skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use firefox all day long on apple with zero issues. Sure it wasn't something on your system? like an errant plugin? (yeah I have a memory/cpu graph running 24/7)
Signal attenuation is correct.
It's camera artefacts, dude.
Or if you add any arbitrary word to the search, e.g. "tank man the"
@dang, I think we need an explanation for why Tank Man-related content on Hacker News has been disappearing all day. I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech, and if there isn't some kind of proportionate response here, I don't believe myself or many others here will be able to see it that way going forward.

EDIT: Thank you for your response, dang. Hacker News is a special place, which is why we have responded so strongly to today's events - I apologize if the tone above came off as less-than-civil. I (and it seems, many others) look forward to hearing more about the 'dupe' article others have linked to below. It was only upon seeing the article marked as a dupe after seeing the previous flagged out of existence that it began to feel like more than just a user-initiated action, so I am sure further information on the mod-initiated actions will put these fears to rest.
No, it really wouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, especially since the result will live in a register. Even if spilled to the stack, this one usage isn’t going to matter vs all the other stuff that gets regularly spilled.
I'm guessing it is a "hand tuned" search result tweak because just appending "china" returns a few images:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank%20man%20china

(For those who don't see results, this is my screen grab of the above at 18:12 UTC : https://imgur.com/a/3tzPV49)

Also, "Tiananmen Square massacre" still returns some image results:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tiananmen+Square+massac...

Therefore, the tweak for "tank man" doesn't seem to make any sense since all the other phrases to get to the same sensitive topic are not suppressed.
Hetzner and SAP also provide cloud services and it is probably impossible to tell how much of their revenue it is.
My 12 year old niece fished a handgun out of a canal couple months back, that is pretty uncommon heren in the Netherlands
Given the Farhud, the Holocaust, and the persecution of Soviet Jews both remain in living memory and shape our lives today, I'd say that if you think you've got logic to prove the "essential impossibility" of antisemitism, you've taken a wrong turn somewhere.
I see a lot of folks objecting to this. Ok, if the government doesn't fund basic research, who does? Business? That hasn't happened since the golden age of Bell Labs and Xerox Parc.

There's a whole scientific 'commons' that are hugely important to society but don't have a capturable value to the private sector.
Breakaway civ.
water absorbs electromagnetic waves, especially high frequency ones. That's why your microwave heats things :D
No one hires junior engineers anyway, getting that first job is miserable. Everyone only wants armies of experienced workers.
These things aren't "things". They are mostly camera artefacts. They're not doing anything.
> as much as South Africa has a youth unemployment problem, the solution is relatively available - get youth to first complete high school and then be equipped with skills they can use to earn a living.

> With that in mind, you have to ask: why isn’t the South African government putting all their energy into this?

The list of reasons are legion, but chief among them is corruption - and until those in power get past their 'it's our turn to eat' view point, we're all just wasting our breath.

Source: am South African
> aliens being here would imply FTL is possible

Why? There are plenty of stars within a sub-light-speed radius since events that could've announced us to the galaxy: advent of radio, first nuclear tests, etc.
The problem is we've historically limited ourselves to the lowest common denominator shell so our scripts worked everywhere without modifications.

Hence everything has been stuck with the archaic limitations and oversights of posix shell or gnu bash as linux distros took over and largely standardized on it.

There have been numerous alternative shells and some significantly improve on the situation, unfortunately they've been largely ignored. Default shell choice has proven very sticky.

I do agree that it's practically impossible to write robust and safe scripts in bash/posix shell. You have to jump through many hoops if arbitrary user input is being handled. Frankly nobody should be writing generalized tools using such shells today, unless they have a very good reason to self-impose the constraint.
No mention of competition. This is an obvious one: Will we be more expensive than the competition if we change our pricing? And another: Will we create an opportunity for a competitor to jump in?
Kind of a stretch, the way you moved the discussion onto China ;)

But, seriously, it's kind of frightening seeing the rise of anti-China sentiments of various kinds on HN. I can only assume this is fueled by US propaganda and necessitated by the lack of a new Big Bad after the fall of the USSR.
Once the last local bookstore left the area, I stopped buying books and magazines. The local newspaper is now $3.00 on a weekday, and only about 40 pages, 4 of which are worth reading.

All my news intake is from the internet now, here, and select youtubers, and lots of tangential followup.

Plus, now print is too small for me, I do better with text on my 31" monitor.
Nowadays, Apple ships the whole 4GB OS, even when they have to ship 3 point updates in one month for small bugs.
I could see both swap/charge existing at the same time.

As in ideally you use swap but you can also charge if you're in a pinch.

But not for a long time, the swapping infrastructure would likely be really expensive to build, so you'd need a lot of users to make it worth it.
Are different frequencies attenuated differently then out of interest in water?
The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
I wonder if there are already storys from WFH people who say 'they work from home' but in reality they just hire a guy from a cheap country.
I wonder if we get good data in the report. The flybys of U.S. Navy ships had to have produced lots of sensor data. In particular, synchronized radar data, or electro-optical data if we're really lucky, from several ships in a task group would resolve many ambiguities. Most positional illusions break down when seen from multiple viewpoints.

Some of this stuff suggests someone fooling around with drones. But whose drones?
> Gibbard’s theorem assumes that each participant has a set of preferences about the entire outcome of the process. In this case, the outcome of the process is the matching of all candidates to all positions.

Doesn't this mean it's actually not very applicable to voting systems?

Voters generally only care whether their preferred candidate comes first, not about the relative ordering of the other candidates.

I suppose a voter might care how close their preferred candidate came to winning (or their margin of victory), but that's still a slightly weaker requirement than having a total ordering of all candidates relative to each other.
It seems like true freedom in digital social discourse is really only attainable via a decentralized system. (Note that I mean "freedom" not only to speak your mind, but also the freedom to not have to listen to someone else speak their mind if you don't want to.) There are plenty of unmoderated cesspools on the internet. There are also plenty of walled-garden centralised social media platforms that enforce their own interpretation of "appropriate" speech. A better solution is one that allows individuals to communicate on a decentralized network by joining a server of their choice (or hosting their own). Then those users/servers can control who they choose to federate with and who they choose to block. Subsidiarity in moderation will yeald the best outcome.

This is my I am a big fan of Mastodon! https://joinmastodon.org/
Dual path systems came first. Regulation came much later, it wasn't a prerequisite. Regulation didn't design airplanes, it standardized existing practice.
They exist. They are real. They aren't ours. They aren't an adversary's, because a) the military would never admit it if that were possible and b) if it were the case the adversary would have already taken over the world.

There's no evidence they were made by aliens, leprechauns, or ghosts. But there's evidence they were made. Not that they are swamp gas or funny clouds. So lets get past that, and realize there's something seriously insane going on, and it implies there is, or was, a capacity for non-natural creation + engineering by non-humans.

My 2c is extra-terrestrial civ is less likely than co-terrestrial civ (subterrainean/ocean) - but lets stop talking about this like they are hallucinations or possible atmospheric phenomenon.
> It's camera artefacts, dude

Does the U.S. report take a view on this? I'm not particularly swung by the extraterrestrial hypothesis. But I am curious if this is a classified project, domestic or foreign, or just a series of similar artefacts.
That will create an epidemic of scientific fraud.
Including their radar signatures?
The worst thing about the information economy of today is absolutely the inequality of access. We would be better off if everything that is collected was public.

I don't think that means we don't need privacy. It absolutely has value.

The problem is when privacy is only available to the rich and powerful, while the details about the rest of us are hoarded and used by the very same powerful people who pay such a premium for their privacy.

If we allow the collection of information, that information should absolutely be public, but that doesn't mean we should allow everything to be collected.
I'd say the current title more accurately describes the article.

The best title would probably be "AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018, strengthening its ability to win federal contracts"
Does logging software have extensive logging?
Or, if less is more, perhaps “C-+”?
Now that my current job isn’t miserably stressful, I find myself happy to wind down with a book. I’ve read over a dozen books so far this year and it’s been quite enjoyable.

When people say they have little time to read, I understand. I’m just super grateful my current circumstances allows for it again.
That's just the numerator. We'll likely never know the denominator, so if this was a real thing, let alone a new classified technology, we can't say how successful it is.
I'm going to adopt this.
Says a lot about the users, when they request an existing feature without trying to do it. I mean it's a simple drag and drop. How do you not try that before? :D
Even then, mods can override those flags, which in this case seems to not be happening. Especially given the [dupe] designation on another post
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I thought that was interesting too. Looks like the research on it came out 10 years ago. A couple of links from some quick searching. The second link has some charts and graphs, though it limits its estimates to 65+ age groups.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/walking-speed-sur...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/644554

Edit: I'd add that you likely don't need any tracker to get a rough estimate.

If you walk faster than people around you who are roughly the same age, then you'll likely outlive them.

That may be a reason to take it slow and smell the roses, since you have more time :)
No, I am okay for them to be able to know.

Them knowing is not the problem. Them using it to harm me is the problem. These are different thing, latter is a problem, former is not.

Let pick this one example :

'your restaurant visits and shopping habits'

Just them knowing is not problem, in fact them knowing can also benefit me: e.g when they want to give me gift.
It doesn't need to. It's easy enough to view the videos and confirm that this is, in fact, what they are.
We may not know all there is to know about the oceans (or much else really), but I highly doubt we'd have missed an entire advanced civilization of the type you're implying.
is there any proof that giving money for lesbian water weaving studies actually produces innovation or growth? university isnt what it used to be
Is there a formal link to the report?
Context matters, but consistency too. If it's racist too call it the Wuhan flu (which I can agree with) then the Indian variant is too.
I care less about the tax rate, then how effective its applications are.
I see a couple some framing issues your comment. For example, the comment links (A) cookie tracking data with (B) people giving advertising a bad wrap. But, I think that people give advertising a bad rap for many reasons beyond simply cookie tracking. Given that, I worry that the idea "cookie tracking never led to harm" distracts me from the larger issue of generalized corporate and governmental data surveillance, especially considering that it seems like personal data breaches usually deal subtle harm to people.
Yes, great list. But salary and bank balance should probably be added.
I'm surprised you haven't heard it before. "As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create," as one wise man put it.

"Burn it all down" is easy to say. You can apply it to anything, with no further thought. It's precisely what I'd call "lazy".

To avoid being lazy, you'd have to couple it with exactly what you intend to build from scratch, and ideally how you'd go about it. That's a ton of work, not just because you have to have a concrete idea, but because you have something that people can point out the flaws of. Many of whom will say, "It's terrible, burn it down."
>I would argue that you almost always want paste to preserve the pasteboard formatting.

Perhaps you should consider asking the user what they want by just giving them options. No need to prematurely break your software. (which is what most good software does now.)
I think this list makes a case for better sharing/access controls but I can see applications for most of the things listed here. I might just want the insights for myself but not want to share it with anyone or my data being sold without my consent e.g. monitor and improve my sleeping habits, monitor my expenditure by tracking my restaurant and shopping habits, my health data and/or insights into it. Maybe not your spouse but some parents might want to keep track of what their kids do online. I know people who want to have the ability to find/track the location of family members etc.

I suppose calls for better regulation, purpose oriented data collection and stricter enforcement and penalties but by no means does simply don't track/collect data is an answer where there are actual practical applications.
> It's lazy when it doesn't come with a proposal to replace the stuff that you want to burn down.

And what do we want to replace targeted ads, surreptitious tracking, and a system that exploits its users for money while not being held accountable to its users with?

I'd say we're better off with nothing. So yes, in this instance, burn it all down actually is a solution.

I'm aware I'm ignoring the externalities, I'm aware it's complicated, and I'm aware what I'm proposing actually is lazy. I'm aware a bunch of people will lose their jobs (mostly in tech though so I really don't feel bad, having spent most of life in that industry). I'm saying in this instance it doesn't matter. We're still better off burning it all down.
We need something like the Nutrition Facts label for digital consent: government mandated, consistent format, easy to scan. Even better if it was an interactive form to allow you to selectively consent to specific options
> has 50 points and 96 comments

far less points than comments is penalized by the ranking algorithm
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Total SALT paid as a % of income actually _decreases_ the wealthier you are, since sales and vehicle taxes tend to be regressive.

It varies by state, but on average for the top 1%, it looks like average effective tax rate in the US comes out to around 38-39%

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/unequal-state-tax-burdens/

https://www.getrichslowly.org/effective-tax-rates/

I’m not sure how to get 50% - 60%… maybe that’s referring to your top marginal tax bracket?
What evidence do you have of anything having any radar signature?
This is more of an explanation of why the law was misused in this particular case.

Swartz posed a threat to the ability to privately profit off of publicly funded science.
Interesting. I've used gopter a lot for property-based testing, though it's very complex (and impressive), and can get slow or require hacks for complex types.

I'm glad this is being made, but like many other things that have been added to Go, it shows the limitations of the language that you can't just build this inside the language. (I might be wrong, as I haven't had a chance to look at the design docs/implementation yet, but the installation instructions imply that's the case).
LZCNT (base 2) would get you to a range of possible decimal digit (base 10) lengths that would need further processing, but it's still more expensive than a table-lookup direct solution directly to the base you're interested in.
> It's pretty easy to get to 50 or 60%,

It's really, really not. You'd have to be making high 7 or low 8 figures in ordinary income annually and own expensive real estate and spend a shit ton of money on other stuff that has sales taxes.

Tax rates aren't additive. A 40% top federal bracket and a 10% top state bracket don't result in 50% of your actual income going to taxes.
Nice to see projects like this
That's the idea with 'Unidentified Flying Object'. But I guess we didn't need this report to tell us this.
UFOs make for sexy, apolitical news. Perfect for hitting a broad audience, and the more sensational you are the longer you can keep them tuning in.
Sorry for speculation but if the upvote to comments ratio are off, they might get auto flagged too, right?
> I think government funding of science is actually slowing it down.

Maybe you weren't alive during the cold war or the space race. The government poured billions into fundamental research, including hopeless moonshots like parapsychology, to help us beat the Russkies to the moon and/or ensure we were the ones dishing out preemptive nuclear strikes against them if and when the shit really hit the fan. When the government funding of science dried up... well, so did science. Private companies stopped opening Bell Labs or Xerox PARC style "let's throw this at the wall and see if it sticks" research centers, and any research companies do today has to have a clear path to monetization. Which is why we're still using 1970s Xerox PARC style computers (running a 1970s Bell Labs style OS) and not something more next-level. What's more, as political conservatism reasserted itself, so too did anti-intellectualism, with the result that it's hard to get funding from any source for fundamental research.
>your IQ based on the pages you "like" on Facebook and the friends you have

That's got to be extremely noisy, does anyone have any links about this?
How much volume of air must be inside a standard phone these days to make it buoyant?
The first one returns no images for me
They will frame it as you harming yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--
Agree. Non planar 3d printing has been worked on for some time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKVyBa8J3eQ .
I like the fact of having a precise 6-axis arm that could combine additive, subtractive manufacturing.
In addition I was also wondering if it would make sense to have a fixed nozzle and the arm is moving the plate. This would increase the printing angles and allow for very flexible shapes.
"Political" or "controversial" content is always^H^H^H^H sometimes punished by HN (sorry, dang). While I think this is a highly questionable policy which is itself political in nature (reinforcing as it does the status quo), it need not be specific to China.

A statement would certainly be nice, however.
This situation is very advantageous for China companies. They can access foreign markets unhindered, but foreign companies can't access their market without cowtowing to the CCP, and not all companies ready for it.

Maybe the correct solution would be to symmetrically block China's businesses in US and EU, so they would have to abandon either censorship or export of services
That was to inhibit resale of used books.
Firefox Color offers the ability to remap most (all?) colors used in the UI. It's hardly "10 steps just to adjust a single color", and I'm not aware of any browser that makes it easier.

More advanced customization is obviously harder to put in to a UI, but exposing the underlying CSS means that anyone can just copy from a blog post like this fairly easily. That seems like a decent compromise to me. I certainly don't recall being able to edit any pre-CSS application with that level of refinement.
I would include that in the psyop contingency. It seems pretty stupid to go through all this ado just for camera artifacts.
I just don't want an orange car. :-/

You'll see a blue Ferrari now and then, but I bet its resale value is at least 10% lower.
Most folks on here are developers to some extent - so I'll assume you are but if not let me know and I'll try to come up with a better analogy.

In my company code reviews are an adversarial process - as they are everywhere. The primary developer presents something they think is worthy to merge into the mainline branch - the reviewer inspects this and raises questions and highlights facts in the code that they think need to be address. And, throughout this process the aim isn't to prove the other person is an idiot - it's to arrive at a PR that's better than either of you would have produced on your own (ideally).

We go through this process and ideally avoid being overly critical or a dick about things. I don't reply to some confusing code with "That's dumb!" I'll point out routes to correct the confusion or just highlight my reasoning to feel it's confusing and let the dev decide on their favorite course to resolution.

A trial is certainly going to be more emotionally involved simply by being about the future of someone's life instead of some code that runs a checkout process somewhere - but we can still, as a society, try and minimize how dickish we let people get. In a company someone who is overly combative is going to face problems keeping their job and advancing - you'll generally find financial incentives offered to people that can more reasonably navigate the social aspect of being an employee[1]. Unfortunately in the world of prosecution, while these incentives still exist (people who are dickish overall will be dickish to their coworkers (other lawyers) and likely be held back by that) they tend to be minimized in comparison with performance evaluation based on conviction rates - and that creates a lot of really bad incentives. I think it's a bit of a misstatement to say that both parties in a trial are seeking the truth when one of those parties is being evaluated not on accuracy after the fact - but instead on how many people they manage to line up as guilty.

1. This has some downsides - in particular autism is actually a much bigger impediment in the real world than perhaps it needs to be. I think that's a separate issue though.
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