skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TMBG's "The Shadow Government" tells the story of a man going through life extremely paranoid that powerful forces are conspiring personally against him.

In the end, he is (likely) murdered and disappeared by the mayor of his small town for challenging the mayor's right to steal his property, because in reality there is no higher power checking his local government's authority. It's the lack of any massive conspiracy controlling events that kills him.
Essentially, the Computer Fraud and Abuse act was being interprated waaaaaaaaaay too broadly, because it could be. Here's the discussion on the supreme court win

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27382752
Regardless of whether it was homicide or not, there's a 100% chance of a person dying at some point in their life.
We could limit it to "for marketing purposes" (which is what I meant, though I failed to specify it) and still find plenty of clear-cut examples of harm. This isn't breaking news. I took a class in graduate school that was largely devoted to studying examples of them and discussing their ethical and policy implications, and that was years and years ago.
Why on earth is this not on the front page? It was posted 1 hour ago and has 50 points and 96 comments.

If it's being flagged, that's an exercise in futility. The end result is that people don't see it on the front page and keep posting it. Then someone goes into all of those posts and points people to this discussion, which is keeping this discussion alive.

But it would be much more efficient if the @dang could just unflag this so the conversation could happen here directly.

EDIT: hey flaggers, thanks for the downvotes. Do you have a better suggestion for how to handle this, or do you just think that discussing a major move by one of the largest tech companies on the planet shouldn't happen on HN?
CD Projekt Red’s stolen Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 source code leaked
It's a tremendously good bit of reporting, especially for a generalist outfit like Newsweek. I didn't notice anything wrong in it or the science of the Vanity Fair article this topic is based on, or contradictions between the two articles.

The DRASTIC team's story is an amazing example of "open source intelligence," for that primarily focused on an anonymous Indian who goes by the handle The Seeker who dug up a bunch of papers and theses for the data scientists and others on the team to assemble into a picture that is more and more convincing about the lab leak hypothesis, although having wet lab experience I'm predisposed to suspect this over the zoonotic transfer hypothesis.

But speaking of predispositions, it's exactly the sort of thing the US intelligence community could have done if most of the government and world scientific establishment hadn't already decided on the zoonotic transfer narrative, which is detailed in the Vanity Fair article.

Also an example of how Silicon Valley censorship can backfire, his first posting on this to Reddit got his account permanently banned, which suggested to him he was on to something. On the other hand Twitter didn't have any problems mentioned in either of these articles hosting the discussions of the DRASTIC team.
>But we need to assume good faith when we can, else we do nothing but divide people even further.

No, stop right there. Assuming good faith is assuming the status quo, and your silence on his racist screed is violence. Stop giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt, you're enabling them to spread their message.

You're literally supporting someone who's writing is the bedrock of genocide: https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of...
For the people of Walmart, the problem is Walmart makes a ton of its money by vacuuming up all the low/no income customers that would have been served in smaller numbers by convenience type stores. If they go upscale like Target or Trader Joes, they lose that customer base and move into competition directly with those types of stores. Same with the layout. Sure, you or I will pay more for a store laid out for actual convenience and fully staffed decently paid cashiers that will get me in and out quickly, but most of their customer base wont.

It reminds me of Mcd’s problem. They can’t go upscale because people that will pay for it already like places like Chipotle or Chick fil a more and Mcd’s is so deeply branded as the classic cheap fast food. And their current customer base is heavily weighted at lower income busy people looking for the ubiquity, price, and mentally easy process.
I pay more to avoid WalMart. I'm not even an elitist, I've just noticed in my area, the greeters are rude. After maybe 3 bad experiences in a row, I've decided to never go to WalMart ever again and it's been over a year since I've shopped there.
I don't know what the biggest best-sellers say, but it says a lot to me that, even in 2021, even in New Yorker, the writer isn't beyond feeling somewhat uneasy with the idea of sex, and feeling it's smart to add awkward humpr like:

"At least a hundred million inquiring minds have read “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex."
Ban ad targeting first and suddenly it won't be economical to store such data.
True, but there is no practical way to get through our work days without them using us anyway.
I agree, I often copy and paste to a basic no-formatting text editor and back just to clear formatting, eg before pasting to an email or whatever. I rarely want formatting retained when pasting to/from emails. Same when copying from a website, as someone else here mentioned.
Not really. its just starting/accelerating. (around 40% right now so alot to go)

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/09/the-pace-of....
Actually, assemble multiple water-filled cylinders in earth orbit and then put those in staggered cycle orbits. Power requirements are low so all you’d need is a regular engine with a large fuel tank.

Once those are in cycle orbit you now have giant water cylinders that you can catch every once in a while to ride to earth/Mars. Forever. With a tiny energy budget for corrections. Just wait till one passes by and slip your vessel inside it. Man I am good.
Well, it's hard to prove the absence of a negative - I think that it's on the people claiming harm to provide some examples. However, I'm not even sure what a cookie data leak would look like. The large advertising brokers are handling petabytes of cookie tracking data per day. To gain any insight out of it you need to run jobs on giant clusters. The volume of the data makes it basically impossible to exfiltrate. So yeah, I'm pretty confident in this statement.
And I could imagine a similar line of reasoning being applied for the value of the land native Americans “sold” to the colonists - when they themselves didn’t have a conception of such ownership before or after that encounter.
> Have we seen mass prosecutions under the CFAA at the behest of corporate interests?

This is a case where a small number of people had a very profitable racket going, selling access to publicly funded scientific papers, and Swartz posed a threat to their racket.
"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is broad enough that nearly anything could arguably apply. But given your long experience on the site, do you think this submission will result in a net positive discussion?
How about you just quit ly1ng to us about v1ruses ok?

THERE IS NO PROOF AT ALL THAT ANY VIRUSES EXIST UNLESS SOMEONE CAN SHOW SOME??

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Dxa1B39cLewh/
Nowadays cable TV targets ads too. If your diabetic grandma connects to your cable provided wifi router, you will get ads for glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Targeted advertising should be illegal.
What do you do that you pay >60% of your income in taxes? I'm self employed and hit ~%30.
As a group, the boomers are going to take a haircut.
Odd, if you search for tanks man, or tank men, or tank man picture, you get all sorts of nonsense (tanks man shows one actual image).

But zero results for such generic words means it has to be blocked actively.
I can't help but chuckle at the mythical reference.

Ganymede was a beautiful mortal whom Zeus (Jupiter) abducted (the other Galilean moons are also Zeus loves).

Now Juno, Zeus' wife, is getting there "to get a close look at" him :)
This predates systemd's decision to get involved via systemd-resolved. So now it's got another step :)

Edit: Well, and also browsers doing DNS over https. It's pretty confusing these days to know which path your app took to resolve a name.
I'm not sure the popular objection to this would be that FB is doing it, it is that they say they are doing it based on some kind of objective or at least shared principle and facts, with some kind of negotiable condition, and I think that is what many people would consider outrageous.

FB should just say, "we're against him and we're exercising our own discretion and prerogative." The bureaucratic worldivew expressed in press releases like this are what created the populist movement that supported him in the first place. Who cares what oversight process this went through if it is just internal bureaucratic theatre to insulate the individual decision makers, and with no national legitimacy?

FB is pretending it doesn't have responsibility for the power it is exercising. Zuckerberg & Co. should just say, "L'internet, c'est moi" and be done with it and try not to contemptibly hide behind words nobody believes. This relentless miasma of bullshit is what people see as totalitarianism, not their coastal opinions.
The one thing I like about Target is that it's quiet, they don't play music there and there's rarely talking over loudspeakers etc.
Exactly. Nobody here limited his right to free speech when every official Government outlet was still perfectly operational, alongside his personal website and presence on decentralized platforms. Sounds like someone's mad that nobody wants to listen to them...
There’s still billions of people who believe in helicoptering.

Being watched by sky wizard and judged at all times is their expectation. It is their agency.

Write down whatever you want, how does one resolve the reality? We have documents in place to cover all these things.

Yet here we are still.

You’re doing what the people you aren’t ok with do; expect everyone to undertake creating and importing some wholly new perspective.

We know how to regain our agency: take control of it away from the aristocracy.

The species has done this again and again. It’s not new.
The response to expect with #2 is that you get paid back in the form of fast search results, map directions, live communications, personalized news feeds, targeted advertisements, etc.

Pay no attention to the fact that you’re not getting versions of these things that maximize your benefit either...
I don't think anyone thought Avenatti had any substance to him.

What you're doing is called "gas lighting".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrJwjYPQvhQ

Avenatti was ALL over the place in left-leaning media, receiving endless accolades.
Do you have a non-adwalled version of the article?
Well, that's his problem, then.
Elsewhere on HackerNews there are discussions about how GDPR regulations affect the internet entirely - not just in the EU.

And there are famous examples how California environmental regulations bring up the quality of products US-wide so everyone benefits from safety and consumer protections not just people in california.

In both cases, this is because it's easier to just have ONE version of a product if your market subset (EU, California) is big enough to justify it becoming the DEFAULT version of the product.

I...am truly terrified this is where we are heading with censorship and Chinese policies and the rest of the free and open web. At what point do companies that have to censor information for their chinese audience decide it's just less of a hassle to have the same censorship apply blanketly world-wide?
I'm curious about the four that you listed. Fixed is relatively obvious, but I don't have a handle on the conceptual models of the other three. Where can I learn more about them without reading through hundreds of pages of webtech and Apple documentation?
This is true for many NFTs but not all. For example, cryptopunks, autoglyphs, meebits only exist on-chain. Then there are NFTs like artblocks.io where the code to generate your NFT is on-chain and the output is determined by the transaction hash.
Cookies per se have nothing to do with the GDPR. In fact, if your cookie is not tied to a natural person, the GDPR does not even apply. Also, cookies are under your control. You can alter and delete them whenever you want.

As an example: If your site allows different styles or languages and you want to store the setting in a cookie, you do not have to care about the GDPR. Only when you track your user's behavior with a cookie, the cookie banner thing becomes relevant.
Every discipline (academic, artistic, practical, even athletic) deal with certain types of problems and have develop their own heuristics for dealing with those problems. And because most discipline involve not a single skill but a set of skills, some disciplines will have skill overlap.

If you play music, run your own business, study (or practice) engineering, or become involved in an academic discipline you develop a set of skills you can carry to other domains. Don't really see how the dispute here
We all know now that NASA lied about going to the moon so what else are they lying about???
To be fair a search of tank man on bing does have results including pictures. For some reason the same imagines that appear on the main search results page don't show up on the image results tab.
or they do and they don't want to say.
I have a personal rule: Never leave the house without a book.

It works quite well. E.g. for reading on the daily commute.

I prefer non-fiction but I try to read some novels too for good measure.
"Deadly virus" will attract more attention than "smallpox epidemic" because it highlights the parallels with the coronavirus pandemic.
>Honestly, I'm kind of sick of how bad a rap advertising gets.

Work in advertising by any chance?

If you read the article, it's not primarily about advertising. It's about privacy and the negative impact to society on losing it.

The ad tech firms were certainly pivotal in creating the dystopian surveillance world we live in. They deserve every single bit of bad rap they get for that and, personally speaking, I really hope there's a lot more bad rap heading their way.

>the fact of the matter is that cookie tracking data has NEVER been associated with any leak or data breach that resulted in personal harm

I don't know if you're deliberately positioning that duplicitously or not. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Whether there are cookie-based breaches or not is, in practical terms, irrelevant. Read the article. With cookies, and without breaches, the Facebooks and Googles of the world allow advertisers to promote smoking to children or payday loans to those with financial troubles.

Advertising is a wide spectrum. At one end it's relatively benign: billboards and the like. Some feel even that is unacceptable. At the other is the FB/G hyper-targeted end. In and of itself it is extremely creepy. But the article is about much more than just the weird experience of wondering how they knew to target you for erectile dysfunction treatment. Or divorce lawyers.

Ad tech has bootstrapped a global panopticon. That's the problem here.

Oh, and next time your insurance premium goes up mysteriously, have a think about your browsing history.
Oh weird, read over that line. Removes one of my bullet points but doesn't change the result. I agree you can distribute it internally, i.e. you can pass around the hard drive with the single unmodified copy. You can't make copies of it without the header, regardless of whether you keep it internal.
The manufacturing and profits resulting from any such research will move overseas in a nanosecond.
One country in particular will be very grateful for this investment.
How many SpaceX's are there? SpaceX is the golden child precisely because of how rare it is.

Instead what we normally get are companies chasing the bottom. The hyper efficient, low innovation, short term stock motivated companies.
Which is super annoying when you actually want to run a DNS server and have to try and convince systemd-resolved to stay in its own lane.
My point being I think it is unlikely the law was created so long ago ... to account for that.
First-time buyers in England offered new homes at up to 50% off
It must be. There is nothing in the words "tank man" that would trigger any sort of filter. My guess is that this was supposed to be limited to Chinese IP's and someone forgot to add that to the config.
Thing is, if my client had fixed size, I wouldn't need a layout engine, I'd just place everything using absolute coordinates (and this was the predominant desktop metaphor in the 90s btw).
I think it depends on what you think education is : if you believe that education is going to an elite university then I think it is elitist. If you think education is being exposed to a wide range of ideas and perspectives - a range beyond which you would have found by yourself - then I don't think it is. A kind Aunt with three bookshelves and an open mind can give you an education that you couldn't buy. Would that make you part of the elite? It would be difficult - it could take years - but it's not elitist.
ok, got it. I wonder if "skill level" is even the right word: it is a huge time sink to learn it, but afterwards are you actually more "skilled"? I've had to interact with React experts who had no idea how to generalize their understanding to other problems, or understood that React was solving problems that other (non-web) systems have been solving for decades.
>without water damage

IME you have to wait a few weeks to decide that one unfortunately. (on the other hand, if my iphone still worked I probably wouldn't have been motivated to get things like power management working on my pinephone.)
That depends entirely on what they store in the cookies.
The code examples are in C and make no mention of any webtech or mobile. I'm pretty sure that this is meant for desktop interfaces.
In case it's not immediately obvious, today, June 4, is the anniversary of the event.
This should make every pause for a moment.... seriously.

Global censorship of very real events where citizens were standing up for freedom.
> Just to remind you that your binary, i.e. inhumane, way of thinking is permanently documented here as well. I hope you regret this comment one day when the same binary approach is applied to you as well. People are expected to change today - and that's why people go in and out of jail. But in the liberal world view, everybody (except the oppressed) is evil! Even when the oppressed is a cold blooded killer, it's an excuses - they did it, because they are oppressed. And this is how the Commies executed tens of million of people - they were imperialists and enemies of Communism and there was no chance for them; they were sentences as permanently damaged goods and deserved only a bullet!

I mean, you sound like you think you have moral clarity to denounce someone as inhumane, and I guess this is how you lead in your conversational style.

I'm talking about a technologically interconnected world where other nations and parties never have to agree to forget anything.

Either we decide to excommunicate or suppress every nation and party that chooses to remember, or we decide what it means to coexist with those who remember. The humane way to do things is to decide how we should treat each other despite flaws, not stamp out every nation or peoples in the world that seeks to remember forever.
Malaria isn't in the country because in the late 40s the US Public Health Service sprayed the interiors of five million southern homes with DDT, drained wetlands, and carpet bombed counties with pesticides. They did that until the mosquito population dropped enough that the transmission cycle was broken.

There are still tons of mosquitoes able to carry malaria in the US. They haven't been killed off - heck, my cat caught one in the laundry room a few days ago! But humans are the only relevant reservoir for malaria, so as long as we use good public health techniques like screening individuals from endemic areas, it's possible to let the US remain malaria free.
Perhaps? But focusing on that specific case means you're not aiming for the same goalpost as the article was.
Independent of whether the virus was lab-leaked or natural in origin, the conduct of Peter Daszac was completely inappropriate, and he should face consequences.

Spearheading and cosigning the statement: "We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.", when you have specific career and financial interest in that statement being true, is a conflict of interest, is not scientific, and should be addressed publicly. But then privately saying “you, me and him should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way.” Daszak added, “We’ll then put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice.” displays clear intent to manipulate public opinion. Unbelievable.
I don't know what anyone means by virtue signaling these days beyond 'i don't like it'.

CCFA beyond the situation described to me still serves a purpose / can be used responsibly.
He is the Supreme Leader of Iran. That is quite prominent. He was far more active on Twitter than Facebook which is why there are not a lot of posts and likes.
WFH is prelude to SWE salary cuts
If your workforce can work from home, in the long run you do not need to pay SV level wages to attract comparable talent, since the pool of labor is no longer constrained by location.

Also SV SWE salaries are for the most part unjustified vs. real engineer salaries. Take a civil engineer, he designs a maintenance plan for a bridge that carries millions of dollars worth of products and people to their jobs, including SWEs if they are not working from home. Meanwhile the Google SWE revises a web ap that measures clicks. One gets paid $80k the other $280k. Something is wrong here. Someday free VC capital will dry up and advertising will become more competitive (reducing profits for the likes of Google). Then the wage of an SWE will fall to closer to what his work product is now worth, once the bubble has burst, whenever that happens.
Advertising that uses targeting is nothing else than manipulation and fraud and should be banned.

Disclaimer: I worked in advertising.
I archived these for posterity at https://honeypot.net/post/bing-is-censoring-tank-man-search-... because the previous thread got flagged.
> Educated countries make baffling, crazy choices at the ballot box all the time.

That's a false dilemma. There are an array of reasons why a populace might make poor political choices. I'm suggesting that education is one of those reasons, and that it's the easiest to exploit.
How about intentional publishing of "anonymized" data? It's intentional, so it should be even less potentially harmful than an unintentional leak, right?

Well, Yahoo's publishing of supposedly "anonymized" data still poses a privacy risk to any of their users: https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp3d8v/yahoos-gigantic-anony...

That's just one of many apparently "anonymized" datasets that has been trivially deanonymized by researchers/hackers/internet-stalkers; so there's plenty of harm to be done.
Why would anyone trust 'legal advice' on a complex piece of legislation from a site that can't even implement a straightforward regulation correctly.