skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is a good article.

I think it is way too long for presenting a simple concept of gate keeping.

What is adding to the damage is coming up with portmanteau "Poelitism" which makes me think that author tries to be forcibly clever.

Check out this:

Poelitism is when you believe everyone had the same path of experience you had when learning the same area of expertise.

Compare with:

Gate keeping is when you believe everyone had the same path of experience you had when learning the same area of expertise.

Well those kind of sentences, as cited below, are off-putting as it also seems like author is trying to be clever, while making x, y, z as broad statements it just makes it unclear. Would be a lot better if he would present specific example.

However, even if it's ultimately true that you have to learn "z" instead of "x", that's not a helpful statement. You can't distinguish if it's right or wrong from the merits of the argument alone.
> Games are sellable desktop software and they're doing just fine.

I don't know anyone who's bought a PC/Mac game from anywhere that isn't an App Store in the past 5 years. Steam is a juggernaut, and so is Microsoft for that matter.
It looks like the main reason why the first Ask HN story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 ) disappeared was because it was flagged.

But that's just the surface reason. The deeper reason is because of HN's design which seems to weight flags much more heavily than up votes. This means that a non-trivial minority can successfully drag a story off the homepage, even if a majority believes it is important and worthy of discussion, and even if the comments are actually constructive.

Unfortunately we are not able to see what the count of flags are, and I don't know the scoring algorithm to see what portion of minority is needed to make a story disappear, or if it is even greater than a fixed portion (i.e. whether flag count may have a greater than linear effect, compared to linear support from up votes).

I have heard the rationale of attempting to avoid flame wars and heated discussion of controversial topics, but I'm not sure that it's the only way or worth the price of making things important to most of the community disappear. So far, follow up submissions seem to still be on the home page, but as I write this comment, I can see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 already drop from the top position down to #6 and I wonder if it will disappear also.

I hope that HN may reconsider what options are available to keep discussion constructive and useful while still allowing important topics to be seen and discussed without being buried by a minority.

Edit - 2 additional notes a few minutes later:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 has now dropped more than halfway off the front page.

- Whoever downvoted this comment, please consider responding as well.
> I know many humans who have diets not far off from that.

The minute you add Tomatoes + Cheese (found in pizza), you're suddenly fixing a major vitamin A deficiency (that Hamburgers / Potatoes lack).

Like, at least round out the meal with other ultraprocessed foods if you want to prove something.

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What causes bone deficiency? Well, a lack of calcium (also found in cheese) and Vitamin D (needed to process calcium more efficiently), which potatoes also lack.

Pizza, Tacos, and Ice Cream would fix that, no joke, if I'm thinking about the "worst foods" that still hit those vitamins.
Clearly those are cut scenes from Resident Evil, the one that came out in February 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1703503427818
In Kubernetes you can also add NodeLocal DNSCache [1] as a DaemonSet that injects iptable rules to cache DNS locally to offload the in-cluster coredns.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/nodeloca...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034627
More specifically Mao than the entire CCP leadership. The cultural revolution was an attempted coup by Mao to regain power after he was sidelined by his disastrous economic policies. It also really colored the viewpoints of the post Mao CCP leadership on populist movements. Specifically, Deng who was in charge during 1989 probably saw echos of the same students that exiled him into the countryside and crippled his son now marching again in Tiananmen square.
> we've had this particular wheel for 50 years and its doing fine but hey let's reimagine it anyway

How is it doing fine? Apple is doing laps over Intel because -- it seems -- of their choice to use ARM. Would they have been able to design an x86/amd64 CPU just as good?
It means running on the hardware. bootloaders, kernels, hypervisors, dos apps, most embedded, grub invaders, efi/bios, are things which run on bare metal.

A process that runs inside an OS, is running inside an OS.

This is like when they redefined "literally" to literally mean figuratively. OK fine "language changes" but then now what word does the job that "literally" used to do? We had a word to express a concept, and now that word means the exact opposite of that concept, or worse, may still meam either one, making it meaningless and non-functional.
It wasn't that long ago that you'd buy a GPS unit for a few hundred dollars and updating the maps would be another $100+.
How would they effectively do that though without the cover of the US nuclear umbrella?
The big question is, within the next 5yrs how much charge will you be able to get in 10 minutes.
Yes, it is relevant, but I was replying to a statement which wasn't accurate.

We can have different opinions of what “results” mean, but the linked DDG FAQ piece is on their view of Results Sources and what that is.

Their results for “Tank Man” (and others) though, has the same shortcomings as Bing proper – so their reliance on Bing is absolutely a limiting factor for all to see.
That's no different to people keeping dogs as pets. They are exploiting pack behaviour, without really asking those animals.
> The Tank Man himself might be unaware of these photos. Images of the protest on the Internet have been censored in China. When students at the Beijing University, where all the protests started, were shown copies of the iconic photograph 16 years afterward, they “were genuinely mystified.” Some of them believed the images to be fake.
tldr: AMD is "fix the spec bugs". Intel is "replace with better approach". Linus: do both, please!
Well I would argue the monolithic look on apps is a to some degree a byproduct of testing. It makes sense that most apps' buttons, layouts, design patterns look the same and are considered "easiest" to use by A/B testing standards. You don't have to learn anything new to use those designs.
Its not surprising. Just might come into play in ways people have not thought about. Like there's been a lot chatter of a military coup online in the last year. Due to Covid, Riots, Election, and mostly China's growing power. If such a scenario were to pass. It will matter which side industry will take. For example, will truckers strike. Its something I did not think about. But having former military at top, makes me think industry will follow military. This is not totally hypothetical. Like even as recently as last week this topic has been on CNN.
Part of the data economy is this curious phenomenon: nicely styled web articles, where 99.9999% of the effort goes into producing the graphical artwork (often just for that article, not from a stock library!), and the text is just someone banging out some Reddit-comment-level crap for 5-10 minutes.

Imagine this in a plain document with no CSS:

<body>
<h2>Why We Should End the Data Economy</h2>
<p>The data economy depends on violating our
right to privacy on a massive scale,
collecting as much personal data as possible
for profit.</p>
<p>...</p>
...

Now it's just the rant of some loser who doesn't even know the first thing about making an attractive web page, and doesn't have any friends who are graphical designers or artists to help him or her sell the idea to the masses.
I think there is a difference between militant “Hongweibings” and a street lynching. One is ongoing and organized with tacit approval from the highest ranks, the other an ad-hoc mob phenomenon.
There will be people who will (probably unwittingly) turn this feature on in their HP preloaded Norton. These people will start to wonder why their PC is suddenly so slow and makes so much noise.

I wonder if organizations such as HP are going to get increased support calls because of this. The one time fee they get for installing Norton might suddenly not be worth it any more for them.
This confirms that, although not obvious when searching, Duck Duck Go is displaying image results from Bing.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&atb=v228-1&iar=images&iax...
You'd still need to keep something private like a PIN or private key.
That would seem to require the software industry to take responsibility.

The software industry is to responsibility roughly as surgeons are to checklists.
@dang I just read the guidelines and don’t see any mention of how to get your/a mods attention in posts unless you’re referring to “email hn@ycombinator.com”?

Is that the proper way?
I haven’t shopped at Walmart since I moved to Portland because there’s like 2 and they’re on the otherside of town. I frequently shopped at Walmart prior to that. And you’re wrong. I’ve never gone into any Walmart and only seen poor white people. It’s mostly poor everyone. Walmart’s are almost never put in rich areas because rich people don’t want poor people shopping in their areas.
>No one sane would ever want their relatives //

People close to you probably know all these things already. Even if you don't.

>No one sane is OK with corporations, governments, and other third parties being able to obtain and save this information either //

This is a popular view here. I don't think it's true of the population as whole.
Interesting. I don't pronounce either of those that way. I wonder what region of the country uses these pronunciations?
Hmm I don't work in this space too often, but wouldn't the maximum likelihood estimator of a oneshot example, saying telling it king => queen, hoping to learn male to female transitions... wouldn't that just be the simple linear transformation between the two embeddings?

I'm sure a few shot model can be a little more nuanced but I'm not sure I have any intuition about what that transformation looks like.
> Whether its Bitcoin/Ethereum/Gold/Silver or something else, a thriving financial system must be backed by something finite or an extremely controlled and low inflation rate. Thats not an opinion, thats a fact.

I think most people would be surprised to learn that the US financial system is "unsuccessful." It certainly sounds a lot like your unsubstantiated opinion.
I would argue the author is not really saying "old" is "bad", but instead that we have been piling more and more craft onto the old so it has now become a significant engineering exercise to work around the idiosyncrasies of the old system every time you want to do something else.

To use your wheel analogy. It's sort of like starting with the wheel of horse cart and adding bits and pieces to that same wheel to make it somehow work as the landing gear wheel for a jumbo jet. At some point it might be a good idea to simply design a new wheel.
In case anyone is wondering how McDonalds beef patties are made, they're minced from large whole cuts of meat and fat. At industrial scale for sure, though not quite so harrowing as parent's description.

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-went-to-a-mcdonalds-factor...
Up until very recently, a lot of this could be done by any of a number of innocuous looking apps with tracking toolkits installed. Sometimes knowingly, sometimes not.

Even now, the problem is that you want the data sometimes. Like maybe you use Life360 because it's handy for your family. Well, it knows how fast you drive (it likes to tell me my wife's top speed after she goes somewhere...). It has enough accelerometer access to decide if you've been in a wreck. It's a GPS app so of course it has pretty tight location information. And maybe you consent to all this, but hidden somewhere in the TOS it says Life360 may share this info with selected partner companies. Now it gets slurped up by big data warehouses.

Maybe you install a sleep tracking app. Now they know how well you sleep, and I would bet they could pretty accurately figure out if/when you're having sex. Depending on the device, they might even be able to guess whether or not it was solo.

Perhaps you don't like the limited options Apple has for pedometer data, so you install Pedometer++. Another possible avenue for data collection.

Or Instacart, Uber, Uber Eats, etc.

So. Much. Data.
That’s an almost sociopathic way of looking at society. Government is the organization that we, the people, have created to accomplish our common goals. If you think that government is just a big fat cow that needs to be fleeced, and that people who are doing just that are worthy of praise, then I consider you with the same esteem as someone who steals from their neighbors.
That's not quite accurate, but even if it were, there are easy ways to improve that bit of software if people start abusing it.

You're right that most such software tricks, especially anti-abuse measures, need to be secret in order to stay working.
What confused me about your comment is what you mean by 'striving.'

If our morals are competing, I take that as we are trying to win in the domain of morality, not that the domain of morality is a piece of the competition in the domain of global mind share
What does "undermines its corporate existence" mean? Why is the government of a country characterizing itself as a corporation?
Searching for "tank guy" without quotes gives you pictures of the tank man.
When I do a search on DuckDuckGo for "Tiananmen tank man" I do get a few image results of the famous photograph.
Yes. In particular, this note that calls that out explicitly is applicable:

> "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

Also note the Contact link in the footer.

(Also note that @dang doesn't do anything other than display the five glyphs @, d, a, n, and g.)
Thank You. Saves us all so much time. Next time we will just point to this post and say it is number [x] again .
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Interesting. Sounds like you have a good thing going. If you don't mind me asking, what makes the paid material stand out as compared to Kahn?
Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (Draft) [pdf]
Id agree all this means a bent cop got off on a technicality and the tabloid press get a free pass.
That's Europa, it's a moon.
Fries and soda is a vegan meal. Some vegans eat like crap and gain weight, suffer malnutrition, or both.
Good to see that few shot learning is now even easier using the widget. We have had good results with writing emails and reported about it in our blog: https://www.helm-nagel.com/open-sourced-gpt-Neo-writes-indiv...
I think Germany and France are good moral competitors, along with a good deal of Europe. Much better moral competitors than China for sure.
Not to be overlooked on this topic is this wonderful Tailscale blog entry:

https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux/

and corresponding HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821298

* disclaimer: I have no affiliation w/ Tailscale. I just wish I did.
The majority are happy to see that minor or even trivial access of things people aren't "supposed" to look at--even though they have access to systems--are no longer CFAA violations. The assumption is that if it isn't trivial they're probably violating some other law or at least doing something they'll be fired for.

That said, I have sympathy for the dissent as well which essentially argues that the majority is drawing an awful fine distinction here. i.e. so long as you're OK to access a system for some purpose, you're fine so far as the CFAA is concerned.
"The companies said they had not asked users for specific permission to read their Gmail messages, because the practice was covered by their user agreements."
https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1400906032176640004

A Microsoft spokesperson tells me that "accidental human error" is to blame for missing images of "tank man" on its Bing search results.

"We are actively working to resolve this."

The incident comes on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Society scares me more

Agreed. For example, it's unlikely a government agency is going to care about your personal web page talking about how you're open to theories about UFOs. But a potential employer may decide not to hire you because your mind is open to the possibility. Or worse, an employment screening company's "algorithm" will score you lower because of it.
Comparative Relevance of Physical Fitness and Adiposity on Life Expectancy
this thread had given bling my first click
But there are results for "tank man" tienanmen:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%2b%22tank+man%22+tiena...
> one of the core libraries it used was GPLv3 licensed

it's still untested in the real world if gplv3 "taints" derivative work that broadly.

Would they had to open source the entire solution? or just changes made to the library? nobody knows, and there's a lot of FUD to promote BSD licenses instead of sitting down and properly defining the limits in a practical way.
> then that person cannot be held criminally liable for anything they do with access to that system, even if the owner explicitly prohibits it.

They would not be criminally liable under CFAA, but they can absolutely be charged with other crimes in such a circumstance
Most rich people are white. Most elitist people are white. The people that want to shop at stores that have like people are white. I wasn’t being racist, but elitist and racism go hand in hand.
>How are you going to reverse an idea...

In this case, make mass data collection and targeted advertising illegal.

>... and what are you going to replace it with?

The model(s) we had before - generalized advertising based on who advertisers believe the broader audience that watches X show or views Y website is.
I believe the benefits of cryptocurrency outweigh problems.

I like having options that can be anonymous, don't require banks, immune to government influence, and even completely outside any law. Because laws are not always moral and should be ignored and evaded.

That's freedom. Having it is worth the significant amount of problems that come along with it.
In the spirit of the project I'm surprised you didn't pick "Red" because it's one fewer characters. :)
Aha, there really WAS something funny going on.

Of course, do not attribute to conspiracy that which can be attributed to a bug! ;-)
Compared to the English term search results {empty set}, that's nothing.
> After all, can't rule out astrology being true, either.

It can (and has) actually. Whenever astrology has been tested, it has failed to hold any predictive properties. As such, it can be ruled out. You know this, because if you didn't then you wouldn't have used astrology as an example.

> Do you think this merits credulous attention from "serious" news media?

"Merits" is a loaded term and I don't think either of us are qualified to know what that means, but I'll take a shot at it.

This was an officially requested report by government officials that was requested by congress and a sizable chunk of the public. The report was released. People are interested in what the report has to say. If the news is there to report on what people find interesting, it certainly has met that criteria.

Now, what differentiates this from something like "The Weekly World News"? I think mostly who requested and released the report. This wasn't just some quack on Joe Rogan or Twitter or something, this was the United States Military: the most powerful and most-funded military on the planet.

I really do not think this is hard to parse, but just to be clear, here's an example: If I broke my leg tomorrow, and CNN reported on it, I would think "jeez, must be a slow news day". If Joe Biden broke his leg tomorrow, it would not be weird at all for CNN to report on it.
> This is a popular view here. I don't think it's true of the population as whole.

I think you're right. They can get to the point where they care, but my intuition is that it'd take a real crisis, and even then there's plenty of incentive with this topic to move on as fast as possible. We (the public) are pretty fickle, and it's psychologically threatening to admit we've had a voyeur living in our bedroom for a decade.
"Biosecurity incidents" aren't the same thing as a global pandemic, though. We're being asked to believe that Wuhan was doing secret GoF research, and that they had a security incident, and that this escaped detection until spreading in the general population, and that no one involved so far has blabbed about it. Any of those in isolation would be pretty unlikely. In combination they really don't say much at all.

The one thing saving the conspiracists so far is the Journal story of two weeks ago that western intelligence agencies were aware of an outbreak of something among lab staff at more or less exactly the right moment to explain a covid origin. That's the one thing that's hard to explain as a coincidence.

And even then... meh. I give it even odds at best. Again, if this was really happening you don't think some enterprising PhD would have tried to leverage a tenure position at Stanford or something in exchange for testimony? The incentives to tell the world about this are huge.
五毛 or 5毛 - 5 _mao_ is half a yuan, so the equivalent of 50¢. “Fifty cent” is an Americanized translation.

Edit: the wiki page you linked has it in simplified and traditional characters.
Because it's a pain in the ass for us, their clients, to interface with their office software.

Note that this particular firm serves a ton of tech startups. I don't expect a firm that does, say, real estate financing hears many complaints from their clientele.
FYI there is another similar (and unflagged) story currently on the front-page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635
I don't consider the US 'the west', but if you want to pick favorites based on body count, I'd be willing to bet China still loses given the red army and the great famine that birthed it's current dictatorship.
They do quite often the find dumped guns etc search for magnet fishing videos on YouTube
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