skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397695 about degrees of freedom and Von Neumann elephants. I have no knowledge of what's going on at MS, but it is a complex enough system to generate endless datapoints. What makes them significant is that we pick the ones to single out as meaningful. (Edit: by "we" I mean anyone, of course.)

To be clear, I don't care about $BigCo, only HN; and if there's any actual evidence that this whole thing was anything other than randomness playing its usual tricks on the hivemind, that would actually be interesting and on-topic for HN. But note those words "actual" and "evidence".
There are other moderators, though dang remains the public face.
50% chance that this story was staged...

... there is a pretty "hip" German pop song, that makes fun about dropping an iPhone into the Landwehrkanal...

https://www.lyrics.com/track/33176002/Von+Wegen+Lisbeth/Ch%C...
That's not what I said at all.

I said it would be bad for US, which was the only opinion added to the post. There are no arguments for anything as I only wrote about the accuracy of what occurred. Maybe somebody else will entertain the conversation you want to have though.
No doubt;

Nonetheless, this is business as usual.

Booking.com are masters of tax avoidance and I'd guess all of their usual bonuses are essentially covered by Dutch state aid in the form of reduced taxes.
Without wifi it isn't very compelling vs. the good old /etc/network/interfaces setup, it's hard to get simpler than that. I still use that on my servers as well.

I use Debian myself and know that they don't change tech lightly and will keep supporting Systemd for the foreseeable future. So that part isn't a concern for me. Can't help with the Ubuntu installer, I only ever used it for cloud deployments with cloudinit.

Systemd is a mixed bag but overall I've been happy with it. I have been using it since Jesse and have never had any issues with it and definitely prefer it over sysv-init (which I always hated, every other init system is an improvement over it IMO... so low bar I guess).
Turning safe search off also returns results more like you'd expect, though a bunch of those images are blanked out even then.
Good. He seems like man of convictions.
Just to make it explicit for the people having trouble, the mechanism for switching processes in a pre-emptive multitasking system is interrupts.
Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
Virtually all alternate search engines are Bing.
Why is flagging anonymous?
I am doubting that if you walk over the aisle to the engineers in the other team, and state an obscure legacy issue to him/her. That person would, with decent chance, say something like "how could it be?" "was the original engineer dumb/imcompetent"? "was the original team got reorged"? etc....

Not saying the tech journalist is better in any sense. But let's be honest, there is no reason they should be doing better...
At university we designed an architecture[1] where you had to test for page not present yourself. It was all about seeing if we could make a simpler architecture where all interrupts could be handled synchronously, so you'd never have to save and restore the pipeline. Also division by zero didn't trap - you had to check before dividing. IIRC the conclusion was it was possible but somewhat tedious to write a compiler for[2], plus you had to have a trusted compiler which is a difficult sell.

[1] But sadly didn't implement it in silicon! FPGAs were much more primitive back then.

[2] TCG in modern qemu has similar concerns in that they also need to worry about when code crosses page boundaries, and they also have a kind of "trusted" compiler (in as much as everything must go through TCG).
I agree that defining where the boundary should be is tricky in practice, and it's a good point that this was hardly a unanimous decision, not to mention overruling the appealed ruling.

On the other hand, the underlying law, the CFAA, is about more than just workplace issues like this issue. Interpreting it broadly could mean that violating some terms of use could be a criminal offense, and I am glad that the court avoided that interpretation. It's better having this law be more specific to the intent of criminalizing "hacking" and leaving other laws or policies to deal with how one might abuse computers or networks that one is otherwise entitled to access.
Pfizer (and probably other vaccines) much less effective against new variants
If your neighbor wants to reduce their dependency on the industrial food system by growing a edible garden in their backyard, yes, rabbits are vermin to them. Each time your rabbits eat your neighbor's lettuce, a head of lettuce from somewhere else in the world (hopefully a local farm but probably not) has to be trucked in to the food market to be purchased by the neighbor.
We’re talking about the CPU architecture here, not custom one-off ARM boards. Think x86 or ARM not a Qualcomm SoC.

And yes of course. Linus’ opinion would be needed.
I remember my dad having this on the family PC at the time it was a green parrot though he uninstalled it when it was changed to the purple ape.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635.
The zoonotic origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, but it is fact free.

A fact: all SARS-CoV-2 sequences fit into a phylogeny with a common ancestor in Wuhan in October/November 2019.

Another fact: we have not found the intermediate host or natural viral reservoir from which this virus arose.

These are pretty intense facts. We would need a lot of other facts to make the zoonotic origin claim hold water.
Microsoft Bing raises concerns over lack of image results for Tiananmen tank man
China's Accelerating Bid for Chip Supremacy
Ok so you acknowledge that he was not actually facing a long prison sentence? And yes pleading guilty carries a lower sentence in part because you are rewarded for accepting responsibility for your actions.
All of complex analysis is filled with magical results like this. For example, Cauchy's formula and its generalizations. Max/Min results, Loiville's theorem, Nevanlinna theory, Picard's Great and Little theorems. It's all absolutely bonkers. Just think:

"Every complex function with an essential singularity achieves all but one value infinitely often in every neighborhood of the singularity"

or

"Every holomorphic function can be approximated arbitrarily well by a region of the Riemann Zeta function"

There is this joke about how proofs start in different branches of math. So in real analysis you start with "Let ε > 0". And in Abstract Algebra, it's "Suppose not." But in Complex Analysis: "Nothing up my left sleeve, nothing up my right sleeve.."
The fact people have fought about things doesn't tell us much either. Did they get what they fought about. Or not. Typically not. Also is fighting to get more "society"? It happens even without society. So it's not an example of society.
Two demonstrably true observations:

- China actively works to remove mentions about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

- There are CCP sympathetic posters on HN. I've had them reply to me before. They have identified themselves Chinese.

Combining these two into the statement, "There are posters sympathetic to the CCP stance of censoring the Tiananmen Square Massacre who are flagging these posts," does require some information not available on my side of the screen, but it's not exactly a big jump.

And on a completely personal observation, it wouldn't bug me much if HN did not tolerate such members' attempts to censor the Tiananmen Square Massacre - did not protect them as a group from criticism. Intolerance of intolerance being required for a tolerant society, and all that.
> neither the Communist Party of China nor any other Communist Party has influence on how we operate Hacker News

> Second, if you're going to draw dramatic conclusions about sinister operations

This isn't about drawing dramatic conclusions. I have no delusion that Hacker News is colluding with the CCP. This is simply a question about a trend of disappearing posts.

My original statement about

> growing reach of control in American discourse

is purposefully broad because the mechanisms of control are broad themselves. There is plenty of valid concerns around different types of cyber warfare or the growing self-censorship and desire among individuals to avoid challenging topics related to China. Hacker News is a collection of individuals and doesn't need to be a part of grand conspiracy to be susceptible to pressures that have exerted control over other media organizations.

Explaining the process of hacker news moderation and how you mitigate real threats to free speech would be a better approach than claiming your critics are sensationalizing.

To be clear I fall on the side of HN generally handling things well, my post was squarely at your dismissive response to valid criticism.
Yes, I do.

Ballistics comparisons in particular been found to be nearly complete bunk, yet experts continue to use them in court.[0]

Tire prints are also pretty bad.[1]

We live in an age of unprecedented HD video surveillance. We don't need automated facial recognition to bring violent criminals to justice.

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/reversing-legacy-jun...
[1] https://www.apmreports.org/story/2016/09/27/questionable-sci...
Since they didn't specify what type of authorization, the plain reading is that it covers all types.
I assume they either don't use Windows or don't have the time to.
I became an extremely picky eater suddenly around age 4.

I literally didn't eat a single vegetable or fruit that wasn't an onion or tomato sauce until age 20, and my diet consisted mostly of "kid food" - hamburgers, hot dogs, breakfast cereal, milk, etc.

Meanwhile, my family was eating lots of home cooked mediterranean meals. I can't count the number of times I'd be eating a hot dog while they were enjoying something like stinky artichokes.

My parents cooked around me. Never forced me to eat anything I didn't like. Never insisted I "just try" a food that was going to make me gag.

Shortly after I turned 20, something just clicked and I started eating everything. Now my diet is more varied than the rest of my family.

Don't force your kids to eat stuff they hate.

If they're not actually malnourished or obese, they'll likely turn out fine. The last thing you want to do is establish a pattern of stress and anguish re: meals and food. That probably never turns out well in the long run.
Human art is also based off of past works. Moreover, AI art tends to be more, not less, chaotic than human art.
What's high? They are competitive with other FAANG. Source: I worked at both Amazon and Facebook. Amazon also offers a bonus for having a clearance.
WOW! I'm impressed!
I dunno about that. The failure of UT could not have been parlayed into the runaway success of Fortnite without Epic’s ability to redirect the engine being constructed to their new needs.

By and large I suppose I agree with you.
DVC has metrics logger similar to other experiment management tool: https://github.com/iterative/dvclive/

Also, metrics & params section of the docs explains this (but yes, it is not perfect yet): https://dvc.org/doc/start/metrics-parameters-plots
>> Hacking bad tests is becoming less important as the link between work and authority erodes. The erosion of that link is one of the most important trends happening now, and we see its effects in almost every kind of work people do. Startups are one of the most visible examples, but we see much the same thing in writing. Writers no longer have to submit to publishers and editors to reach readers; now they can go direct.

This is extremely tech centric view of the world. If your work function cannot be sold with minimal marginal cost - e.g. technical service provider, consultants, or other service industry work - this strategy may not work for you. This is true for most of traditional engineering, or other non-tech STEM functions in orgs.

As the cost of customer acquisition over net revenue will be significantly higher for you than the incumbent - so might as well join them - and to do so, you will likely need to hack the bad test.
Bravo. Thankyou HN and users for this post. It's a simple check, and search results are definitely tainted somehow, especially selecting results in images. It is a reminder of how frangible history is. What will remain in another 30 years m
How much history have we lost?
This would be best as a link in the ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783. Otherwise we get too much repetition and/or split conversations, neither of which is good for quality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
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And report back here!
Specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27391764
Don't forget Yandex.
The Outer Worlds

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Final Fantasy 7 Remake

Days Gone

Code Vein
Who are these "most people"?

The military would not have "stepped in" under its own accord. It may have been called in (probably in the form of the state national guards).

If so many former military officers are positioning themselves so well in industry to effect this coup, maybe they could also step in and restore a larger portion of US manufacturing and sidestep the issue of your last paragraph. It would certainly be easier than destroying a country.
It isn't saying it is legal, just that it doesn't run afoul of the CFAA and become a federal computer hacking crime. There very well be other laws and repercussions, whether at different levels, like State, or being fired, etc.

It is refreshing because it doesn't put the risk of federal criminal prosecution at the whim of how an employer writes their policies.
Most green vegetables have barely any nutritive content. Babies naturally find them disgusting as well - this is an example of instinctive flavor preference actually working correctly. The problem is that evolved palatability is not well-calibrated for things like widely available sugars (including starches)
On the other hand, the government in general and the tax authorities in particular have a history of backtracking and retroactively diminishing promised rulings. Refer to the 30% ruling changes that were retroactively applied after employees had moved to the country and had received a signed declaration from the authority.
It's a search proxy service. You can use a VPN to mask your traffic's origin behind your VPN provider's IP, you can use DDG image search to mask your queries behind DDG.
My understanding of the issue is that the prosecutor chose to use the CFAA rather than going after the real crime because of the circumstances.

The accused in the case was caught in a sting operation. The police created a fake situation where they pretended to have an undercover agent, and tries to see if the accused would interfere with the case. He did. The prosecutor however did not charge the accused over obstruction of justice, but rather CFAA and hacking charges. I would guess that the reason is that the prosecutor thought it was easier than charging someone with interfering with a fake case.

From what I understand, courts and judges do not like it when either side try to be clever. CFAA is not a tool to be used when the prosecutor want to avoid a more difficult case, and so it needed to be limited in scope.
Was it the parrot in this screenshot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent

I think Bonzi Buddy was built on Microsoft Agent, so it would make sense.
I believe DDG does not track you.
A monad, derived from monoid, means multiple very specific things completely unrelated to the other definition of "single parameter".

And the etymology is basically a coincidence because "mono" got used in different places, isn't it?
I didn't interpret the comment that way. I read it as a squares-are-rectangles comment, not a rectangles-are-squares comment. Normal people on HN who support the CCP are likely to be chinese nationals, even if the converse isn't true. There are probably enough normal people who support the CCP here to flag a post, which is how I read the comment.
I think brute-forcing passwords offline isn't illegal under the CFAA.
Using a password you got that way would be illegal.

Similarly, password stuffing (just trying many passwords on the login form) would be illegal, since you are trying to gain access. Not sure how that works if you are not successful though.

Port-scanning would be fine. Interesting edge case is, what happens if you port-scan, find an open telnet port, and use it to get a shell.
There is no authentication, but does that mean you are authorized?
My gut says that logging in to such a telnet port (when the device is not yours) is a CFAA violation. Just like walking in to a random house when the door is open is still illegal.
That's super nutty. How would the alleged uptick in racist violence against Asian-Americans provide cover for misdeeds of the Chinese Communist Party? Over the past couple weeks many mainstream news sources are reporting the possibility of the lab as a source. In fact the lack of transparency of Chinese authorities has been a pretty universal complaint (minus WHO dithering) since jump.

I do think it's entirely possible the Asian hate fears are the sort of alarmist panic that the American media loves to trade in. I'd like to see statistics regarding violent crime reported by Asian and Pacific Islanders, rather than mostly anecdotal reporting or the dozen or so high profile attacks. I don't see this sort of breathless but shallow reporting as a conspiracy but just run of the mill bandwagoning.
You're trying to make the same argument as in the dissent, but the Court decision spent something like parts of 5 pages defining the word "so" and how this specific law applies to this kind of situation.

It's a win for civil liberties because how an employer writes their policies should not potentially open an individual up to federal criminal prosecution under the CFAA specifically.
Details of what happened are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397230.

Since people are asking "if all that is true, why does it still say [flagged]", I've turned off flags on the above post now.
can you use an EU adapter with an NA car? can you buy one off of eBay and import?
bad re-invite, this is what this one is about/being discussed already:

Google Replaces Millions of Intel's CPUs with Its Own Homegrown Chips

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390398
I'm not sure about why anyone would confess, but I'm fairly certain MS used to pull this sort of stuff, and not in that sophisticated a fashion - back in the days of Windows Phone 7 and then 8, there were people all over slashdot talking about how amazing the platform was and how the developer experience was just the best... before developer builds were available.

Maybe I was misreading it, but to me at the time it seemed like a flood of unreasonably positive people gushing about something they couldn't really have had any experience with.
It's not necessarily nonsense. In particular, "creativity". People can spark ideas in other people. I suspect that it happens more often in-person than on a group video chat. I would find it perfectly reasonable that Tim Cook thinks that, too - genuinely thinks it, not just spouting nonsense.

Now, that's "it's better for the company" rather than "it's better for you". But when that happens, it can feel pretty good. So in that sense, it can be better for employees too.
US paid Chinese People’s Liberation Army to engineer coronaviruses
This isn't US media. The whole world knows... Things are going to get ugly.
That's incorrect. If you read the full statute, it has to be unauthorized access combined with some sort of theft of data, or access of governmental records. It wouldn't apply to browsing public sites. The specific subsection that was applied to Can Buren lays out three cases. Unauthorized access plus obtaining:

(A)information contained in a financial record of a financial institution, or of a card issuer as defined in section 1602(n) [1] of title 15, or contained in a file of a consumer reporting agency on a consumer, as such terms are defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.);

(B)information from any department or agency of the United States; or

(C)information from any protected computer;
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I've struggled with my weight for most of my life, and the only thing that's ever worked for me was sending what I ate to a friend I respected. He wasn't always available, so I had the idea to create an app that could do what he was doing for me. Look at what I ate, and give me feedback on if I made a good choice or not.

Also I wanted to simplify the process. Screw calorie counting, and weight trends. If I eat healthy meals, my body changes in a good way. So I created a food logger, but with a machine learning model that determines wether your meal was HEALTHY or NOT HEALTHY.

Anyway it's in beta and I would love your feedback and thoughts. Hopefully it works for you like it's working for me. (FYI...the machine learning model is still a baby and learning, so if it gets it wrong, just hit disagree and the model will get better over time)

SUPER NUDGE - FOOD
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The still-incomplete database (it has several “dark” periods) reveals that from October 4, 1965, to August 15, 1973, the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed: 2,756,941 tons’ worth, dropped in 230,516 sorties on 113,716 sites.

US Air Force bombers like this B-52, shown releasing its payload over Vietnam, helped make Cambodia one of the most heavily bombed countries in history — perhaps the most heavily bombed.

To put 2,756,941 tons into perspective, the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all of World War II. Cambodia may be the most heavily bombed country in history.

https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodiabomb...
> Agreed, as far as I can see, it was a calculated risk that companies would abuse it

During the announcement of the first support package it was explicitly stated that due to the short time frame they had to operate in, they were taking this risk for the greater good. I believe that in the next support package they immediately made it a lot better w.r.t to abusing support.

Personally I really liked how upfront they were with it.
Bitcoin is not anonymous and should not be used for illegal purchases as it is trivial to trace. Use Monero if you care about privacy.
It's routine for threads discussing such things to make it to the front page and routine for them to get flagged. This is the cycle of life on HN. And rightly so: otherwise the front page would consist entirely of the sensational/hottest topics and flamewars.
You can’t vouch until the post is dead, meaning that a small number of people can put a post into flagged purgatory and no one can do anything about it until enough people holler for the mods
Interesting; I've never seen that. Seems unsafe to me.
Hey DanG - Looks like people think moon Nazis are more absurd than space aliens traveling across the universe to harass the US military. How about if the unknown advanced aircraft turn out to be Nazis, I get +3 karma for each downvote and I get to pick the site topcolor for a day? Time traveling Nazis (from past or future) and aliens that self-identify as Nazis would count.
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