skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually that will happen. But the chances of it happening soon are now lower than before, because the Chinese powers that be are now hip to how quickly things can get out of hand. They have stepped up monitoring of their citizens considerably in spite of an outward appearance of openness.
I think there's reason to wonder about the outcome of any revolution. Proclaimed goals sometimes are just rhetoric and something else happens.

But I think it is fair to take the student's and those they were inspired by at their word and theorize that China might have been 'more democratic' had the movement been embraced.

But we'll never know for sure.
Nigeria to Suspend Twitter 'Indefinitely'
A Rogue Climber Running from the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma
Yikes. Let's try others...

Google: Plenty of results

DuckDuckGo: No results

Wait, I thought DuckDuckGo said they are the "No Censorship" search engine, or something like that?
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. How do open source contributions do anything?
Isn't the NY times best seller list not a real reflection anymore? Don't publisher buy their own books to get them to the top etc.?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Sell...
Related: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man
He wasn't actually facing 35 years. DoJ press releases don't take into account a couple of aspects of sentences when they come up with a number.

First, they ignore that actual sentencing takes into account assorted aggravating and mitigating factors. To get the maximum on a charge you have to have several aggravating factors and few mitigating factors.

Basically, if it is possible that someone could receive 20 years, say, for a given charge--even if to get 20 years they would pretty much have to be that crime's equivalent of Al Capone, then they are going to say 20 years on every press release involving that crime even if it concerns the mildest possible instance of it.

Second, there are often multiple charges that could apply to the same act and would require largely the same elements of proof. Prosecutors can charge you with all of them and let the jury decide which, if any, to convict you of. Many of these are grouped for sentencing, so that if you are convicted of more than one in the same group you only get sentenced for one of them.

Grouping is ignored in the press releases. If you are charged with three things, with a max of 10 years each (and remember, that 10 years is already greatly exaggerated as described earlier), the press release is going to say you are facing up to 30 years.

This really needs to be changed. The DoJ knows what facts they intend to try and prove about your particular instances of the crimes they are charging you with. They are perfectly capable of looking at the aggravating factors for the charge, comparing to what they are trying to prove, and figuring out the real maximum for your case. They are certainly also capable of dealing with grouping. I can't see any good reason they should not do so, and so put realistic maximums in their press releases.

Here's a good article on how press release sentences are misleading [1]. Here's an article that looks at it specifically in the context of Swartz [2].

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...

[2] http://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-aa...
As of right now, "tank man china" gives some results, but not the tank man photo. Looks like it's been scrubbed. Crazy.
> biosecurity incidents themselves are, as you say, common

Let's generalise that a touch to defang it, incidents in scientific laboratories are common.

#1: I worked in a university science lab for four years. One of my colleagues blew up a fume cupboard* and, since he was deafened and had minor wounds from flying glass shards, I - personally - called the emergency services.

* don't apply a heat gun to stuff that looks like ice but might not be....

I met the fire service and ambulance at the front door to the department, as requested, and led them up to our laboratory, accompanied by bemused looks from other students and staff.

The lead guy from the fire service asked me (I'm not kidding) "is there anything dangerous in your lab?" ... I tried hard not to giggle (the adrenaline had taken over by that point), I told him it was a Chemistry lab and asked if he had anything specific in mind? We stored dangerous stuff alphabetically, and as I recall, the fume cupboard that blew up was the second one along, so had everything dangerous from (approximately) F to L.

#2: After they'd carted my colleague off to hospital, a professor turned up and asked who had called the emergency services. I fessed up. He gave me a dressing down and told me "the press will hear about this!". I was dumbfounded. My colleague was in the back of an ambulance on the way to hospital covered in glass shards and the prof was worried about us getting in the papers?
I asssume (I'm very much not an expert) that there have to be security considerations too, particularly if you're hoping to hire from the sorts of countries where Google or Adobe wouldn't consider opening an office and hiring developers for in-person work. And in the kind of places where Google or SAP or whoever is hiring for local work, presumably you'll have to compete with those locally-based opportunities.
At first you get famous for being above average. Then you become more famous for being famous. Why are they paid in the several millions when most jobs are not? Are they that much better at their job, than you are at yours? Probably not. But now the ball is rolling.
It's depleting magnesium, induces inflammation, reduces vitamin D.

> The overconsumption of dietary sugar has the potential to increase the risk of osteoporosis by: a) increasing the urinary excretion of both calcium and magnesium, b) reducing the intestinal absorption of calcium by lowering the levels of active vitamin D, and c) impairing bone formation by reducing osteoblast proliferation and increasing osteoclast activation as well as lactic acid production.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140170/
Deflationary currency would be an absolute nightmare for everyone except those lucky enough to be holding on to a lot of it before it was too valuable.
Citation needed. Please direct me to any user or accounts banned or suspended for discussing the lab leak theory. You're the one rewriting history here.
I thought this was referencing the other (based) tank man, Marvin John Heemeyer, who died 17 years ago today.
Probably not even that expensive.

Skymagic [1], the drone show company, could create many of the effects seen.

[1] https://vimeo.com/skymagicshow
Potential mistakes across different countries should put to rest the idea that investigating COVID origins is a nationalistic endeavor. The motivation should be as straightforward and objective as investigating airplane crashes.
If you assume a civilization (or AI singularity) eventually stops worrying about destroying itself, and the bulk of the risk to it stems from external civilizations unleashing galaxy destroying technologies (perhaps unintentionally), it seems logical that if a) such probes are technologically feasible and b) life can originate in places beyond Earth with some meaningful probability that you should expect to find a galaxy-wide network of autonomous probes specifically engineered to cut down the blast radius of these kinds of existentially risky technologies. Odds are, if that's what these are, they are old, autonomous, and should present evidence they are here to primarily prevent our mistakes from leaking across the galaxy, and secondarily perhaps to help preserve our civilization in those scenarios insofar as it is not in conflict with the primary objective.
You raise a good point! Actually, we do plan to trade day-ahead energy futures ourselves. However, in several US markets, the markets required for responsive assets such as batteries and gas turbines simply don't exist- there isn't an hour-ahead electricity future. So there's value outside what we could capture by trading directly.

Now, if we could get enough interest to make such a short-term futures market and trade on it directly... we'd love to!
Also, Social Security taxes stop after the first $137k of income, before the top income tax rates kick in. You will never be paying Social Security taxes and the top marginal income tax rates on the same dollar. There is no overlap.
interesting video. https://twitter.com/Sabina_91521/status/1400614650819928067?...
Those aren't payments, those are custodial services that offer users the ability to move around numbers within their respective closed ecosystems. There's a reason that every one of those services is now moving heavily into the cryptocurrency space.
I think you may be conflating energy usage optimization with futures trading. Utilities often use forecasts for different purposes than futures traders, e.g. demand/response. And there are many utilities that aren’t aren’t tiny. In fact, most are larger than they seem (it’s expensive to be in this business), and all of them are looking to optimize heavily. I work in this field in a similar capacity to these guys and there is money to be made legitimately.
> Shutting down Coinbase, however, will have no effect on bitcoin or the people who use it.

You all are more than free to continue to associate with each other. As long as you're not breaking any preexisting federal laws (let's be honest: most of you are). It's the normie and Wall Street market we are targeting. Good luck maintaining the bull run, sweetheart.
I'm a hard 4.5. There's no reason to believe the US, WHO, or CCP would be entirely honest, and plenty of reason to believe they say what's convenient for them. Anything at 1 or 8 is basically extremist and certainly not a party with pursuit of truth as their main priority.
The point is that for each person that ends their interaction with these companies the less data they have on everyone. If only one tenth of my friends use facebook they will have less data on me than if 9 tenths do.

Convincing even one person to choose more privacy friendly choices helps a little.
China in our current timeline is also a true ideological and moral competitor to the west.
The implications of what you said sound kind of racist to me. I suspect that's why you seem to have been downvoted.
Financial sanctions and political risk in international currency system (2020)
In all possibilities it was a major case of criminal ignorance and negligence towards major epidemic source by the chinese political and medical officiaries. Which resulted in multitrillion damages and hundreds of thousands of excess deaths at the scale of the whole planet.

And instead of transparency, investigation, apologies and reforms what we will get after another cup of nationalistic lies is Taiwan war.
Still, the unbofuscated one is only 589 lines including formatting, a copyright header, and what looks to be an 80-char line limit.

Seems sufficiently interesting either way
Privacy for me, but not for thee.

Imagine trying to be a new author, marketing a book before Amazon, before Twitter and Facebook.
I've noticed this recently around several topics. Including, but not limited to, virus reporting. Particularly, related to Fauci's FOIA requested emails.

They didn't appear to be doing this even 3-4 months ago. Although, I'm not sure how it is related to "tank man".
There were already existing models for democracy that students and those fighting for self representation could see.

A better question might be; will China ever have self determination? Or will it always be a self selected leader with a “5 year plan”
This is a fundamental, and perhaps insoluble, problem with the moral principle of liberty and self-ownership: to what extent should you be permitted to voluntarily limit, surrender, or exchange that ownership?

One can certainly make a case that even limited-scope non-compete clauses in employment contracts are an affront to human dignity; on the other extreme, there are those who would claim that freedom necessarily includes the "right" to sell one's self into indefinite servitude. Where do we draw the line? I don't see an intrinsic "bright line" or Schelling Focus on the question. What is the "statute of limitations" on the Present Self being constrained by the choices of the Past Self (at least, in the context of contract enforcement)?
People spend money on privacy. This gives it value.

I don’t know anyone that would want to spend money on a hotel if there was a security camera in the room. I would get the more expensive room without the camera, probably go to a different hotel.

Doctor and patient confidentiality is implicitly understood. Do you think doctors should be able to tell advertisers what their patients are going through.

Maybe your own individual privacy doesn’t have value to you, and that’s okay, but other people value their privacy, and these corps profiting off data definitely find value in lack of privacy.
you are by definition a power user. if your product is for power users that’s fine.

if your product is targeted to everyone but only power users can figure it out when there is an issue... well you have a problem.

also, being able to figure something out != you should figure it out. your time is limited and the complexity of remembering all those things that you figured out (even if you have the time) will quickly overwhelm you. unless it’s literally your job to support the product you should care about the interface of the product and what guarantees it makes

re: hiring devops engineers. i’m sorry, what? if my email suddenly does not work I’m supposed to hire a devops engineer now?
> Just because a technology is "old" doesn't mean it is useless, or needs to be replaced. I'm all in favor of fixing problems, and refactoring to improve flow and remove inefficiencies. I am not a fan of re-inventing the wheel because gee, we've had this particular wheel for 50 years and its doing fine but hey let's reimagine it anyway.

Can't get promotions if you don't NIH a slow half broken postgres
Did you ever read David Brin's The Transparent Society (used to be a web article, I think it might be a book now). He argues that as networking and miniaturization progress, and given the curiosity of 9 year olds, we have 2 choices: everyone has all data about everyone else, or, the powerful (gov't corps rich) have all data about everyone else, and the powerful have privacy. I'm not sure if I think that's true, but I can't really think of a counter-argument.

If someone can slip cameras into what looks to me like gnats and film my bathing, well, my bathing isn't so exciting, but how can we prevent it? Some weird EM shielding arms race on nano-bots or something? And still all the sound I utter will be recorded. I wouldn't want to live on a planet with no insects. If I were 9 and I had a "build your own flying gnat" kit, pretty sure I might try to find out about what naked people look like. Now I grew up in a relatively repressed family and society, so maybe the cool Europeans have a different take on it. Maybe if there's 10M "watch people all the time" public channels with video feeds from all over the planet, peoples mental health would adjust somehow. I suspect we'll find out. Most people (that I talk to in real life) are stolidly uninterested in the "omg, do you know what the data people are gathering thru your phone" facts.

I for sure don't want to live in a society where the powerful have privacy and none of the regular people do.
Yeah, but in the modern era, where almost all the ancient Unixes are for all practical purposes dead (you basically have to be an IBM consultant to use AIX, an HP consultant to use HP-UX, an Oracle consultant to use Solaris, *BSDs probably have 0.01% of Linux' usage rate), we live in a Linux mono culture.

99.99% of everything is internet connected and auto-updates. New distro versions come out every 2 years.

There's no real reason why bash couldn't have been evolved into a sane language with sane parsing and with modern constructs. By sane, I mean... read this:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/

At least these articles:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html (especially this one)

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/20.html

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/28.html

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/06.html

If freaking Javascript could "use strict;" and turn a page, bash could have definitely have done the same.

It's just that there's no real commercial interest and FSF doesn't have the manpower (or desire) to do this.
I care a ton if this was a cover up. It seems extremely likely that this was the case, based on the attempt to shut down any discussion of this.

And if that is the case the lesson should be never to do this kind of research ever again, upon the worst possible punishment we can come up with.
Kaleidoscope seems to only focus on C++ nowadays, the OCaml version is no longer there.

https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/
There must be a way to alter a core's instruction pointer from another core or from hardware to support killing processes running untrusted machine code, and to support pre-emptive multithreading without needing to have compilers add a check for preemption on all backward branches and calls.

These features are very worth the hassle of providing this capability (which is known as "IPI"s), and once you have that hardware interrupts become pretty much free to support by using the same capability and the OS/user can then decide whether to dedicate a core, to affinity them to a core, to load balance them among all cores or to disable the interrupts and poll instead.
It's not about "believing in the lab leak theory" or "believing in the science". It's about being able to question things without being cancelled or censored. Journalism and science are both supposed to be about questioning things and getting to the bottom of them. When you can't do that you have a huge problem. For the last year people have been censored on social media for even suggesting that a lab leak was possible.
74% of sentences are < 5 years.

(https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...)
It really is one of the best things about emulation development. It's surprising how quickly you go from "nothing works" to "I'm playing Super Mario Bros!"
Because some are useful...
Our Thing: An Interview with Paul Beatty (2015)
if you are in a strong economy with plenty of jobs such as USA, UK and Germany - lazyness, otherwise the limiting factor is your ability to find contracts once your current one ends
only for comments, not stories
Vertex AI: Does it live up to the MLOps hype?
Unless you have moderate safe search on, in which case it says that the results were blocked by safe search.
The scientific approach is to form hypotheses, and then seek facts that will allow us to rule on them. But the character of the epidemic has been a battle of wills between a priesthood of experts and their reactionaries.
Everything "controversial" or anti-narrative since October 2020 I've posted has been flagged. Frankly, I think it's mostly bots or people being paid to do so. IMO HN should be changing it's flag policy.
There are a few different photographers who managed to get a picture of Tank Man from different vantage points.[0] There's also a little known street view angle which, IMHO, is even more profound.[1]

[0]https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-...
[1]https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-...
Now wait just a minute.

Are you suggesting that there may be vast, concerted intellectual fraud related to the origins of SARS-CoV-2?

Such that the former director of the CDC has received death threats for suggesting the bullshit mainstream media peddled lies might indeed be false, and there may be a more likely alternate source to the beginning of the pandemic other than pangolins?

Or that there is something slightly fishy about Peter Daszak being put in charge of The Lancet's investigation of the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Like he was previousy a fact checker - ha ha ha - for Facebook, helping to identify and remove "misinformation" about SARS2/Covid. Like he was on the WHO team sent to Wuhan - ha ha ha - to (not) investigate the origins of SARS2.

Or that maybe there's something a little weird about Fauci blatantly lying to Congress, lying to the public, lying everywhere non-stop for the past year, as to whether it was possible SARS2 leaked out of a lab and whether gain of function was funded by the NIH through EcoHealth. And then, suddenly, completely changing his tune. Yeah, weird.

Or maybe it's weird how the WHO very willingly, openly, ridiculously assisted China in covering up the origins of SARS2 in the early days, and has barely made the slightest of efforts to deny any of it (because they got caught on record helping to hide the outbreak from the world). And maybe it's weird how the WHO has suffered close to zero consequences from any of that fraud that helped kill plausibly huge numbers of people.

Or maybe it's weird how so many of the big tech companies simultaneously unified to censor discussion about the lab leak theory. Of course it's not like we now know for a fact, thanks to insider leaks and Congressional discovery, that many of the social media and big tech companies work closely together to censor things they ideologically or politically dislike or otherwise find inconvenient to whatever their mission is these days.

Nah hell, it's obviously all conspiracy theory, misinformation, deserving of aggressive censorship.

edit: the downvotes, fortunately, don't change or hide reality, no matter how many times you hit that little down arrow

I was supporting the lab leak theory here on HN at the beginning of the pandemic. I was right then. I'm right now. Another thing that hasn't changed in that time is the mob trying to downvote the discussion away.
> Maybe based on a ratio to the lowest paid employee or federal minimum wage. Make execs lobby to raise the minimum wage so they can increase their bonus or something.

Using the lowest paid employee ratio results in companies outsourcing the low pay jobs so that this ratio looks better. For example janitorial jobs.
Ok, why do you care anyways though? Java on the web failed, Wasm might too, but we won't know without trying. It's not the same thing, there are many differences especially in relation to lessons learned from Java and past 15 years of the web platform.
I have a bridge to sell you.

"Gmail messages 'read by human third parties'"
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44699263

"One company told the Wall Street Journal that the practice was "common" and a "dirty secret". ...Google indicated that the practice was not against its policies."
Transformation of a 3D printer (Ender 3) into 3 controllable syringe pumps
I never did get very far with my NES emulator after getting an actual job (it was plan B for if no one liked my resume), but I do remember that being oddly satisfying [1]

[1] https://github.com/missblit/nesnes/blob/master/instructions_...
This is a great example of why I find comments like "who cares" disingenuous. A good faith question would sincerely ask who cares, and why it's significant. The comment you replied to was essentially a discussion-shutdown attempt, but as you showed, there are very legitimate reasons to care.
Interesting. I skipped from an iPhone 6 to an 11 Pro, and when I pick up my old 6 now it is both so thin and light as to feel very fragile, whereas the 11 Pro has a dense, hefty, solid feel in comparison. I have briefly used someone else's iPhone 12 and it didn't feel any different from my 11 Pro, to me. YMMV and all that.
Yes, if someone sticks up your bank for $10 then it likely benefits you in the long run since you implement security measures for when the million dollar stickup man comes by.
There is no legitimate explaination for why there is no infinite scroll of for example, water tanks.
I don't know about assets, but Huawei definitely has business in the EU.