skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issues are conflated because the existing legal framework never accounted for what we have today. It's confusing; and unteasing the concerns to find the primary core principles that should be supported isn't easy.

The existing CDA protections that are relied upon by social media giants was originally intended to allow content hosting platforms to manage issues that most everyone agreed upon, like "Content hoster should be allowed to remove explicit porn from their public interest bulletin board"

They never realized that social media giants would one day use their content moderation to bend large-scale public opinion to their will on day-to-day political and public health issues.

In addition to the overreach of the CDA safe harbor provision are issues of public accommodation, monopoly control of free speech, and in-kind political donations to candidates and parties that bypass existing election finance restrictions.
Aliens are demons, they don’t need special machines to fly through the air and probe people’s butts in the middle of the night.
Different frequencies are attenuated differently, yes. So like, green laser vs red laser will have different max distances under water.

Fun fact, salinity of water also affects transmission. So rate of transmission in a lake vs ocean is also going to be different.
I get free searches from DuckDuckGo without paying with my personal information. It is absolutely possible to provide free services, supported by ads, while collecting little to no personal information.
> It doesn't need to. It's easy enough to view the videos and confirm

So the U.S. government is going through the trouble of declassification to reveal the limits of its sensors to adversaries?

From what we can tell, the reports categorise them as UFOs. That implies a non-artefact theory.
Fuller video of what lead of to those questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BRQ7scbqc . Trump was already starting to spread the FUD about the virus situation being China's "fault" and strongly insinuating it was somehow malicious.

Also, in that CNN article video he is asked a question not asked in the above video. A very direct question and NOT leading:

> What gives you I high degree of confidence that this originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

> I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that.

Seriously though, I was alive and not under a rock in 2020. I was paying attention to all of this while it was happening.
You’re right, it is.

I think it comes down to trust and a track record of commitment to privacy.

Also IMO apple handled the PR for airtags very well.
Nigeria suspends Twitter indefinitely after deleted tweet from its president
> The large advertising brokers are handling petabytes of cookie tracking data per day.

Citation needed.

Also, you don't need a copy of every single byte that a tracking company collects; summaries are more than enough to be useful to track individuals across the internet.

> The volume of the data makes it basically impossible to exfiltrate.

An attacker doesn't need to try to exfiltrate a large fraction of collected data; only the data that's likely to be interesting to them.

See Facebook/Cambridge Analytica [1] for an example of just how incompetent a technically-sophisticated company can be when it comes to protecting their users' (and their own!) data from potential adversaries.

[1] In particular, the comments from Alex Stamos, the CSO who said “We have the threat profile of a [...] defense contractor, but we run our corporate networks [...] like a college campus" (from https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/19/facebook-security-chief-alex... )
iPhones 7 through 11 felt increasingly easy to destroy with the slightest touch - not so the iPhone 12.
I never knew that Firefox chrome was customizable thru CSS. Know that I do know I’m super excited but what I can do with it. And I’m also beginning to think that window desktop and start menu should be written in CSS and HTML.
You don't need cookie notices for functional cookies (user preferences, load-balancing, session).
I'm a member of “no politics evar” crowd, but I feel like both deliberate digital censorship AND artificial tweaks to search results are valid topics.

I hope this was the result of a rogue actor rather than a corporate decision.
They only know in a statistical sense. Useful for insurance companies, but not on a personal level.
Fairly big topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating
It doesn't really surprise me that bing does this - I'm more disappointed that HN censored the original post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925). Feel like that's totally against our values.
>"If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others. My greatest torment would be that I’ve misinterpreted the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human compassion with self righteous impunity."[1]

Also, notice how he writes that self-defense is an instinct. As in, he doesn't actually think self-defense is, prima facie, morally justifiable. He actually thinks you need to sit and ask yourself, "Am I the baddie, for existing?", if you are Jewish.
>> Many of these companies call themselves “data brokers.” I call them data vultures.

Perfect. Except it is insulting to vultures, who at least put carrion back in the food chain.

This is straight-up theft of our data and privacy, for profit, and it needs to be both outlawed and shamed.

Seriously, but these slime should be more despised than common burglars (tho maybe a notch above mobsters). Seriously, these people are not respectable, and should not be respected or tolerated in polite society. So, don't.
China has a propaganda machine and plenty of people who'll participate with any site enough to see anti-Chinese anything and will downvote, flag, whatever. This is not surprising.

What would be surprising, though, is if this site didn't see through the flags and allowed the removal of completely legitimate discussion because it upsets some.
You could also just put in one pop-up, accept all, reject all, customize. No big deal, is it?
Our small startup just hit 500k sign ups
I'm in the US searching for it and getting nothing for the image results. Why are the images specifically blocked?

I don't think there's anything fair about this. I don't like the idea of a US company censoring information from me in this way. Because now I'm really curious as to what else is being censored/flagged out.
Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondral ossification
I don't remember Mozilla saying that. There were voices of suspicion, though, following the decision to disable loading of userChrome.css by default, allegedly for performance reasons. https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/24/firefox-69-userchrome-css-...
Basic research is very important, but you are overstating it's importance vs the development work to get it from there to market. That's the hard, and resource intensive, part, and is usually done by the private sector. For example, not much that SpaceX has done is new idea. They have just been the first to execute, and that is where almost all of the market value is.
Some of the confirmed cases from the pentagon include the fact that they were detected on radar.
> a tectonic shift on the topic from the US government

I haven't been following this closely. Why?
The Tienamen square protest began because the Communist party as part of its dealings for African mineral rights allowed African students into Chinese universities and those African students were caught sexually assaulting Chinese women. The point of the "pro-democracy" activism was to replace the relatively socially liberal and pro-globalization Communist party with a more nationalist government that would protect the Chinese people and not sacrifice their safety for international power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_anti-African_protests#...

For obvious reasons, pro-liberal pro-globalisation factions in the West downplay the role of the nationalist anti-globalisation anti-liberal origins of the protests.
What Are El Nino and La Nina?
MIT Engineers Create a Programmable Digital Fiber – With Memory, Sensors, and AI
Yeah, which is why the top comment is talking specifically about companies with no assets in the EU.
I agree, but the interesting question is why. And related, how. How is it that so many people have the time to write this stuff?

I think the answer is pretty simple, actually: there is demand for writing that attacks the reader, and validates the reader's feelings of self-loathing. Ultimately its a form of narcissism, but of the negative sort. "I am the root of all the problems of the world," the reader wishes to be convinced of this, and given arguments to make the connection. It is a dangerous sort of narcissism too because its explicitly cloaked in the guise of compassion and guilt and shame. "Virtue signaling" is a part of it, but I think it goes much deeper, and is absurd in a way that few commentators have touched - except, maybe, for the latter seasons of South Park.

It's a pity because there are good things to analyze and do at the systemic level to make life better for everyone. Particularly at the physical structural level, like designing cities for people and not cars, for sustainability and not financier profits. And there are good things to do at the personal level, like help a stranger in need, or recognize the real pain a thoughtless word may cause. But, because of the cognitive distortions that come with narcissism, these are also distorted, misused, and weaponized into a powerful tool of passive aggression.

Perhaps a simple approach would be to challenge such people to do 10 things for every 1 thing they say.
You'd need 128-bit integers because of the way this works in the intermediate steps before the shift. There are u128 types in many modern compilers, but it's probably cheaper just to use a different type (u64) of table and another operation.
"Those descriptions are a tectonic shift on the topic from the US government."
Feels like we are being primed for something new to be afraid of and give our treasure to in defense of. Aliens being non-peaceful fails so many logic tests though. I hope the script doesn't go that way.
A good article although it spends too much time blaming Trump for other peoples failures.
How hilarious will it be if Trump was more accurate on this issue than Fauci?
The sheer timescales and energy levels involved with all known methods of transportation is what makes it unlikely - at least for life on the timescales we live on.

The odds someone is interested enough to spend truly mind boggling amounts of energy (literally moving hundreds of mountains worth) and hundred of years to check us out after one of those events - and not even say hi - is low. That they are also so close - also low. If they have some sort of magic drive tech (implied by the behavior of these drive sightings), then that changes the math a lot.

Most people mean ‘magic drive tech’ when they say FTL.
This explains the flagging. It does not explain the 'duplicate content' article from CNN on the origins of the Tank Man photo, which I believe requires HN moderator activity.
> but Can’t Rule It Out, Either

Can't prove a negative.
> From reading this list, I can deduce OP just made up most of them, because over half of them contains details that are total BS.

Care to specify which list entries you have trouble believing?
From the article:

> Enter Mike Watts and his wife, who decided to build a road only 400 meters long to get around the landslide. They put a 2-pound toll on it. The road was built in 10 days.

> And it’s working. People are using it and it’s bringing in substantial revenue.

This is what people parody when they mock radical economic libertarianism. Roads are (arguably) a public good. They shouldn't bring in "substantial revenue", otherwise only the richest areas will get them. I appreciate the failure of bureaucracy to fix the detour here, but this just isn't a response to the problem of societal infrastructure without taxation.
Yes,the event...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

HN looks like "A Quiet Place"
Firefox Color should let you customize those: https://color.firefox.com/
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) web console : really slow and take HUGE amount of memory
The public has a right to know certain things, like if there is any evidence of aliens visiting Earth. The right should probably be an explicit constitutional amendment:

The people, being free citizens of the universe, shall never be denied access to any information that may pertain to the existence of alien life.
Weird how aliens always show up around USG locations and vehicles. All the land mass in the world and some how it's always around the super militarized North America.
> aliens being here would imply FTL is possible

No, aliens (or alien-made un-aliened probes) being here wouldn't mean FTL is possible. It would imply very advanced societies are capable of diverting energy into projects with very long payoff windows, but not the existence of FTL travel.
> 2. = and ==. Ugh. The Bug Maker.

You mean == and === ?
Ownership is the wrong word, since you will always own your data. The problem is others claiming to own it too.
SWE's actually build the systems that their businesses use to do business, and are paid accordingly. Without them, companies would not be as competitive. IT centered companies in particular would go out of business. Software businesses literally only exist to support software engineers, much like architecture firms exist solely for supporting architects. That is why good architects make a lot of money and why good software engineers make a lot of money.

Hardware based businesses, like building bridges, are paying engineers for designs, not fully functional products. You're comparing apples to oranges in comparing mechanical or electrical engineering to software engineering. In hardware businesses that do not directly profit from software, the pay for a software engineer is more in line with other engineers.

Top software talent will always command a major premium and will be required by software companies. But otherwise yes, it is entirely possible that SV talent will see a 10%-15% drop in pay to work remotely somewhere cheaper to live.
> Anyone know how to get my title bar and window border colors back?

Set browser.proton.enabled to false in about:config. That makes Firefox 89 use the Windows 10 accent color in the titlebar again on my system.
This is a talk I've been working on for a while. It starts off motivating why you might want to write compute shaders (tl;dr you can exploit the impressive compute power of GPUs but portably), then explains the basics of how, including some sample code to help get people started.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dVSXORW6JurLUcx5UhE1...

Sample code: https://github.com/googlefonts/compute-shader-101

Feedback is welcome (please file issues against the open source repo), and AMA in this thread.
That was a very valuable anecdote, thank you!
Cucumber Water
Can you provide an example of a past technology that was unimagined by mainstream physicists and that was sucessfully implemented in secret and kept secret for decades?

I can't think of anything.

Fission bombs were widely believed to be physically possible, were developed in secret but used publicly within several years.

I do not beleive the military has some secret antigravity, inertia modifying technology or warp drive of whatever.

These things always start with basic physics. There is no known basic physics to support such things. Therefore it is extremely unlikely that the military simply developed them from theory to implementation in secret.
I used BeOS as my main OS for something like two years back in the day, and recently I tried out Haiku. It’s quite stable and has a modern browser, emacs, and our favorite compiler. It’s also so alien that I doubt there are exploits around for it.
It is currently slated to be released on June 25th. This article is based on early details reported on by interviews with people who have seen early versions of the report.
> Remember, when software UI was customizable?

I liked the old philosophy that a desktop should have "consistent look & feel". If all your apps use the same UI toolkit, that toolkit can be made to work well and with things like accessibility in mind, and can be themed/customized to the user's preference.

My old-hat way of thinking goes so far to say that "tabs" should be done by the window-manager, not the browser.
But how would you trust any company to properly respect who you share stuff with? There's a multitude of anti-patterns that make some things public already with social media.

I think we should all be looking at this as either they're getting -all- of your data and sharing it with -everyone- (because that means more $$$) or they're NOT getting your data and they CANT share it cuz they don't have it.

We cannot trust companies to respect our privacy because it goes against their core value of turning a profit.
Are those figures for 2020 / 2021, aka the COVID era?

I don't have those figures either, but at the time I think everybody agreed nobody knew what would happen. Booking.com's revenue might have fallen to close to nil.
Add to this... everything you said is a forever kept thing. So over decades this stuff can be mined and a tiny needle can be found if it's meaningful to the searcher. It's terrifying.
It definitely (obviously?) wasn't me. I had introduced Brendan to DTrace in 2004 (over e-mail) when I discovered his earlier psio work[0] (which was based on TNF, a tracing facility that predated DTrace that was better than nothing -- but not by much). I knew that he was going to be very excited to learn about DTrace, and it wasn't long before he was delighting us with some really creative scripts. (His shellsnoop.d[1], in particular, really got people's attention as to what what could do with DTrace!)

While he and I had corresponded a bunch, ironically the first time I met Brendan was in 2005, it was in Sydney, and I was on a tour of Australia talking about Solaris 10 -- but it followed this incident by several months (if I recall correctly). I was excited to meet Brendan, and he was excited to meet me -- especially so after his poor experience several months prior!

[0] http://www.brendangregg.com/psio.html

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/shellsnoop.d
> why people don't use magnets on strings to search for lost things in European canals more often.

There are TikTok accounts devoted to this (where else?) - it seems surprisingly common to find safes.
I would happily sign up for that. I've spent a fair bit of effort trying to cull political content from my facebook feed, and that includes subscribing to a fair number of cute kitties and art to dilute it.

Social media is how I kill time. I don't want it to make me upset, and even the political content from those I agree with tends to be pretty upsetting. (Much of it is poorly reasoned even when the conclusions are right and the intentions are kind. As opposed to the stuff which is actively cruel and stupid, which gets one blocked from my feed on the first offense.)
Pedantic point: it's not "almost useless for binaries." It's almost useless for compiled, PIC binaries in modern executable formats like PE or ELF that allow for lots of load-time address-space rearrangement.

XOR-and-RLE works well for binaries from non-HLL languages (assembler, mostly) where — due mostly to early assemblers' lack of support for forward-referencing subroutine labels from the data section — subroutines tend to ossify into having defined address-space positions.

You can observe this by the fact that IPS-patchfile representations (which, while a different algorithm, is basically equivalent to XOR-and-RLE in its results) of the deltas between different versions/releases of old game ROMs written in assembly, are actually rather small relative to the sizes of the ROM images themsleves. The v1.1 ROMs are almost always byte-for-byte identical in ROM-image layout to the v1.0 versions, except for where (presumably) explicit changes were made in the assembler source code. Translated releases are the same (sometimes, but not always, because they were actually done by the localization team bit-twiddling the original ROM, because they didn't have access to the original team's assembly code.)

(This is also why archives that contain all the various versions/releases of a given game ROM, are highly compressible using generic compressors like LZMA.)
Well, they did give billions to SpaceX, and that seems to have turned out alright.
A big part of this is the need for workers with security clearance to service your government contracts. Its far far easier to hire people who have clearance rather than hire somebody and then pay for them to go through the process, and the DoD has the majority of people with security clerance.
A lot of these videos have already been debunked as being visual artifacts from the cameras or parallax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8
The college library in my hometown had public access via a paid card. It was inexpensive and about equal to the cost students paid in fees each year or their access. I know a few local authors that heavily relied on that library for researching their works. I bet many college libraries have similar programs or could be motivated by locals to add the option.
... or they plant them :)
I almost never want paste to preserve any formatting, because I've almost never seen it work perfectly. If I need to reformat it anyway, I'd rather not have to clean up its messes first.

BTW in most programs that handle rich text, SHIFT-CTRL-V does a plain-text paste without the source formatting.
It's hilarious watching CNN reporters pushing this UFO speculation. Don't they realize this even further besmirches any credibility they have left on other topics, like all their conspiracy theories?

I remember when UFO sightings were relegated to the tabloids like The National Enquire. CNN has sunk to tabloid level.
I'm a native english speaker, and I also never realized those were two different words.
Of course not, only those who choose to adopt this ideology, I didn't assume anything about ALL Jews. But that's not the point, my point is that those who identify as anti-Zionists either do not understand what Zionism means, or they are plain modern anti-Semites in a poor disguise.
Congratulations Nigeria.

Not bending the knee to twatternazi
I don't normally convert my ints to floats, but when I do, I
*(float *)(&x). ;-) (or fild)
I think we need to be a bit more imaginative rather than just jumping to "aliens" every time. There are other possible explanations that are just as fun! An animal species we've never seen before, for example. Or time travelling humans. Or maybe one guy happened across faster-than-light travel in his garage and is hoarding it from everyone else.
Works for me. https://www.bing.com/search?q=tank+man
It feels a bit like the lab-virus theory felt last year. If you entertain the notion of it you're supposed to be ridiculed and possibly kicked out of polite society, but does it really deserve to be set alongside flat earth theory and intelligent design? I'm not so sure we won't look differently at it years from now.
I would argue that OVH is not a cloud provider and instead just an average run of the mill webhosting company similar to Godaddy. If anything:

"lo barato siempre es mas caro"

The cheap is always more expensive.
What about the rights or consent of the human that's life matters most here, the child? When did anyone thought if the child wanted to be born with those parents who might be poor, unhealthy, genetic diseases that come to child, who is forced in all these without any way out? Should we only care about the parents?
Shares can easily be exchanged for money.

Paying execs huge bonuses (whether in cash, gold, shares or whatever), while taking huge sums in state aid and laying off thousands of employees is morally despicable behaviour at best.