skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one would expect scientists to have a higher standard for veracity than the media and politicians

(Full disclosure: have science PhD, wife has science PhD, sister has science PhD): with no snark intended: have you met (m)any scientists?
Isn't that exactly what would make a country a moral competitor?
You have no evidence that Joe Biden is not a pod person. Is that a meaningful thing to say?
This reminds me of the GB emulator that ran inside of Pokémon Stadium. Folks found some tricks to make it work with other cartridges, but it turned out the emulator was not complete. https://n64today.com/2019/06/02/play-game-boy-games-on-n64/
mRNA vaccine technology is just a platform for presenting antigens to the immune system, the fastest one to make vaccine candidates by far, literally over a weekend for Moderna after the first SARS-CoV-2 sequences were published by Chinese researchers. It also has many advantages in simplicity.

That doesn't mean we'll be able to provide safe vaccines for sufficiently novel pathogens, behind Moderna's candidate was a decade and a half of research into making safe vaccines for SARS type coronaviruses, with researchers at the NIH finding one solution in 2017 for the antibody-dependent enhancement issue that had been plaguing such attempts starting with SARS and inactivated whole virus vaccines.

A fast pandemic can also get a long distance before you can ramp up production and vaccinate 8 billion people, with vaccines that so far need freezing for shipping, and medical grade refrigeration afterwords until used. Plus you need to make at least 8 billion syringes and needles and so on.
8964 also returning lego kits and trains.
I find myself (also embarrassingly) somewhat aligned with what you describe as well, both the point about going into autopilot, and having read interesting books but don't remember a great deal because they aren't relevant to my life.

An additional point I'd make is that I find that in recent years, the books that I did enjoy tend to be written by people who already have an online presence (e.g. Randall Munroe, author of xkcd, or Jorge Cham/Daniel Whiteson, author of phd comics). I think there's something about the voice and tone of these writings that better match what I enjoy reading. Perhaps reading those books makes me feel like I'm reading something online that I like?
>I understand that you are now saying that you accept people talking about their traumas, if you personally agree that they have suffered

Whereas there are people who don't do that? Who are OK with people talking about their traumas if they thing those people are faking it/overblown them?

You dressed the description up to make me sound like some exception. But I think everybody (except perhaps the totally indifferent) only accept others talking about their traumas if they believe those other are genuine and talk the truth. Else, they consider them hypocrites or liars or opportunists, and so on. Isn't that the case?

Let's make it perfectly clear what I mean:

(a) I'm totally fine with people talking about their real traumas as traumas

(b) I'm also totally fine with people talking about their real traumas as things they brushed off/soldiered through

(c) I believe many people have real traumas

(d) I believe many more overblow or make-up traumas to play the victims, score sympathy points, get a leverage, etc.

(e) I don't like the latter category - I consider them hypocrites, and I think they cheapen real trauma for everybody

(f) I use my own opinion to consider who belongs to (a) and is legit or who belongs to (e) and is thus a hypocrite. What's the alternative? Taking whatever everybody says as necessarily true even if I have doubts about their honesty or history?

(g) who am I to judge other people's stories? Well, I'm the arbiter of my opinion. Shouldn't I judge for myself (including whether another is a hypocrite or not)?
Have you invented a magical currency that always retains its value? If so you should probabally let the world know.
I don't really know how to ask this question without it sounding insulting, but: do you agree that currency itself is useful?

And then the broader question is: do you agree that financial instruments are useful?

It seems odd to me that there are so many people on HN who don't seem to understand the importance of finance. You are literally posting on the website of a venture capital firm.
Domesday Book commissioned in 1085, Constitution of USA 1787; I think you mean at least 700 years.

I mean the Bible tells us about censuses by the Romans ~5BC, so depending what's in your list ...
> Which is not remotely representative of any human diet.

I know many humans who have diets not far off from that. Maybe deep fried chicken tenders as a substitute for hamburgers. Granted, most of them eat ketchup, which is a serving of vegetables in some states.

Seriously though, this problem is more common that I think a lot may realize. Something about a high-sugar, high-salt, fast food diet has the long-term effect of destroying peoples' ability to eat other foods. I've seen kids grow up on fast food who find the idea any green vegetable completely revolting.
What's to stop those calls from happening now? The answer is nothing.
Even if one of the most famous photographs ever taken wasn't called "tank man", it'd still be pretty weird for there to zero results. Try misspelling "man" or "tank", you'll get many results. "tanke man" says "including results for 'tank man'".
The number of transistors sure. The engineer time to design new features that don't interfere with old features is high. The verification time to make sure every combination of features plays sensibly together is extremely high. To the extent that Intel and AMD are limited by the costs of employing and organizing large numbers of engineers it's a big deal. Though that's also the reason they'll never make a second, simplified, core.
It's interesting to know how Jeff's innocuous camera didn't have autofocus at the time, not to mention how he was doing a lot of the ISO-related math when looking to take the shot.

I've done manual black-and-white photography before with older cameras before, but I take pictures with my smartphone so freely these days it becomes hard to conceptualize the amount of work Jeff had to do.
So if someone wants to bury a story, now they know how to do it.
UFO means "unidentified flying object". A spinning top UFO 12 hours a day, every day for 2 years means aliens.
> what only matters is to what degree is it able to be enforced (and in practice) against companies that have no assets under EU jurisdiction

This is exactly true. Now sure the nervous nellies will be all over what outlier things can happen as is typical. In a practical sense the EU does not have the resources to go after (other than perhaps a few test cases for publicity) anything but the juicy or most flagrant cases.
Even so, doesn't having a more complex instruction set, festooned with archaic features needed by very few users, increase the attack surface for hacking exploits and increase the likelyhood of bugs being present? Isn't it a bad thing that the full boot process is understood in depth by only a tiny fraction of the persons programming for x86 systems (I'm certainly not one of them)?
> it’s completely unbelievable

Is it tho? High-fructose corn-syrup is ever-present in most convenient foods in the US down to such basics like bread and the hilariously oversized sodas, while obesity and diabetes rates have reached epidemic proportions [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887150/
> the adversary would have already taken over the world.

Maybe they're happy with the status quo. Or maybe it's a benevolant group (not anyone's adversary).

Or maybe it's ours (the U.S.) and it's being released this way as to pretend it's not ours.
> To me, this ruling means that if a person is granted technical access to a computer system, then that person cannot be held criminally liable for anything they do with access to that system

That is not the meaning of the ruling. Nothing precludes trying someone for other crimes.
With all due respect, I disagree. This conversation is specifically about a nation exerting censorship across the web. It is not unreasonable to think those censorship efforts would extend to other sites.

Moreover, I did not mark the primary thrust of the comment as a nationalistic attack. I took it as an observation that a motivated minority (or a nation-state actor) could game the system to mute a conversation by way of flags.

To be clear, I hope Chinese users feel welcome here. I also get it that this is a hot topic where speculation could easily spin out of control. I appreciate the tightrope you have to walk. I just respectfully disagree with your call on this one.
It depends on how you characterize the zoonotic transfer:

- "Came from bats": "People in China ate bats" vs "Bats poop on things livestock/humans eat"

- "Came from the wetmarket": "Chinese wetmarkets are uniquely disgusting" vs "most wetmarkets are scaled up farmer's markets"
Wasabi (2006)
I never claimed my scale wasn't biased :)

Point 5 could be the "when you don't know, all probabilities are roughly 50%" fallacy, but I think it can also charitably interpreted as belief that a careful weighting of the evidence is roughly equal.

But your points are well taken. I'm not going to edit it here, as I don't think that would be fair to the people who have responded.

Your final paragraph is of course the only reasonable position for the truly open-minded (and actually represents my own position quite well), but I didn't bother to put it on the scale as it seems hardly represented at all, at least in Twitter discussions and HN threads.
> Why put someone or something up on a pedestal like that?

Since March of 2020 all criticism and skepticism has been shouted down with "are you 'An Expert'"? The entire pandemic has been nothing but a thinly guised appeal to authority. And a very narrow set of authority at that--the only authority we were allowed to listen to are the ones who sold this as the worst thing ever. Hope or optimism or just asking basic questions was never allowed.
This is my preferred option but it's only available for US accounts. See the banner under the documentation here: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/add-and-pay-out-guide?integr...

I reached out to Stripe support to confirm and this was their response:

Cross-border payouts are only available in the US for Platforms.

All connected accounts in every supported country can receive payouts, Connect is the only option there is with regards to transferring funds from one account to another.

So cross border is sending payouts to connected accounts in different countries. If you are in the UK and your connected accounts are UK based, then there would be no issue with payouts to the connected accounts
Do you have a list of such places?
The omitted [..] bit is kind of relevant, since it makes clear that the hundreds of sources are not for the main results.
Same for duckduckgo. duckduckgo is blocking images of tank man during the Tiananmen square massacre
Yes, but this one is so hard baked into everything that it would kill any form of backwards compatibility.
I feel like, supporting them or not with their store, it was always a no-brainer to not purchase smart, cloud connected doorbells and wire-tape speakers and litter my house with them.

I kinda hate my Roku even having a microphone button and my kid figuring out how to use it.

We're crossing lines that shouldn't be crossed, ripe for corporate/state abuse and we already have history and experience about the usage of tech being grown to continually spy on people one nudge at a time, that we shouldn't be fooled by this stuff.

but here we are, plenty of smart, educated, technical people who know that history, salivating at MOAR GADGETS THAT DO STUFFS.
Akamai and Microsoft.

When your Apple device communicates with "Apple", many/most of those IP addresses are owned by Akamai.

Even when you search DuckDuckGo, both the search results (Bing) and web servers that serve the content are owned by Microsoft (Azure).
That sounds like it would be very useful, but doesn't really have a (monetary) "value" in the sense that most people use when talking about sharing the profits of the Data Economy.

It'd be much more interesting to see that sort of data sharing/access occurring than simply saying that people are entitled to some percentage of the profit that was "generated using their data" (which would be highly susceptible to creative accounting).

Preserving the privacy of individuals would still be challenging though.
Don’t be evil is only the first step. You also have to hire specialists and delay launches to continually prove to many bureaucrats’ satisfaction that you are still not evil. Opting out is much cheaper, and maybe safer since the “doesn’t target serving individuals in the EU” language is relatively clear.
> Some fuzzers start with a given input and then mutate it to increase coverage of the code under test.

Yes, and this one does, but you requested a library to generate inputs didn't you? A library can't get coverage feedback from the SUT, which as I wrote in my previous comment would be why you'd be building a dedicated test framework.
Democracy with 1 billion people?
Challenging. Just look at India and it's problems.
I've somehow never heard of this, that's a wild story.
No, but if you assume the closure of explanations which includes "aliens" or "pod people" are interesting enough, failing to rule those out is meaningful, despite the fact it doesn't imply a specific conclusion is true (like aliens or pod people)

If we could disprove Joe Biden was a human, and couldn't disprove he was a pod person, alien, ghost, or leprechaun, that indeed would be an interesting set of conditions.
Not sure why the downvotes. Revolutionaries actually have a terrible track record at creating democratic governments. Russia got Communism at the beginning of the 20th century and an oligarchy at the end of it. More recently Egypt got religious fundamentalists. Revolutionaries having legitimate reasons to protest isn't a guarantee of a good outcome.
A saw is <<hard>>ware, a physical thinghard to change and improve, while a shell is <<soft>>ware, supposed to be easy to change and improve.
You're more or less describing a country club
Exactly. First impression is meh, but I'll get used to it. Whatever.
Maybe you should alert CNN to the fact that science hasn't yet ruled out the possibility that Joe Biden is a pod person.
Yep. Benefit = The cost of minimalism at every expense - the cost of incompatibility (in zillions): breaking things that cannot be rebuilt, breaking every compiler, breaking every debugger, breaking every disassembler, adding more feature flags, and it's no longer the Intel 64 / EMT-32 ISA. Hardware != software.
I live in a region where electronic cigarettes can't be purchased through the internet. Local shops can sell them, and do at a 100%-150% markup. fasttech.com will sell me products at msrp, but recently payment processors stopped allowing them to sell to me if my order contained electronic cigarette components (heaters, coils, resisters, batteries, etc).

I was very pleased to discover they accept BTC and ETH as payment options.
I think instead of line count, either final binary size or source code size in bytes should be more common in claims of minimalism; the demoscene, for example, always uses binary size.
City-born protesters prepare for war in the eastern jungles
This is a difference between peers and competitors. There are countries in Europe, the Antipodes, or Japan that are peers in the sense of having similar (or in some respects superior) and compatible moral systems. A competitor is a different and perhaps incompatible system that is nevertheless striving with ours.
Isn't the data economy a sign of the end of the economical ladder ? we have nothing new to sell ..
Today I learned "monadic" has two significantly different meanings in the realm of programming.

I'm only familiar with using "unary" to mean single-parameter.
The original XSS advisory (2000)
“This guy is going to screw up my composition”.
> It's remarkable to imagine how different the world might have been if the Tiananmen uprising had succeeded

Yeah, they might have brought Larry Summers and friends in as well, and had their economy devastated as well.
Criticizing pretty much any non-Western country might "help to normalize racist positions".
“I can understand that but I was responding to someone who claimed ''You mean corporate lobbyists wanting federal enforcement of contract terms and corporate interest.''”

You left off the "had nothing to do with it?” part, which was a rhetorical assertion of equivalent hyperbole, but not a direct claim. If you want to interpret it that way you should to include the question mark in the consideration of your response....
Yes, might be an issue with more restrictive definitions of added sugar. The number I found is 70-80g/day, which is a lot but if you count things like fruit juices which only have "natural" sugars...

Made me think about:

> Oatly has voluntarily agreed to stop marketing its oatmilks as containing 'n added sugars' in ad campaigns followir a complaint by Campbell Soup drawing attention to its oatmilk production process, which breaks down oat starch into simple sugars.
For comparison: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tank+man%22&tbm=isch
Biden sanctions Chinese companies as Beijing says ‘normal communication’ resumed
I think you are misreading him. He says that there is no pressure or indirect influence from china on how HN is run. This is a popular internet forum, of course there’s people trying to push their narrative.
It wasn't the PRC who killed all those Iraqis.
I prefer a digital camera with the related speed, aperture, iso settings in physical button form. I have an old Fuji x100T that I like to use.

It's not so much just getting the math right as much as what you're giving and taking with each setting. Your camera makes the decision about what the right math is, but there's a lot of possible 'right' settings depending on the situation.
Sure - that's absolutely fair. But with that said, I do think that a lot of people would agree that a lot of the incentives are good (I for one am glad that the government is trying to get people to move to electric cars) and would want to maintain something to keep promoting the same things even if the tax code were restarted from scratch.
Again, not in the truest mathematical sense of the word, no, but I can reasonably rule it out in most practical senses:

a) You look like a human
b) You write human language
c) We have not seen any direct evidence for any kind of humanoid alien life, but we have seen lots of evidence for humans existing.
d) If you were an alien spying on human culture, you wouldn't waste your time on Hacker News :).

Does this fully "rule out" the possibility of you being an alien? No, I suppose you could be an alien in a human skin suit who learned English, and maybe aliens are really interested in software engineering forums, but I can practically rule it out just playing the odds.
You make a good valid point.. that being being said... Free food for life in exchange for sniffing out 71 landmines that I'm too lightweight to trigger...

If I was a rat, I would take that deal... considering that the alternative is, well, being an actual rat :)

Yeah, sure, we didn't ask for consent, but I'll confess my hamburger probably didn't consent either -- though I think we only have get consent if we serve cookies :)

(Bad jokes may be present)
That's marketing speak, in reality the overwhelming majority are simply Bing results.
Amazon runs data centers in Europe. They are therefore “in Europe.”

The distinction you are looking for is “European owned,” I think.
There are no results for tank man on DuckDuckGo
I never got into the Docker habit because I spent a lot of time behind a slow DSL connection.

Assuming it worked, I could wait a few hours to bring down an image for the the first time. Often I could get the job done in the time it takes to suck down the first image if "doing the job" could be done without Docker.

I never managed to use it enough that the images were in the cache when I needed them!

To make matters worse, unlike many systems that do big downloads (esp. BitTorrent) Docker is not reliable at doing large image downloads.

What people don't get is that the internet infrastructure is more expensive than they think because it is paid for in bits and pieces everywhere -- for instance it is an environment disaster that console games now come in 100 GB + downloads:

https://gizmodo.com/downloaded-games-have-a-larger-carbon-fo...
APOPO (the association behind this initiative) lets you "adopt" a rat: in exchange for money they give you regular information on what and how it is doing.

This sounded like a great gift so I did that for a friend but, sadly, passed the "thank you for adopting your rat, here are some information about him", he received no more information.
Shamless plug for our Elixir boilerplate we’ve been maintaining for three years :) https://github.com/mirego/elixir-boilerplate
Even if there are international treaties (which is not going to come soon, given the state of global diplomacy) one day, the core principle of GDPR is to minimize data holding and transfer.

Saving a couple dollars on wages for corp drones? I highly doubt this reason is going to fly well under that principle.
this. the sheer volume of times i have to paste text into a notepad or a URL bar or just any space that will lose the formatting, just to re-copy/paste it into some (usually MS) product that wants to preserve it is way higher than it should be.
> The US Constitution is around a century too old to care about lists of people, but I think even they would react badly to some powerful organization going around classifying everybody by some random feature.

Probably not, since it created a new powerful orgabization (the federal government) and mandated it to go around classifying everybody by a particular set of feature (whether they were a “free person”, an “indian not taxed”, or an “other person”.)

Given that when the framers were scared of a powerful organization doing something, their first concern tended to be about government doing it, and their response tended to be to prohibit at least the federal government from doing it, I think the fact that they mandated the federal government to do it indicates that it was neither something they feared nor something they failed to fear out of lack of consideration.
Nope, I still read daily for pleasure. I take my Kindle with me everywhere and fit in as much reading as I can on breaks, lunch, etc.
The guy was also convicted of wire fraud and bribery. Those charges were not at question in this decision. This decision only says that looking up records you have access to is not hacking.
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Perhaps are afraid that making themselves known would increase the chances of others developing galaxy-destroying technologies.
that's odd -- i also turned off safe search, and got decent links to wikipedia and a bunch of news articles...
“They’re Not After Me, They’re After You. I’m Just In the Way.” Social Media Exile
It's never going to happen. The ISA is a hardware contract.
All government is 'challenging'.
Yes, I'm sure this is done via word-filter.

Historically, China doesn't provide a list of banned terms themselves, and companies have to reverse-engineer the list of prohibited terms. Likely Bing has a list of the most obvious terms, as recommended by their lawyers.
First of all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Secondly, it's super frequent that scripts I write or that others write need the folder they're executed in as an argument.

99% of scripts I've seen aren't meant to be piped to. They're just launched as simple, dumb, standalone "programs".
How is this surprising? Military is a breeding ground for leadership, that's like literally the whole point of going to West Point is to be a professional leader. After the armed services, corporate leadership has got to be a total breeze.