skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many, many errors in the published mathematical literature, and the older you get, the more of them you see. What I find even more amusing is when people don't withdraw their papers after you convince them their paper is fundamentally wrong, and they agree the argument can't be salvaged. I used to think of mathematical arguments that I couldn't follow as being "advanced" and written by "elite" people. I now consider them "heuristic" or worse still, "the spam of confused minds".

At the top of various fields, you basically have a bunch of experts writing for each other, using heuristic arguments, and writing only to a level that will convince one another that the result is "probably true". Important results of great public interest are picked to pieces. But this is not true of less prominent work (of which the majority of the literature consists), probably each paper is read an average of 0.6 times, including by the authors and referees.
Thanks, glad you got something out of the comment.

You have a point that, ironically, the success of Licklider's vision may have changed the nature of collaboration for the worse in some ways. It's been a huge net positive, in that humanity as a whole is more productive, but there are things that have been lost.

(Or maybe another way to look at it is that Licklider/Engelbart's vision has been watered down, and you could solve these communication problems with better software design.)

Another example I recall is that Rob Pike said that Bell Labs was a wonderful environment because everyone had to physically sit in the same room, huddled around big shared computers. There is a natural exchange of ideas in that environment, which leads to big research breakthroughs. When Ethernet and personal workstations came around, suddenly you could sit at your desk and close the door and put your headphones on.

I personally noticed that irony at my own job. Often people would be talking more to people in a remote office than the person sitting next to them. And sometimes people would chat electronically with someone in their own office -- e.g. if they didn't want to take off your headphones or disturb other officemates!

I also wonder what a new model for funding basic research looks like. It seems like YCombinator would be a logical entity to fund such research, but as far as I can tell, it was a failed experiment.

And I think there is some danger in longing for the "golden age". I was reminded in reading the "Dream Machine" that a lot of it was driven by fear of the Soviets (Sputnik, etc.). And I also wonder if what made it work back then is no longer present, for better or worse.
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What is wrong with that (empirical) approach?
Peer-reviewed science is targeted at other scientists. Journalism is targeted at the general public, who (accepting the premise of the GP) don't care.
That turns out to be a fairly rare and extreme step, taken either for ideological reasons (like Depardieu) or because they're actually foreigners who have minimal ties to the country otherwise (like Saverin, who you mentioned - he was born in Brazil, and was living in Singapore for years before renouncing his US citizenship). Generally people with that much money won't give up their homeland to save on their tax bill.
all anti-cheat is fundamentally cat an mouse, when you can control the kernel (applies to both linux and windows) you can lie about anything anticheat tries to detect.

There is no bulletproof solutions.
If you have line of site to your sisters house, there are relatively inexpensive technical solution. However to do it leagally, there maybe signifiant municipal regulations that need to be mitigated. Also, most residential broad band contract prohibit sharing of service in that way. You may need to create your own isp. Not impossible but maybe not worth the headache.

Do your parents have cell phone coverage? If so, that might be simpler.
I've thought about using whitespace and/or zero-width characters to embed a cryptographic signature. The goal was a was a browser extension that could sign the contents of an arbitrary <textarea> like an invisible "gpg --clearsign". The signature rules would have to be relaxed to accommodate common transformations servers do to user comments.

Ideally, this would allow people to cryptographically sign comments and automatically verify comments that were signed by the same author, all without changing existing server software or adding ugly "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----" banners.
Not that much harder to implement. You could automate that too with some basic text substitution. Eg replacing various instances of "and" with ampasand or plus sign. You could also vary joined words like "without" / "with out", and alternative between
the types of quotation marks used (as there are several in unicode).

And this is without breaking into more intelligent heuristics where you swap out synonyms ("more intelligent" because you'd need to be careful not to alter passages that need to be kept verbatim, like quoted text or where a synonym might alter the context of the sentence.but with a little care I think that is achievable as well)
Firefox is much slower than Chrome on Android, at least on my (reasonably powerful) Qualcomm 625
Words ought not be judged solely on their truthiness independent of their person. Evaluating someone's argument is costly, which is why some technical communities might consider the reputation of the author before embarking on the serious task of understanding a complex theory.

HN does offer higher-than-usual quality of discussion, but its ability to discuss is still palpably limited. In this light, waiting for the right starting point of discussion can be productive. A lot of debates are tiresome because they seem to start back from ground 0, and it can wear down community enthusiasm for the subject.
Ouch I did not know Valve had sunk so low... String matching parts of a local username alone can not ever be enough for a ban... Completely ridiculous
Guess: it is not directly related to RowHammer/DRAM, and is purely a CPU issue. Maybe PageFault timing info leaks or cache timing, like this pwnie award winner:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~giuffrida/papers/anc-ndss-2017.pdf

If this last one can defeat ASLR, imagine leaking bit by bit from a co-hosted VM, to extract secrets of other cloud customers… This is the reason anyone serious about cloud security will reserve instances so that they won't share physical hardware with other customers (think EC2 dedicated instances).
Rod Johnson's 2013 predictions about “Scala in 2018” [pdf]
Reminds me of the thesis in James Scott's Seeing Like A State. This is where the effort to make things legible (easier to count, to measure) lead to standardizations which on turn shaped policies. For example, old growth forests were strategic assets (masts for wind-powered warships). To make then easier to count, trees were replanted in neat rows (which had the unintended sideeffects of losing eco diversity for a healthy forest).

Big Data and AIs are an extension of that idea. And while the machine learning doesn't require as rigid of a classification scheme, resulta will still be understood through the lens of what can be made legibile. For example, classifying cars to estimate socioeconomic status assumes that most people within the population owns and drives cars.
Silos of Subjectivity: a dilemma of availability on the p2p web
You might be interested in reading my update:

https://www.zachaysan.com/writing/2018-01-01-fingerprinting-...

Humans make fixes that are hard to codify in programming. I know it isn't perfect, but with my audience in mind (journalists) I thought it was probably safer than something automatic.
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>The UC Browser app takes up 31 megabytes of space, compared with Chrome’s 125 megabytes

Given that bundling Chrome is a requirement if you want to ship a mobile phone with the Play Store, this is a moot point
When you renounce your citizenship, you don't get a green card - you become a foreigner, with no right to live and work in the country. Depending on your new citizenship, you may have the right to visit visa-free, but that's it.
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No. Brokers don't ever carry the risk. So there is no risk for them to reinsure.
You're right but some statistics analysis on the gameplay by players would do a lot more to reveal bots than analyzing usernames, especially once the bots start using random diceware names
Definitely too early to draw conclusions.

Preschool the US is pretty expensive, about $500 a month. It would seem if you could pay for preschool with $22 a month, then the purchasing power is quite substantial.

I believe that this is not a replacement for existing income streams but a supplement that puts these recipients above subsistence.

This is very much a handout however.
Oh this isn't Chamath speaking this time? (I will admit I only scanned the article for his name which does appear) My bad!
Computational chemist here. The phys.org article is a pretty bad rendering of the original paper. The "theoretical interpretation" described in the headline is nothing new. The actual scientific advance described in the paper is an experimental (not theoretical) technique for measuring transition states of molecules, involving making them very cold so the transition states last longer. This lets us verify some quantum mechanics predictions, but we already had a lot of verification. Calculating small-molecule reaction paths via quantum mechanics has been a standard part of theoretical chemistry for decades. We can do it at a very high level of accuracy using millions of CPU hours, or at a passable level of accuracy using thousands of CPU hours.

Big molecules are still a challenge because the scaling of the accurate methods is very bad (N^4 or worse, where N is the number of electrons!). These calculations are something that quantum computers could theoretically do much better than classical ones.
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That reminds me of Everquest and "cock".

Their chat filters did not allow the string "cock" in chat...and then they put a bunch of nasty cockatrices in the Dreadlands and in the Overthere, along with quests that asked you to seek out their eggs, feathers, and beaks, thus giving you a reason to use the string "cock" when talking with others.
I'm not exactly fine with it, but my understanding[0] is that it did a local check and only send the "bad" domains remotely. Still a privacy leak, but in a different class as bulk-uploading your entire DNS record.

[0] Per https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...
Don't anonymous sources need to be confirmed independently? Otherwise it's just somebody making a claim.
Just peruse any upper level undergraduate math text. Flip to any proof and you’ll find “it follows naturally that...”

The bane of my existence as a math undergrad.
Interesting. Have you found a difference in your sleep patterns since getting the treatment? One anecdote I've heard is that people on the spectrum have difficulty entering REM sleep[1]. Since REM sleep is partially initiated by eye movement, it makes sense that forehead and sinus shape could impact it.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
Like China does?
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So the article makes you want to address totally different stacks for totally different needs and assume they only used multiple microservices because they are idiots?
I would like to introduce you to the world of computer generated content and commentary:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
I found pdb to be useful when I wrote my own code from scratch. I found it useless when using a large app on top of Django. Oh really? I have a lot of dicts and tuples? Who knew. I would rather see something like a count of object allocated but not released at the end of each request cycle and their reference graph. Because when I have found memory leaks it has had to do with some kind of cyclic dependencies or creating objects that some kind of long lived object like a database adapter wanted to hold onto.
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but I don’t see how this makes sense. UBI is the lower limit, not the upper limit.
>"Why is it not ok for tech companies to be big, but a-ok for telecom, oil, banks, law firms, audit firms, and all the other traditional companies to be huge?"

It's not OK for for telecom, oil and banks. I don't hear anybody saying that nor do I believe it is a popular opinion.

>"Ever since Trump took power, the media has been beating the "evil tech company" drums loudly and clearly."

You realize there's a tangent between the Trump election and how social media was used during the election right?
>Foundations and other aspects of the private sector are capable of doing this on a larger scale than we realize

Exactly. And more specifically, if Silicon Valley were to identify this as a problem to solve with its brains, money, and technology, then the problem might be solved much sooner, more easily, and more efficiently as compared to waiting for a politically correct solution from a government.

One experiment for basic income that has not been tried: create a new cryptocurrency that makes UBI distributions to all wallets. The question created by such a cryptocurrency is whether the issues created by making such distributions (such as preventing people from making an infinite number of wallets) have practical technological solutions.

If there are technological solutions to the problems inherent in a UBI cryptocurrency, then the idea should be implementable by either a cryptocurrency or a government (if a government ever got around to it). Furthermore, if there are not solutions to the problems inherent in a UBI cryptocurrency, then that could help convince UBI supporters that 1) UBI might not be a good solution and 2) a solution other than UBI needs be identified.
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You don't need to present every little detail in the paper, but it very quickly becomes obvious what is missing.

This distinction was very obvious when I did the literature survey for my MSc. - the papers with even partial code fragments were uniformly less likely to miss out essential information.
Depends on the exploit, but all exploits can be mitigated by stopping your use of the exploited product. That is what companies don't want to happen so they would prefer to sacrifice their users' security and wait until they have a fix before the exploit is disclosed.
I just don't see Alexa making huge inroads for shipping. It will be/is great for recurring purchases of stuff you already buy on Amazon, but people were already going directly to Amazon for that.

But using a voice system to buy new stuff just isn't a good experience. It's like the old days of catalog shopping with a phone except there's no catalog.

People need to pull up and see, look at reviews, watch YouTube review videos. Audio only just doesn't do that and is a step backwards.

I don't even use Alexa for reorders because I want to make sure I'm still getting a good deal everytime I order. And for those that don't care about the deal, they can just setup subscription purchasing.
Firefox does the same thing
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All the companies that crawled away tails between their legs having handed their IP or at least business model over to a local partner say otherwise.
I got around 10% of our Xen instances scheduled for reboot on Jan 4th, mostly long running instances. It's the first time I've seen that many instances scheduled at once.
It doesn't have to be, but the way it's used in CS papers often is hand wavy, in that important details are often glossed over or left entirely out.
Yeah! The rise of addictive, short-term reward technologies seems deeply tied to the fact that Silicon Valley companies make money based on showing growth numbers to investors.

Business models shape the space of architectures that companies are incentivized and disincentivized to make. For people that don't like the current landscape of addictive free technologies, I'd say Silicon Valley has a business model problem, not a technology problem.
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I'm a member of several 'weird' communities on discord. It feels like the old internet I loved of irc + forums, with voice and video chat bringing it into my modern times
> Also, I don't even think anyone has broken
> even yet. ITER is supposed to, but we'll
> see.

Yeah, no one has managed to harness more energy out of a plasma than put in to make it yet, but technically if it’s doing fusion at all, there’s more energy created though with current technology most of it just goes out into the universe as entropy that’s not harnessed.

Unless of course, as other posters mentioned, you consider the energy as present in the matter in the first place, which is a reasonable way to model it too.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Understanding the problem > any abstraction you pick without understanding the problem first. In this case chess was a terrible choice for an interview. In chess the biggest issue is tree size. If you don't start there then no abstraction will ever save you.
I’m expecting drone-hunting drones. Flying around with tiny shotguns or maybe catch nets.
I've stood in a three hour TSA line at O'Hare and had this thought about half way through. Rather uncomfortable.
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The reality is that there's a group you're excluding from consideration and I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude that embargoes keeps every random "hacker" from taking advantage of it in a packaged form. Being vulnerable to the minority population that can and would take advantage of it vs. anyone that would is a valid consideration and shouldn't be dismissed so casually.
Is Rust ready for scientific computing?

I understand that given you are listing Rust alongside Solidity, your interest might be in cryptocurrencies, but I still thought this might be worth to ask.

I'm very experienced in C++98, less so in C++11 and successors as I spent most of my time on other languages this decade (OCaml, Scala and R). C++11 is much more modern and appealing, so I'm wondering whether I should update my C++ skills, learn Julia, learn Rust, or a combination of those.
> When exactly is this new GC behavior useful? When forking processes?

When forking a process and performing lots of allocations in the parent process (e.g. lots of imports & objects creation before forking) and doing so on a CoW-forking OS (but I'm guessing that's most modern POSIX systems).
He does not claim at what you say at all.

I'll try to summarize his position on IQ without doing him a disservice.

* IQ is highly correlated to intelligence (what is called technically g). Highly enough that you can use it as a measure of general intelligence.
* IQ is the only test we have that accurately measures intelligence and that is not a self-report test.
* IQ has been shown to be the highest predictor for success in life. Highest does not mean only. In fact, its correlation is .35. Conscientiousness is the second best predictor, but amounts to half of IQ.
* There is no way to raise IQ, which is genetically determined. But there are many ways to lower it.

It also very important to consider that a) he made a lot of highly cited research on the topic, b) he is very knowledgeable on the literature and c) he says many times that the results of these studies are disheartening and nobody likes them (him included).

He never implied, for example, that there is an inverse relationship between IQ and crime, quite the opposite. IQ is related to the Opennes personality trait.

Crime is caused by low Agreableness, which is another personality trait. He also cites often the work of Martin Daly, which studied how crime is correlated to a too steep inequality, where the social ladder is too hard to climb, which makes people turn to crime as the only alternative.

So I don't know where you got that idea.
That's really sad, because Firefox on Android is actually really great and the fact that you can run addons (e.g. uBlock Origin) makes it even better.

In years past Firefox would occasionally crash on me, but I'm not sure it's ever even done that on my current phone, which is closing in on 9 months old. I'm not exactly treating it kindly either, I currently have 93 "tabs" open and though it doesn't keep those in memory it does recall page position even if it has to reload the original source when I go back (based on it putting me at the same point on the page for a week-old HN thread I was skimming through).

There are some addons I'd recommend bypassing on mobile though just for UI reasons - uMatrix, any of the Vim keybinding options, stuff like that. Also, unfortunately the Invert Colors addon doesn't work on Android because of a missing API.
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No "script kiddies" can write exploit code for something on this level.

This guy is not releasing an exploit implementation, he is just pointing to the existence of a potential exploit that has a patch in development. He can't even figure out exactly what it is.

The only people who would be able to code this exploit would be the ones who already figured it out before this guy.
128 fresh drilled-but-uncompleted wells in a month seems impressive (they show 94 as the change, but are subtracting 34 that were completed). Drilling roughly four a day.
Bon Appetit's It's Alive is pretty humorous and well-edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng2zOFADe0s&list=PLKtIunYVkv...

I'm a big fan of Kenji Alt Lopez's cooking videos, especially the POV ones:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt/videos
The person/people on the Linux browser are hilarious. Half the time when someone launches a new site and shows it to hn, they chime in complaining it doesn't work on lynx.

The first few times I saw it, I thought they must have been joking or trolling.

I don't even have time and budget to make my site work well on older versions of IE. It would be insanity to optimize for the 12 people that use lynx.
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I have a 2015 moto g with lineageOS Nougat and don't see any issues with chrome or firefox (I use firefox on android as my default)