skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've downvoted everyone in an entire thread before. Not because I'm a member of a shadowy organization (otherwise I'd be blowing my cover posting this) but because all of them were really bad. HN being HN, usually someone will take the time to write a good comment, but especially on emotionally charged topics, the earliest comments will be both short and just a reflection of the posters views before they read the article (if they read it at all) which makes it likely I'll consider them downvote-worthy.

I think there are probably quite a few users who behave similarly. But there's no need for us to form an organization, because each of us can just use the user-moderation tools as intended, without having to coordinate our actions with each other.
Except the first photo's thumbnail is blocked. Actually quite a few thumbnails are blocked if you scroll down.
This story is already on the front page elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635.
I won’t labour the point but you’re mistaken, nodes ARE traditional cloud/web based systems. All you have to do is check https://www.ethernodes.org/network-types to see that, 65% of Ethereum nodes are hosted and 25% of those are on AWS. Blockchain is built on existing infrastructure, there is no silver bullet availability it’s offering.
And old systems like Corey OS.
It is both work and a job, in this example. But it's an occupied job, where the poster is discussing communal job creation through joint bargaining power rather than a corporate monolith. Your second statement is right on the money.
I am not aware of a way to report a post without having an account.
I haven't tried this yet - but I just recently saw this rolled up version of Phoenix - with a bunch of defaults.

https://legendaryframework.org/
>I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech

Whoops
It was obvious wmd angle was bs from the start. The was never any concrete evidence for it. None. It just appeared out of thin air. Hearsay. It was also obvious that the lab leak hypothesis is worth investigating because there is active documented research on these viruses happening there. I don’t think they are comparable.
This person is outlining a good approach that educators must take towards students. But sadly, I don't see this change happening any time soon.

Academic circles often consist of some of the most close-minded people, with extremely rigid and archaic notions of things like how students ought to behave or think, what kind of questions they must ask etc.
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Yeah, its probably harder to get people to follow direction when they can't be court-marshalled if they don't.
It's an intriguing idea. There is something very civilizationally resilient (anti-fragile) about having heterogeneous agents upon which evolution can operate on, though. If there's only a single agent then it could plausibly get stuck in a pathological crevice in the fitness landscape which wouldn't happen in a multi-agent civilization. Although the flipside to that is a single agent won't have a tendency to exterminate itself through tribal conflict.
Real meat to plant-based "meat" is one instance.
the mods take flagging rights away from people they find abusing it
go-fuzz requires an instrumented binary. It's essentially a forked Go compiler. So I think it's fair to call this a limitation of the language. But I don't see that as a negative. :)
Yeah go-fuzz is an awesome tool, which I've used extensively on some of my own projects.

When writing parsers and compilers it has proven eerily good at identify corner-cases (panics, and infinite loops).

I'm looking forward to trying the new approach out. Anything that makes fuzz-testing easier to configure/maintain and spreads awareness is a good thing in my book.
You mean like the Intel i860?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860

Or the Intel Itanium?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium

Or the AMD Am29000?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000

Or the AMD K12 which was a 64-bit ARM?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7990/amd-announces-k12-core-c...

All of these things were either rejected by the market or didn't even make it to the market.

Binary compatibility is one of the major if not the major reason that x86 has hung around so long. In the 1980's and 90's x86 was slower than the RISC workstation competitors but Intel and AMD really took the performance crown around 2000.
That puts them on even footing with the “moral competitors” that are left to compare to
Most of conspiracy theories narrative was being controlled by Russia in recent years and now USA wants some of that.
Probably with nothing to gain but conspiracy theories is all i hear from boomers these days.
That covers one or two of the list I suppose, but is there any reason to believe Akamai is lying to its customers and harvesting their users' data? I can't think of any incentive for them to do that, it would be brazen fraud for an insignificant revenue source.
What is DDG going to be able to do about it?

Never having looked into it, I always wondered how DDG could financially support indexing the web and running a search engine. Now it makes sense.

Broad internet search is probably outside the ability of anything other than Fortune 100 companies today.
On Mac, the apps I happened to check use cmd+shift+alt+v.

I checked MS Teams, Outlook, Mail.app, and Safari.
Since these pages will likely be updated, here are the archived links as proof of this happening:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210604192821/https://www.bing....

https://web.archive.org/web/20210604180506/https://images.se...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210604194355/https://www.ecosi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210604194336/https://search.ao...

Some people probably think "nobody uses Bing", but Bing powers a lot of different search engines (Yahoo, Ecosia, AOL, DuckDuckGo, and more). It's the default search engine on millions of devices (Windows, and even if you change it, Windows search still uses it; Xbox uses it as well.)
Serious question: does flagging it as dupe by software automatically remove it? Or does a mod need to click a button at this point?
OT. Where do you book hotels?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635
Yes, most commonly so.
Multiple radar confirmations of the tic tac did exist. That’s why they went out there (and ended up seeing it visually, about 50 feet above the surface of the ocean, with the ocean churning beneath it).

That’s extremely interesting and frankly I cannot think of anything except for maybe sophon-level technology (fictional concept from the Three Body Problem trilogy) that could spoof both visual human sight while concurrently spoofing multiple sensors.

I’m skeptical as hell about stuff like this, but I’m really struggling to see how this could be anything that could have been produced/faked by human-level technology.
>I'm not sure the "militant students" framing is very fair here

You may want to re-read the article. There's at least one passage of a group of the protestors approaching a surrendering soldier with pipes, rocks, and other weapons. The reporter continues, "surely the man would be killed. There was nothing I could do to help him in the chaos."

Perhaps the argument here is that the guy got what he deserved, but I think if you want to argue that it's okay to kill someone who's surrendering, you might be fairly classified as militant.
It's possible to do it by just sending a request to FAA or tracking site. The list of jets that are not publicly tracked is public information. Lots of televangelists.

https://jetstreamlaw.com/how-to-block-your-aircraft-tail-num...
I think this technology is in its infancy and we might be looking at far more than 10 years to even get the functionality to make this possible regardless of whether it could actually replace highly paid actors. Occlusion and multi-agent are typically hard problems in image spaces, so once you add objects and other agents to a scene it becomes a great deal more challenging to make the motions life-like and realistic. Admittedly if you're mapping onto an actor in the scene with other objects and just changing their appearance it might be doable but you might run into substantial challenges if your target is 5ft8 and your source is 6ft2 (or Vice Versa). If you're not using a source-target mapping at all you have the challenge of generating realistic movements given all the obstacles and interactions, which is much harder than the current one-agent zero-object space.
Nice to see contribs from a variety of people, Haiku is definitely not a one-person project. Lots of respect for their community.

> The new font is Spleen, an open source monospace bitmap font designed by Frederic Cambus.

Super cool! That's the default font in OpenBSD, created by an OpenBSD dev.

> korli implemented stack protection support in Haiku (currently disabled by default, configurable at compile time).

Security is an issue for Haiku so it's great to see progress there. I wonder if Haiku could get pledge(2) and unveil(2) like OpenBSD and SerenityOS?
The HN title character limit is very restrictive. The title I used is the max length.
I may have missed it in the post, but how is blue different than red? I realise that they have slightly different Pokemon, but is that enough to make the emulator run only blue?
It is better in other countries where there are more than 2 parties who have a chance of getting to power. A coalition government is better than the winner-takes-it-all system.

The two party system creates an us vs them mentality where both are equally bad on most things but there is no real choice for the voters.
The author (which is also the GP, btw) explicitly talks about what “in Europe” vs “not in Europe” means in the context of this post:

> In our case, we have a number of requirements linked to the fact that we host user-generated content, and we know our users may not want to be subjected to censorship by other countries or organisations. Since 2018, the CLOUD act directly enables the US administration to enforce US law onto data stored in any other country, whenever the hosting company is registered in the US.

Amazon's server are physically located on the European continent, but there are under the American jurisdiction which is the problem the author talks about.

Btw, did you know that there are in fact no data center at all on Europe[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)
> an extra line with the "PLAYING" text.

If anyone knows how to turn this off, or prevent it moving the tab title up and down please let me know.

Pausing a video in one window then a second later having my attention drawn back to it by the movement is very annoying. I'm on xubuntu.
UI visual design has a propensity for bike shedding.
Ah, "not a native English speaker", usual written as "American".

</troll>
> because I am ... most likely to have a functional dishwasher and even if yours is better I am not going to buy one more.

Break the population into groups:

1. Have a working dishwasher / don't need one

2. Old dishwasher is failing, looking for a new one

3. Just bought a new dishwasher, it works great

4. Just bought a new dishwasher, going to return it

I suspect group 4 is who they're targeting.
I hope you are trolling because Gulf wars, Bosnian War, Gitmo are few of the medals earned by Western democracies.
Of course not, but there's something wrong with using that as a fig leaf for garden-variety, ugly human shadow material, and if you don't think that's happening, I'm afraid you're far off the mark.

By the way, I'm not saying this out of any political position on the underlying topics (nor is that any sort of claim to neutrality). I'm saying this because I'm close enough to the data to start to see how basic decency is being violated by a lot of this stuff, and when you see that, you start to feel sick.
World leaders ‘ignoring’ role of destruction of nature in causing pandemics
How is this issue about privacy?
aside from a benevolent dictator
I disagree entirely. The title I employed is exactly what the article is about.
It’s why we use sonar rather than radar to see underwater… Indeed also the reason we can use radar to detect rainclouds.
6 years old in gadget years is like 60 I think ;)

If we were in the age of film it would still be nearly brand new :D
for a minority yes, but the majority would like to keep a career to get money/status/purpouse and being a "part time parent"
Duckduckgo mostly uses bing index.
"In FY 2019 there was a 4.2% increase in the number of security clearances, for a total number of 4.2 million individuals with eligibility to access classified information."[0]

This "they need people with clearences" talk is laughable. This is purely lobbying which every government contractor does. They also scooped up 4 former state CIOs. They are playing the game and quite well. This does need to be cleaned up. A company recently won a $500 million DOD contract and months later the women on the government side is now the company CEO.

[0] https://news.clearancejobs.com/2021/02/09/how-many-people-ha...
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Yes, if we're talking about 8-bit era games, certainly things were different back then and things rarely moved around in memory between versions :-)
The article made absolutely no mention of how or why those land mines got there in the first place. Considering that they exist in such quantities that they are still being cleared up 40+ years after the end of the Vietnam war, it should have at least had a link to a story with more detail.
Not all of it is data you can access as the public. However as the author of a program with access to internet and location you can easily upload where the phone is at all times and thus figure out when two are near each other. (this is why newer phones OSes let users choose if the program can access these things all the time or only when active)
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My proposed approach is a little more automated. The mods don't have to find and remove flagging rights individually, they just unflag a post and instantly all the users who had flagged it lose some credibility for future flags.

EDIT: The "flagging trustworthiness" could even help mods to find posts which might need to be unflagged quicker based on the average trustworthiness of the flags.
I think that's what makes it all the more poignant, there's still hope even after such horrible events.
"Rationally, I think that governments should be ok with that as they will pay either way through unemployment or these rescue packages"

You are wrong here. The 3rd option is to take money from the investors. The example given in this thread, Lufthansa, the stock holders should have been wiped out. It is called risk.
US execs, as in, the people who imported US tech management and fskced the whole thing up.
Yes. As a consequence of relying on Bing, DDG is also assisting in the censorship. It makes them part of it. They are not required to use Bing, they choose to.

It puts more emphasis on DDG's need - if their morality play is to continue to be believed - to build their own full-fledged search engine and stop relying so much on Bing & Co.'s results.
I mean the us has 350M, what makes it categorically easier in a factor of 5, versus, say, Venezuela, which has a factor of 5 less than the us and is a failed state?
I used to think that but its important to note what they wanted to do democratically: more communism.

The winning regime wanted to move away from many marxist ideas, and they did, with liberalization of the markets and private ownership. Although they retain the name “Communist Party” and they teach and exalt marxist ideals in their schools, they just teach that whatever the communist party is currently doing is marxist.

The protestors in 1989 saw and predicted this lack of accountability and wanted to move towards the promised land of communism that no country has ever done, the promise which keeps enamoring new young people in every generation.

The state said no and had also concluded those ideals don't make sense, and moved towards state capitalism which has been extremely successful with unprecedented growth for any country, but doubly true for one with such a large population.

We would likely have worse relations with a democratic actually communist china.
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No, it's not. An encyclopedia is a reference (as you can, indeed, ironically find out by checking the Wikipedia entry for "encyclopedia").

> Etymology isn't destiny [...]

exactly.

> [...] but I think most encyclopedias are still used as teaching resources.

Of course, learning how to use a reference properly and effectively can be a goal in didactics, especially when you're studying a particular subject. But the reference work is not, by itself, a teaching resource such as a textbook.

I don't understand what's so controversial about that. If I open a page about, say JIT compilation, I'm also immediately confronted with jargon. The fact that most people here would be familiar with that jargon doesn't mean that that page is of any use to someone who doesn't know what a compiler is. The same applies probably to hundreds of different subjects, be it biomedical, philosophical, etc.
All the internet access examples on that list would use encrypted connections, so a cellular company wouldn't be privy. Cellular companies do have course location data, but to be pedantic that doesn't really apply to any of OP's list.
TL;DR they started using dedicated and purposed-designed video encoding/transcoding chips.
> Democracy with Chinese characteristics

Isn't that just Taiwan?
I still read but mostly fiction. I strongly dislike most non fiction books, YouTube videos, podcasts, and the very idea of an audio book. If I want to learn something , I read a textbook.
Cats live much longer than rats however.
Tbf independent researchers got us to the point we are having this discussion. We just took a detour because the institutions failed us.
It's more about concentration than about special ingredients, and to a lesser extent about missing nutrients.

These foods tend to be very calorie-dense, which encourages you to eat too much of them. They provide those calories without a lot of other things (fiber, calcium, and possibly other unknown micronutrients). There's some suggestion that their high concentrations also throw off the complex balance of gut flora, but that's harder to pin down.

The additives, preservatives, colors, etc. are probably safe in and of themselves. They've generally passed at least some basic level of safety testing (including being fed in megadoses to rats). They tend to be added to convenience foods to make them even more appealing and available. So they're correlated with negative health outcomes, but without being the cause of it.

It's still possible that there's something wrong with the additives themselves, but if you avoid them by eating less-processed products, you'll likely do better regardless of the additive safety. Generally, that means doing more cooking yourself, or at least selecting menu items that more closely resemble home cooking.
Part of it I think is that for many people, it's more fun to build something than to maintain something. It's also easier to write code than it is to read it (most of the time).

So why not do the fun and easy thing? Especially if they aren't the one writing the checks!
I don't recall the Ashley Madison leak having anything remotely similar to the data on OP's list.
That deserves a whole page in itself :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese...

Although nowadays the bar to be shocked is quite high ..here are some remarkable examples:

European Union :
"The organisation agreed to censor references to the Chinese origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, with research suggesting that self-censorship on sensitive topics that may offend the PRC is commonplace."

NASA:
"The American space agency faced criticism in China for listing "Taiwan" as a country in a drop-down menu on a website about Mars."

World Health Organization:
"Senior advisor Bruce Aylward faced criticism for saying he could not hear a question from RTHK journalist Yvonne Tong about whether Taiwan could join the WHO, asking her to move onto the next question then terminating the interview when she repeated it"
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Look, when you talk about trans women not being allowed in women’s spaces as if it’s even a question, it’s not my job or goal or responsibility to try to convince you that you are wrong. It is exactly the same as if you brought up the voting rights act and wanted to debate whether black people should be allowed in white people’s spaces. What reaction do you expect when you make statements like that?
There are no results for tank man on duckduckgo
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&t=ffnt&iar=images&iax=ima...
My comment is not racist, either overtly, expressly, subtly, or implicitly. Acknowledging diversity of opinion and the existence of factions does not imply discriminating against any of those factions.

You can find an extensive list of recent comments I've made that are complimentary to China and Chinese people in the last three months in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398213.

I said that many HN users are Chinese and Chinese-American [immigrants]. There is nothing racist about that. The Chinese Communist Party, which is the government of [Mainland] China, is very popular among people from China. There is nothing racist about either of these ideas, nor about drawing the conclusion that if you publicly attack the Chinese Communist Party, you are going to offend a lot of Chinese people, including many HN users.

It's not a logically entailed consequence of the premises—it is theoretically possible that only Chinese people who are opposed to CCP rule, such as many of the students who died in Tiananmen Square, many Taiwanese people, and Falun Dafa members, are HN users—but it is overwhelmingly likely that this is not the case.

Pointing this out is not gross. Falsely accusing people of racism is gross.
Don't we all know that the CCP employs agents to flag critical content.

Do we have any reason to think said agents aren't active here?
Edit: argh, I confused you with the GP commenter. I'm terribly sorry! Obviously "you" doesn't mean you in the below. I'm usually more careful but today has been a bit hectic with several high-intensity threads going at once, and evidently I've been dropping packets.

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If you hope Chinese users feel welcome here, you need to make some massive adjustments to the commenting style you exemplified above, because accusing "Chinese nationals" of being responsible for things you don't like on HN, based on (seriously) absolutely nothing, is the stuff that a lot of dark human history has been made of.

I realize that's hard to swallow, because (a) none of us wants to see that in ourselves, and (b) internet forums are just so unbelievably innocuous and trivial, until they aren't, but I'm telling you it's fundamentally the same dynamic. Sometimes it shows up in trivial ways and sometimes in hideous ones. If we want to actually be the tolerant, decent people that we imagine we are, we all need to work on this on ourselves. I don't mean to pick on you personally; it's without a doubt universal.
Maybe a decade ago. Now using Google is an exercise of filtering out Amazon affiliate blogspam clogging the first several pages of results.

“Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers” -Larry and Sergey in 1998
> "Parent" is not a protected class

Many states make familial status a protected class in employment, and the FMLA also makes discriminating based on certain family-based factors illegal.
I.e., only ever do it in national military labs, and do not publish results.
"no distro for old men". Hah, that's great. I had a brief thought of a Javier Bardem as SystemD.
India is probably the best comparison to China due to their similar population and level of development post independence in 1950. It's also used on Chinese forums as an example of why China dodged a bullet with democracy.