skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it’s about calories then just say it. “High calorie foods are unhealthy” makes perfect sense. This vague “ultra processed” definition is confusing.
China is the adversary of the free world.
Cloud Init
I'm all for significantly limiting the "data economy", but I suspect too many people have become too used to getting free stuff. I see this all over the place - there are products and services that are quite expensive to build and provide, but they're free because people (often unwittingly) exchange data about themselves in place of the actual cost. If you still want those products/services without the data industry supporting it, someone will have to pay for them. I think lots of people opposed to the data economy will become less opposed when faced with actually paying for stuff it supports.

I learned this the hard way trying to sell something that competed with free tools from Facebook/Google/[other giant data monetizing companies]. Our tool was/is competitive, but we aren't in the business of data harvesting or advertising - so, the engineering cost (many years of effort) would have to be paid from actually selling the product. The response? People want the free ones, and could really care less how the engineers that built it were paid as long as THEY (the consumer of the tool) got it for free.

As long as the "someone else will pay for X so I can have it for free" attitude is acceptable and widespread, we're likely stuck with a pervasive and deep data economy.
If you search for tank man on DDG, the very first result is the Wikipedia article about said individual and the Tiananmen Square massacre. If they were intentionally trying to censor the search results, why would they only censor images?
> 1. The rat having informed consent about what this work entails (not possible, given a rat's limited ability to understand what land mines are)

You can totally enjoy something while being ignorant to aspects of the task

> 2. In good faith, the rat having been given many alternatives as to what it wishes to do, without coercion

You can enjoy doing a task, while still enjoying something else more.

Sounds to me like this rat had a pretty good time eating bananas.
Totally agree, I didn't say they shouldn't continue using them.
I wonder if Mozilla received state aid.
The world will reorganise after this for sure.
> I think it is written as 50美分派对

If you look closely at the Wikipedia article, you'd see that the text in the infobox is 五毛党 (五 wǔ 5, 毛 máo 0.1 piece, 党 dǎng political group [No relation to Daniel G]).

What you wrote is 50 美分 (měi fēn American cent) 派对 (pài duì fun get-together.)

I get Bing results for both, but the "American cent" ones are all about the rapper.
It probably needs less memory, since you only 8 bits to store blue but red needs 3.
My best friend and his wife are the best parents I've ever seen in practice, in many ways. Quality time, attention, simulating activities etc. They're both schoolteachers.

BUT! Their kids eat 3 meals for dinner: pizza, chicken nuggets with French fries, or easy Mac. For lunch they have pb&j, for breakfast eggs or cereal. Chips and candy for snacks. Throw in some applesauce you suck out of little pouches. That's it.

I'm pretty much appalled. The kids seem healthy, although I'm not an expert. But man, they're missing out on literally all the good stuff.

I hope they come around in a couple years. I haven't asked them their plan or anything.

I'm firmly in the camp of not cooking around kids unless they really hate one particular thing, or it's too spicy perhaps, or an allergy.
This is why they should be given something like a DDTL so they have to display a need for money but have assurance that the lending facility is available
Ongoing discussion of the original source (Jeff Widener's article), currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783
Paralellizing data processing is trivial, it's literally 2-5 more lines of code in many scenarios.

I've tried -- and failed -- to replicate what Elixir does in this regard, in several other programming languages. Age those tries incurred hundreds of coding lines. Only Rust came close, although it's a bit verbose, but the code still did the job.
No, there's a lot of PCisms that that can be removed and still allow for x86 cores. User code doesn't care about PC compat really anymore (see the PS4 Linux port for the specifics of a non PC x86 platform that runs regular x86 user code like Steam, albeit one arguably worse designed than the PC somehow). Cleaning up ring 0 in a way that ring 3 code can't tell the difference with a vaguely modern kernel could be a huge win.
Both are popular.
> slow half broken postgres

Don't bring Postgres into this. Its fast and closer to zero-broken than to half-broken. ;)
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.

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1400906032176640004?...
No it makes the data tamper proof. That's a different problem to making the source data reliable.

Tampering happens when your delivery service tries to cover up a freezer outage. Yes they could grab the sensors and throw them in another freezer but you can't solve every problem with one tool. At least they can't try to do anything to alter the history so it makes it harder. Much like I can enter a locked home, but the lock makes it harder. The alarm makes it harder again. But nothing is fool proof.
“Deleted” Nintendo floppy recovered 26 years later, full of Earthbound secrets
Safer in what sense ? What would be your take on government tolerance to the existence of such data ? Someone from the clandestine teams would always want to utilise it ? How well could the businesses resist.

Anti competitive behavior, I would think comes automatically with such massive centralisation. What's scary is the ability to mass incite riots, using knowledge of the most susceptible audience to fake news and pushing it out incendiary posts to exactly that audience. India has faced multiple such incidents already. Deliberate ? Maybe in the sense of affinity algorithms.

With the backdrop of the Stanford experiment, and a host of other biases giving almost tribal warrior behavior, should such affinity data be allowed for collection ?

My apologies if this sounds drastic, but data collection generates micro nukes, generated based on turning individuals into an array of microcrucibles.
Sure, there are very few (if any) 350lb vegans though. Vegetables (even processed and deep fried) are too light on calories.

The most redeeming ingredient in a burger, fries, and soda combo is the meat patty.
66 former government officials is a very small number.
If you post a story on HN with a list of historical atrocities attributable to the Roman Catholic Church or to Spanish colonialism, you can definitely expect a significant fraction of Latin American and Spanish people to take exception to it, and I've seen that happen on HN several times in the past. Recognizing and understanding that there are hot-button issues for particular political, national, and ethnic groups is not racism; it's a fundamental part of understanding human diversity, which is necessary in order to achieve peaceful coexistence.

Moreover, it is not necessary to claim that every member of a particular group belongs to a popular factions within that group to do this; it is sufficient to acknowledge a general tendency. For example, there are Latin Americans who are not Catholic, and there are Roman Catholics who deplore the Spanish Inquisition as fervently as any Anglican; nevertheless, if you go around denouncing the Spanish Inquisition as one of the worst things ever to have happened in history in front of a large number of Latin American people, a significant fraction of them are reliably going to object. On HN, they may flag your comment.

Me saying this is not the same as me calling you a "Papist".

What fraction of current Chinese-American immigrants grew up in China in families that were lifted out of poverty by Deng Xiaoping's economic policies? I'm guessing over 10%. How would you expect these people to react to demonization of Deng Xiaoping? Many of them will be offended, either because they regard Deng as a hero or because they see that demonization as being directly motivated by anti-Chinese racism, which in many cases it is: people do sometimes criticize the Chinese government because they hate Chinese people. In other cases, it's a more subtle form of racism, which doesn't directly consider Chinese people bad but considers their feelings unimportant.

And that racism is what I'm standing against, as consistently today as I have for years, as evidenced by my comment history linked above. I don't think a person either has to be racist or have to regard Deng or the CPC as above criticism in order to understand that many Chinese people will be offended by such criticism. Yes, including many Chinese-American people.

Withdraw your baseless attack and apologize.

Addendum: tptacek responded to this with a now-deleted comment saying something to the effect of "I apologize to any Chinese HN users who have to read comments like this."
And this “low quality seed oil” is bad…why? It seems to me that all of food science besides the basic “calories and macronutrients” that everyone knows is complete pseudoscience bullshit.
Not at all: while a rhetorical “who cares” is indeed an attempt to claim the entire discussion worthless, the actual question I explicitly called out, “who are the people who care and what are their motivations” is precisely not a conversation stopper.

And the reply (to which you reply) expanded the scope a bit, which was interesting.
I wrote a GB emulator, the main issue was debugging it. Subtlely wrong tends to lead to game crash very quickly.

The trick I used was to take an existing GB emulator, add a printf debugging statement to print out each current instruction and the registers. Add the same printf statements on mine. Then use diff on the outputs of both emulators.

It does play Pokemon. The emulator is called FireGB.
From here: 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."
Elixir-Node.js – call Node.js functions in Elixir
Google hasn’t built anything innovative in years now.
I think it also makes a convincing argument for bringing back on-site backups. If there are weekly/daily backups on local disks (tapes?) that are airgapped after backup, that would save exposing credentials to the cloud storage backups. Tape is dead, long live tape!
That sounds like ants reasoning "there's no reason for humans to mess with our ant hill. There's all that land right over there, and they won't have to fight us for it."

If the aliens are millions of years ahead of us, it's pretty optimistic to think they'll take us into account at all, unless maybe as a mildly interesting subject of nature documentaries.
>> What's disconcerting is how the lab leak was treated as a conspiracy theory

> And many scientists acting as if it were anathema to suggest a lab origin while conveniently keeping quiet on their own conflicts of interest.

Do you people not hear yourselves? You're alleging a conspiracy to suppress the discussion of the conspiracy discussion that has clearly not been suppressed. You guys have been screaming about it endlessly for going on a year now. We've heard you loud and clear, we just don't believe you.

It hasn't been covered by media sources, because it has little to no evidence. That's not "suppression", it's journalism.
Yes!

An i agree with GP: while they sometime talk about some junky theory (the one i spoke with the most is a retired geneticist agronomist - J.Mallard, who try to convince me that drosophila are somehow born either righty or lefty, and that their choices are caused by genetics), they utter the words "Maybe, i don't know, possibly, i do believe so, but don't take my words for it..." more than the average population. Disagree?
Both stealing from neighbors and taking advantage of the govt are very common acts and it's naive to think otherwise
The overwhelming amount of political speech that happens on FB is not driven by politicians, but is primarily media personalities

https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10

It cracks me up that the same people who top these lists day after day are also the ones that constantly claim to be silenced and/or oppressed. A grifters gotta grift, I guess.
you don't like to hear the truth, but that's ok
This is a good point and a good reason to prefer first-party apps!

No need to hide it, Life360 clearly states right near the top of its privacy policy "In order to keep our Service free for most users, we generate revenue through trusted data partnerships. We share device data, including location and movement data, with trusted data Partners for tailored advertising"
Let's say you have 5,000 to 10,000 accounts who semi-regularly post as "normal looking" accounts with other activity, how many of those have to downvote/flag a post to knock it out of front page? Not many I gather.
It's insane that we don't know this. Are we not studying this?
That class of research has a long history and metahistory, in particular around more virulent diseases like smallpox. I consider it a legitimate tool for important work.

And there was unambiguously a coverup in either case
> Yes, because in this "machine automated society" your supply chain is also coming from "automated" production and thus you have equivalent access to the same-priced goods as any competitor.

What makes you think that the little guy will have access to the same prices as a megacorp? Walmart is famously able to squeeze suppliers[1]
because it has superior bargaining power. I doubt a mom and pop shop can do the same. Even if we somehow assume that the prices for supplies is the same, there's still the matter of cost of production. Large companies can benefit from pooled resources (eg. being able to hire engineering teams to optimize processes), or vertically integrate (eg. like how apple with their home grown processors).

>Your reaction is only validation of my argument: you are actually arguing for some sort of inevitability of consolidation of the economy as if it is absolutely unavoidable. This is literally the same argument as Marx, disguised.

My "reaction" consists of a one sentence question. I'm not sure how anyone would think that's a validation of anything, other than you trying to be smug. As for the reference to marx: I fail to see how it's relevant. Are arguments by him automatically wrong?

>EDIT: you are also being profoundly intellectually dishonest when you do not acknowledge the plethora of existing SMBs that already compete against larger corporations (usually at local levels).

Please check your own arguments before calling others "profoundly intellectually dishonest". You're basically arguing that because some business/sectors haven't consolidated yet, that consolidation isn't happening. By that logic global warming isn't happening either because there's still snow in some places and that some places are even cooling.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKCN0SD0C...
This should also make the use of open wireless access points legally protected. It was always ridiculous that an AP could broadcast "come join me" incessantly but it was potentially infringing to actually join and use the advertised network.
Citation provided,
and this is just a tiny fraction of the censorship that was unleashed on this topic:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ends-ban-on-posts-asse...
Curious -- based on what? Compared to other cloud providers? Compared to the normal # of gov officials at Seattle-based tech companies like Microsoft? As a % of overall work force?
Corporate means acting as a single body in this context, it’s not about business corporations.
Yeah yeah, until you're asked what you've been up to the past week, and then the reaction is "why didn't you communicate this?". This "hierarchical politics" (not sure what else to call it), is people on the relative "top" having their cake and eating it too. They want people to take initiative but at the same time they wag the finger when you go off and do some tagnential work they didn't know about. Which one is it, you want transparency or you want initiative? These seem to be somwwhat in conflict, the more transparent you need to be, the less room there is to do anything new and creative.
> it has failed to hold any predictive properties

And so has the UFOs are aliens theory.

CNN isn't just reporting it, they're reporting it as credible. In fact, a "sizable chunk of the public" being interested in this is precisely because CNN (and some others) are reporting it as credible.

Welcome to CNN creating news, not just reporting it.
There are also no results for "tank man" in Apple's GIF/#images tool in iMessage. There is a GIF present in Messenger's GIF tool which uses Giphy/Tenor.

Edit: The same is true if you search "Tienamen"
I happen to think we'd be a better society if we all knew everything about each other.

You should set the example. Go ahead and post your e-mail address and password for us.
Is there some shibboleth I can say to convince you that I am evaluating these articles on the strength of their arguments, rather than their conformance to a preselected conclusion? Or is the assumption of bad faith simply my doom?
That is a distinction without a difference and a nonsensical one at that. I have money in my bank account and it goes to someone else’s bank account.

The same is true for Bitcoin anyway - you have to use exchanges to get money in/out and you are completely dependent on strangers to process your transactions, and they cost far more. Sure you can have your own wallet but it’s entirely useless until you interact with an exchange and the network.
>No one sane would ever want their relatives, friends, work colleagues, and neighbors to be able to know (quoting from the OP):

The things you mentioned are kind of how it was before the advent modern civilization. Before Facebook tracking it was old biddy tracking. Through gossip everyone knew pretty much everyone's business.

That said, there's not an immediately obvious connection between surveillance and our neighbors knowing things. I have 0 information about who my neighborhors are sleeping with based on their cell phone tracking.
I can't agree that it's unscientific at all. There's a huge difference between doing science and constantly pushing public discussion of your unsupported hypothesis.

Should there be people tracking the origin of the disease, how it got into the general population, and how to reduce similar incidents in the future? Yes, absolutely. That's doing science.

But what, exactly, is scientific about spreading your hypothesis across popular media for public discussion when the entirety of your evidence is "there's no concrete evidence to the contrary"? This isn't how science is done. It's how propaganda is done.

I am disturbed by the number of people here who fall for such propaganda so easily. Being a testable hypothesis does not make something intrinsically science. Actually doing science does. And science is not done by media talking heads selling you fear in order to increase their advertising income.
> longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or something like that.

This is the critical point. Today, users can "vouch" for [dead] stories, but can't vouch for [flagged] stories until they get flagged so much that they convert to [dead].

The other "Tank Man" story was flagged, but never quite dead, so users couldn't vouch for it; from users' perspective, it appeared to simply disappear.

Allowing users to vouch for the other story would have helped considerably.
I think he's suggesting something more like the 80376, an obscure embedded 386 that booted straight into protected mode. So you'd have an x86-64 CPU that boots straight into Long Mode and thus could remove stuff like real mode and virtual 8086 mode. AFAIK with UEFI it's the boot firmware that handles switching to 32/ 64 bit mode, not the OS loader or kernel, so it would be transparent to the OS and programs.

But in order to not break a lot of stuff on desktop Windows (and ancient unmaintained custom software on corprate servers) you'd still have to implement the "32 bit software on 64 bit OS" support. That probably means you don't actually simplfy the CPU much.

Of course some x86 extensions do get dropped occasionally, but only things like AMD 3DNow (I guess AMD market share meant few used it anyway) and that Intel transactional memory thing that was just broken.
>there's evidence they were made

Is there? Everyone is overlooking the possibility that these 'crafts' are the aliens. They need not even be intelligent. If something evolved to overcome gravitation it would make sense that it did so in an environment where this was necessary for survival. What we think of as advanced technology might, in the context of living near a black hole, simply be the equivalent of evolving a first primitive method of propulsion, like a fin.
There have already been CG stunts for multiple decades. You still have to match the lighting of the photography to integrate the CG even if you have something like this captured with flat texture maps.

The fidelity is also a big issue, flat textures and rough normals are not going to hold up to much scrutiny.
Those are both correct (“conventional” to descriptivists like me) uses of the respective terms.
Granting that, or even granting that the virus wasn't modified in the WIV (merely collected and then accidentally released) at all: we need to find the animal population that it supposedly jumped into people from -- and 18 months later we haven't.
>Angela Lansbury had me brainwashed decades ago

Bedknobs and Broomsticks got you too... ;-)
"And they can only build the aircraft they are certified to, using the same certified components, and the same certified tools."

And that level of rigor is appropriate for the stakes that selling mass produced commercial aircraft implies. The discussion context was critical systems. But then you threw "word processors" in there. Why?
Same for me. I also recently started eating mainly pasta or potatoes with some boiled or sautéed vegetables. Rarely any bread or other processed foods. Comparing to most other people I already had a very good diet before but now I am dropping some more pounds and my joints feel much better.

Seems we are really poisoning us with the typical diet of most people.
I am not surprised you are not finding useful results, because you are using a bizarre translation. The term used in Chinese is 五毛黨, literally "5 mao party" (1 mao = 10 fen = 10 cents).

美分 means "American fen", so it would only be used to refer to American cents.

派對 is a neologism that sounds like the English word "party" and it is only used in the context of having a social gathering.

If you search 五毛黨 you will find plenty of results.

Personally I think most of what foreigners think are 五毛黨 are actually 小粉紅, which means "little pink". This is the term used to describe young nationalists who take part in internet pile-ons, similar to online "activists" we have in the west. It might be that some of them are paid, but I suspect most of them are just doing it because they enjoy feeling like they are part of an in-group.
nlp is difficult, do you think his tweets could have a direct impact on short term power consumption patterns?
I can't believe this has been around since 2018 and this is the first I've heard of it. I can think of a bunch of events over the past year where this would have been awesome to use. Shame that the marketing hasn't been better.
Steven Sinofsky on Twitter launching subscriptions
Seriously. Something like 5 million people work for the USG.
And then there's https://www.openstreetmap.org which is arguably better than both.