skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was mentioned in the Atlantic article, though they didn't mention that the journal rejected it conditionally because the proposed "reparations" of sitting chained on the floor and being spoken over weren't harsh enough for privileged students -- the author was offered acceptance upon revision.
It looks like they most likely have photos of most GRU agents at this point so will not be easy for them to travel now.
"Our code is self-documenting. If you need documentation then the code isn't written well enough"

-Assholes who don't know what it is like to work with mature code bases.

- People who don't know how to write clean code

- People who think that not only they figured out what 'clean code' even means, but that everyone else will agree, thus single-handedly ending some 50+ years of heated industry-wide debate, numerous billion-dollar attempts by some of the most talented people in the world, and troves of 8-dimensional mental gymnastics about design patterns by way of a $21 ebook, a code review and some blog posts
Kindling is the very smallest pieces you start a fire with - are you really supposed to use mm sized pieces? Coppicing would not be useful for that, unless you're heavily processing the coppiced wood first?
Agreed.

What is also nutty, a mortgage on an investment property is almost always a bad deal. Just to be clear. If you were to use a mortgage at 500k, 20% down, this would be the math: [1]. To break even you would need to charge 3k.

Long story short, it is hard to find a renter of a 500k house for 3,300. In SF, 500k wouldn't buy a one bedroom. In the suburbs, 3k a month renter is a hard find.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/Hye3Hkj
If I were in charge of an intelligence agency front organization, I'd have a civilian cutout head it.
To some extent. I seem to recall people saying that by restricting the range of page sizes they could make the L1 cache virtually indexed but physically tagged instead of physically indexed and tagged as Android phone processors are. That means you can start the lookup before the address translation is complete but still avoid aliasing problems.

EDIT: But I think another part of it is just being willing to throw more transistors at the problem than Android phone SoC manufacturers are and also that their higher income makes spending more on engineering make sense.
And here in the US, people routinely violate rules about registering as a foreign agent and have for a long time, but suddenly it's an issue and we lock up Maria Butina for what seem like mostly political reasons. Our tax fraud cases are also, I'd suspect, getting only a fraction of the tax cheats.
I'm surprised the author quoted Why Nerds are Unpopular and didn't cite what I feel like is the most relevant part:

When there is some real external test of skill, it isn't painful to be at the bottom of the hierarchy. A rookie on a football team doesn't resent the skill of the veteran; he hopes to be like him one day and is happy to have the chance to learn from him. The veteran may in turn feel a sense of noblesse oblige. And most importantly, their status depends on how well they do against opponents, not on whether they can push the other down.

It is nice to be in a group where people can do praise-worthy things and be praised for them. And, as the conclusion addresses, it is nice to give praise when due. This norm can be eroded by braggers. But it can also be eroded by people taking any mention of an accomplishment as a slight.

For example, the Oxford anecdote seems like the author going out of his way to feel slighted and assume malice. The excited salesperson anecdote is similar. Do others have a duty to mask excitement out of worry that it could be interpreted as bragging?

One of the best habits I have adopted is muttering "good on them" and moving along when an emotion suspiciously similar to jealously starts bubbling up.
I think there are a number of variables that should be controlled for on probably separate studies.

1) how likely can renowned academic get published with gibberish

2) compare #1 to how likely can an unknown get published with gibberish.

3) how likely can an unknown get a serious paper published when it was actually the renowned academic who wrote it.

4) compare #3 to how likely a renowned academic can get a serious paper published when it was actually the unknown / lesser known peer who wrote it.
A common response to this thread is "the review process must not have looked closely enough".

This tweet[1] contains screenshots of the review process of the dog park paper, and claims they received constructive feedback. As originally written, the journal wouldn't publish it.

https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/104781375318043852...
I wonder if many of the people so acidly contemptuous of Peterson have ever bothered to actually read what he actually writes, or just viscerally react to the hot take media coverage. He's eminently reasonable, not an alt-right troll like Alex Jones or Ben Shapiro.
Hardware stays put, even very targeted viruses don't as evidenced by stuxnet.
Depends. If the CPU runs at 100% utilization on all cores, I’ve seen battery life drop from 5 to 1 hour (for example).
It was reported that the security auditor used during Elemental's acquisition detected this compromise. I assume they found it in a randomly selected board. Either they were very lucky, or hundreds of boards were compromised.

Now, I think all motherboard manufacturers - and especially high end server manufacturers like SM - use sophisticated automated tests and quality control on boards. Under what circumstances is it possible that SM's QC missed this out on so many boards? Won't it affect things like the power budget, weight, and latency? What do professional EE people here think?
Dynalist https://dynalist.io/
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The difference was that this was not a reputable publication, but a predatory scam.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/25/journ...

These were "real" publication, with peer- and/or editorial-review. Not the same thing by a long shot.
These are absolutely beautiful.

I really like the mood it sets, but I was hoping to see some code for the fractals to be honest :)

Great work!
That’s not a fair comparison.

That’s not a peer reviewed journal — it’s a publication that will publish anything for a fee.

All of the papers in the original article are peer reviewed.
Instantly signed up for your mailing list. Was super bummed to see there was only one article on your site!

Also, I think you can hit a great niche. I've never found any sort of super qualitative examination on social interactions like you have done. Traditionally HtWFaIP is the 'go to' book for this kind of stuff, but its age shows a little and leaves a lot of implementation details in the dark.
I'm also a OneNote fan. I use it in a similar fashion - tons of work-related stuff, a bunch of personal stuff, and a notebook shared with my SO so we can both update grocery lists, etc.

I've got the OneNote app on my iPhone and it works well enough for what I need to access on the go. What trouble do you have accessing it when you're not at home? My biggest use-case for OneNote on the iPhone is to tick items on the grocery list - it works great and changes propagate to my SO's phone in under a second.
But again... there isn't a shortage of republican-leaning judges who are far more fit to be a Supreme Court Justice.

My reading is that the GOP is making a big deal out of this because it looks really bad for them if Kavanaugh gets voted off. And furthermore, they run the risk of not being able to confirm a republican judge after the midterms (and we're not even sort of pretending the court is nonpartisan anymore...)
Emacs org mode (https://orgmode.org).
Two thoughts on housing:

1) One component of housing is how much money banks are willing to loan for the house. So 'easy money' environments will boost prices, apart from the quality and size of the house, the desirability of its location, and the circumstances of the buyer. In the mid 2000's, a lot of loans were made based more on bank's willingness to lend than on the other factors.

2) To hold on to a house, someone has to pay the carrying cost. If the carrying cost goes up past the ability of the owner, the house is sold or foreclosed on (or rooms are put on AirBnB, etc). In 'easy money' environments like the one created in the early 2000's and sustained since then, carrying costs have been kept low. If they go up, as they did briefly during the financial crisis, house prices will drop. The pattern seems to be to keep the money easy, so it's hard to say house prices are too high, even though their traditional relationship with income is out of whack.
There is an area by me that has two Mattress Firms across the street from each other and a third less than a block away. I would joke to my wife that they are using the Starbucks method of store placement.
Where can I find this? Sounds like it would be funny to read.
The same is true of the journals that published the hoax papers mentioned in the article.
Wouldn't this fall under the remit (and expertise) of the NSA? I thought that the FBI were like Interpol - i.e. federal-level cops. The NSA being the technical spooks (and the CIA being the meat-based spooks).
Always fun to see that the Sokal Affair is reproducible science :). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair)

Edit: Hah — interestingly enough, The Atlantic refers to this as "the new Sokal Hoax" in the <title> tag and the URL, but as "an Audacious Hoax" in the page proper.
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>It seems no more silly than the lobster nonsense Jordan Peterson peddles and conservatives eat up

Actually that's based on real science. It's not social studies...
See my other comment [1] if you want further details as to SQL's limitations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18147388
Zotero. Cross-platform and open-source. You can sync it using your favorite syncing tool, and even encrypt before syncing using something like Cryptomator. I regularly use this set-up on Linux and Windows.
How many MRAPs do they have?
Just as a comparison for folks - Gender, Place and Culture's impact factor is about 1.

Nature, one of the most impactful, is 40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
I wish Netflix would force HBO Go and Amazon Prime Video into an UX war. It drives me crazy how bad the player and the general experience are on these 2 services. You can’t even pause with the space bar on HBO.
unfortunately, yes.

while i have no idea whether they are intentionally partisan or not, their analyses so far have been highly damaging to russian interests, going all the way back to when they found the russian proxy group in ukraine that shot down that airliner. they're also stepping on russia's toes in their analyses on the syrian war.

the thing that worries me is that bellingcat reports on strategically relevant tactical-level things. if they just reported on everyday tactical stuff -- which they do too -- it might disrupt russian narratives regarding their involvement in certain conflicts or whatever, but that wouldn't ever be a problem for bellingcat itself.

russia couldn't give a damn if bellingcat ruins their narratives regarding who is fighting where because they can maintain deniability, but if it's ruining their operational capabilities i assume they take it more seriously.
There's a lot of input on this from previous ask HN's too: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20note%20taking&sort=byPop...
Absolutely. I didn't realize there was that much filler in a splenda packet. That stuff is incredibly strong.
Journals are broken. A lot of people recognize that.

Peer review is also broken. A lot of people recognize that.

The fact that we don't publish negative results is a tragedy. We're losing so much collective knowledge that way. We learn by failing, but somehow we're ashamed to fail in public in academia.

I personally hope that arXiv and things like it keep taking off. And that we end up funding respected people to review articles publicly. And that we end up funding people to try to replicate interesting results, and publish their findings.

And that the news media learns to explain to people what p scores are, and what p-hacking is, and what the half-life of knowledge is, and that one new research article with p=0.05 doesn't mean jack squat. Basically the news media shouldn't cover leading research, it's just too noisy and it's difficult to understand the context and relevance of new research.
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[throwaway, 26165]

July 2018 Robert Mueller indictments: https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download

Name top of list: Viktor Borisovich Netyksho

Viktor's dissertation ["Mathematical and program support of computers, complexes and computer networks"]: http://www.dissercat.com/content/vosstanovlenie-parametrov-d...
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Poe's law in action?

> Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views.
I think it was thewirecutter.com that had some controversy regarding editors appearing to extort a standing-desk manufacturer for a good review.

I apologize for the vagueness / uncertainty, I'm having trouble finding a link to the story.
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Other means superior to the natural sciences exist to extract alternative knowledges about stars and enriching astronomy ... incorporation of mythological narratives and modern feminist analysis of them, feminist interpretative dance (especially with regard to the movements of the stars and their astrological significance), and direct application of feminist and postcolonial discourses

I cracked here.
But that isn't really the question rather than the answer -- in other profiles the chip could have significantly better heat dissipation solutions and would have dramatically more headroom.
Accepted, but not published, according to
https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...
The way this system works is not normal brand vs. brand competition, it's the sales channel (distributor) which starts to compete with the established supplier.

This is what creates the imbalance in the competition.
The distributor uses a private-label to bundle the sales of a lucrative product-tier that is sold across multiple brands in his channel into a single in-house brand.

For the original-brand to enter this channel again after it has left, it would have to be _cheaper_ than the private-label (to exceed the profit the channel makes with its private-label product), or prove that it can sell MORE VOLUME than the private-label for whatever reason (=more profit for the channel).

Unfortunately for both cases the brand is entering at a steep disadvantage, because it would have to finance its own brand to overpower the brand of the private-label, market their product to push sales, yet sell-in at a lower price, and even rely on the very same brand it now competes with (100% of the channel customers are shopping there because of the channel-brand).

At this point in the game, creating consumer-value becomes a niche-topic, because the barrier is now to create more profit for the channel, otherwise he will not allow you to reach the consumer...

That's one of the reasons why we keep seeing an increase in own-brand stores of major companies.
It's the lack of "brick and mortar net-neutrality"...
EE here, looking at the size of the chip, the weight and power difference is going to be too small to measure. Latency will probably not be affected when the chip is dormant
It's my understanding that the hoax papers in the article were also published by predatory scam journals. Even the "get me off your fucking mailing list" paper went through peer review.

> “They told me to add some more recent references and do a bit of reformatting,” he said.
I wasn't sure either so I googled it:

"a mobile phone that incorporates features such as the ability to access the Internet and store and play music but lacks the advanced functionality of a smartphone."
Well - good luck whichever path you take. Re your future pieces they all sound interesting.

Out of interest are you a natural intuitive "people person"? I am not - which is maybe why this stuff is so interesting to me. But when it's explained the explanations often feel "right", I wouldn't say emotions and interactions go entirely over my head.
> Self-centered, detached, unaware of their constitutional privileges to change things or unwilling to use them, perhaps. But certainly not cruel.

It's every bit as ignorant to say that "perhaps" hundreds of millions of Americans are unaware, detached, etc. as it is to proclaim that they're cruel. Making such broad sweeping judgments about such a vast number of people, is universally a very poor approach to discussion.
Is it a settled argument that the US statutory termination right applies to copyrights granted by the common open source licenses? Could you maybe point to a good legal discussion of this issue?
Title is clickbait and misleading.

Original title: "When Fiat Falls Flat: Cryptocurrency ATMs Offer Financial Relief in South America"

Actual content / message:
"Bitcoin ATM companies aim to place nearly 2000 new ATMs in Argentina by this time next year."
Nope, rolled back and moved on.
I've seen enough cases to be worried where their prices are substantially marked higher than other sites. I used to be able to safely assume Amazon was the best price. Now I don't feel it's safe to do that. You really do need to shop around to make sure you're not getting a bad price. On the other hand I still have too many bad experiences with other merchant websites to go with the other merchant if price is comparable. Amazon is still just too reliable IMO.
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Sure, let's make stuff up, like her memo.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/02/rachel-mitche...
The methodology section of the article says that one person spent almost an entire year sitting in a dog park for up to seven hours a day (for a total of 1,000 hours). During this time, that person allegedly inspected up to 10,000 dog genitalia, or approximately one every six minutes. Even if the alleged institution was real (which it wasn't - they didn't even put up a website until after the article was submitted), the author had valid credentials (which they didn't), or someone knew of them personally (academia is a small world) there were enough red flags that the reviewers should have questioned the article's validity.
I see what you mean, but as you say their midterm elections are coming up, and no one knows if the Republicans will still have the necessary votes after. If Kavanaugh doesn’t get through, their chance to force someone like him onto the court may go with him. Beyond that I don’t think you can underestimate just how little a lot of senators care about what Kavanaugh did to women in his youth. Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham... they seem like people for whom conscience is just a formality.

Mostly they want to be re-elected, and they want to feed their shrinking base lots of red meat to inspire a bigger turnout. As I said, if Ted Bundy on the court could do that for them, they’d try to make it happen.
As I mentioned elsewhere, electric cars turn into pretty good storage systems, too.

And with a smart distributed grid, it's not just storage that makes sense locally - it's generation. Put a solar roof on the big box store, attach a storage system, and have a mostly self-sufficient system. And if it's generating surplus, sell it! Buy only when it's needed.

Meanwhile, poor developing nations or rural areas that don't have the capital or the chops to build giant nuclear plants can easily invest in very small scale projects. Go to some remote village, put up a wind turbine and a compressed air tank you can just bring in on a truck. Now that village has power! It may not be as financially efficient long-term, but by increasing the potential productivity of remote areas, it can pay for itself easily at the local level.

It's an exciting thing to see.
No data cleaning required. That’s often 80% of a project. So 2 months -> 2 weeks makes sense now!
It entirely depends on the CLA. But the CLAs I've seen referenced generally only do one thing: give the entity who issued the CLA the rights to do pretty much whatever they want with your code (one key right is often the ability to go closed source or otherwise re-license the work without the author's permission) while usually granting the author no additional rights or consideration. It is often as close as you can get to assigning copyright without actually assigning it (i.e. you're still the author but you've pretty much given up your rights to you contribution)

There's nothing wrong with this if it's what you want to do especially say if it's for work. But depending on your priorities, it may not be in your best interests.
In other words, "do as I say, not as I do".
Sure, it's pro-consumer. But it's anti-producer. Why shouldn't we care about those externalities?
The papers in the article were published in journals that will publish anything for a fee. The "get me off your fucking mailing list" paper was also peer reviewed. The reviewer asked for formatting changes and citations, very similar to the reviews that these other hoax papers got.
"Monitoring software" could really mean anything, or nothing.
I'm no expert, but wouldn't be more efficient to completely replace the BMC with a malicious one? That way it should be virtually impossible to detect
I haven't read Mine Kampf and I don't like Nazis or Socialism for that matter. But are you certain that every single chapter of that book is 100% genocidal rubbish? Because I'm guessing that out of the ~15 or so chapters there is probably one that is palatable.

The German's didn't go in to WWII because they were just terrible people. They had a very long list of quite justifiable grievances after WWI. If they hadn't been proud supporters of eugenics they'd be just another entry in a long list of bloodthirsty European states.

EDIT So here is a selected paragraph (from 3 random candidates) from said text. It isn't exactly anti-factual.

"Thus, from a certain vanity, which is always a cousin of stupidity, the great mass of politicians will keep far removed from all really weighty plans for the future, in order not to lose the momentary sympathy of the great mob. The success and significance of such a politician lie then exclusively in the present, and do not exist for posterity. But small minds are little troubled by this; they are content."
I’m using emacs org-mode. For everything, except notes on paper.
The address to which the car was registered, Komsomolsky Prospekt 20, coincides with the address of military unit 26165

How long has this been known? The time between this information becoming available to the time all public databases are searched for this address matches is probably measured in minutes.
I hope we see more of this. It only allows us to strengthen what's publicly accessible which might open up doorways to who knows what as a result.
Out of curiosity, why doesn't the response pass the smell test? Why is one of the possibilities more likely than another?
You must be thinking: this is a typical conservative appointment, so there shouldn't be this much furor over it. Bullshit. Kavanaugh has been decried by the ACLU, a number of bar associations, several law schools, countless other judges, and even his own roommates. The Republicans in power don't care in the slightest. And this has been the modus operandi of the entire party since the second half of Obama's term (and probably earlier). Meanwhile, all this is getting rapidly normalized in the public eye by the relentless parroting of the "both sides" fallacy.

It's good that people are protesting. I hope they protest even louder. Authoritarians should not feel welcome.