skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, if you search for “tanpk man” (without quotes) it says “including results for tank man” and has many pictures of tanks and men (but none of tank man...)
So, it clearly is associating some images with “tank man”, it just doesn’t show results if your search is for “tank man”
I don't understand how mentoring via slack and zoom is any different than mentoring leaning over tha back of an aeron. Actually I do: I think the slack/zoom way is significantly better.
"Tank man china" returns no results as of 19:01 UTC.
Exactly. As a person living in Eastern Europe, I welcome WFH movement, it will open up a number of possibilities and level up the play field.
This is fair! I was only really counting events with large numbers of infections (so the 1977 flu and maybe one or two others), but biosecurity incidents themselves are, as you say, common, and many prominent people in the field (Marc Lipsitch particularly comes to mind) have been calling for better biosecurity - and strict limitations on gain of function research - for some time.
If it's a lab leak but from natural source, then it would have been a matter of time anyway.
Generally good news. I just hope they have specific laws about abusing government data. For example, the LEO taking money to do searches of the database and releasing that otherwise protected. information.
To allow that rationale, you'd want to look over the commenting & voting history of anyone claiming that. I bet they all turn out to have funny definitions of what counts and what doesn't.
+"Nutritional Dark Matter"

"“We are what we eat,” but do you really know what’s in your food?
Our first paper on the Nutritional Dark Matter is in Nature Food, about the 26,000+ chemicals that are in our diet, and their impact on our health. " (2019)

https://twitter.com/barabasi/status/1204413768987361282
Were the high-g claims verified with sensor or radar data?
Was listening to CBC and they made an excellent point. Which is that the Air Canada board of directors has nobody on it from any union or "representing" the employees. When you look at the compensation committee you see other people in executive roles.

Could you see any union representative on the board of directors voting for executive bonuses after they layoffs over the last year. Until such biases at the BOD level are addresses you will only continue to see similar actions.
> Edit: here's another amazement for the list: "Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories." And the article says "BSL-2 [is] roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office."

"SARS-like" could mean quite a few things and without defining what they mean by that it strikes me as fear baiting or being intentionally misleading to further their thesis.
We're working on it :) We see ourselves as positioned between Scratch and Python https://turtlespaces.org
A better example: a page fault for a non-present page.
There has to be limitations to the use and distribution of data. E.g. sensitive topics should be disallowed to be tracked. Otherwise, personalized ads are great. They make our lives immeasurably richer by enabling a free internet. They make small businesses grow and thrive. They allow users to find products they need w/o looking for them endlessly.
The whole point of the article is that you could have said the same thing about Viagra spam, but financial system interventions did shut that down.

There is, again, no evidence that we know how to make commercially deployed software meaningfully safer at the scale we need to do it at to stop ransomware attacks from disrupting society.
After working with rats for two years I came to the conclusion that they're basically cats that drew the shortest end of the cute stick. They more intelligent than people think and they have about the same variance in personality as traditional pets like cats/dogs.
do you wake them up at 3am with stupid questions too? worst part of being on call....
This. My rule is if the the college never came would this place even exist? I saw someone saying Berkely is college town.. I guess people just have wildly different definitions of college town.
I just cancelled my Prime as well. Too far. And I don't even have their hardware.
Grocery Delivery Startup Hungryroot Boosts Value to $750M
You say that like it's a statement of fact, yet present no evidence. This isn't helpful.
To me, it's an act of guilt when CCP won't cooperate with the international community and is withholding crucial details.
> However unimportant you may consider Simone Biles, the fact still remains that she's accomplished far more than you likely ever have or will. So apply your own rubric and find a bit of humility

I love your take. It makes me happy to find the rare soul on HN who gets it.
Also “smitten” is the passive past participle of “smite”, not “smote”, which is the active. This bothered me through the whole article.

I suppose the author is not a native English speaker. Like the person who titled a film “honey I shrunk the kids”. Makes me wince to even type it.
> Yeah, and Facebook's servers have limited capacity and their bandwidth is billed at-cost.

This is a red herring. Facebook doesn't argue that they have to ban Trump to save bandwidth.

> In any case, your liability as a user increases as your share of that content scales.

I don't even know what this is supposed to mean.

> All you've done so far is deflect, without actually making any case.

This is pretty rich. My first comment in this thread was: "Yeah, I don't have a facebook account either, yet I'm concerned about censorship on facebook, because facebook has enough users in my country to swing any election."

All you've done is to deflect from my main point - the concern about facebooks power to swing elections - by playing wordgames with the word "censorship", making various claims about what isn't censorship without even offering a definition of your own.

> You can build your own social network in 5 minutes with Mastodon and a VPS. Failing that, there's hundreds of decentralized and perfectly un-censorable protocols that you can use too.

Needless to say, none of this engages with my main point either.
but rats are really cute. You just don't get to see a nicely cared for one all that often compared to cats.
My GF dropped one of her airpod pro’s in a storm drain. I taped some rare earth magnets (extracted from some old e-junk) onto a foldable ruler. The airpods end snapped onto the magnets and I fished it up!
There are no results for 'tank man' under images, videos, and maps, but searching Bing under everything shows a thumbnail of the tank man/unknown protester as the first result.
An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus (1988) [pdf]
One of the strangest football matches ever
No, people generally carry much less cash now, and part of the reason why is that it's so easily stolen.
I'm from an EU country which is quite low on the pecking order. If we offered “innovation subsidies” to our businesses it would be considered state aid and we'd be in infringement.
Not american here. My reponse is not directly to this subthread, but to likening this subject to politics.

I think there is a massive difference between political discourse (which are mostly about opinions) and fact vs lies discourse (which I would qualify as one where something that is definitely provable or in this case definitely happened is denied as untruth or never happening by one side, with said side pushing for increased conflict in the discourse so as to get the entire thing stopped).

I understand the wish and sometime need to push the first away, but the second is entirely different and when you agree to push it away you are by default siding with the lies faction, even if you have a very good and valid and pure reason for it. The question then remaining being, what obligation has a platform that's massively use for discourse to remain partial to those things ? Legally none, at least in the US. Morally, to each their own.

I understand the issue is way more complex than that, and that you have a third type of discourse which uses the same rules to push something false (eg bill gates vaccine nanobots get activated by 5g !!!), and I have no idea what the correct solution is or isn't. Just wanted to maybe clear out why "we're not taking side" is taken by some as taking sides.
> Or maybe one guy happened across faster-than-light travel in his garage and is hoarding it from everyone else.

Uh oh. Vulcans incoming.
These both strike me as fun but unlikely explanations if applying an occam's razor lens
> Also, fact is that matching consumers with products that they like doesn't just have enormous business value, but is actually socially positive!

What is the math here? How do you account for society-wide lost productivity from spending time consuming advertising? Or for people making sub-optimal purchasing decisions when products that are worse for their needs happen to have bigger advertising budgets?
The Biggest Asshole (2016)
I think it's normal.

Rarely our media and politicians show their true colors in this fashion
It’s time for cities to ban left turns
There are antiracist activists who find Kendi risible.
Indeed. Take into account the security clearance matter, and the fact that these two organizations work closely together 24/7, and this just makes sense. With whom would AWS have a closer relationship than with the DoD or DHS?
I love the way you are thinking about this, and you're a really solid skeptic! I hope we get more people questioning this the way you have, instead of saying it's clouds :)
The CCP habitually does that, so it doesn’t add much information one way or the other.
Ah, service tech makes sense. Most others aren't going see anything interesting in the photo that close.

Laptop is pretty crazy, what where they (not) thinking? I guess was imagining "normal" camera not phone, but you are right that modern attempts to make phones light have removed most of the magnetic material.

It doesn't take much to make it a problem (e.g. steel screws). Typical rooms are going to over 20g acceleration on ferromagnetic components in the highest gradient regions.
I can tell you personally with high confidence that neither the Communist Party of China nor any other Communist Party has influence on how we operate Hacker News. I can't say anything about any other site or company or media or government, because I'm not involved with any of that. But unless the communists are zapping me with behavior-control rays or Angela Lansbury had me brainwashed decades ago, zero such influence is happening here.

You don't have to believe me, of course, but if you decide not to, consider these two simple observations.

First, lying would be stupid, because the good faith of the community is literally the only thing that makes this site valuable. So, sheer self-interest plus not-being-an-idiot should be enough to tip your priors. I may be an idiot about most things, but I hope I'm not incompetent at the most important part of my job. The value of a place like HN can easily disappear in one false step. Therefore the only policy which has ever made any sense is (1) tell the truth; (2) try never to do anything that isn't defensible to the community; and (3) acknowledge when we fuck up and fix it.

Second, if you're going to draw dramatic conclusions about sinister operations, it's good for mental health to have at least one really solid piece of information you can check them against. Otherwise you end up in the wilderness of mirrors. What you see on internet forums—or rather, what you think you see on internet forums, which then somehow becomes what you see because that's how the brain does it—is simply not solid information. Remember what von Neumann said about fitting an elephant? (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) He asked for a mere five degrees of freedom. Nebulous internet spaces give you hundreds at least. That's way beyond enough to justify anything—even dipping in a ladle and getting one ladle's worth is enough to justify anything.

(Edit: people have been asking what Angela Lansbury has to do with this. If you don't mind spoilers, Angela will explain it for you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ZnaRMhD_A.)
I think it's more difficult than one imagines to ban Bitcoin's linkages to the existing institutional financial system. After all, it's not as if REvil or DarkSide are using Coinbase to trade their Bitcoin. If the United States shuts down all Bitcoin exchanges operating on its territory, but Russia does not, then does that have a meaningful impact on the usage of Bitcoin for cybercrime? It seems to me that all such a step would do is make the positive usages of Bitcoin more difficult while having only a marginal effect on the usage of Bitcoin for cybercrime.
> I'm not impressed with this article

"I don't like those facts, I like these facts."
Right. Why haven't those users been banned, and the article restored? Dang is actually quite effective as and administrator, but this seems pretty clear-cut abuse of the flagging system. I don't expect perfection, dang might have not been aware of it yet, but I do expect that some action will be taken on hot-button topics when surfaced.
Except they are often intimidated from invoking things like jury nullification. Selection of juries is highly political and then the court decides whether information is relevant to be given to the jury. I don't see juries really providing much protection.
"But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or something like that."

Isn't this already a thing with the "vouch" button on said posts? https://i.imgur.com/Hp9nu58.png
Love this analysis. It reminds me of Maggie Mae's breakdown of My Octopus Teacher as eco-horror film -- it ends up exploring the same themes around language and communication that you brought up here. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44

Specific time stamp for section on language (Gorillas in the Congo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44&t=1016s
The whole article is about why money is a distinctively important regulatory target.
4.7 trending up.

What's disconcerting is how the lab leak was treated as a conspiracy theory that needed to be censored for the past year.
China’s Douban Platform Bans Accounts, Censorship for Tiananmen Anniversary
It's still used in education to some extent, you can get a sense through logofoundation.org

The two big players (LCSI and Terrapin) still maintain versions of Logo (Terrapin Logo and Lynx)

I co-develop a 3D Logo variant at https://turtlespaces.org
I agree when they're well-groomed and not cranky they're very cute. They love to purr if you scoop them, lol.
Well, you've gotta dig but these reports now by the US military are highly similar to other reports that have leaked out over the decades from on-the-record military officers from the US and other states. The reason this is a noteworthy topic now all of a sudden is precisely because the US military is making these claims - the material claims are not new but have been brushed off for the usual reasons.
Trying this now from Germany, same here. 0 results in the image tab. “Keine Ergebnisse für Tank man gefunden."
I am kind of thinking about trying to write an alternative to fb, that would not allow any links. Only comments and family photos.

I would really likefb without all the annoying stuff and people constantly sharing memes, IDC. I just want to see how family/friends are doing and what they are up to with their families/friends.
These kinds of papers are my favorite ML papers (see also: 'machine learning is the high interest credit card of technical debt'). The org design and project aspects of ML projects are some of the most pernicious issues I face, while the modeling and other fun stuff often ends up not being that hard once the right pieces are in place.
There are plenty of big companies using Elixir/Phoenix. Bleacher Report, Cars.com, Pinterest and many more.
> It should be no mystery that refined sugar is devastating to bones.

Why? What particular qualities does sugar have that directly affects bone?

I took a look and found one study[1] that indicated Fructose doesn't affect bone growth. This study[2] indicates that Fructose strengthens bones. This meta-analysis [3] says that there can't be any conclusions drawn due to not enough evidence.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27832314/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24267046/
[3] https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/66/6/301/1...
Glad you asked!

>Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. Her plan was to take genes that coded for spike proteins possessing a variety of measured affinities for human cells, ranging from high to low. She would insert these spike genes one by one into the backbone of a number of viral genomes (“reverse genetics” and “infectious clone technology”), creating a series of chimeric viruses. These chimeric viruses would then be tested for their ability to attack human cell cultures (“in vitro”) and humanized mice (“in vivo”)... It cannot yet be stated that Shi did or did not generate SARS2 in her lab because her records have been sealed, but it seems she was certainly on the right track to have done so.

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
> What is she going to accomplish? Make money and make others follow her lead? And that would be great, right?

She inspired me and other in her boldness

> Maybe she is. I see no grace in her performance though. Maybe I'm too used watching Soviet Bloc gymnastics. Isn't this artistic gymnastics? I see no artisticism in her performance, just routine - it's like a robot doing it, but failing to land properly

Your lack of interest in pushing the boundaries or rejecting pre established rules (Who said gymnastics should only be about art? Why do you think soviet block country must forever be the model?) strikes me as dull and classicist.

You would be very happy in China mainland, where you have one model to obey and follow, coming from the top down, with no room for inspiration or breaking the mold.
Sending money over the internet is faster and safer using methods that existed before bitcoin (sending via banks / paypal / venmo / cashapp / etc). Crypto does not enable this.
Extending Contrastive Learning to the Supervised Setting
The podcast I mentioned has interviews with The Who people and episodes that walk thru even the wildest conspiracies. All done by actual virologists.
> Ending the data economy may seem like a radical proposition,

Not in 2021. In 2018, GDPR went into force in the EU. In 2018, CCPA went into force in California, US. In 2021, VCDPA went into force in Virginia, US. At least with GDPR serious fines were passed.

The right to data privacy is no longer a John-Lennon-like hippie idea. It is law. Now go and fix you business model.
It's much more akin to if a competitor to Ford made a car with a bank-robbing feature.
Please name a single consequential advance in science relevant to protecting people that's come out of the last 8 years of heavy duty gain of function research starting with bird flu and ferrets in 2011.
Not all of our debris floats. Trash has been found on the ocean floor.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-pollution-idU...
Like pronouncing "and" as "eeyaand".
... but probably won't
....That is an extraordinary claim, and thus requires extraordinary evidence.

There is no significant legitimate commerce taking place using cryptocurrency. By what mechanism would banning converting BTC to USD "financially ruin" the US?
Since cloud servers are a bigger market than users who want to run an old copy of VisiCalc, why doesn't either Intel or AMD produce a processor line that has none of the old 16 and 32 bit architectures (and long-forgotten vector extensions), implemented in silicon? Why not just make a clean (or as clean as possible) 64 bit x86 processor?
You realize the government is made of people, right?
And it's there. You have it. The ex-President can have it any time he wants, just like his blog. Problem solved.
I’m aware. But the numbers given imply that Americans get fifty percent of their energy from sugar, which fails the sniff test — it’s completely unbelievable.
Mille is originally latin though. Thats probably where the econ people use it from. (Though milliard is French)
You might want to add (obfuscated) to the title. The actual source code, while small, is much larger [1]. (edit: at 589 lines it's still impressive!)

For people who like this kind of thing and/or for people who want to be able to understand what is going on at all, you might like the course NAND2Tetris [2]. It's a good prerequisite to understanding this blog post if computer systems isn't a topic that one has explored before.

[1] https://gist.github.com/binji/395669d45e9005950232043ab4378a... -- the author notes this in the article.

[2] https://www.nand2tetris.org/
We derive great benefit from the "data economy" in the form of services which are NOT free to develop or operate but have no cost associated with their usage. We also enjoy the benefits when it comes to social connections, disaster recovery, and tracking our lost valuables. It is not going away.

The potential pitfalls of the data economy are about overbearing or violent governments, or about poorly managed data protection. This has much more to do with the bad actors than the tools they are using. It's sort of like saying we should ban information distribution because bad actors can spread misinformation.
I at first thought Tank Man meant the picture from the gulf war of a burnt husk of a human pictured while trying to escape a burning tank. Such a horrible picture.
You could argue what you want about the legality of his right to have a local copy of the entirety of JSTOR, but he hid equipment in a wire ring closet that was left unlocked on MITs network to carry out his scraping and that’s definitely not something that is “not wrong”.

It doesn’t matter what the action of the equipment or the morality of it. It’s not like it would be bad for a student or professor to put up crypto miners, but then good if they donate them to charity.

And that is not to even mention the fact that his actions caused effectively a denial of service attack on jstor from MIT.
From someone with several years of moderate volume online community moderation, the issue with post-hoc censorship is radicalization.

If something disappears, no one has bad feelings about it.

If something two people are arguing over disappears, then two people carry simmering resentment about it (ironically, likely more than if their verbal spat had reached a cathartic conclusion), that eventually manifests in their next comments, and which ultimately leads to an erosion of common decency and civility.

It's a fine line, but it's definitely a line rather than right vs wrong.
This doesn't make sense to me. Are you opposed to people paying for oil, or the influence of oil? Because that still exists whether they are paying with dollars or crypto, and will exist no matter what currency is used.
If the G7 banned crypto trading, even if ransomware hackers wanted to be paid in crypto, companies would be unable to do so without breaking the law, which would be untenable. The bottom would fall out. Yes, people in other countries could do it, but without major economies pumping in value, they're more of a curiosity. Which, maybe would be better.
They may have been "legit, longstanding, entirely boring HN users", but now their actions have made them abusers of the flagging system. Ban them.
Looks like there were rats being fed with a "recommended rat diet" and other rats being fed burgers, fries and a soft drink, e.g. the typical fast food meal.
Which company, apart from Facebook, Google and Apple, would remotely have access to any of the data on that list? Facebook Google and Apple don't share data with data brokers.