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The reason this happens is that captchas are not localized. Most countries don't have mail boxes, only US, Canada, Australia, NZ have them so people from outsid
by zarzavat 5y ago
The reason this happens is that captchas are not localized. Most countries don't have mail boxes, only US, Canada, Australia, NZ have them so people from outside those countries may not think to distinguish mailboxes from parking meters and will just click every square that matches their mental model of a parking meter (a pole with something on top or a big box)
- Zababa 5y ago> Most countries don't have mail boxes (only US, Canada, Australia, NZ) They do, they just look different. At least that's how it is in France.
- lou1306 5y agoThey're not the same as the classic US mailbox (). In the US you can use such a mailbox to send mail as well. In Europe you typically have private letterboxes for incoming mail and big, public post boxes for sending.
- mkl 5y ago> classic US mailbox () Missing link? In NZ, and presumably other countries, personal letterboxes in rural areas can be used to send too, which I'm guessing is the same as what you're referring to.
- zarzavat 5y agoYes NZ is one of the four countries that use this style of full duplex mailbox. It hasn't caught on outside US/CA/AU/NZ, probably because (speculating here) it's not secure against theft and doubles the workload for the mailman.
- lou1306 5y agoDarn, the parentheses originally contained a mailbox emoji but I forgot HN does not support them.
- dylan604 5y agobut that's not what the challenge is. it's more likely the database of training data is wrong. we've seen that to be very true from posts here on HN. some of the data was so horribly mis-identified, it's a wonder it works at all