skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, stolen safes end up in canals very often, guns and knives too. They are easy places to dispose of small heavy items and they usually stay hidden for a long time.
Facebook, Google, et. al. might not make the data available to you, but they have it.

If the information is stored on servers in China, then the Chinese government has it as well. Maybe you aren't a Chinese citizen so you don't care, but it's at least worth considering.

The politicians we elect to craft and enact legislation that affects the big data companies are always at risk of being essentially blackmailed by those companies with the incredibly detailed and personal information that those companies have on politicians.
And many scientists acting as if it were anathema to suggest a lab origin while conveniently keeping quiet on their own conflicts of interest.
Absolutely AMAZING resource. Thank you for sharing this. It is much needed.
Thanks for sharing. I knew some of D's history, but there was stuff in there I hadn't read before.

I like much of the way D's designed. It doesn't try to be flashy, gimicky or different for the sake of being different. It gives you a set of practical tools and doesn't try to be too opinionated on the way they should be used. It mostly makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But if you really want to you can. You gotta really try though.
I still need to play with Haiku (or BeOS).

Much as I like POSIXey stuff, and am perfectly happy with macOS or Linux, a part of me feels like POSIX is an example of the "curse of the good enough". It's nice to see an open source non-Unix getting a bit of love, even if it's still somewhat of a niche audience right now.
ah I never knew about that distinction. Good to know.
Looks like media outlets are starting to cover the story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8v9m/bing-censors-tank-man
Yeah my personal opinion is similar. IMO the best evidence for it being a lab leak is the extent to which the involved parties (the Chinese government, the head researcher at the lab, and the Ecohealth Alliance guy) are acting like they have something to hide. That's entirely circumstantial of course, but it's not like there's a ton of evidence for anything.

The second best piece of evidence IMO is the lack of an alternative explanation, but these things do take time to piece together.
I can't say I'm at all surprised. I've had similar conversations in a non-advertising field with non-technical managers where their attitude basically boiled down to "What do we care?" when it came to problems that would cost someone else money.

I also can't see attitudes like that changing until companies that collect data are seriously held to account for any leaks/abuses of the data that they collect.

Potential penalties would probably have to include criminal charges, in much the same way that individuals and companies can be held criminally liable for mishandling toxic waste.
Isn't protecting the interests of a wealthy few exactly what happened in this case?

Look at all the recent Federal activity aimed at shutting down Sci-Hub.

>A reminder that Elsevier made
$6 BILLION selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and made more profit than Amazon, Google and Apple every year for YEARS...

And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0
And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

https://twitter.com/DrJessTaylor/status/1390798132632596488?...
>Well, yeah, there does have to be a public mailing list.

Imo, this is not scalable or sustainable, and mailing lists are not a replacement for adequate customer support.

The only reason sending emails directly to mailing lists for specific Google products works is precisely because those mailing lists are not public and not flooded with bajillions of emails from the general public. So those who send the emails are already somewhat pre-screened in a way, because if you know that mailing list email address in the first place, you are very unlikely to send something like "my cousin couldn't remember password to their google photos account, can you fix this please". That's why everything there ends up being read and addressed. If those mailing lists were public, then they would be just as useless and ineffective as the current customer support routes currently are for Google.

Tl;dr: mailing lists for specific products are a nifty workaround for the time being, but they aren't a good sustainable solution for shitty customer support. Making those mailing lists public will not only not help solving the problem, it will just make those mailing lists as ineffective as the current customer support. There is no "one weird trick" to solve the customer support adequacy issues with Google,it has to be an actual customer solution that won't be easy and will take time.
Everything you are describing essentially amounts to "crime, but with a computer." Crime is still crime, we don't need the CFAA to fight it.
> When I started pokegb, I spent most of the first few days implementing the CPU. Every time I hit an instruction that wasn't implemented, I'd implement it and see if it would run any further.

If you've ever written a drop-in replacement for some existing piece of software and filled the implementation with a bunch of `notimplemented()` (example)[1], you know exactly how satisfying this is. I love it.

[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/lgf/blob/master/lua/framework/...
Lab Leak Debacle Shows Why Banning 'Misinformation' Is a Terrible Idea
Lots of results for "Tank Girl", thankfully.
Makes sense in hindsight. When i cut it all out, all kinds of joint and back pain went away
An example here for "run locally" would be Apple Health, which uses end-to-end encryption to sync data between your devices, does all the analytics stuff locally, and has a extensive permissions scheme for voluntary sharing of info with doctors or research programs.
You would only attack yourself. The CPU time you're paying for would be spent processing division by zero exceptions.
I have heard pagerduty deploys their elixir microservices using a (very cut down) version of Phoenix. Somewhere they have a private "miniPhoenix" template that autogenerates everything for them.

There are some big non-tech companies that you probably know that use elixir-phoenix, off the top of my head, PepsiCo, MBTA, BBC, PRX (of NPR/public radio fame).
Aren't a substantial number of HN users, who vote on posts and comments and flag them, Chinese or Chinese-American? Isn't the government of China fairly popular in China? If the answer to both of these questions is "yes" I don't see how it can be true that "neither the Communist Party of China nor any other Communist Party has influence on how we operate Hacker News", even without any behavior-control rays.
Being an effectively racist talking point is independent of how plausible one believes the topic to be. I'd be at 3 on your scale, but as an independent matter I worry about the combination of how non-actionable the idea is along with how effectively it supports racist rhetoric.

Note that my wording was specific there. It's effective because it has a bunch of people talking about it. It supports racist rhetoric because it creates an environment in which people are comfortable making statements blaming China, and there are a lot of people who are sloppy about distinguishing between the government of China and Chinese people.

Whether the theory "is" racist or not is the wrong question. The right question is whether discussion of it helps to normalize racist positions. That seems like a much easier matter to study - no need to divine anyone's private beliefs. And it's completely independent of any question of how the new coronavirus got into human spread.

I think it's very important to separate these two topics, so that the far more important question of how much damage this is doing to Asian communities doesn't get buried in some completely unactionable nonsense about the virus's means of introduction to the human population.
> Score her fairly, and let her run away with it.

The safety aspect of the deterrence part is critical, though.

> If she's got no one who can rival her, that's amazing and awesome.

The goal that is notionally targeted is to have the allowed moves challenging enough to provide the opportunity for real differentiation at the elite level but not so dangerous as to have people at the elite level sufeerinf large numbers of serious injuries trying to avoid being mathematically eliminated by degree of difficulty (you could allow more moves but give less return to degree of difficulty at the highest level to achieve a similar effect, but I don’t think allowing the moves but underscoring them has any broader appeal than straight-up bans.

If an athlete is, like Biles, good enough to do a move banned for this reason, they are also good enough to reliably dominate without it.
‘Tank Man’: The iconic rebellious image that China doesn’t want you to see
It's definitely not always obvious but I think the categories of "minimally processed" / "processed" / "ultra processed" make some intuitive sense:

Raw fish filet / Canned Fish / Frozen Fish Fingers

Corn on the cob / Frozen Corn / Corn Chips

Raw chicken breast / Rotisserie Chicken / Chicken patty

Peanuts / Peanut Butter / Peanut M&Ms

Milk / Cheese / Powdered cheese sauce mix

Brown rice / White rice / Rice Krispies

Wheat / Simple bread / Chocolate chip cookies
Perhaps you'd like some privacy to surprise a significant other with your purchase, rather than it show up on their Venmo feed in real-time.
The important question is, “who cares?” (Non rhetorically).

There is a useful scientific question of interest to a small nu,ebr of people: if the virus transferred from Petri dish to humans, what can we learn about bio safety practices for future research.

There is an unuseful question which is what most people are asking: “how can I find someone to blame after the fact for what is essentially a natural phenomenon?”

Not impressed by humanity on this one.
I deeply disagree that crypto is the easiest way to make online payments. Have you ever used Venmo? Or even Facebook pay? Or Zelle? Sure, it might be the easiest way to send money cross-border, but that's an edge case, the vast, vast majority of transactions are same-country.
> I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech

You must have a remarkably selective definition of free speech then. Stuff gets flagged all the time, and users are suppressed via opaque and obfuscated methods.

To be clear, I'm not saying that moderation is a bad thing. But increasingly I notice that people use the term "free speech" to simply mean "speech I agree with".
I've always found the indentation being done by a gif kind of weird. But hey, it works.
Up or Out, solving the turnover crisis
Who is policing? Providing and spreading the best available knowledge and trying to activate others’ conscience is not policing. Yes there are consequences, namely the collapse of ecosystems. Decide what’s more important, and know why its more important.

What is the alternative to thinking about how you live?
Absolutely. The engineer with the laptop had a brain fade - his area was usually CT.

As magnets have got better control over their fringe fields, the issue has got worse. The field goes from nothing to 3T in a very short distance, so 10+ T/m rate of change is not uncommon.
It's easier when there are more bits available than in the original operand.

For 64, a variable shift may work. Powers of 10 have a lot of trailing 0 bits.
Probably not, unless pointlessly blocking EU residents is considered "targeting".

> Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
I'm aware of the guidelines, thanks. I've been here a while and don't comment on voting often. You'll notice others have commented on this also, which indicates that something strange is happening.
I'm specifically referring to the explanation for why, all of a sudden, these disclosures are happening in a way they didn't for decades. Conditional on the fact they are actual disclosures and not a complex conspiratorial psyop/lies/etc.
Or interprocessor interrupts for flushing the TLB, terminating the scheduling quantum, or anything else.
Bing Censors Image Search for 'Tank Man' Even in US
It's remarkable to imagine how different the world might have been if the Tiananmen uprising had succeeded. Democracy with Chinese characteristics, or whatever. A true ideological and moral competitor to the West.
The key takeaway for me is how this decision affects port scanning. According to the article:

> Van Buren is really good news for port scanning, for example: so long as the computer is open to the public, you don’t have to worry about the conditions for use to scan the port.

As a frequent user of nmap, this is good to hear.
Another approach I remember uses a pre-sized template and attaches sides to other sides (unlike to parent sides only). E.g. you have a form of width 1000, then you drop button A at (10,10)-(495,50), button B at (505,10)-(990,50), and then connect A.right to follow B.left instead of Form.left (which is default). B.left is then told to be proportional to Form.right, and B.right follows Form.right. When parent resizes, margins and the spacing between them (10) are naturally maintained from the fact that they were 10px apart at design time, i.e. the layout stores their initial coords for using in calculations. A minor issue is that proportional at 505 is not equidistant to proportional at 500 (a true middle of the spacing) at all times, but you just ignore that.

All the rules are of the form:

A.side {follows|proportional} B.side

By default

*.side follows Form.left (or top)

And few shorthands, e.g. “A expands hotizontally” means A.right follows Parent.right, etc.

It is actually a dumbed down version of a constraints model and is a subset of it, though it looks and feels more like boxing or alignment models. It was used in pre-constraints apple toolkits and few other products. The main difference is that these follow/proportional constraints are tree-like (cycles forbidden), when true constraint-based layout is a linear problem that requires a special solver optimized for ui-related [in]equality patterns to update in realtime.
And just to confuse things a little more we have in the UK:

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/

Which is not a survey of explosive devices.
I just re-read the article to see if I was blind, but no where does it answer the question "what are the benefits of semi-anonymous photo sharing that don't apply to money transfer", in no small part as the article doesn't try to talk about the benefits of anything, much less an open Internet. I feel like you might not have actually read my comment to see the question I led with (asked in response to the comment above)? ;P
A site that renders HTML is more computationally expensive than handling a site that does nothing but division by zero.
> But Facebook (and Google, Apple, and many other "platforms") are such an indispensable part of our lives that we should have difficult conversations about what individual rights look like in these quasi-public private spaces. (It's worth noting that the explicit business model of many of these companies is to create gigantic platforms/walled gardens.)

I don't agree, I think the opposite. The government should be working to make them more dispensable. Every company you listed needs aggressive antitrust action from various worldwide governments.
Then perhaps we shouldn't produce software.

If the costs to mitigate the negative externalities of a certain product or service outweigh the net benefits of said product or service, the creation of that product or service is a net negative on society, and we should cease that activity.

It's like arguing that a coal-fired power plant isn't profitable if it has to pay for all the carbon that it's producing.
My first thought is that this will make for some pretty good memes
Which in some ways is even worse, since one would expect scientists to have a higher standard for veracity than the media and politicians.
How "intact" a food is basically how much of the original nutrition remains after processing. Hand milling whole grain into flour is a form of processing, for example, that leaves the food almost completely intact because it gets rid of the inedible chaff without destroying much of the bran, germ, and endosperm. Industrially processed all purpose flour, on the other hand, goes through a more destructive process that destroys more of those layers and more of the nutritional value (due to chemicals used, more heat and force generated from machinery, etc). Processing flour into bread, leaves even less of it intact because the yeast and heat irreversibly change the chemistry of the bread, but if the flour is made from intact grains it will be significantly more nutritious, despite roughly the same amount of processing.

"intact" food is important because of bioavailability of nutrients as well as metabolic responses like insulin. You can't add fiber or vitamins back into fruit juice with the same effect as eating whole fruit, for example.

Edit: Even fully synthesized food that counts as "super duper ultra processed" can be more nutritious than unprocessed food, but as a general rule outside of medicine it isn't.
That’s why OP proposed segmenting into several store brands (that would cater to different stratums).
If only they lived longer.
Everyone seems to point to nation states, but there are literally thousands of billionaires in the world. Maybe an individual with really deep pockets is having a laugh.
Looking at the whole internet as a sort of "Pandora for Books" has been great for me.

I try to recognize when I'm consuming too much short text, like your comment, and then I'll go an pick up a book instead.

I'll let myself drift on the web a bit more when I'm between books, but when I start to get interested in a particular subject, I go looking for a book on it instead of the (usually) much lower quality online discussion.

This includes both fiction and non-fiction. I just finished a Del Rey Star Wars book - much more enjoyable than viewing another Prequel Meme.
> people asked if a woman could be trusted with the nuclear codes

Who?

> no one questioned whether a man could be trusted with them.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/politics/trump-nuclear-author...

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-trump-finger-...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47436/t...

I'm surprised you never heard anyone question Trump's temperament regarding control over nukes.
There were random interviews in the capitol saying all these weird stuff from the internet, and people in US often know someone who'd be convinced this way.

So its not like this crazy stuff is hard to prove is prevalent (pun intended) among certain groups.

What is hard is actually putting figures on it when worldviews get so warped due to circular logic. This is bad, because there are real reasons people are upset. Underlying reasons that need to be properly addressed.
Because the number of transistors used for that functionality is absolutely negligible, so removing it has virtually no benefit.
Yet the federal conviction rate is well above 99%. The book provides actual examples where people have gone to prison over nothing.
C++ Functional Terminal User Interface
What evidence is available that crypto is so essential to the national economy that it would cause financial ruin?

Just last month, China banned the use of crypto by any financial institution. Are you suggesting this will ruin their economy?
My understanding is that the bonuses were paid out in the final stages of the negotiations for the bailout package.
Carriers agree to start sharing vertical location data
Haiku is POSIX compatible, thus giving access to a wide software library, while keeping it coherent on the UI-UX side. Native applications are slowly coming through, though.
Unless we forget how to make mRNA vaccines, we're likely to avoid pandemics forever. These vaccines are going to fix everything.
Disclaimer: I work at a company that collects user data.

The author is fearmongering big tech because she envies all the money they are making. Facebook does not sell user data, and I'm pretty sure the author knows this but intentionally perpetuates this misconception anyways. Facebook would collect about as much user data regardless of whether they used it for targeted advertising.
Makes you wonder whether you could train birds by burying peanuts over fake mines and then look for where they are scratching for them.

Less intelligent birds are best, because smarter birds like crows would only scratch at some of the mines to attract people intending to dispose of them, only to watch them trigger buried ones in their path. It's something a cat would do as well.
> Even if you use reproducible builds, they can be patched at execution time by an attacker who had access to the device.

Finally, a reasonable argument after repeated intentional strawmanning and name-calling. The difference is that an iPhone is only allowed to get apps from the App Store, which is impossible to reach except MITMed via the great firewall. Android devices can get apps from F-Droid and its mirrors, so you can get an Android device not compromised by China and still use it in China with verifiable builds.

Additionally, without the app store MITM, you only have to trust the vendor at the time of purchase. With the MITM, you must also trust that the vendor won't become malicious in the future.

> So you have been lying all along about China MITMing the App Store.

No, I never said they are, which I don't have any evidence for. I said they can, and I have repeatedly made this distinction clear, so you are deliberately lying that I said otherwise.

> You repeatedly claimed that China can MITM the App Store, which has always been a lie.

I showed you how they can, and you have not shown why they can't.

> You outright lied here that China can replace signal on US devices, and nothing you have said so far changes this.

Lie. I never said they can do this on US devices, only that Apple can.
I like to go with, if it's something that no longer resembles food that's possible to make with unprocessed ingredients or if more than half the ingredients in a product are chemicals. It's probably ultra processed.

Say burgers. A home made Burger made of freshly ground meat is a 'processed food.'

A Patty created in a factory out of a slurry of smooshed up animal, parts, binders and preservatives then flash frozen and shipped to various places where it's then thawed and cooked using an industrial grill and assembled by a teenager for minimum wage...that's ultra processed.
It might be there to put a playful twist on things. Kind of like "shook" (slang) or "woke" (when it first appeared).
Hi all, I'm the author of this post! Happy to answer any questions. :-)
Are you sure that AWS don’t just charge 75x more for the same service?

They probably don’t, but then again....
That and the tests. Many teachers like the pre canned tests these books come with (please finish problems 10-50 even by the next class). Now it is online run by the publisher. Cheating is now even more rampant than it was before the code thing with many sites having the answers.

I would wait 1-2 weeks after class started to buy books. Especially if the teacher decided you need 6 of them to finish the class. It was usually pretty clear which ones they were going to use by that point.