skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you either didn't read or misunderstood the information which was uncovered.

It's not "just bias" by journalists, not just "be nice to the politician to keep access". It's way, way beyond.

It is _outright corruption_, by a government, of the world's largest press network, and of the BBC. It's also, dar I say, complicity with the geopolitical and human consequences of that governments actions.

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To summarize if you didn't look it over :

Documents and work by investigative journalists show there were secret public tenders, since the 70's, and still ongoing by a series of shadowy outfits, paid with public funds, full of "former" PSYOPS soldiers (even the outfit location were false). The tenders amount over the years in the hundreds of millions of pounds.

The goal of the tenders were to distribute news written by said "former" psyops soldiers, under the guise of/and name of journalists from Reuters wire service and BBC - amongst other crimes against objectivity. The money was, in the case of Reuters, even "laundered" through a foundation set up by it's majority ownership.

At least one MP formally and directly asked the Foreign Office about it in the parliament chamber, only to get a "non-denial". He then got a false media-scandal got dropped by his party.

Sorry if part of this summary is not totally accurate, I was going for brevity. The document cash is humongous.

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While not English myself, I object to it on the grounds if there is no press free from political or monetary corruption, there will be, further down the line, no true freedom in the west, at best mass manipulation.

Much worse, this destroy the credibility of actions by good people there and elsewhere working for the common well being as soon as these press organs publish an article. A laundry list of collaborationist accusations can be easily thrown at them and stick, with reason, because of such corruption.

Because they participated in that, the BBC and Reuters have become as bad as RT. To add insult to injury, RT is being officially run by the Russian Ministry of Information. It can even boast to be "transparent" about any subjectivity.
I dream of writing two nearly identical articles: one like this with Apple doing something and another where Microsoft does the exact same thing. Comparing the comments on the two would be extremely telling.
I don't even know what to say to that. What is ideological about what I said?

My comment was entirely based on my experience with how companies treat people. Honestly, it feels like you simply did not like what I stated and decided to instate your vague guidelines as reason to remove my comment.

I enjoy HN and the discussions that are had here, but I don't believe that curious conversation has to consist of emotionally muted statements.

I do think you were wrong to remove my comment given what the guidelines state.
*at this time. Dr Seuss was totally OK just a few weeks ago.

Btw, is "OK" still OK??!
I can’t speak for the whole I industry, can you give me an example?

Also, in my experience it doesn’t really matter if it’s a touch screen, a touch control, or a tactile button. People don’t know their dash controls, even if they’ve owned a vehicle for years (and I’m talking about systems that are 100% physical switches).

As an exercise, try drawing out what the center stack of your vehicle is, where all the switches are and what they do. Alternatively, the next time you drive try setting the HVAC to something specific without taking your eyes off the road, at all. How long does it take? How much of your attention has shifted from driving?
AFAIK, Switzerland is the only country with direct democracy or ‘Govt is the people’.

As you said overwhelming majority, are there any countries that have direct democracy or come close?
In Zig, you can provide a different allocator for a single data structure (or even distinct instances of the same data structure). There is no "global" allocator (what Rust lets you swap out.)

This is vastly more powerful, I have used this to tailor an allocator to specific data structures for better performance.
> There are hosts out there which will host you as long as you're not breaking any laws.

Yea? Or must mean those “alt right hosts”. Because the second someone ACTUALLY practices this, they’re themselves labeled as AltRight. See the problem?

> Registrars won't take away your domain just because they don't like your site. Has a domain ever been seized without a court order?

Ar15.com went down without warning, provocation, or cause because one day around the election GoDaddy made a decision to cancel them.

> Circumventing payment processor censorship is one of the many purposes of cryptocurrency technology.

That’s one option... OR... we give equal protections to anyone not breaking the law?
Zig's unique power and killer feature isn't having comptime; it's having little else. That's a feature C++ or Rust or D or Nim simply can never, ever have, and it's an extremely important feature, especially in low-level programming. You can do in C++ anything you can do in Zig; but you can't do those things in a simple language you can quickly learn and fully grasp.
Not normally your hosting on libsyn and syndicating and audio shows and video are just different types of show.

What strikes me as do that people still use twitch with its disappearing content and crap discovery - and these are shows who have major sponsors FFS.
I extended the deadline for my 2020 tax declaration today (Zurich). I did so by scanning a QR code, entering my email address for the confirmation, and clicking send.
>linking to bbc without using archive.is
Son...
This is not uncommon for poor people the world over, including poor white people in the US.
The viewing angle is good.

The burn-down is a real issue with OLEDs, though :(
Oh certainly, and we should encourage such methods where practical. But if we're going to condemn people for using the same financial tools that can be (and are) also used for scams, I have some bad news about that global economy of yours...
"Clarifications on GPU security": https://groups.google.com/g/qubes-devel/c/MeLYpHyLRHQ

See also: https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#can-i-run-applications-like-ga...

But the fact is, even if you are doing GPI passthrough in Qubes, it's much more secure than running any other system.
To be more specific than the existing "No" reply, what famously happened is that Estonia's IDs used Infineon-based chips for a period of time with 2048-bit RSA keys and Infineon's RSA implementation mints RSA keys with a peculiar property that, once you know about it, makes breaking them much cheaper than it should be. CVE-2017-15361 - for HN readers it's more likely you were impacted by this defect in a Yubikey.

"Much cheaper" here means we might expect criminals to break the RSA key for an individual Estonian ID card for less than a million bucks, whereas by design this ought to be impractical at any plausible price. It doesn't mean your bored teenager can make a fake ID on his laptop on a Friday evening. As a practical matter it seems likely key officials & police could be bribed for less than a million bucks, but forging RSA signatures might still be desirable in some circumstances, and anyway of course the mere possibility of this happening ruins public trust in the scheme.

Estonia switched to P-384 keys on the same platform. Unlike choosing random RSA keys (which involve finding large primes) choosing a good P-384 key is trivial so there's no temptation to come up with clever but insecure algorithms to mint keys.

What's interesting about this flaw is that it only happens because the keys are minted on the Infineon device you own. But we know Estonia has historically had some weird incidents which are best explained by keys not being minted on device but instead burned into the ID card after being made (and potentially recorded) elsewhere. Estonia's laws establishing these cards are clear that mustn't happen (if it did the government can seamlessly impersonate any ID, including ID issued to citizens, non-citizen residents and diplomatic staff) but evidence suggests it did, at least a few times and at least on some older platforms.

Estonia's IDs are all public using a very different scheme to Certificate Transparency, since it assumes you trust the Estonian government to decide which IDs exist - but with similar effect, if anybody is minting bogus IDs there would be a smoking gun in the official public records of Estonia.

On the other hand if the government (or a government agency perhaps without wider knowledge) has copies of some or all keys, they would be able to decrypt messages sent to citizens/ residents using the embedded PKI. We would not necessarily have any public evidence that this was happening if indeed it was happening.

You should probably be confident in Estonian IDs as proof of someone's identity in the usual course of things, but it may be prudent not to rely on this to keep secrets from the Estonian government or its allies.
> don't have their own internet cable

Owning cable doesn't help much as this cable sooner or later needs to be connected to some router that doesn't belong to you. A better solution is to host in a country where political correctness is much weaker than in the West.
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Yes. There was an example on Hacker News of someone whose blog hosted by .in was shut down/seized because some freelance-style security project that detects malicious sites or botnets or something claimed it was evil. No notification or due process. I can't recall enough of the details to provide a link, but the individual posted on HN asking for help getting his site back, and eventually did. But what stuck out at me is that the (1) accuser was some kind of NGO (2) the site was directly taken down by the registrar (it may have been above the registrar) (3) there was no due process involved.
Youtube disabled monetization on COVID-19 videos last year. (has been reenabled) This lead some Youtubers to using alternate words for that because the automated system could target your video.
> because donations are a zero-sum game

What? No, they are not. Because you never saw evidence, it is true?

I worked for 4 years convincing millionaires to start doing large donations that they simply weren’t doing before. I myself started donating a larger amount recently (because I am earning more in a new job).

You want to think it’s all ” a disgusting morass of callousness and amorality”, so you decide to think this way.
What I posted was 100% factual.
> I wasn't even including war!

Maybe you never intended to, but your comment reads:

> Nazi Germany murdered more people in a single named process

Reference to Nazi Germany does not, as you say, necessarily equate to war. However "a single named process" would to most readers be treated as narrowing it down to "a single named process" - World War Two.

The most obvious simple reading of your comment would give the clear impression you meant the war. If that wasn't the intention, if the named process was the wider genocide, or simply the Third Reich, then fair enough. But I'm sure you can understand any misreading.
Well Phase 0 is already live with a lot of people staking..
Don't pretend like it's never going to happen
This article is a little on the surface level, but it's true.

People were screaming about where platforms and digital sharecropping was headed all along... and we're here now. Youtube, which is basically digital free-to-air is even more centralised than old free to air.

Youtube really is an extreme situation. They really dominate a whole medium single handedly and youtubers have shockingly little power in the whole thing. There either needs to be some neutrality, competition or youtubers need to organize somehow... unionize even. Trying to have a relationship with audiences that doesn't run through youtube won't work for most channels... even ones with millions of views.

I always expected a porn company to come in and compete with youtube at some point. They have the infrastructure. I've also been surprised at how restricted youtube manage to be, and still succeed... just the skin censorship if nothing else.
That is what they're referring to, it is a single global allocator, rather than a per-data structure or per-instance one. You can do this in Rust, there's just no abstraction for it. One is coming.
you misunderstood me. a quick google search reveals that YouTube uses 15% of internet traffic. You suggest getting rid of YouTube and putting 15% extra workload onto google. you think that won't be an issue?

as for the "very good" part, yes, youtube is extremely successful at aggregating and displaying useful videos. It is also extremely good at searching through its library and displaying individual users useful videos. Google is far less effective at this, of course. Also, replacing channels with individual websites will vastly increase the internet traffic, not just a minor surge.
While I think there are a lot of interesting technical and economic shifts in the AAA space that has led to a period of stagnation, I don't really have the time or energy right now to argue my case so I'll hopefully comeback later and edit this.

That said, this list is all over the place and might reflect the biases and demographics of wikipedia editors.

Off the top of my head, I loved Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and Jet Set Radio, but putting them next to Deus Ex, Thief, and The Sims in the same year, each of which respectively defined groundbreaking new genres, hints at a strange or inconsistent criteria.

Another incoherent juxtaposition is putting Burnout Paradise and Gears 2 in the same year as Braid, which was a pioneer in the indie renaissance, and Grand Theft Auto 4, which was a massive technical leap forwards, particularly in reactively blending animations and physics.

It seems as if the editors of the list can't come to an agreement over what the list represents: the most groundbreaking and influential games of their time, or just games that were generally considered a good time at release.
That does seem to be the unscientific position of your country, unfortunately.

Please stop burning coal.
Absolutely true. I wish TN didn't exist entirely, but I guess it works in some weird price/quality zone. When going rock-bottom, LCD panels can indeed get very bad.

A big problem stems from the fact that to most people "flat panels" are all the same (LCD-whatever, OLED, even plasma)..
These are assertions. And they aren’t balanced, and they aren’t back up with citations.

This comment ignores large scale affirmative action programs in education and in large corporations. How do you know for sure there are in fact less opportunities for one group or another?

The way opportunity plays out for various people is fantastically complex, how do you know you’ve figured it out to a degree that is useful for creating change?
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Nebula and CuriosityStream have some sort of cross-promotion sponsorship deal going on but I think they're completely separate services and it's only Nebula that has like, youtubers on it.
Not to take away from how neat that design is, but my favorite thing about that link is learning that it was manufactured by a now defunct company called Junkers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers
I have never seen somebody cancelled for an opinion similar to "Transgender women have an inherent advantage in women's sports due to the biological advantage of their body producing testosterone." I have seen people disagree with this opinion, but never call it immoral or transphobic.

What I _have_ seen people get (correctly) called a transphobe for is the opinion "Transgender women should not be in women's sports because they are men."
Thanks, that’s a good article and apologies for the belated reply.

I still think there is a place for “click here”, I think of it as introducing some stupidity to the page - a very easy action that helps ease people’s mind - having too much information density can also get overbearing. I might sound crazy but I think there’s a place for dumbing down at times! Of course, it should be used very selectively. I would also be annoyed if WikiPedia was full of click here’s. To me 1 or 2 maximum per page
Why am I not surprised that HN is a place to find people who argue against women's right to vote.
Is it common for commercial airliners to nose-up when approaching stall conditions, thus making them easier to stall? (Or something else, that sounds similarly dire to a layman?)

I understand that aircraft are complex systems, and they need to be used by experts, and that those experts are aware of, and have to work to mitigate a lot of catastrophic failure scenarios. Is the unstable flight caused by the forward-mounted engines a particular example of a 'typical' quirk of a commercial airliner?
Here are some pics:

https://diazhub.com/australia/read-across-america-day-biden-...

And a 2017 article that goes into extreme depth investigating Seuss's work: https://www.pragmaticmom.com/2017/05/examining-dr-seuss-raci...

(IMO the article is a bit over the top and doesn't try to separate racist work from work that was created in a racist or just "white American" perspective, but wherever your line is drawn, it does include a lot of valid criticism of Seuss's body of work)

This article also points out that you might not notice the more-casual casual racism in Seuss if you're white and unaware of your own casually racist/xenophobic/majoritarian attitudes.
This looks amazing. Kudos for the project. Extra points for using Redis as main DB.
A LED panel consumes a lot of power for a reason. It is damn bright, and remains readable in broad summer sunlight. Most LCDs are useless in this setting, except maybe transreflexive monochrome (usually black-on-olive or similar).
We aren't talking about simply a baseline level of murders, but murders due to (or influenced by) racism. Even if you're okay with a baseline level of murders by police, whatever that level is, I hope you'd have problems with a distribution where the victims are solely black people (or to be more real-world, where murders of black people are punished less severely and less often, thus giving greater incentive [or equivalently, less disincentive] to kill people of a certain race).

In such a situation, the same "amount" of racism/discrimination/implicit bias has an outsized impact due to who wields it.

The same applies to teachers. If a random person believes that black people are predisposed to academic failure, that's bad sure, but won't negatively affect many black children. If a teacher who teaches black students holds that belief, that will influence how that teacher teaches those students.

> social justice warriors belive

This is a mischaracterization of what anyone I know who would consider themselves a "social justice warrior" believes, so I think at least some of your objection is due to a misrepresentation of the statements being made by these people.
Even not working for free for someone "against racism" (and/or beign a little religious) is enough these days, like when some people try to cancel Chris Pratt for not doing a fundraising for Biden.

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/10/19/21523754/chris-pr...
I didn't mean to be negative. A tool for a job is a good mindset.
The members of the council are elected by the united parliament. They will also elect the successor...

Since it's not done by popular vote, political games in that process are rare or just not excessive. The people trust the parliament with the process of electing their leaders, you better shouldn't fail them. So they mostly elect according to the current concordance.
Apparently this is a new term made up today for political purposes. Those are all reasons not to list something...

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2021/03/ladies-and-gentlemen...
Words can have multiple meanings. From a US perspective, this does seem weird, as "political correctness" is largely about not punching down on people who face adversity in our culture. The Russian definition seems to mean punching up; criticizing the government.
The narrow view is the intention I think. They want to “allow right wing views” as long as they are the milk toast “well we just disagree about how much money the government should get, the acceptable options are A LOT and MORE”. When it really gets into it, totally reasonable positions that one side just doesn’t want to hear suddenly become “racist” or “extreme”.

And to the latter part - no. No one ever thinks their views will be the wrong ones. This lack of foresight seems to be a recent thing in my opinion.
Do you want to live in Silicon Valley? Because if not this seems like a really inefficient way to get pay rise.

Why not buy property and make additional income from being a landlord or something? You could even try to start a side project if you're willing to take the risk?

I live in the UK and I thought about moving to the states a few years back, but being close to family and friends at least for me is worth more than the marginal pay increase.

You could also improve your quality of life moving out of London. Contracting rates are quite flat across the UK. I own a lovely house in the South West, but if I were living in London I'd probably only be able to afford a small flat. But it's not just housing everything is cheaper here. In London you can earn very good money but still feel relatively poor which might be part of the problem here.

Sorry, I know I'm not really answering your question. Just some things to think about. =)
I don’t believe in the bright future of AVX512 tech, and I don’t have hardware either, my desktop PC has AMD Zen2 CPU.

Here’s how I would do that in AVX2: https://gist.github.com/Const-me/eed10bfe690b5804d2fc8266e02...

I wonder how does the performance compare to your version.
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Honestly, the UI is part of what I find appealing. This may have more to do with my failing eyesight and outdated tech but I appreciate clear text without a bunch of slow loading images that cause the text to jump around and forcing me to scroll. Sometimes I just want my watch to tell me the time and I miss payphones too, so IDK if I'm the best person to answer this.

I do know putting "ASK HN:" before your question helps keep the UI neat and organized and probably will get You more responses.
No matter what type of small business you are, relying on a single source of revenue is always a massive risk. Youtube is no different in that regard. It's a good idea to diversify if you can.
If they don't want to end up on islands that nobody ever visits then they better start thinking about getting together and starting cooperatives or non-profits to host and list themselves.
I’m not saying that they deserve it or not. I’m just saying the method by which they were brought offline was effective.
I had one of these when I was younger, it was a lot of fun. Then someone got the bright idea to stick play-doh in the gears, and the fun diminished significantly.
I'll respond in good faith, but your tone sounds like you're just low-key dissing me.

He originally wrote it in Rust and solved some of his problems when he rewrote it in Zig in a different architecture. The same architecture in Rust would have solved the same problems.

And no, I would not call your second paragraph a fair take.
lots of journalistic research is also about uncovering secret knowledge and information, for example classified government documents, corporate cover-ups and various forms of human rights violations. you are right tho, that with more transparency and less predatory legal constructs the jobs of both journalist and computer researchers would be way easier.
There are many ways to have inbound traffic visit your site.

If you are reliant on search terms, I can understand, but otherwise, Google does not have control over your domain name resolving to your server’s IP address.