skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was replying a later comment that was considering whether that list should include knowing who you’ve slept with.
“Of bitcoin” yet targets all cryptocurrencies
I'd say that the surface of attack here is the industrial equipment's link to general computing equipment (which it's expected to be less secure). The solution just can't be to secure the whole world of software that may somehow end up on general use computers. The point is, my remark is still valid, as a discussion on critical systems got mixed with clearly non-critical ones.
... plus nothing horrible happens even if someone miss a call. Read voice mail and call back in 30 seconds. Problem solved.
I sometimes look back in awe and wonder at how good bonzi buddy was for it's time as a _piece of software_. It was objectively ridiculous and borderline a piece of malware, but it's burned into my memory and it's functionality was fairly impressive when compared to buggy toolbar apps of today.
The fact that that even needed to be specified was pretty bad, the money was clearly earmarked for companies to spend on their regular employees to avoid lay-offs. Booking paying it out to their execs was absolutely mis-appropriation in every sense of the word, and only absolutely massive backlash here and significant talk of boycotts, including on national TV, is what turned them around on this.
Then un-flag it, dang.

You explained to me (and HN) recently that posts which are critical of HN itself are moderated less, not more, than others.

The same standard should apply to posts in which a greatly disadvantaged group are standing up to a vastly superior power, all else being equal (credibility, tactics, nature of grievance, etc.)

As with content concerning the events of June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square, China.

Dupes should be merged. Valid freestanding posts should be unflagged.
Outsourcing to budget contracting houses in India is a very different experience to hiring individual remote employees from overseas.
For what it's worth Kragen, if you ever see this, I understand what you mean and I don't think that you're being racist. We can't even talk about the diversity of humans and what influences their intentions anymore without being called racist.

-Signed a Hindu American living in Asia
Small cities have plenty of land you can build on.
This is possibly the most Operation Condor thing I've ever seen on here, the idea that it would be bad for China to have democracy and a less authoritarian, more accountable government .. because it would be less capitalist? Needs a lot more evidence and moral support than fits in a hn post.

Also says some pretty terrible things about capitalism that it needs to be defended by crushing protests with tanks. And this is supposed to be an argument in its favor?
tank man Beijing returns one result
Understanding our eugenic past to take steps towards scientific accountability
He can say what he wants regarding his belief that lock downs are a folly yet he offers nothing on what to do regarding containing highly contagious viruses
It was given to them because the travel branch was hard hit due to COVID and the government handed out this money to avoid lay-offs. In no way was it intended for bonus payments, the fact that that wasn't forbidden doesn't mean it was permitted.
That's just the image search. OK maybe a bit weird, but the normal search returns results, including of the famous pic / incident
Not really. Basically none of these features can be used outside of the kernel anyways, which means that the attacker already has far more powerful capabilities they can employ.
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They are only the same governments insofar as there have been no total revolutions. The people, laws, morals, and even constitution in the UK are different today than during the opium wars. Probably as much so as the CCP differs from the Qing.
The results they're showing are not of the famous picture of Tiananmen Square's "tank man" incident, however. Today is the 32nd anniversary of the violent suppression by the Chinese government of that protest.
Any implications for end-users, or notable improvements from an engineering standpoint?
Since the proper behavior here (sociopathically maximize private profit from socialized care) is so easy to know, the execs should be outsourced or automated.

Why waste those bonuses on them?
You can roll out your own mini Phoenix with flags passed to mix phi.new
Deus Ex, a first person immersive sim with a lot of similarities to Cyberpunk 2077, used Unreal Engine. The more recent games in the series were a different engine.
There’s some great stuff on there. I’m blown away by the pace of innovation in the Python community.
Somewhat off topic from the main thread of the article, but I have always wondered about the multiple privilege levels. What's the expected/intended use for them? The only thing I think of is separating out hardware drivers (assuming ring 1 can still directly read/write I/O ports or memory addresses mapped to hardware) so they can't crash the kernel should the drivers or hardware turn out to be faulty. But I don't think I've ever heard of such a design being used in practice. It seems everyone throws their driver code into ring 0 with the rest of the kernel, and if the driver or hardware faults and takes the kernel with it, too bad, so sad. Ground R̅E̅S̅E̅T̅ and start over.

What I find myself wondering is why? It seems like a good idea on paper, at least. Is it just a hangover from other CPU architectures that only had privileged/unprivileged modes, and programmers just ended up sticking with what they were already familiar and comfortable with? Was there some painful gotcha about multiple privilege modes that made them impractical to use, like the time overhead of switching privilege levels made it impossible to meet some hardware deadline? Silicon-level bugs? Something else?
REBOL was one of the first languages I learned. Some parts were super powerful and easy, but I remember struggling with some parts of the language. I can't remember what those parts were now.

Of all these compile to JS languages we see currently, it's a shame REBOL is not one of them. I might be tempted to pick it up again.
Zero references of any users suspended or banned in your linked source.

Posts were removed for 'Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made' which is very different from discussing the possibility and calling for further investigation.

> Facebook in February began the ban on claims the virus was man-made or manufactured as part of a list of misleading health claims that aren’t allowed.

During that period with the widespread dangerous misinformation spreading all over socials (questioning mask usage, recommending false treatments etc) it's easy to see how this was caught by that web.

Still waiting for a citation of your claims of 'censorship on their platform on anything related to the lab leak theory for more than a year.' or users being suspended for discussing it, not asserting it, which are very different.
Plenty of companies did not take government money even though it was available out of solidarity with those companies that did need that money. Booking.com taking that money when they could but didn't need it led to (1) less money available for other companies and (2) a higher deficit.
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OK so just as a goof, I typed in "tank man man tank" and voila a few photos showed up in BING and DDG
I think that the problem lies with the the voters and politicians who set up programs with explicit purpose of giving cash to mega corporations that don't need it. It isn't reasonable to put out a sign that says "free cows" and then blame the those who apply for and receive the cow.

The solution is to stop giving handouts to corporations with billions in profit, not rely on them to refuse the free money.
Verizon has used 700MHz for a long time, its their primary band. T-mobile uses 700MHz and 600MHz in many areas (generally as range extension, not a primary band).
I had mostly stopped reading books for about ten years, but then discovered I could absolutely devour audiobooks. I “read” more books in 2019 than I had in the previous decade.

I think it’s a combination of being able to listen while doing chores or commuting, and if the book is okay but not excellent, I can play a slow paced video game while listening and they add up to a worthwhile activity.

I didn’t read much in 2020 since i had run out of books i wanted to read and the audible subscription wasn’t worth renewing, but i’ve slowly added enough to my wishlist that I’ll re-up once i find one or two more. It’s not that other things are competing, I just find it hard to find true novelty.
I remember there was a point in time where you could use HTML and such to customize some parts of Windows, but I recall it was considered a security nightmare.
China Tank Man worked.
As discussed extensively in the Bing thread [0] comments, this is because DDG uses Bing’s search index.

Microsoft has acknowledged this is in error...[1] (though the error seems to be that censorship meant to just apply to China is being applied everywhere)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8v9m/bing-censors-tank-man
It appears the avatar in the chip (using Material nomenclature here for the UI components) for suggested search result "Tank Man China" has the original image, but clicking on the chip takes you a page missing said image.
Right of course is.

Yet 'another accident' on the anniversary of the crackdowns of the Tiananmen Square protests. /s
Hitting 4-6% of the recommended daily value over a sustained time is likely severe deficiency.
I once actually "pressed 1" to speak to some "operator".

Then i threatened whoever was on the other line with abuse.

Calls apparently stopped
Your ancestors traveled over glacial passes in search of the next 8,000lb mammal to eat. Strangely insulting to think life right now is really too difficult to have a child.
There's quite a bit less to the US funding moratorium than generally recognized. It only covered the flu, SARS and MERS, and of the 21 studies in progress, 10 were given exemptions: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih...

Whatever chilling effect it had, tall order at this stage of this general program of research or not, it's high time its advocates including yourself point to tangible progress of one sort or another, for we now can reasonably assess the risk side of the risk benefit trade off.

See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398081 on why the advancements in vaccines don't even begin to cover the risks, or note as of now how long it looks it'll be before the Third World gets vaccinated against as much as is humanly possible, no sooner than sometime in 2022. Consider the possibility of a sufficiently good escape variant requiring another dose or two.

Consider how little the the whole world can afford the expense of a pandemic, and the Third World in particular, including viral surveillance of any sort, "molecular" (PRC based) tests or sequencing samples. And this time they're lucky, COVID-19 mortality risks are highly weighted with age, something that hits the young harder will hit them a lot harder.

Consider how many possible, probable, or proven lab escapes will it take before the world's governments clamp down on a lot more than gain of function research.

Yes, nature wants to kill us, although your itemized points also address that issue. It's just not very good at it, and almost all of that was before the germ theory of disease was accepted in the end of the 19th Century.
As it is too late to edit my comment, I wanted to write this here, rather than sending a private email, dang.

I apologize if the questions of myself and other users on this site today has set you on edge - and I am sure that today, in public and in private, you have seen many ugly things that the majority of us do not, and you reasonably draw a trend-line.
I believe that you should extend the same charity of trend-spotting in the other direction.

We live in tumultuous times, and the speed at which the ratchet is moving seems to be ever-increasing. There are significant concerns, as I know you know, about censorship abroad, and also at home in various western countries. I believe the overwhelming outpouring you have seen today has been in response to one undeniable fact -- that even a genuine accident on the part of some engineer somewhere could apply CCP (or any country's ruling party) censorship globally is a line in the sand that many did not realize had been already been crossed.

Whether accidental or intentional, this is a watershed moment in the debate over censorship and freedom. It seems likely there are many more such errors in configuration actively deployed right now. That we have no way of knowing what, or how many such incidents there are is an existential threat to non-authoritarian systems of governance across the globe.

To see something that seemed unthinkable even a few months ago - that Tank Man could be censored in western countries on the anniversary in remembrance of the struggles he literally stood for - crossed a threshold for me in terms of what I believed could be possible more broadly. To see the extremely reasonable discussion around it disappear from hacker news, and stay dead for hours (I note that both the inappropriately-flagged article and the accidentally-marked-as-dupe article both still maintain those statuses at the time of this writing [EDIT: The flagged article's status was changed a few minutes after. Thank you, dang. Doing so does not mean you are re-writing history, and we appreciate it]) made it feel like it had encroached even closer to home than I had suspected.

It made it feel like perhaps I'd been even more naive than I had ever imagined. I'm sure you must feel the same way, after some of the more hateful things I'm sure you heard today.

All of this is to say that I treasure the community that you have played the single largest role in shaping, and your explanations have completely satisfied me.

I apologize for the way your day turned out, and any negative ways in which I have contributed towards that.
It seems like their safe search is hiding even search results for other related search terms. I am not sure how they were moderated to be not safe. https://archive.is/KOTNB

I hope Microsoft has a good write up on how this happened, both on the search term blanket ban and the safe search results thing.
Worth noting Hubs is more like Wordpress for social VR - the content is largely up to the user (to either adopt or create) - so the avatars in screenshots say less about some kind of universal art design choices than whatever specific setup the user was in.
I think what they are trying to (not) say is that while it might have been a lab leak it's better for the funding situation not to dig too deep.
Also if that turns out to be true it might be harder to get countries to cooperate because they will be too busy blaming china.
I think they are probably right about both. Its just not the kind of argument you woukd naively expect from scientists.
Any recommended talks to watch from this?
These systems lack any form of coherent world view, artistic vision, moral imperative, culture or ability to reflect on their own surroundings, limitations and assumptions (higher-order thinking).

Even if one adds randomness to create new phenomena within their given framework, one can never compensate for that.

Uncarefully applied data-driven narratives have not enriched our thinking, they're blunting it. And they blind us to what could be.
Someone else proposed what I consider a very reasonable solution. Just make whatever data they have 100% transparent, and you as the user can choose to offer less (or more) at any point in time. This should be regulated similar to HIPAA with serious penalties for any violations, because it absolutely is about avoiding privacy violations.

And if you as the user want to share no data at all, you should have that option. This is the company's problem, not the customer's problem - or at least that's the world I want to live in.

And obviously don't hide anything behind dark patterns, and all the other common sense gotchas. Violations should be treated as criminal fraud with prison time (assuming they are found guilty in a court of law, and proving criminal fraud is notoriously difficult but the threat needs to be real).
I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply. The fact that it’s the anniversary would easily explain why they’re making sure it’s censored properly in China, the human error is that it’s being censored outside of China.
"6 4 incident" returns meaningful results on Duck Duck Go and Google, but nothing on Microsoft Bing.
Since your other comment here [1] got flagged and dead I can't reply to it, so I am replying here. I just wanted to say thanks for sharing here on Hacker News - glad that there are those here who stand up for the truth - very much ironic (in an Alanis way) that it would be on this very thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397967
Likely, but Amazon isn't known for its high salaries, is it? Also govt jobs typically have good benefits so a 1:1 salary comparison may not make sense.
As DDG uses Bing for its image search, I wonder if this is related to a large proportion of the Bing product teams being based in China.
Yeah, I don't buy this line of argumentation. Suppose the locked room is an apartment and the person with a key is your landlord. I'm pretty sure he's not authorized to enter and do whatever.

A plain reading of "authorized" means "having official permission or approval." Van Buren might have been "authorized" to access the system but he certainly wasn't "authorized" to access certain data for cash bribes.

I guess I'm at a loss to see this as a "win" for civil liberties, but maybe I'm missing something.
Or maybe don't pay any federal aid at all. It rewards bad business, hurts competition and obviously doesn't even work. Instead:

- Give aid directly to the employees who need it instead of relying on the trickle down myth
- Buy shares to inject capital into companies as a form of financial aid but get something in return for the people who have to pay for it
- Never let companies get big enough that a bailout is necessary in the first place
- Let businesses fail and get bought by more competent competitors like the market economy doctrine dictates
- Prohibit foreign takeovers
I mostly agree. But I think most people see it as brief intervention period, and then the military would be restoring political democracy. I personally don't think it would be positive at all for the reasons you mentioned. But also life would lost for sure. Though I do think if the riots continued last year, at some point military would have stepped in.

However, I remember when the US early in the pandemic ran out of masks, since the masks were manufactured in China and was telling its people masks were not necessary, to preserve supplies for healthcare workers. Recently the chip shortages are causing car manufacturing to grind to a halt.

Is the US military anything without industry? Seems to me like almost under all scenarios, US military success, is heavily based on US industry's ability to supply its weapons and logistical needs. With politicians behind outsourcing so much to China, can the US even sustain any direct conflict. Seems to me, that diminishing industrial capability has to be a giant sore point for the military. Especially when there are money trails of some politicians accepting money from China.
This is so extraordinarily corrupted. Dutch employees of Booking, your income tax on the income above 68k EUR is 51% but don't worry the wealth will trickle down. Just work hard, wake up early, and be nice to people. Not.
I came across this for the first time in Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, when Takashi's yakuza uncle would quote this
I didn't know DDG uses Bing's search index. What exactly is their value proposition over Bing then?
You can define it by what you value as a society. Merit is partly derived from genetic attributes and partly derived from an environment to develop those attributes so it would make sense to ensure the developmental opportunity is not clustered if you truly want the cream to rise to the top.

E.g., if society defines merit as the ability to play tennis, it would probably be best served (ha) to ensure everyone has access to a tennis court to develop those valued skills. Otherwise, you won't really get the "best" players you could, you'll essentially commit the equivalent of sampling error.

We know training works to improve the measures we use to estimate merit. It's not a coincidence, for example, that those who have resources to dedicate to SAT prep tend to have better SAT scores. I think the argument is this tends to concentrate merit, perhaps under a erroneous notion that merit. E.g., those who have the resources to develop merit tend to get paid more which allows them to invest more in developing merit in themselves and their offspring...rinse and repeat. I would argue merit can be used as a bad-faith argument if there isn't equal opportunity to develop those attributes.
Also there is no reason that misconduct of this kind couldn’t be prosecuted under laws preventing similar breaches that aren’t digital in nature.

Selling private data for bribes should be illegal whether or not it’s a database or a file cabinet.
That makes sense. Never really thought about that as a counting digits problem but yeah.
In every functional department, there is some amount of this - UX folks want to update the design language, advertising needs a fresh campaign for the new version, devs want to move to some new framework, and/or rewrite etc. Everyone thinks their actions are well justified - except for the user who rarely benefits :)
> Claiming it's true is a huge leap. What if it isn't?

Examining the question to determine this wasn't allowed in the media during the past year, until very very recently.

>And let's be very clear here: 1) The lab leak hypothesis has no evidence. The best it has is a lack of concrete evidence to the contrary.

I don't disagree. I would argue, however, that there is more circumstantial evidence[1] for an origin for COVID19 from a Wuhan biolab than for purely natural animal-to-human transmission.

>2) Resolving the question either direction will not change any actions you take in the future.

Nonsense. Determining that, say, an accdiental leak from a Wuhan biolab caused the pandemic would affect

* how and whether future gain-of-function research is done around the world

* what punitive actions the world would demand from China

* the credibility and legitimacy of the Chinese government within and outside its borders

>3) Media discussion of the hypothesis does not resolve it nor provide you with any reason to change your actions.

Why do you get to declare that this story, but not others, should not be discussed in public?

You didn't answer my question regarding the 2017 news story I linked to. Did BART do the right thing by suppressing camera footage of crimes, and in how the transit agency justified doing so?

[1] Circumstantial evidence is, contrary to what Hollywood has taught us, quite permissible in the court of law. Many cases, criminal and civil, are resolved entirely or largely based on circumstantial evidence.
Install it and see for yourself?
As a side note, biologically this is not a rat, but a pouched mouse.

Still, as a rat dad this makes me feel happy. Another example as animals help to unfuck human errors
You’re thinking about computer architecture as designed today. There’s no reason there isn’t a common data structure defined that the CPU can use to select a backup process, much how it uses page table data structures in main memory to resolve TLB misses.