skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CAPTCHA definitely works in some cases.

On our website, without CAPTCHA we get dozens of forms filled out by bots per day. With the CAPTCHA we get 0.

So sure it may be cheap to defeat the CAPTCHA, but nobody seems to be willing to go through that small hoop to do it on our website.
What usually kills that age of Toyota brakes is not use, but rust. I've had all 4 corners rust to death on my 2004 vintage Toyota. They use terrible metal that just cannot resist rust at all.
Didn't they recall all of them for a few years due to some safety issues? Are they fixed yet?
> the concept of the modern police, at least in the US, was largely based on the Peelian model created in London in the 1820s.

There are some pretty big differences between the UK policing model and the one used in the US.

The UK model was set up against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars (the French police's role included monitoring dissent, suppressing political opposition [1] and even censoring books) and the Peterloo Massacre [2] (where cavalry were set on a peaceful protest campaigning for more than 2% of people to be allowed to vote)

The Peelian model [3] is one of 'policing by consent' where the police focus their efforts on the sorts of crimes the average citizen wants solved - rather than on suppressing political dissent, or censoring books, or launching cavalry charges against protests. Peel's police aren't a military force, which is why very few of them have guns.

If the American police are based on Peelian principles, then an awful lot of the principles have gotten lost in translation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fouch%C3%A9#In_Napoleon...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles#The_nine_pr...
It leads to market separation. No one outside the US will buy US made when they have cheaper Chinese cars as an option. And the US can’t force external competitiveness to emerge with those subsidies in place. Not to mention internally having to buy more expensive transport has knock on effects to the entire economy.
Vevor give 'influencer' freebies en masse as some sort of shill ad. It is really obvious if you search for a product review.

Of all the bad brands that sell on Amazon. Vevor is kinda ok though.
i left off the /s as to me anytime someone starts a comment off with "just ____" is usually a farcical idea. like just remove the salt from water and boom, done.
We left the free market of healthcare behind because it was awful for consumers. People who were disabled or otherwise had chronic conditions were, more or less, completely screwed. Not to mention these regulations are very much necessary. We want educated and highly certified doctors cutting you up.
> I have an off grid home

Seems like the utilities aren't involved at all?

Cheap storage actually makes grid defection a possibility for a ton of people these days. Especially when you start considering the cost of upgrading 100 amp service to 200 amp or similar. Once you've added a bit of battery, might as well go a bit more, and use your vehicle for additional backup when necessary.

People having 70kWh or more of mobile battery in the garage is going to change the calculation for a lot of people. Many people who would never install solar unless it saves them money will also spend a tooooooon of money on a big truck for aesthetic reasons, and then find that it makes solar a cheaper propositon.
That's not the problem there.
The cops are reflective of the system that they operate in. Same as everyone else. Change the system, change behavior.
We have three choices: 1) compete by enslaving our workers and treating them horribly like they do in China, 2) refuse to compete by simply outsourcing the slavery to China, or 3) compete by treat our workers well, use tariffs and tacitly admit that Trump has a good idea. Option 2 seems like the only option that is afraid of competition.
Basically saying money can buy happiness
It would be fair to say that early US police were mostly about protecting the interests of the powerful. Over time that diminished and police protected an increasing number of less powerful groups.

During my childhood, it was common for police to defer to husbands regarding domestic abuse. And kids all over knew to not go to the police - for any kind of abuse from authority figures.
I don't pay nearly enough attention or care about police quality outcomes to comment on whether trends have been a disaster, but critiques of militarization are definitely not something that arose out of BLM. A huge amount was coming from Radley Balko and reason.com over 15 years ago. It was a major libertarian talking point for a long time. As soon as Iraq surplus donation programs started giving free MRAPs and full plate personal armor to police, it was making people uneasy. Early justification for beefing up police armament largely came out of the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout in what? 1998? We didn't want police being outgunned by common criminals, but it's never been clear they need to deal with paramilitary insurgencies that exist in active theaters of combat. Nobody was ever putting IEDs in the streets to blow up squad cars in the United States as far as I can remember.
Can amnesic and sycophantic LLM agents collaborate?
> and it's not

At least try to be persuasive. There are a myriad of ways that jobs can be stressful without endangering your life, that should not be difficult for you to imagine. Shift work, demands for quotas and metrics (sales people can tell you this), dealing with violent and erratic individuals in the public with sometimes insufficient support, etc.

Correctional Officers face similar circumstances and have a life expectancy of 58-59 years old. High divorce rate too, but people want to content themselves with the truism that "only bad people work these jobs", with no consideration for environmental effects. The divorce rate is higher among medical assistants and some skilled trades, for reasons that can just as easily apply: long hours, on-call, fatigue, etc.

> it would be mitigated by better training and careful psychological filtering.

Only on the conceit that any and all stress is imposed by lack of training and bad psychology.
I’m saying that Chinese made teslas might be allowed in the USA in the near future.

Musk himself has stated bluntly that USA made teslas are lower quality and more expensive so you can see the desire to shut down the US plants and bring in Chinese made Teslas and he clearly has some political sway now.
Why are websites getting mouse position in screen coordinates in the first place?
the question is really: does it have anything vendor-specific, interop-breakers?

FC seems to work nicely in a single-vendor stack, or at least among specific sets of big-name vendors. that's OK for the "enterprise" market, where prices are expected to be high, and where some integrator is getting a handsome profit for making sure the vendors match.

besides consumer, the original non-enterprise market was HPC, and we want no vendor lock-in. hyperscale is really just HPC-for-VM-hosting - more or less culturally compatible.

besides these vendor/price/interop reasons, FC has never done a good job of keeping up. 100/200/400/800 Gb is getting to be common, and is FC there?

resolving congestion is not unique to FC. even IB has more, probably better solutions, but these days, datacenter ethernet is pretty powerful.
I don’t believe in fairy tales but also acknowledge that the universe is complex and we have much to learn and understand.

Be excellent to each other while staying curious, open minded, and humble.
It doesn't really matter what happened 20 years ago. What matters is how we spend our money today.

See: https://imgur.com/a/187i2CO

From: https://www.lazard.com/media/gjyffoqd/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...

The ARENH for French nuclear is now at €70/MWh. Horrifically expensive.

The wholesale electricity costs in Germany and France are about equal. Germany has higher taxes on private consumers electricity to promote efficiency gains.

> Exactly, private investors are all over short-term profitable ventures. They won't be all over something which requires multiple decades to become profitable.

Which is an admission that nuclear power is only economical when you do bad math.
Do you think this argument applies to microprocessor manufacture?
The United States and Australia's Aukus Delusion
A lot of people buy used cars rather than new cars. The wealthiest buy the new cars, eat the cost of most of the depreciation, then sell them.

If we had a functioning housing market, you'd see something pretty similar there too. The wealthiest would be the ones paying for nearly all the new construction, instead of driving up the cost of housing for everyone else.
> I hope we can end the CAPTCHA experiment soon. It didn't work.

Well it sort of worked before we got modern AI image recognizers, but even then they had to continue making the challenges harder to keep up with the recognizer software.

Now the damn things have crossed over into the domain of "easier for a machine to solve than a human" so they're worthless for their original purpose.
Depends on where you run out of ports, actually.

A datacenter has layers of networking, and some of it is what we call "the core" or "the spine" of the network. Sometimes you need to shuffle things around, and you need to move things closer to core, and you can't because there are no ports. Or you procure the machines, and adding new machines requires some ports closer or at the core, and you are already running at full capacity there.

I mean, it can be dismissed like "planning/skill issue", but these switches are fat machines in terms of bandwidth, and they do not come cheap, or you can't get them during lunch break from the IT shop at the corner when required.

Being able to carry 1.2Tbit/sec of aggregated network from a dozen thin fibers is exciting, but scaling expensive equipment at a whim is not.

At the end of the day "network core" is more monolithic than your outer network layers and server layout. It's more viscous and evolves slowly. This inevitably corners you in some cases, but with careful planning you can postpone that, but not prevent.
American Dream? At this point I'd settle for some reasonable chance that I'd be able to still rent an apt and put food on the table next year, nevermind actually owning anything or ever retiring, lol.

I'll be squarely in the have-not camp, eager to serve our rich robot-assisted overlords.
Kinda weird that we don't get a graph for the final "solution"? I was looking forward to seeing how it compared to the other plots!
I agree that he is complicit, but I find it hard to view him as solely culpable for a death. If a child feeds law enforcement false data, and law enforcement then kills someone, both parties should have known better but I have much higher expectations of our law enforcement than a teenager.

The kid needs to be punished, but that doesn’t change the fact that we have a glaring hole in our law enforcement procedures so large that even children can exploit them. That’s insane. Children are always going to do dumb shit, we need to have policies and procedures to guard against that.
I kinda think the whole thing is just Elon tricking republicans into buying electric cars.
Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope
Wow, this is shocking. What is the root cause? I could not find anything in the article.
Yes, naturally such a system is biased towards high accountability and high trust industries. Industries which thrive on minimal accountability and trust won't function very well. Personally, I think that's a good thing overall. The problem comes in when other countries don't operate this way, so those businesses can just go there (and take your talent with you, i.e. brain drain).
Median incomes of single earners get pretty skewed from people willingly working part-time or low-income jobs as secondary income instead of primary income. I usually prefer analyzing things on household income for this reason. Think a grandpa working a part-time gig as a greeter at Walmart while going back to a multi-generational household or a stay-at-home parent working a part-time remote call center job while the kids are in school or a teenager working a part-time job. All of these positions would pull pretty small amounts of overall yearly income but chances are they're not the sole source of wealth/income they have access to.

The median household income is ~$75k. There's ~131M households in the US. This means there are 65M households making more than $75k/yr.

But yes, generally speaking wealthier people are the ones buying new cars with a lot of people buying used models.
There are, however, instances of entire Native tribes adopting settled agrarian economies, developing written languages, and largely adopting European civilization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee

The Native Americans weren't ignorant of the advantages the European settlers possessed, and many did attempt to reform their societies along European grounds. They just tended to do this as a society-wide endeavor, rather than individual people running away to live with colonists.
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No Speed Without Control: A disciplined approach to LLM-augmented coding
BYD just has to do the same thing Toyota did, build a plant in Mexico and use NAFTA to sell well made cars for dirt cheap.

I'm not yet convinced that BYD cars ARE well made yet though. When Hyundai had a similar amount of mistrust from American consumers, they improved their standing by offering a very compelling warranty, 100k miles or 10 years. The problem is I don't know if I can trust BYD the COMPANY that much.
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I hear you on the lack of diversification in models available.

I’d really love to see an EV that’s in line with the virtues of the Honda Fit, Honda Element, and Toyota Matrix — not sexy or fancy, but cheap, insanely practical little “everything cars” that can take on anything you throw at them with tons of cargo space, fold flat seating, stock roof rack, etc — cars that are made for doing things instead of impressing the neighbor or acting as a status symbol.

There’s absolutely nothing like this in the EV space right now. The closest thing that’s upcoming is Rivian’s R3, which isn’t likely to be as cheap as the Fit/Element/Matrix were.
> But a very large percentage of the "high stress/pressure" of being a police officer in the US is literally manufactured by the police themselves.

This is conjecture with no measurable basis.
No, they do not need long term profits to sustain, at least in certain regimes.
Masterful move right there. Maybe he can trick them all into going to Mars next? They don't call it the Red Planet for nuthin.
Tesla labled as having the highest fatal crash rate by new safety study
My comment is by no means criticism to your article either I completely agree with.

I just wanted to show an example of the left (trying to?) engaging in the sane tasting.
There is no garden-variety company, so focus on your own unique needs
As the saying goes, who lets others cut cables to have peace deserves neither and will have both taken away.
After following the correct link from @nomemory in the comments, this is good for a bit of a chuckle once you see the formula. If you can evaluate the formula you probably have a calculator or computer on hand and could compute the original value to double precision (I'm not even sure that the approximation would compute faster, but I didn't benchmark it).

But even though the approximation has no value in a real world application, the description of getting to the approximation is really good. I've never heard of Pade approximations before, and I liked the lead in from small angle approximations and Taylor series. I'd say this post is accessible to (and can be appreciated by) advanced undergraduates in engineering or math or comp sci.
Especially in classes that grade on a curve, you're now competing with students who do cheat using LLMs, so you have almost no choice.
The soon-to-be-dismantled federal tax credit of $7500.
I'm reminded of the novel "Venomous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman, a deeply weird satire about the perverse incentives and behaviors engendered by the union of industrial consumption, market-based conservation, and the abstract calculus of ethics at scale.

In particular, one portion features an autonomous bioreactor which produces enormous clouds of "yayflies"; mayflies whose nervous systems have been engineered to experience constant, maximal pleasure. The system's designer asserts that, given the sheer volume of yayflies produced, they have done more than anyone in history to increase the absolute quantity of happiness in the universe.
What's wrong with it? Among the graphed cohort the average benchmark score was between 56 - 66, so they scaled to 55-67. Such a strategy to differentiate is completely normal, and it's weird how often this is called out as being deceptive.

Further this is a paper on arXiv, so the idea by some that it's meant to deceive -- as if the target audience isn't going to immediately look at the axis labels, and for more dig into what the benchmarks even were -- is not convincing.

I'd hold more criticism for the fact that their lead graphic specifically excludes options which beat it (e.g. GPT-4o, Sonnet), though these details can be found in the chart below.

Still interesting. And this "structuring AI" approach is how the next evolution in AI is happening.
Yeah, modern art is almost universally bad. I suspect that it is because artists are absolutely soaked in art from all over history. They study it, they live and breathe it, and by this point they are bored of it. So they try to make something different and unlike the art of old, but have lost sight of the fact that normal people aren't jaded and bored of old art like they are. So they wind up making stuff which can only possibly appeal to others who are just as soaked in art (and bored of the old stuff) as they are. It basically turns art into this giant circle jerk of artists making stuff to impress each other, having lost touch with their audience.

I've noticed the same thing with other fields as well, not just art. Cooking is this way, for example. The food that fancy chefs at fancy restaurants make is so ridiculous that it feels like a joke sometimes. And as far as I can tell, it's the same thing. Those chefs are bored of normal food, are trying super hard to make something creative that has never been done before, and have lost sight of the fact that it's just not going to appeal to people who aren't as bored with food as they are. Maybe it's the inevitable result of being steeped in a craft and spending all your time on it, IDK.
Haha sorry! I totally missed that important sentence. Thanks for pointing it out.
Nope. Tending a datacenter close to two decades, I can say that putting people behind NATs and in jails/containers/VMs doesn't prevent security incidents all the time.

With all the bandwidth, processing power and free cooling, a server is always a good target, and sometimes people will come equipped with 0-days or exploits which are very, very fresh.

Been there, seen and cleaned that mess. I mean, reinstallation is 10 minutes, but the event is always ugly.
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I’m impressed he wrote a blog without having to get authorisation from a dozen layers of bbc management and lawyers.
> inertia _is_ a factor

why would inertia be a factor? If I want to support protocol ABC in my data center, then I buy hardware that supports protocol ABC, including the ability to down shift to TCP when data leaves the data center. We aren't talking about the internet at large so there is no need to coordinate support with different organizations with different needs.

Google, could mandate you can't buy a router or firewall that doesn't support IPv6. Then their entire datacenter would be IPv6 internally. The only time to convert to IPv4, would be if the local ISP doesn't support v6.
The only difference between the vast majority of cars "Made in the USA" is the scant margin that allows manufacturers to use that mark. Most cars are made outside the USA. So, as far as I'm concerned, they are all basically un-American.
That's beside from the point that Tesla is being run by a Nazi.
I’m only a few years in the industry, and in my CS program, we were constantly told something along the lines of “any time you have to copy paste, look for an opportunity to abstract”. I’ve been running into problems lately where my attempts at abstractions have made things significantly more complicated. Only when I hit the limits of the abstraction I realize the cost of maintaining similar functionality in multiple places was less. I’m going to try your approach in future.
Many I am misunderstanding something about the issue, but isn't DCTCP a standard?

See the rfc here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8257

The DCTCP seems like its not a silver bullet to the issue, but it does seem to address some of the pitfalls of TCP in a HPC or data center environment. Iv even spun up some vm's and used some old hardware to play with it to see how smooth it is and what hurdles might exist, but that was so long ago and stuff has undoubtedly changed.
The problem is that the US is complaining a lot about that when it is the other countries doing that. Even here, average commentator will call it a foul (whataboittism) if you point out that.

You can't eat the cake and have it. Either you follow the fair trade requirements or don't complain about others not doing the same. If you say standards, then follow by lead and respect them.

Also I do not think every country does that. There are too much pressure by the US, China and EU on these countries to prevent many from doing that.
The detergent produced was incredibly stable: so now they have created a water soluble pollutant!
Any chance you can point to a good graphql implementation/framework that someone could use to learn best practices?
I want engineers to think about the best for the project but I let engineers talk about the best of implementation because it's better than doing irrevant things.
Un-American or not, those 10k BYDs reflect Chinese supply chains, labor prices, and market subsidies and cars built to different regulations - turns out if they play the game like other manufacturers do, BYDs aren't actually that much cheaper to make.
And while it's not quite the same kind of CAPTCHA, I've not infrequently run into Cloudflare "prove you're human" screens that just...never let me through. I click the box, it loads for a second, turns into a nice checkmark, and then...reloads the "prove you're human" page. Infinite loop (as far as I can tell, anyway, not having infinite time).
Backlash after Ontario premier threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto
I would have to keep a free list per vector, and there's a lot of those, and it would defeat the point of keeping data packed and temporally colocated: I want to ensure that data was created together stays together and only ever gets more compact as it grows older.

Filling in empty slots would mean that likely unrelated data comes and pollutes the cache for the old data :(
But they're already checking for event.name == 'click' in the revised code. So why would you want to filter out some legitimate click events?
The only thing locally made is the bare minimum to make it "Made in USA", but everything is heavily outsourced already. There is no point to your argument, as that battle was lost a long time ago.
It's also just such a perfect half-measure. You're not asking people to not eat these little guys. They're not even confirmed to be fully conscious. This is a speculative fix for a theoretical problem. Plus like, there's some company making shrimp zappers. So by donating you're also kind of paying two people to kill the shrimp?
Also just catches people they think might be bots.

I've definitely encountered captcha tarpit logins before that could never be solved until I changed VPN endpoint. I was never getting in.
I don't mind fixing it, but I can't see the problem. Which sentences annoy most?