificity is the percentage of true negatives it generates out of all negatives.

I don't want people to be wrongly convicted, no, so I want legal tests to have a very high specificity. But I could do that easily, by just throwing every case out as not guilty. The hard bit is raising sensitivity at the same time. You can't just say "if you don't want people to be wrongly convicted", because that justifies far too many things.

> As we know, there's no guarantee a particular audit log is correct.

There's no guarantee anything is correct. Three witnesses could have colluded and someone might go to jail for it, but unless there's a reason to think they colluded, we don't assume that. That's the problem I'm talking about: how do we get a feel for software systems without assuming like the Post Office that they work, or like you that they don't work?
No it's not. Again, im not shitting on the suffering that people with depression go through, but if we're talking about the context of the original comment, whic places it among the world's major problems, i'm sorry but it as a clinical condition just doesn't compare. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide live in grinding situations of misery that are caused by changeable conditions of their economic and social lives. These are people who would either be normally adjusted or at least not die early if their circumstances weren't the case. Thee mortality levels among them are much greater and objectively more of a problem than those caused by clinical depression, which in the last 23 years has directly killed nowhere near as many people [1] as say, malaria alone, or malnutrition do.

>It's something you really shouldn't pretend to understand outloud.

The only way by which you can get people to sympathize with your beliefs is by having them understand them, and the only way by which people might come to agree with you is if they do exactly that: ask questions out loud and debate the matter. Nothing should be outside that.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10410604/#:~:te....
We definitely will! Happy to hear that you are relying on our services for your business.
Not really. They could just distribute things anyway, and simply invoke the license-termination clauses as soon as any infringement is detected by claimants - similarly to how (I expect) they would treat claims of copyright infringements on game assets.

They are just being obtuse - which looks fishy when coupled with VLC's claims that they wouldn't allow them back in even if all LGPL code was removed. They probably don't want competition for some component.
The article said they got banned from the Unity store several months ago and tried for months to reconcile the issue, and now they have come up with a solution for their customers in the wake of the banning. They even included the correspondence from Unity in their article, so barring Unity coming forward with evidence of double dealing on the part of VideoLAN I struggle to see how "this story has been dug/made up purely to sell a product".

Without some evidence your conclusion seems to be a hand wave.
> Incremental backup (without the useful wal summarizer in this case) is an interesting thing to try to implement from scratch.

Changed block tracking is one option, or failing that, segmenting files at logical boundaries, checksumming those segments, and comparing the checksum with those of previous backup segments to see if that segement has changed (with a strategy for checksum collision avoidance).
Something about correlation and causation comes to my mind. When you start an article listing all the known causes and they all relate to a high income (people in cities have more money, people in richer countries have more money, people with better education have more money, people with electricity have more money), why would you just dismiss this relation and claim that it's something else that seems to correlate nicely with high income as well (cities have more lights, richer countries have more lights, people with better education have more lights, people with electricity have more lights)? Surely a proof that high income is not the root cause is needed here.

Also, I don't really see the supposed collapse of birth rates after 2015, at least it doesn't seem half as drastic as those in the 70s (which can be explained by people having more money) or the ones caused by war.
You can also pay for Proton's services yearly and bi-annually: https://proton.me/mail/pricing
For a family of five that is 32 profiles.

And you will need to fill them up with data separately.
There's no way that would account for such a steep rise in such a short amount of time.
No doubt? :-)

Norway has 503 Superchargers, 1 per 11,000 people.

California has 307, 1 per 130,000.

I haven't checked NZ or Oz, or looked at a map for Norway. There are also 10 times that many non-Tesla chargers, of which some will be the highest power.

All three countries have 230V domestic electricity, so in the worst case you can charge at about 2.5kW (more, e.g. 3kW, if you're more confident of the wiring).
Most investors are tickled with 20x.
I didn't get to be a (retired) 100x engineer by posting on HN. I don't post stories regularly but did in this case because a friend sent me the link.

I did post it to warn others about CF.

> Since you posted the link and I see very little history here, I can't acknowledge your claim of authority yet and I can only suspect, without certainty, personal grievances or conflicts of interests.

Suspect away. When someone you care for is treated badly by a corporation I think that's fair game to relay to others and amplify the message.

But since we're on the subject:

> Based on contact with their support + social media + communication here + being a customer + discord + attending, although infrequently, community calls.

Maybe you just don't want to believe a corporation you believe in so strongly could be awful to their employees or have an internal culture that sees individuals as disposable.

Maybe it's you that has the undisclosed conflict of interest. Maybe CF cares about what HN thinks of it.

Boy I sure hope so.
> the current generation of electronic vehicles are a terrible idea... Although perhaps a mere half is not what people would think at first when they just compare tailpipe emissions

The methodolody used by IEA for that chart uses the 2021 global average grid carbon intensity to calculate its electricity generation. If you live in Iceland, Sweeden, UK, Vermont, or similar regions with highly decarbonised grids, the majority of the chart's Electricity co2e isn't generated for that vehicle.

You've got to consider your local average grid carbon intensity, and how that will change across the 20 year lifecycle of the vehicle.
Another great angle to the perfect crime.
People generally like long-term stability and are willing to trade their loyalty in exchange for that, even to the point of turning down a more lucrative offer. Back when companies appreciated that, you had plenty of people with a stable employment at the same company for literally decades. But then this cycle was broken when employers started to treat their employees as disposable (all while still demanding at least token loyalty!) in pursuit of more profits - and they have succeeded in teaching the employees that any talk of loyalty from a business is virtually guaranteed to be a scam, so why would the latter ever take it seriously?

In short, this is not a "both sides" problem.
For anyone reading this who might be interested in states that have no physical infrastructure, there is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

This is considered a sovereign entity without any territory. They do have money, assets and people though. As far as I'm aware, this is the only country without any territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...
After keeping track for a while, my conclusion as regards my inner voice is that it's an artifact of "paying too much attention" to what's going on in my mind. If I'm in a flow state I have no inner voice. If I'm overly bored, or nervous, or have some other reason to be actively and consciously paying attention to the decisions I'm making, I have a very clear inner voice. It's an artifact of recasting subconscious thought into conscious terms.
They have a history of doing things with negative financial consequences just to make a point on some sociopolitical issue. I can't remember a single "just another company" off the top of my head that conducts business in this way.
Have you seen VideoLAN's revenue? What percentage of their revenue came via the Unity Store?
Inception style builds with private GitHub dependencies
Thanks! Luckily I was still allowed to modify my post.
>Poverty has many definitions, and some are quite compatible with being moderately happy.

Yes, but whether millions of the people in poverty are unhappy or decently happy in their daily lives, the condition of being extremely poor itself still often kills, and in much greater numbers than depression does, regardless of how ugly the latter feels to the person suffering it.
From your link:

> The anti-subsidy investigation covers battery-powered cars from China, so also includes non-Chinese brands made there, such as Tesla (TSLA.O), Renault (RENA.PA) and BMW (BMWG.DE). It is also unusual in that it is brought by the European Commission itself, rather than in response to an industry complaint.

This does seem like more of a political play rather than China actually trying to flood western markets, especially considering that western EV producers are also being subsidized and that the Chinese domestic market is sufficiently large by itself.
Thinking doesn't need words. Thinking for me is a process of ideas and concepts coming from different directions, colliding, merging, splitting, transforming, and then going into other directions to interact with other thoughts.

The translation between these concepts to words or sentences from my mouth or my fingers is effortless by the way. Which I myself find interesting. I think it should take some effort but it doesn't.

If you wonder how one can think without an inner voice then I wonder can you even think without your inner voice? And can your inner voice be faster than your vocal voice and if not, doesn't that slow down your thought process?
People lose patience after reading nine paragraphs of unrelated promo materials. It happens, sorry.
But Loxone is also a very different system, living in it's own bubble. When I talked to my local Loxone representative, they told me you have to get their special bulbs (costing 80$ a piece), running over their own wiring (24V, not 240 as everything else), their own light switches, their own everything. They literally told me I would have to have everything electrical done by them. In the end I passed and I'm going to slowly move things to ZigBee compatible stuff.
I know it's not practical because of select few bad apples, but giving a year's notice to the affected people, letting them finish up the work and mentally prepare, and all the while coaching them through the process of finding a new job seems like a humane thing to do.
Doesn't it have a GPU architecture never released into desktop CPUs?
Literally what about the title is click bait? They got banned from the Unity store and they expose a clear double standard in Unity's enforcement. Exactly as the title suggests.

The negative reception here is absolutely incoherent.
Yes. This stuff is hard to pin down, but I’d put the most common understanding in vaguely Western culture as:

1. Most people experience something similar to imagining themselves talk much of the time.

2. Most people do not hear voices, as in hearing a voice that you could easily mistake as coming into your awareness through your ears perceiving physical sound.

Your experience sounds like the “default”, for lack of a better term.
You're right, but there is the large counterpoint of the fact that Unity is doing exactly that for other software licenced under the LGPL.
Comes as a big monolithical block that's much harder to work with if you have to develop bigger systems, language tooling is lacking even compared to something like Python that's already mediocre, in many aspects (data analysis/data engineering, machine learning, etc.) isn't as good as other options like Python or R.

It's also not great as a general purpose language. It was never meant as such of course, but working in a real language where I can take stuff off a notebook and have it become a script has its advantages.

Finally, I'm willing to use open-source software that's slightly worse if the difference isn't huge, and for many use cases the difference isn't huge. For some it is, and that's where Mathematica is great.
You joke, but in the DDoS mitigation service industry it’s not unheard of as a high pressure sales tactic. Packeteering, as a friend called it.
Yeah, sounds about right. Companies try to save money by hiring more juniors and skipping roles like UX. Rarely works out though.

For some reason, there seems to be enough money for AI, wast amount of meetings and convoluted interviewing and vetting processes.
Flashbacks to smoother Linux gameplay on Linux for elden ring.
Rosetta/parallels can’t emulate the full x86 instruction set. You will run into problems. Like avx2, which is over 10 years old, won’t work. Best to stick with an x86 machine for x86 dev. One approach is to use a remote server. Source: learned this the hard way.
> These are two sides of the same medal.

I don't think it is at all. OP put up a strawman on how the tech world is packed with incompetent new arrivals, but corporations are firing people indiscrimately by blindly cutting branches out of their org tree. Corporate's criteria to fire people is deciding which product they can either slow development, freeze, or even completely eliminate. This has absolutely nothing to do with the skills of whatever employees are covered by the firing rounds. These are pure business decisions which bear no connection with the tech aspect of their services. This is not bloat. In fact, I know for a fact that one FANG was still hiring midway through a round of layoffs and their HR was adamant in not even considering internal transfers for those positions. Are we expected to believe that employees who not only passed last year's hiring bar and received positive performance reviews are bloat, but today's new recruits are competent?
The third part of effective B2B ad campaigns is focused on campaign plan ideation and setup.
Re: Lightyear, a $226.4M box office return on a $200M production budget isn't even close to being in profit, tiny or otherwise. For one thing, a film's marketing budget isn't included in the production budget figure and in this case was probably $100M+ itself. Secondly, Disney do not receive 100% of the box office take. After the distributor's cut, it's probably closer to 50%. Films of this type need to make maybe 3 times their budget at the box office to break even, making Lightyear a spectacular flop.
How do you know they really run end to end encryption and are not lying.
They're a non profit organisation. They existed before the Unity store and they are existing after the Unity store. They did not _depend_ on Unity.
Yep, zsh, and most likely fish and other shells manage to keep all your commands in the history, no matter how many sessions you open.
Just a single anecdotal data point, how good the result can be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnpm-rJfFjQ

The accuracy is probably quite bad, when looked at individual manipulations, but the overall result is jaw dropping - even, if it's only a demonstration
https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/p/hue-dimmer-switch--lates...

He just wanted to save $28. I have these in my house. No app required.
Microsoft ships a moderately interesting modern language C# and so there are posts which attract a small amount of comment about new C# versions and their features, e.g 12 comments about C# 8.0

And likewise they ship new hardware sometimes, a new Surface Pro got hundreds of comments.

A big problem for these posts and for The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen's blog) is that Microsoft doesn't understand URL stability and so old material is too often moved, misfiled, or just destroyed altogether for no good reason. In particular it seems as though the web site (more vital now than ever for the company's appearance to the rest of the world) is routinely offered as a fun toy for a new executive to make their mark on to show how they've got exciting new visions for the company. Maybe this week Microsoft decided they loved blogs, everything is a blog now, want to announce Microsoft Boring Product 8.6.4? Write a blog post, and your customers can respond to the blog post, because we're an exciting modern tech compan... no, we abandoned that idea, all blogs are to be removed and the customer posts go with thme. Yes that means you've written what is now an article "responding" to customer questions which no longer exist but too bad we don't have time to fix that because now Microsoft is a video-first company, they are dynamic and hot, here are six hour long videos about Microsoft Boring Product and we are going to be delivering a new video every single week uh, wait, that's expensive, OK, no sorry there are no further videos about Boring Product, it's now a Wiki! Yes, experts even from outside Microsoft can contribute valuable material about Boring Product, we're going to transition all our boring stale material into user editable dyna... Nope! New plan, we're locking every wiki article and we're removing the unofficial content, yes, customers were relying on BigBabo4239's sixty paragraph explanation of how to use Power Shell with Boring Product but that no longer aligns with our corporate strategy so we've deleted it...
I have good news: everything can fit into that narrative.
Cost competitive panels are manufactured inside and outside of China. PV already reached a point where panel costs aren’t the majority of grid scale instillation costs cutting their costs in half just doesn’t change much.

Managing the grid when your dependent on PV not just feeding in a trivial amount you can make up from other sources is the uncharted territory.
Housing Outcomes
Decompilation of Paper Mario for N64
Partitioning Postgres tables by timestamp based UUIDs