It also asks for motorcycles and bikes.
The obvious answer as others have pointed out is they are selling it to self driving car companies like Waymo.
Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
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Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#62They also do cats. Honestly I think boats abs busses are just harder problems. A lot of the boats can only be identified because there is water in the photo or some other hint that it’s a boat. A lot of the trains look like busses and got need contextual clues to tell them apart.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#63Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#64First, I’m going to teach you to fish. Go to hCaptcha’s website, then scroll to the footer. Click around on the about links. It’ll reveal their business model. This trick also works for other businesses and NGOs. Now, if we look at https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling we can tell they make money by labeling data sets for a fee. So as a guess, there’s someone out there that needs to improve computer vision detection of t…
When they start doing captchas along the lines of "check all pictures of potential terrorists" we'll know they're training data sets for military drone manufacturers.
They already are https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/07/google-ai...
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#65Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my hobbies is figuring out which captcha prompts are the unclassified data so that I can answer wrong and stick it to the man.
I’m going to blame you when my self driving car crashes
If the manufacturer of self-driving cars decides to save money and depend on low-quality data, they should be blamed, not a random dude on the internet trying to send a form or visit a page.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#67First, I’m going to teach you to fish. Go to hCaptcha’s website, then scroll to the footer. Click around on the about links. It’ll reveal their business model. This trick also works for other businesses and NGOs. Now, if we look at https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling we can tell they make money by labeling data sets for a fee. So as a guess, there’s someone out there that needs to improve computer vision detection of t…
Many a time I receive multiple challenges on a site despite having selected all images perfectly, and can't help but wonder, "Hey, are they getting me to do more work than necessary because they're running behind on their labelling backlog?". There's definitely a conflict of incentives in this case. If you're a website owner, you're better off choosing a different service which doesn't have adverse incentives, otherw…
Whoever made this new captcha I’m seeing starting to see everywhere:
Thank you! itsso much easier than being a labeling bot for self driving cars.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#68For once, I want to see NSFW Captchas.
NSFW captchas on adult sites would be hilarious but useful?
Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
#69First, I’m going to teach you to fish. Go to hCaptcha’s website, then scroll to the footer. Click around on the about links. It’ll reveal their business model. This trick also works for other businesses and NGOs. Now, if we look at https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling we can tell they make money by labeling data sets for a fee. So as a guess, there’s someone out there that needs to improve computer vision detection of t…
When they start doing captchas along the lines of "check all pictures of potential terrorists" we'll know they're training data sets for military drone manufacturers.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
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