skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"pointed out that the incarceration rate of blacks"

This doesn't change the reality of the anti-white institutional discrimination examples that I highlighted.

And again, disparate outcomes aren't evidence of current discrimination or bias for or against any group.

You could be right that Hindus do well in the criminal justice system because of selection bias, and whites do well because of specific pro-white bias that Hindus don't benefit from. But the burden of proof is on you to show that that's true. Do poor Hindus or poor Asians do worse than equally poor Whites? If you could show something like this, then you will have convinced me that the criminal justice system is pro-white.

The only actual evidence I've seen is that the criminal justice system is anti-Black, and that evidence has nothing to do with disparate outcomes. Beyond that I haven't seen any evidence.
What an incredible story this is, an absolute must read for all.
Vouch is already implemented.
Seconded - this is probably the most philosophically interesting outage-post-mortem I've ever read.
In Palestine too

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/fmr-israeli-soldier...
This won't last for long.
This argument is pretty weird: ransomware is bad, but there's a potentially worse actor out there, so ransomware is good? I'd say that's like someone robbing a bank, but saying "someone else could have robbed you for more".
Progressive reforms helped level a historic part of black Detroit
Scientists Recreated the First Matter Appeared in Universe After the Big Bang
I miss Objective-C. It is such a beautiful, elegant language.
Your scale looks pretty biased toward one side.

If you throw away the two most extreme options and focus on 2 - 4, notice there is no reasonable counterpart to those expressed on the other side.

In other words, 2 - 4 are worded to look reasonable, while 6 - 7 are not, when they easily could have been worded differently to be more reasonable.

Number 5 is worded to have the appearance of looking neutral, while it's really expressing the fallacy of "there are two sides so let's assign them 50/50 likelihood even though the data weighs clearly on one side."

So that one is also on the side of 2 - 4, while appearing on the surface to be reasonable.

Then 6 immediately leaps to an extreme and untenable position, saying "almost certainly" and making that side look non-credible, as if they jump to conclusions and near certainty when the evidence is still coming in.

And 7 goes even farther to the extreme.

So again I would suggest this scale is a bit weighted against one side here.

I assume this was not your intent. If my assumption is correct, perhaps you could edit it to address this issue.

But the view that is really not expressed at all on this scale is:

We do not know for certain at this time. But we should continue to follow the evidence where it leads, and we should not solely rely on people who have a conflict of interest, especially people who have tried to hide their conflicts of interest, such as Peter Daszak reportedly did in the Lancet.
Presumably it matters because if it was a GoF research leak, we either need to suspend GoF research or increase security at labs doing it. Is it going to be the GoF researchers who call for a moratorium on GoF research? Possibly but there is a clear conflict of interest there.

A powered up virus escaping from a lab is almost definitionally not a natural event
Think along the lines of dating apps that show your distance to other users. That could be mined for changes in proximity over time - one day you are miles apart, then next day you are within 500ft of each other for the whole night.
You should add one between 5 and 6, I'm sure plenty of people lean towards lab leak without being almost certain of it.
Subdued but Not Silenced, Hong Kong Tries to Remember Tiananmen Massacre
> Reimagining video infrastructure to empower YouTube

What level of corporate buzzword bingo is this on?
Is there any good reason to think that the Tiananmen uprising participants, had they gotten power, would actually have brought about democracy? Given what had happened during the Cultural Revolution, I can understand why some Chinese would be uneasy about militant students. To actually shift a society to democracy may require much more than just a revolution led by a small vanguard. If society as a whole is not ready, such revolutions might tend to just lead to a new, worse dictatorship taking power. And this may be the case regardless of whatever genuinely good intentions the more humane revolutionary leaders might have - in practice, they may be just purged and replaced by brutal opportunists if the revolution succeeds.

I also wish for a more liberal China, I am just trying to explore some of the complexities of such events. To be fair, if by "if the Tiananmen uprising had succeeded", you mean "if the Tiananmen uprising had made China democratic", then some of my points do not make sense. It is just that, based on my reading about history, I know that successful revolutions often lead to outcomes that are very different from what idealists who root for those revolutions have in mind.
“They generate profits by compiling a profile of you from your data trail and then selling it to the highest bidder”

Connecting another dot on this point: The creation and widespread use of such profiles -which are not merely comprised of data, but are summary conclusions about people- may well make the U.S. into a genuinely caste society. Without rules regarding things like data aging, publicly accessible profile monitoring, and bad data correction… and when to provide some sort rehabilitation method, people will eventually become just a collection of their mistakes and forced into one bucket or another.

We need something akin to the Fair Credit Reporting Act and a set of laws that provide better guide-rails for when data can be collected, by who, for what purpose, when it can be sold or used for a purpose other than why it was first collected, etc.
> 1. It was definitely zoonotic, and suggestions otherwise are racist conspiracy theories.

How is the zoonotic hypothesis (“virus originated in Chinese wet market” / “due to Chinese dietary practices”) any less racist?
Wow, this shows that Australia has as many shark species as several oceans combined! Haha, what a cool place.

https://www.shark.ch/Database/Distribution/index.html

You're right though, warmer waters tend to have more species. I'm not able to find anything indicating actual numbers of sharks, but more species (correct me if I'm wrong) seems to indicate a larger cumulative population and more and/or more diverse prey

In another life I'd love to be a marine biologist. There's so much to know and understand better.
yeah true - we really need an ethnicity/nationality test for new accounts before they post to really make sure HN has no foreign CCP influence
Has anyone compared the battery performance of Firefox vs Edge (chromium) vs Chrome on windows in the past month or two?
It's such a powerful / stark image.

After the horrors that occurred , one man who looks like he was going about their day stands in front of a column of tanks. For a little while he stops an oppressive the state, or at least a small bit of it ... and then like a lot of people involved vanishes and we just don't know.
This misses a big point though. If Corporation A needs to pay $1M in crypto to Hacker B, Corporation A needs to acquire $1M in crypto (whether that's 20 BTC or 20,000). If it's illegal for them to acquire the crypto they can't make the payment. The bottom falls out.
The obfuscated one is awesome though, the code is in the shape of pokeballs!
They are no more visibly happening than discussions about shutting down wet markets.
Text also trades width for height in random granular steps (rightmost word/char boundaries are propagated down the paragraph and depend on a previous line wrap), and that is probably the worst of its properties.
Dating sites would have that kind of data and have been breached in the past (Ashley Madison was one high profile instance, as I recall).
> There is no reason that s/w engineering couldn't be taught using an apprenticeship model after doing an IQ test, but the later is illegal.

This is literally how Software Engineering is taught. The IQ test is the brain teaser questions that you get from the interviewers, and the apprenticeship is the 2-3 years of work that you do for the company before you bounce to the next place for the pay raise.
it could be some kind of new tech, or maybe an illusion.

I really don't know enough about military history to answer the question but if a research lab had some kind of groundbreaking tech like this it would make sense to me for them to try to keep it under wraps.

It does seem unlikely that they'd be able to keep the secret this well though. I'll give you that.
Oh probably. But a lot of people drop their phone once in a while. I just read about a guy dropping it into a Berlin canal! The thing is that if it dropped once you can’t rely on your phone being waterproof anymore.
Why put someone or something up on a pedestal like that? Academia and scientists have justified almost every horrific thing the US has ever done and yet here we are again like this time is going to be any different.
"If you don't use Facebook we will still collect[1] and sell all the data about you we can"

"But I never agreed to that."

"Too bad."

Under what circumstances would you describe that as consensual?

And that's not even getting into the concept of _informed_ consent; something that they clearly don't have given the amount of user anger that gets directed at Facebook every time when a new leak/breach/data collection method is revealed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5921092
In addition to the fact that they collect information about people who don't join Facebook (and agree to the ToS) by virtue of the information that others (often unwittingly) submit to Facebook, like group photos, mobile phone address books, etc.
Even using the most inclusive possible definition, that doesn't seem plausible. All taxes combined in the US including state, local, corporate and so on, add up to 24.5% of GDP[1].

[1] https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd...
I think this is the more immediate question: do you agree with the claims that there have been a lot of racist acts in American history, that some of them continue today, and that even many of the past ones still have impacts today?

Because there's a big difference between "I find this tiring that people keep talking about it, we already know" - in which case we should be talking about what we can do, instead - and "I disagree with these claims, but instead of trying to disprove them, I'm going to try to discredit them by complaining that I've heard it before."

It sounds like the latter - questions like "how far back do things need to be" sounds like a disagreement that the effects continue. In which case: be straightforward! Just come out and disagree directly! Because the answer to a question like that is obviously situational, and depends on how much impact the sin had and continues to have.
It’s worse because holding a rational-sounding position for irrational reasons is not good. It creates a sense of consensus among experts that may be wholly unwarranted and could threaten trust in experts. The reason why this is especially contentious for this particular opinion is that it’s pretty clear China would prefer everyone to believe in 2 or maybe even 1. Why exactly that is is unclear, but the “data-free” part of the title warrants asking why we have no data over a year and a half later. Is it radical to suggest that the data was suppressed? I’m no expert, but the Vanity Fair article certainly paints the picture that it has been. Now we just have to be in the unfortunate position of not being able to ascertain whether it was due to paranoia or because they knew things that we didn’t.

I don’t have a number right now. I do have some suspicions regarding the consistent attempts to squash the lab leak theory. It has been rather aggressive at times.
There's certainly bias. If for no other reason, because an entry level salary on some FAANG is often larger than most senior developers can dream on receiving in Latin America.
It would certainly be bad for ransomware companies, who probably make up a substantial portion of GDP in some dark corner of the world. Think of their children!
I believe the principle of charity is enshrined in the HN guidelines. There's no need to assume ill intent here, either on my part or on the part of many others who believe in the bedrock, foundational principle of free speech. I don't see how you could make the connection that being outraged that China has managed to censor search results nearly globally on one of the top-three search engines on the day of the anniversary of the event being censored could be interpreted as arguing for only 'speech I agree with'.
There was so much optimism at the time that China would reject communism and move to a model of self governance by its people.
Can you elaborate a bit more how the hard stuff is easy?
I will repeat here what I mentioned in the previous HN thread from this morning ... [1]

If it's a lab screwup that's relatively good news because we can fix lab screwups - it is not an indictment of our globalized, urbanized way of life.

However, if it is a natural event then it, along with SARS and MERS are starting to create a trendline that suggests our globalized and urbanized way of life has crossed a threshold and we should expect this regularly.

That's a much tougher problem to solve ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394771
Agreed, that looks surprisingly good to my admittedly non-expert eyes. Thanks for posting!
You're defining 'processed' as 'not unprocessed', there. Obviously a cyclic definition. And how are you defining 'chemical'?
"We're concerned he will encourage violence again, so we banned him"
"...But we'll let him try again in 2 years when campaign season starts"

So, vague consistency, and no foresight. What could go wrong
And that time could have been thousands of years from now.
What number is "we don't have conclusive evidence for either, but there is more evidence for lab leak then there is for zoonotic" Suspicious behavior is not an indication towards one or the other. There are negative effects if it IS lab leak, so of course they are going to say things that lead away from that hypothesis... but the behavior cannot be a part of the base of evidence.
Why do you have to be so negative? This rat is not at any risk of harm because it is too small to trigger the mines. I would say this rat has been and will continue to be very well taken care of. It is also wholesome that people celebrate its "retirement" and appreciate its accomplishments. Your criticism is off base and rabid.
Maybe companies will start enabling MFA by then?

Kind of frustrating how easy it still is to break into critical infrastructure. I do that sort of thing regularly as my day job. Companies who put a slight effort into security don't get ransomwared.

The idea that law enforcement needs full visibility into everyone's financial history, and that's the only way for them to stop crime, is ridiculous.
On iPhone, enable “Silence unknown callers” and add the callers you care about to your contacts. The calls will go straight to voicemail.

If you’re expecting a call from some random person, just disable it temporarily.
1) A big thing is trust - people trust Apple to keep their data secure much more than they trust Amazon, especially when you contrast both company's main business model.

2) Apple's "Find My" was pitched first and foremost as a feature and benefit for the user. And the value proposition was very clear and useful from day 1. You can find your lost phone even in a place there is no signal. Now with Airtags you can find any device. It's easy to imagine a horror story where you lose your $1000 phone in a basement bar or drop it in a parking garage somewhere. Apple in general has better PR.

3) No one's losing their Alexa device. I mean for 99.99% of users it's never moving once it's placed. So what's the point of this feature? It's just pure revenue gain for Amazon with like zero benefit to the average user. They want to use our wifi purely for their benefit? Come on. I know there is Tile functionality, but it's still creepy - you're using my _home_ as a tracking beacon? At least when it's my phone, I'm on the move and could be anywhere.

Just to expand a bit on the last point - the way Apple's "Find my" works is that the only information shared is that there was an iPhone at some location and crossed paths with a lost item at that location. The way Amazon's Tile will work is that a lost item is crossing paths with an "anonymous beacon" which happens to reside in a very specific location.

In Apple's implementation, there is almost no way to personally identify whose iPhone made the detection. In Amazon's case, it's trivial to identify it - it's the beacon that's at the same place all the time, which happens to be your house.
Although he has been consistently wrong on interventions during this pandemic, I have enormous respect for Marc Lipsitch; I wish he were in a position of decision-making on dispersal of NIH funds wrt pathogen research.

And for that matter, the rest of CambridgeWG has also had a consistent record of calling for investigation into lab-leak incidents at WIV for several years, including from the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Hats off to all of them.
I imagine HN must be temporary blocked in China right now if this story is on the front page. Did someone submitted this as payback for all the pro-china comments on the covid lab-leak threads?
Inventions in Everything: Motorcyclist Airbag Suit
Rather “This lacks facts, read other articles with facts.”
> chemicals

Do you have some special definition of that which wouldn't include "everything".
Is that an attempt at humor? It seems like just a statement of fact.
But that would require doing actual journalism.
> Whether the theory "is" racist or not is the wrong question. The right question is whether discussion of it helps to normalize racist positions.

This is incredibly problematic and anti-scientific sentiment. Science is about expanding knowledge. Whether covid came from China or Spain or Madagascar doesn't matter; we should determine where it came from and then see where that takes us. Racism and racist uses of fact and fiction are a separate, societal issue; tackle that separately.
FAA Data Shows Strange Pattern of Military Encounters with Unidentified Aircraft
some of the biggest plagues on society are rooted in central banking policies. If you have ever been upset at the amount of money bankers make, markets they've manipulated which resulted in tiny fines, or went bankrupt and needed bailouts which require printing money which devalues all the current dollars you own as well as not enforce any reason for them to avoid future bubbles then you might be more open to something like Bitcoin and DeFi initiatives.

Governments are no better than banks. Both right & left admins want bigger government, just in different ways. They both print money at obscene rates which is cheapening the money you have in your bank account right now.

If cryptocurrency can be a salvation from some of these problems then we should 100% be seeing if it can work.
Please don't do this. Thank you.
plenty of text results (including wikipedia as top link) but no images
Or on the flip side of that question: is it safer in the hands of the user, to be shared as desired, by explicitly opting in, or would it be safer in the hands of a corporate entity?
The point is not to find the image somehow.

The point is to explain why it does not show up where it obviously should, and even more unbelievably, why no images at all show up for such a generic pair of words.

There should at least be an infinite scroll of other images men and water tanks etc.

This exposes that the cause is not natural or innocent.
A very similar thing happened to me when I was pitching Gmail on anti-spam and realized they were running a forked version of Vipul’s Razor and claiming it was their own. They never contributed anything back... it’s unfortunately not uncommon.
Tank man is popular today because somebody noticed duckduckgo/bing were censoring search results

This was raised on HN [0] and immediately flagged by "long standing boring users of the site" [1]

There was then another story about the Tank Man photo, which was marked as "dupe", despite never having been posted before

As of now (1919 GMT) the original DDG bug hasn't been fixed

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397406

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028
In related corporate censorship, the Top Gun remake altered the physical leather jacket worn by Tom Cruise to remove the flags of Taiwan and Japan.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/top-gun-...
The Data Economy is what enables "free" product for the end-user. Think about email, drive, video. Users are now used to get most of this stuff for free. And that's possible thanks to the Data Economy.

End such economy basically means the users will start paying for the internet. Never gonna happen.
Crypto is one tool for sending money over the internet, but it's hardly the only one, and it's far from the best. Most transaction utilities don't have potential for your transfer to lose 30% overnight.
It may be as simple as the old guard retiring. The timing lines up with the most resistant people in authority leaving or dying off. Many recent leaks are also from people who kept their mouths shut most of their career and then decided to spill once they reached enough security in their retirement.
Its a shame that Microsoft does not have a backbone. If I were a leader in the Biden administration, I would give Microsoft a lashing.
Understandable, it has been passed only five years ago and been applicable for three.
Those people end up hoarding stable currencies like USD today, how is BTC any better?
I believe the search will work but the image search will return zero results.
There are some more-or-less new facts.

1. The virus that WIV identified as closest to ours is identically the virus that the miners caught in 2013. It was renamed for what were described as administrative reasons, but the 2013 events were not mentioned in connection with it.

2. Several (3?) WIV employees were sick with Covid19-like symptoms in November 2019. WIV tried to cover this up.

If there are coverups by Chinese and US officials, they seem to be trying to cover up different things.

Neither fact bears much on whether the jump occurred in or out of a lab, without more information than we have. Useful information would include details of the infection(s) in Nov 2019.
The college students (cultural revolution) were useful idiots egged on by ccp leadership. And they were absolutely authoritarian btw, not at all democratic, so its a difficult comparison.
Webscale level.
I think it’s the same as “chemical”. When something’s bad, it’s a chemical. When something’s good, it’s not.

I.e. nobody knows what “processed” means, they just know it’s bad somehow.
The number is a fact yes. The "inquiring minds" seems to me to imply some humor/sarcasm as to their wanting to know more about the subject. It's subtle, but it's not a neutral sentence.
City streets are already congested, the proposed remedy would increase congestion slightly by making many trips longer.

Making all the streets in a city core one way would make many of the left turns the only possible turn, and thus improve safety.
I imagine his code letting out a sigh when it gets to v/= 10000U.

"ok, fine..."
I'm not sure the "militant students" framing is very fair here, but it's otherwise a good point - we saw in the Arab Spring that the end result wasn't really democracy, and it's a good question which way China might've gone.
Yeah https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22tank+man%22&ia=web works fine but if you press 'images' you see no results (or, at least I see nothing). "Tank Woman" works fine.