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Ioannide's work claims that false research claims routinely makes it to
publication, even in high-profile journals. Mochizuki has published a proof
that many in the field believe is nonsense (unintelligible nonsense, at that).

That the shoddy research investigated by Ioannidis is shoddy because it misuses
statistics is besides the point. What matters is that the best efforts of
peer- review in highly respected venues, in "hard" science fields fails to
stop such work from being published.

Which makes the hoaxed fields (gender studies etc) not particularly special in
that respect.

>> The accusation being made here is that these fields are incapable of
separating absolute nonsense from genuine content.

That's also what Ioannides research concludes, except it does so for medicine,
neuroscience, etc.

In Mochizuki's case, his proof was published even though experts in the field
could not understand it and were not sure of its validity. It may yet prove to be nonsense, or, indeed- a hoax.

>> You're really misunderstanding Ionnandis' work if you think it is relevant to
this.

Obviously, I believe it's you who doesn't understand what you're talking about. But perhaps
we'll keep the discourse more civil by avoiding explicitly stated assumptions
about each other's cognitive abilities?
Can you delete one of your 2 nearly identical comments?
A universal quantum computer with 20 qubits is kind of like a general purpose 20-core CPU. A 2000-qubir D-WAVE quantum annealing computer is kind of like a 2000 "cores" GPU. It's not a perfect analogy by any means but it should make the difference clearer.
The repair experience for MacBooks (not iOS!) is abysmal, even at Apple Stores. Whereas other vendors (HP, Dell, Lenovo) will happily send you customer-replaceable parts (keyboards, disks, etc.) or a technician for on-site NBD repairs even with their standard warranty plans, Apple requires you to buy Apple Care (~10% premium) and then you still have to wait for appointments and repairs at the Genius Bar. This can easily take a week or two, and they do not provide a loaner devices so you’re without your computer for the duration of the repair. I’ve been told that there are professional Apple Care plans that do provide them, but they come at a (even higher) price.
@TheGRS, that's what Rank is for. Boards are using Rank field for ordering, that's why you can drag and drop card up and down. Also that is the thing that allows a global order across multiple projects - you can have boards which span across very weird sets of issues thanks to JQL
> But most other systems don't sell that they can solve this problem.

Don't the simpler (more opinionated) systems also tout the same?

All software is sold with the same promise in one way or another.
Matt Levine likes to say that "everything is securities fraud".
>Thirdly, they talk of the PLA approaching plant owners and such; to do all this, a lot of people would need to know about it, from the top to the bottom. I imagine that would be very difficult to keep secret.

Well the bloomberg article said that intelligence sources knew that those boards were going to Apple and Amazon, so presumably (if the story is true) someone did speak, maybe
Maybe someone is trying to trash Super Micro’s stock? Seems like this would be a good way to do it.

Though simplest explanation would be the journalist is confused and the sources inside the company aren’t very good.
I don't think they've connected cause and effect here. Presumably they could look for the same effect in off shore wind farms and that would eliminate nearly all local factors playing a role.
Most customers don't care, they don't care about repairability because modern devices are so reliable, they don't care about upgradeability because they bought the appropriate spec in the first place. Even if it does fail they don't really care about the cost of repair because they bought a premium product and their expectations are set accordingly.
Actually the places where wind is the strongest, (New Mexico, parts of West Texas, and everything directly above that in middle America) there is significant land space and not much else. Population density is all less than 10 people per sq mile and large chunks 0 people per sq mile. The people who own the ranches there absolutely love wind because it’s an additional revenue stream and the local towns are being reinvigorated due to additional revenue from the energy companies and more jobs. We need around 25% from Wind and 3% of America where there’s really not much else not even farms works out well.

For solar, the best place in North America is the Mojave Desert which also has wide open space and no population.
The Big-G dont roll like that ! /s :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbbQl2sU-ag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQgmXARn8aA
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Nice. I used to work on that problem, because I was into legged running for robots and animation. Rather than putting fans on the "torso" to provide torques, I was doing that by having a leg with three joints and coordinating them to apply torques to the torso.[1] This is how far I got. (Video, generated on a Mac IIci. Hours of run time for seconds of simulation.)[2] I notice the Berkeley group is using three joints, too. They should't need those fans to exert side forces.

The real objective was to be able to handle running on slanted surfaces. That's all about slip control.

I looked at this as a two-point boundary value problem with an underactuated controller. You want to get a specific orientation, angular rate, and target position at landing. You have more target variables than you have actuators. You don't care too much about the intermediate states as long as the state at landing is what you wanted. That's rocket science. Which is good, because rocket trajectory control is a well understood problem.

Once you start solving this as a boundary value problem, you can make much more aggressive moves. Going way off balance to get a fast change of speed or direction is fine as long as the next landing is within bounds. Most running robots today start out running in place and slowly accelerate forward. They don't start by leaning forward and launching. That's because they work by trying to maintain a stability criterion. In slow robots, that's static stabiilty - CG over base. Faster ones use "ZMP", which is a generalization of static stability which adds a momentum term.

There are newer approaches, and the most recent Boston Dynamics robots are going into unstable positions to do things like flips, then recovering to a stable position. That's looking one move ahead. If you can look two moves, or footfalls, ahead, you get much more agility. Some of martial arts and dance is learning sequences of three moves ahead. That's an athletic feat.
You need two moves ahead to do broken-field running or the stop by turning that horses do, which is within the normal range of ability.

Fun problem, but decades later, still no market.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/articulated/articulated.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc5n0iTw-NU&feature=youtu.be...
I think in this text a corporation is being modelled as a single being with a single decision-making capacity.

Sort of like how "my brain" forces spicy food on "my intestines", but when you model the two things together as a single human being, then you can confidently state that nobody is forcing me to eat spicy food.

Really, all the GP is trying to say is that neither Github nor Jira has any external market forces colluding to push those products onto "software-buying entities" (like individual freelancers, or whole corporations) that don't want to use them. They're just products, in the market, with freely-available alternatives, and any entity who would normally have the power to choose which software to buy, isn't having that decision made for them by market-distorting forces. There's no Github or Jira monopoly that has come along and crushed the alternatives out of existence, such that they're the only options even if you, a software-buying entity, wanted to buy an alternative.
Claiming that "high availability" started with the internet seems to ignore the role that Telcos (Bell Labs?) have played in our field and modern technological world.

The engineering work to deliver five nines of availability for POTS shouldn't be omitted in a piece about the history of HA, in my opinion.
Well, did you expect any of those companies to acknowledge their own incompetence? And do you seriously think Businessweek can make all this up out of thin air?
Oracle cloud sales in trouble?
And telcos did that with much weaker hardware than is available today!
> probably a lot more antisocial than we admit).

More like definitely. What function does downvoting really perform anyway? And what function is it supposed to perform? I see lots of perfectly reasonable comments going grey with no explanation at all.
I think this is a good idea. We use intellectual property protection to get money to developers, but then they charge money for things we could be duplicating for free. I think we could improve the lives of many people and lower the total cost of living a good life if for example everything productive was open source. I’ve written a story about this, with an all-capable machine as an allegory for an open source automated economy. That’s here: http://tlalexander.com/machine/

I really want to see more people taking this seriously. Open sourcing the productive world is a radical idea I fear most entrenched businesses owners wouldn’t take seriously, but I think the notion has staggering potential for improving the human condition for generations to come.
It's certainly beginning to look like Bloomberg got played. I don't know what the motivation would be for Bloomberg to deliberately deceive readers, but I can't help notice that the article came out at roughly the same time as Mike Pence was giving a speech whose central premise was that China is meddling in american politics, and all the attention currently focused on Russian hacking should be focused on Chinese hacking.

If this story actually is false the US government has plenty of incentive to have planted it.
What’s going to be the next article here? “Someone set up a Tor exit node and it got used for illegal stuff”?
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Given how hard these things are getting to repair and how long it takes, I think you could argue that Apple should just offer to replace faulty devices with new ones.

Having a pro device out of action for more than a week is just not acceptable. If it breaks, I want to have the replacement up and running ASAP. If Apple can then repair and refurbish the original at their own leisurely pace, fine. That will also put the pressure on cutting down on repair times and cost for Apple. They seem incentivized to milk their expensive care package a bit too much currently.

Anyway, my 2017 MBP keyboard is starting to become faulty. I've been dreading having to turn it in because I actually need this thing up and running. I'm actually considering permanently switching to a linux machine and then getting it repaired. After it comes back, I'll probably sell it.
It says so in the article, but carefully hidden in plain view so that the reader is not likely to be distracted from the sensationalistic first glance message: whenever it talks about warming caused by wind installations it is explicitly qualified as local warming. People with an existing anti wind power bias will conveniently miss that detail.

By the way, the numbers stated seem to be much lower than the differences in local temperature you would get by building a city, planting or harvesting a forest and so on.
Wind farm area is inflated due to all that empty space that is required between turbines.
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Other issue trackers "solve" the problem in that they're technically incapable of faithfully representing objects like design specifications, adding enough friction that the process is pushed back from "technical solution" land to "social/organizational solution" land where it belongs.

Jira is a crutch, in the most literal sense: it makes things that should be hard because of your lack of {personal, organizational} health, easy, in a way that makes people avoid doing the "healthy" thing (facing their problems and rebuilding said {personal, organizational} health) indefinitely.
>> If somehow each piece of data on a user were exponentially more expensive to keep, that might be possible. But that would be a very strange law…

Dave and I agree with your diagnosis, and we would like to propose a solution. Who is Dave? Well you know him, and I know that you know him and I know that when we both talk about Dave we must be talking about the same person.

(mLuby I probably don't really know you, this is just a hypothetical).

A casual observer could not approach our common understanding by adding more data. There's so many Daves after all. In fact they'd need to subtract all but the right data.

So the solution is a protocol in which increased data adds noise faster than it adds signal. Such a protocol requires 1000s times more plausible yet incorrect noise for every signal. Digital chaff.
How do you configure it with a master postgress db that is persistent over reboots, hooked up to two hot slaves? With ability to do of site backup?

All deployments I have seen so far have been immutable infi scale webapps. That is easy.
The discoverability of a hardware hack as reported makes the whole thing fail to ring true for me.

As Joe alludes to, why do something so discoverable when there are numerous other attack vectors that would preserve plausible deniability?

It appears close to a one-time trick, if you’re China. Once the trust is gone, it’s not coming back. Supply chains are already coming back home due to automation and consequently less reliance on cheap manual labour.

The case would have to be compelling - something that could not be achieved otherwise. That case is yet to be made.
Those guys are all building gate based quantum computers which are universal and can run (in theory) any quantum algorithm such as Shor's algorithm. By contrast, D-Wave is pursuing "quantum annealing" which basically solves very specific types of optimization problems and the hope is that it will be economically useful enough in the near future.

See this for a decent comparison: http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/qc/qc18/readings/gottlieb2...
> You are missing the point: Just because you would like to have an introduction into resource-conscious development based on the games you enjoyed as a kid, this is neither the easiest nor an in any way appropriate way to study the topic. Go, read and understand some programs written in the late 60s and early 70s and you'll be 80% there.

The point of preserving history is not to get good at making modern games. This is like claiming that we don't need any silent films because any modern film techniques class will already teach you how to do a long shot or a dutch angle anyway. Hence my original statement: If your takeaway is, "I don't care about old games unless they make my new PS4 game run faster" you have missed the point. We're not preserving history because we're worried we'll forget how to build games.

> d) That's called IP theft.

Of course IP owners and publishers are allowed to send code to the Internet Archive. It doesn't have to be (nor should it be) an individual dev stealing from the company; I'm not sure where you would get that idea. What I meant was that if Sony and Naughty Dog as companies don't have the resources to keep content around on their servers, there are 3rd party nonprofits that will happily do it for them for free.

This is not a new idea, the UK has gone so far as to mandate that every published book needs to be submitted to a national vault for preservation[0]. The US tends to avoid legislative solutions like this, but I know digital archivists who would like to see laws like this passed for games.

[0]: https://www.bl.uk/legal-deposit
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Apple would need to show that they had lost business as a result of the false story and hence claim damages. Businessweek would defend themselves based on it being in the public interest and they cannot reveal their confidential sources.

Probably hard for Apple to prove they have lost money because of the story and it would need to be enough to warrant the time and hassle of a court case. Not to mention they would probably rather avoid having the issue mentioned even more often by dragging it through court for a year or two.
If gene A is applied artificially, it always gets applied. Or should we add rand() to ensure some sort of natural selection-like variance?
Of course it's both. But I think (independent) developers are much more likely to publish for a platform they think is fun to develop for.
Ask HN: Can CouchDB replication protocol be used at the application layer?
Was wondering whether it can be used to coordinate Browser/mobile/etc clients. DB is still SQL.

Has anyone used it in production?
> everything a website puts up on the web is essentially free

No it's not, at least in the EU as of last month's copyright reform. Meaning aggregator and search sites need to pay royalties for syndicating significant portions to publishers. That it's technically possible to scrape content doesn't mean scraping doesn't run afoul of copyright legislation and press norms such as proper attribution. You could also technically "scrape" written books; yet re-publishing your own book copies isn't considered legal.
Yeah, OK, maybe I misread your comment.
The iPad 1 was pretty much the worst case, if you bought just before it was discontinued then you would have got 14 months of updates.

We had one and upgraded for the reasons you mentioned, it couldn't cope with JavaScript heavy web sites. However even without the bugs I don't think it had the horsepower to handle the modern web, no amount of updates would have fixed that.

iOS 12 supports devices back to the iPhone 5s, so more than 5 years.
The Norwegian National Security Authority (https://nsm.stat.no/english/) is quoted in a norwegian paper today saying they knew about problems with Super Micro since at least june. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/xRkLep/storavis-hevder-kina-inst...
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Louis Rossmann does amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocF_hrr83Oc

Unfortunately, his store just caught on fire yesterday.

When it rains, it pours. Poor Louis.
What's a synchronous language? I don't see the term explained on the page
You know they also sell machines without the secure enclave bonded to the substrate.

Not for much longer I think.
I was wondering the same: we do terra forming since 10k years, deforest, farm, build cities etc. The effect of those should be an order of magnitude higher than wind installations... Am I wrong here?
SEC (and anyone else) can see the short positions, dumb move.

Plus, Bloomberg journos weren't born yesterday. This story must've been vetted to the highest levels...looks like they've been working for a year or so on it. It's not like they heard it at Starbucks while waiting in line. They are sources and sources.

Now a nation state can provide multiple sources from different alphabet agencies to Bloomberg.
I am working on an android app as a side project and I have some 3 gb size of audio files to share with clients. I am exploring different storage services, any pointers to share regarding that?
> Despite numerous discussions across multiple teams and organisations, no one at Apple has ever heard of this investigation.

If this is some kind of ongoing national security issue with nondisclosure requirement authorized by the Director of the FBI, like this big breach could be, people involved are not allowed to talk about it even inside their company.

Of course it would be advisable to inform higher ups in the Apple so that they would not issue a denial.
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Bloomberg needs to make a statement about all of this, either doubling down or issuing an apology. Either ways, we need a follow up and conclusion. Can we HN-ers tweet-request them (politely) to follow up?
Just focus on C++
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Most tidal systems are "trap and release" style (barrages) - you wait until high tide, trap the water, then run the differential through a turbine.

This kills a ton of sea life.

Tidal Kinetic systems suffer from bursty power output.

Other systems are too expensive, too early, or both.
Subtask issuetypes are a real thing, and are different to issue links.

Different parts of the UI and some functionality works differently for subtasks than for linked issues.

For example, you can set it up so that you can't close a 'user story' until all subtasks under it have been closed. Not possible out of the box with linked issues.
Caveat: this is not the free will you're probably looking for.

> The scientific definition, however, is far more specific. Essentially, it comes down to two cognitive processes: volition and agency.

> Now, thanks to a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have identified the exact location in the brain responsible for these processes and, therefore, our perception of free will.

> Volition is "the desire to act", whereas agency is "the sense of responsibility for our actions".

> [...]

> While the information is not going to stop moral philosophers and sociologists debating the meaning (and very existence) of free will, the researchers hope it will prove useful when it comes to helping patients with volition and agency-inhibiting injuries.
I mean what was the alternative? To admit that your supply chain is compromised and blame directly the government of the country where you produce (and sell to a level) all of your hardware?

That would be a huge blow in the credibility of the company and would raise serious questions on why they did not move the manufacturing elsewhere.
Aftershot Pro could replace lightroom, Reaper appears to be suitable for music production although there are other options. Both run on windows and linux.

Every other laptop maker in existence lets you repair your own machine.

Lenovo and Dell make solid machines that are powerful and light. Microsofts are even supposed to be pretty good.

The fact that your Apple phone/watch syncs with fewer platforms seems to be a point against your phone and watch not a point in favor of your mac.

Do you really honestly believe that nobody on earth makes decent bluetooth headphones except for apple. Seriously BOSE makes bluetooth headphones.

So far legitimate criticisms include your iphone's playlists not syncing with a different laptop.

Just admit you're a fanboy.
Yep! Issues like the above are among the reason I finally threw in the towel on MacOS after 20 years of being a Mac user. Between the precipitous diminution of their hardware repairability and upgradeability, software backward-compatibility problems, and unpalatable service model, it's clear to me that Apple hardware is no longer intended for the person who uses the computer as a tool for work.

After I switched to Linux / Thinkpad and only had to spend five minutes rather than an hour+ upgrading the hard drive, I wondered why I hadn't made the switch years ago [answer: brainwash].
Up to 36.000 euro per mill per year actually. Not a bad time to be owning farmland in the Netherlands.
The worst shoes in the world are a godsend to a person who's been walking across the desert in bare feet. Doesn't mean they're good shoes.

Good project management systems are simple and frequently not completely technically automated. Trello, or its older cousin "index cards on a whiteboard" are popular. Regular GitHub issues handle much of what needs to be handled, as long as you impose an organizational policy for how you'll go about triaging and updating status in them. Scrum stand-ups are just... regular meetings. None of this is very fancy; none of it needs to be.