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> These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually discovered, clearly enough that someone else can discover it for themselves.

This is the crux of the of the problem IMHO - at least for the fields I study (AI/ML). Replicating the results in papers I read, is way harder than it needs be, i.e. for these fields it should just be fire up a jupyter notebook and download the actual dataset they used (much harder than it seems to actually get your hands on). Very few papers actually contain links to all of this in a final polished manner so that it's #1 understandable and #2 repeatable.

Honestly, I'd much rather have your actual code and data that you used to get your results than read through the research paper if I had to choose (assuming the paper is not pure theory) - but instead there is a disproportionate focus on paper quality over "project quality" at least IMHO.

I don't really know what the solution is since apparently most academics have been perfectly fine with the status quo. I feel like we could build a much better system if we redefined our goals, since I don't think the current system is optimal for disseminating knowledge or finding and fixing mistakes in research or even generally working in a fast iterative process.
It will come with both (Intel and their own), which is why it's 2019.

That's the only reason I can think of
Swipes like this break the site guidelines, including these important ones:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Would you please (re-)read
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this here?
You didn't read very carefully then.
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Heh, what a day on Hacker News. I read comments about bidets, where people go into intimate detail about how they poop -- and now comments about diapers, where parents go into intimate detail about how their babies poop and pee. :)
In our solar system, the small planets are closest to the sun.

Jupiter, with 72% of all planetary mass, is more than twice as heavy as all other planets, combined.

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune take most of the remaining 28% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_b...)

(Of course, there also is way more volume that far away)
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Unique among religions and civilizations, Judaism mandated universal education though 6th grade for all males for reading, writing, "bible" and math 2000 years ago as the Romans were destroying The Jewish (animal sacrificial) Temple.

Some of those students went to yeshivas (religious schools) afterwards studying Talmud [1] (a written rendition of The Oral Law by tradition given to Moses by God along with the five books of Moses). A very high priority "law" (mitzvah) in Judaism is that Jewish males are supposed to spend at least a little time each day learning Talmud.

The Talmud is focused not so much on content but on process, on learning Jewish tradition and law though arguments among rabbis testing edge conditions (e.g., an object found overlapping both public and private property). In modern day, yeshiva students have taken the LSAT exam and have gone directly to law school without attending undergraduate education.

I believe the unique early emphasis on education, "The Law" (Torah), and lifelong learning among males helped to hold the community together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
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Why would you just downvote this without posting your disagreement. This looks like an attempt to censor anyone who's not thrilled with the Modi government. I didn't know HN also had armies of Sanghies.
> I'd rather have a box in my house, but the need for the connection to not suck means I can't

I agree with you to some extent, but I also think it's far more feasible than most people realize. I run a bunch of services (mail, website, repos, etc...) out of my house, and it's super rare that I have any problems with it. I know it wouldn't work for everyone, I'm just lucky enough to live in a city that has decent internet, but I think it is entirely doable for a lot more people than we realize.
Vulns happen. It doesn't me we should just go back to sending private info in plaintext on the internet. I don't seen why user-empowered secure boot is fruitless... especially when it's to protect the user not the vendor.
Even if they were fast enough you would still want to launch those chips on less performance critical machines first and give the pro apps plenty of time to update before migrating the pro hardware.

Usually consumer software moves faster to adopt new tech stacks anyway. OS X supported x86-64 in v10.5 in 2007, but Photoshop didn’t go 64-bit on Mac until 2010 with CS5.

My best guess is that it’s because big pro applications have a mess of dependencies and some inner guts in the high performance code where it drops to assembly. Building that for alternate architectures isn’t as simple as checking a box in Xcode.
There are academics interested in building journals on top of the arXiv. It's an idea that's been kicking around for a while. In math, Tim Gowers is one of the people who has been pushing for something like this.

If your background is in not-academia, you may well be forgiven for looking at the scene and seeing no progress. However, academia is more slow-moving and conservative in some aspects than other places. This is not a bad thing; not everyone has to move fast and break things. But at academia's normal pace, things are going pretty fast.
I doubt you will convince Elsevier and the publishing giants

Who says we need to convince them? How about we leave them behind? They are rentiers, gatekeeping society's access to publicly funded scientific knowledge. I can't think of a reason why society should allow this hostage situation to continue.
I highly recommend Rana Faroohar's book 'makers and takers' to add some perspective to this insanity...
https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Takers-Finance-American-Busine...
This is essentially what MS did with .NET and assemblies: they made it pretty difficult to install assemblies in the global assembly cache (GAC), and encouraged application developers to simply distribute/load application-specific assemblies in application-specific directories (\Program Files tree). This was all done with the prior experience gained from the system-wide DLL versioning issues that were finally resolved in (I believe) XP/2003.
It’s definitely is an option with debit cards in the US. Just not for the banks you use. My bank and credit union both do it.
What are you using for just 1.9%? No flat fee on top of that?
I worked for a US company that gave you an accrual of one sick day every month, with a maximum accrual of 120 days on the books.

Sick days could be "verified" by presenting a doctor's note when you come back to work, or unverified, although you could only take up to five unverified sick days per calendar year.

If you should use no sick days in a given calendar year, regardless of doctor's note or not, you would earn an additional vacation day for use in the following year.

This set up a perverse incentive -- suppose you get sick, use some sick days, and bring back a doctor's note with you for it. You've lost your free vacation day for the next year, and you still have 5 allowable "unverified" days. You may as well now just "call in sick" on a few Fridays here and there to fill out your unverified sick day allowance, and give yourself some three day weekends.
https://www.red-lang.org/2018/01/red-here-we-go.html shows the complete breakdown of token distribution, and is where the data is pulled from in the above script demo.

In a very real sense, we can't think of "money raised" in terms of a country's legal tender (what cryptos call 'fiat currency'). Remember, cryptocurrencies have no jurisdiction. You can see how much ETH was raised, but what that really tells you, we hope, is how much investment interest there was, based on the technology backing the project.
They're not doing on-the-spot signature analysis. You're just harming your own chances of getting a dispute resolved in your favor if you ever need to make one.

When you have a documented history of legit signatures on file, signature difference is one of the factors that get considered in the event you file a dispute.
Another similar tool (FOSS, source is on GitHub somewhere): https://jsonblob.com/

It also has the added advantage of a JSON editor with tree view.
The root problem (as described by Taleb in "Skin In The Game", is: not all statistical probabilities are "ergodic" -- have no risk of Ruin or Extinction.

The problem with saying that "our automatic driving system is much better than the average driver" and thus you should be good with allowing our system to drive, is that you are not exposed -- serially -- to the whims of some average driver. One "average driver" mistake and you're dead. No replays.

Therefore, the compound "odds" are INCOMPUTABLE. Just like being paid $1,000,000 per trigger-pull to play Russian Roulette: you are not earning an average of $833,333.33 per try! On "average", over a pool of random 1-time players, sure. But you? You're guaranteed to be dead in a small number of plays. Non-ergodic and ergodic probabilities are incomparable.

So; since automatic driving systems are non-ergodic, they must be dramatically better (ie. orders of magnitude better) than the "average driver" to be considered viable.

I live in a part of the world where even cruise control is unusable for 6 months of the year. Automatic driving systems? Not even thinkable, except for perhaps a few days of the year, on a few simple portions of a few roads...
At first then it talks about Wolfram's idiosyncracies - it is quite a rambling article, though there is a long bit about IPython/Jupyter.
IIRC the CPU is a standard socketed desktop Xeon too and can be upgraded if one were so inclined.
How well? Better than 10 days/yr metered PTO. Not as good as 20-25 days/yr metered.

I probably average 15-20 days/yr, with some guilt after the first 10 - which I wouldn't have if more PTO were explicitly allocated; but my boss seems fine with the amount I take.

Reference: small to medium companies in the US.
So patch can read email?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawinski%27s_Law
What distribution?

(I don't think I've ever used a system that didn't have ed installed by default.)
Yeah, that may be part of it. It's not really rational but I don't especially like someone waiting for me to enter a tip amount into a keypad. I imagine others feel similarly. The US isn't unique in having tips but in the UK, for example, they tend to put 10% onto the bill automatically.

ADDED: And you needed new devices but not mobile systems to bring to the table.
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> We need GitHub for science

http://www.gitxiv.com/page/about

> It needs to be combined with a mechanism for peer-review and publishing...

Maybe an "interpretation" mechanism, similar to the Distill[1] project is doing, can serve two purposes at once: review and digestion.

https://distill.pub/
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The real pain is from people that don't know better when saying a URL out loud. "domain.com/page" gets incorrectly spoken as "domain dot com backslash page"

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/727/
Perhaps this additional plant growth is the key to the growth of the seasonal "rise and fall" of carbon dioxide since 1958. (see http://carbondoomsday.com/)

i.e. in 1962 the seasonal cycle up-down was roughly 6 parts per million. By 2017 it is 40% bigger, 10 parts per million.

Full article from Nature:
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3...

If plants sucked up more of it we would be all set -- though carbon dioxide keeps rising in the atmosphere for now :O
> Did you read the article before writing this presumptive and judgmental comment?

Yes, I read it, but I was talking generally, and not passing judgement on this specific case... but since you mention it, this mother chose to have her child - it's her responsibility to ensure that she has the financial means to provide for it.

> The article notes that the average diaper is $0.25, so your 360 would cost $90 on average

So... don't buy the average-priced nappies - buy cheaper ones, such as those that one of the parent posters mentioned (the 360 for $30). Or (especially if she isn't working) , cloth nappies are a cheap option too.

> assuming she only needs 6 diapers per day, which sounds like a low estimate

I've got kids. 6 nappies a day is actually a high estimate. They need 6-8 for the first few weeks, sure, but then it goes down. My 1 year old needs 2-4 nappies a day.

> When her partner got a job, she was disqualified for the assistance—he had to work 18 hours a month just to make up the aid they no longer received. She struggled to find a job herself but ultimately got one.

> The article is about the plight of a mother who faced adversity in providing for her son, but persevered the best she could. I defy you to justify your claim that her priorities were wrong, or that she was unfit to be a parent.

As I explained, I was talking generally, not about this specific case. I do feel for this woman - it sounds like a really shitty situation (no pun intended!). Also, the benefits system (just as in the UK) can sometimes hurt, such as when her partner got a job. Also shitty.

> Perhaps the only disqualifying attribute for parenthood is the utter lack of empathy for another human being.

I don't lack empathy; I just don't like parents that don't prioritise their kids, and those that make the conscious decision to bring children into the world without thinking of whether they can actually provide for them, emotionally and financially - oh, and apologists for them.
Well, 7 hours are also some amount of minutes.
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I'm not sure which podcast that was. Currently content is served by others that have viewed that content, but new content gets pushed to a few configurable nodes to store that content before anybody has viewed it. This allows vendors to make changes and shutdown the software immediately instead of needing to wait until somebody has viewed their change.
Disk space might be a lot cheaper but RAM is still expensive. If you have a dozen apps running that are statically linked to libc then you have dozen copies of libc in memory. If you have a dozen apps that are dynamically linked to libc, they all get a single copy-on-write version of the same libc. This results in the library code getting shared while library data gets copied.
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> It's literally a bunch of 'value add' features maybe you'll use for a 0.4% increase in fees you didn't ask for.

Except that's not how it works.
Maybe look a bit closer? I slog through "average clickbait" for hours a day in the hope of sparing this community of it, and can assure you that is far from the case.
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So that's what I should've done while I was there so we could've gotten a legit database to handle our yield curves processing! We were expected to do everything in Excel, and if we were lucky, MS Access :|
I just went through the process of making a reliable and portable PCH build process, and it's a lot of code to get right, because clang, gcc, and cl.exe all have quite different models for how a pch should work.

cl.exe in particular has an insane set of requirements:
- you can't compile the pch by itself, you have to have a cpp that #include's it and compile that;
- then you have to link the resulting .obj file into the final binary;
- if you use /Zi and you compile different versions of the pch for different headers, you have to have exactly one separate .pdb file for each compiled version of the pch;
- if you have more, it will complain that some (pch, cpp) tuple do not share a .pdb;
- if you have less, it will stochastically fail to open the global pdb file (because the pch writing process expects not to have contention for the pdb, even though it's using mspdbsrv and /FS for contention)
Been there. Usually before I pull out the debugger on some third-party piece of trash product from the 90s (now owned and neglected by MS) I've come up with a way to work around the problem in 15 lines of powershell and a scheduled task. It ain't pretty, and not knowing what's wrong will eat at me, but it is preferable to wasting my life on problems that I don't really want to solve that badly.
I’m a web dev and looked at federal jobs that required a citizenship at minimum and at max a clearance with polygraphs.

Nothing in my line of work comes close to ITAR, just business process automation. I’ll put money anything with AI and DOD in the job description will require polygraphs, background interviews, citizenship etc.
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From around the same period and close by in Northern Italy is the Voynich manuscript. Written in an unknown writing system which has yet to be deciphered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
Will they enable workflows, or will they control workflows? That's what I'm asking myself, especially in the light of ditching Intel one year later. Controlling workflows would mean an iOS on steroids, or an appliance for pros. Yeah you could get certain stuff done faster if you follow best practices, but you might run into invisible walls.
Yeah, ease of use really isn't a problem at all. Bitcoin and bittorrent are the prime examples of that.

But it's not exactly about the costs either, but rather about incentives. Right incentives can drive funding into adoption of the technology. I mean people being able to profit from other people using the technology is what can bring funding, promotion of the technology and adoption.
I get what you mean, and when bringing in $50 a day $30 is definately not inconsequential - but it's still perfectly manageable.
From the article:

> It could well involve U.S. Postal Service employees (or another delivery service)

I find older generations put a lot of faith in the post office. For instance, one of my investment banks, "in order to securely reset your online password", literally snail-mailed me a new pin number.

Some day, I'd like to be able to able to register public keys with my bank's blockchain and have them only authorize purchases if the itemized invoice is signed by an active private key. One can dream.
Maybe they paid both, to get more "friends"
I'll give that a try!
I wouldn't be surprised if they thought of this then decided not to because the customer support cost of people that don't pay attention and try to use the card without the pin would be higher than the expected losses.
I don't understand how this can be implemented so badly. It's like someone looked at a European system, said "that Chip+PIN system sure looks great. What if we copied it, but then removed the security and increased the hassle."
I expect EFF to be rather technical organisation.
Thanks for your insights. I actually considered the same spot in the matrix as best fit, but also identified this sort of 'business logic' isn't a good fit anywhere in the matrix.

I'm British so not good at kicking up a stink! However, it is Google's VRP, and they are under no obligation to give anyone anything, so am not sure I have grounds to do so anyway. As I've said elsewhere, it is just hugely de-motivating and a disincentive (for both me and others) for similar research in future.

I think it would be a great addition to the VRP for them to include things affecting the core algo (their main product), but imagine it would be tricky to do without also getting a huge number of very tenuous reports.
> What are Pros supposed to do in the mean time? Keep buying PCs I guess.
> How much would it cost R&D to update the Mac Pro?

I hope/think that Apple is thinking that bringing back the cheese grater or in other word a PC running MacOS is not going to be enough to bring back the pro. They need to come back with something that has something unique.

The TrashCan failed but you can see where Apple was going. A small, silent, powerful machine infinitely customisable on the fly via TB.

So of course if failed and this attempt has a good chance to fail too. I'm not quite sure that Apple has in its DNA the deep understanding of the type of Pro that are not content with either the iMac Pro or MBP in the same fashion they get the consumer sphere. It is just that for a long period of time the intersection between the 2 world was large but are now diverging. Perfectly happy for me to be wrong though.
Zuora customers are likely at the "enterprise" level and wouldn't consider switching, at least in the short term. Chargebee, Chargify, and Recurly might have some issues ahead of them on the other hand...
Fortunately by then I'd left the Windows eco system behind.
>"Honestly, I'd much rather have your actual code and data that you used to get your results than read through the research paper if I had to choose (assuming the paper is not pure theory) - but instead there is a disproportionate focus on paper quality over "project quality" at least IMHO."

I think at first new students know this wrong but then get dragged into the circular logic of:

it is standard in the field -> it is ok -> it is standard in the field

It starts with just being so busy and confronted with so many new things that you just use the standard behavior as a "stand-in" (no pun intended) for a rational approach. Then you never have the time to go back and reassess that decision.
> A Tor onion address is a 8 byte base32 encoded string (80 bits).

Not for v3 onion services. They base32 encode the entire ed25519 pub key and a few bytes of metadata (35 bytes total). Won't quite fit into IPv6 space :-)
> What are you doing on a workstation where a bit flipped every 3 days is going to cause a problem?

Depends what bit flips. Given some of the file formats out there, the bit flip just before it is written to the disc might be fatal.

> Anything critical is going to have a software check.

I would love to see someone go through github and analyze if that is true.

I just cannot imagine why it would be acceptable to have bit errors when a preventative measure is available. If the industry would stop looking at it as a value add, the cost would come down and we all would benefit from a more stable platform.
The early computing era (I'd say until early '90s) was definitely had something special in the way so much relied on trust, both trusting the user and trusting the wider community. Today everything is so locked down, paranoid and anxiety inducing that computing has become increasingly stressful and unfun.

I'm also reminded by a RMS writing (I think it was letter of some sort) campaigning that denying computer lab users root access was oppressive. Bit sad that I can't actually find it now.

And of course the classic (if misused like I'm doing here) Franklin quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> I would have expected recent news to tie into the ICO promises

Please read the blog entry again. It specifically says:

> Those features were implemented in about a month and half in August/September 2017. We have delayed the continuation of that work, as we need to focus our resources on higher priority tasks for now, like Red/C3 and full I/O support.

If you also read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/03/roadmap-updates.html, it should clarify exactly where we are and where we're headed.