skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is the same as fabrication with intent to commit actual fraud.

But if you're trying to show that the editors are making biased decisions because of preconceived notions, submitting data that supports their notions is not evidence of them making biased decisions.

A better study would be the following -- you submit one version of the paper supporting viewpoint X and another supporting viewpoint not X (where X is some issue on which there isn't much research been done so there isn't any sort of consensus on the issue) and fabricate data for both cases.

But what they did, all that seems to show to me is that if you fabricate data, you can get a paper accepted. Which is not surprising.

Edit: For the record, I do think academia, especially in some areas of humanities, is very biased but this study is just not well done imo.
Might be my unreliable mobile browser, but this page isn't loading.
Burnout to me is a sign of extended stress... whether you're in the right job or not. This just means you need a break. Even Michael Jordan needed a break from basketball.
_Space Cadet_, 1948, references pocket phones as well, with this funny bit about avoiding them -

Tex Jarman looked at him understandingly. "Your folks always worry, don't they? I fooled mine -- packed my phone in my bag."

The phone usage in Between Planets involved call signs and was clearly projected from Ham radio practices at the time.

My favorite phone technology miss was their total absence from Gibson's _Neuromancer_, something that he's a little chagrined about, and tired of hearing about, too . . .
Clarke's "The City and the Stars"

Technologically enabled immortality (in an interesting manner).

Massive, crystalline data storage.

Immersive gaming, including the negative, subsuming aspects of same.

The individual as radical.

The radical as an essential component of long-term planning and viability.
> Collaborate with a second lab at another institute. Get approval from one IRB to run the study against the other. Problem solved, everything aboveboard.

He would still get investigated for this. The university might need to find another reason, but they would certainly try.
> Downloading so you don't have to use cell data?

Ah! Makes sense, thank you.
The word quantum has been used as a synonym for quantity since the mid-16th century. Its use as a physics term is a much more recent development, which has definitely not fully replaced the original definition yet.
Google’s own advertisement against new European copyright law
For medical research, sure. He submitted fake articles to publications, he didn't perform medical experiments on the reviewers.
You have to be open to points of view which may sound ridiculous on the surface though if you can make a case for them. For example, having a model in 1800 that said that everything is both a particle and a wave would have sounded like satire but it wouldn't have been wrong.

Or having a point of view in 1800 that interracial relationships are not immoral or in 1900 that gay relationships are not immoral would have sounded like satire but again, not something that would have been the wrong point of view.
That's certainly not ideal. My connection gets dropped all the time just walking around, not to mention going into a building, and carriers aren't incentivized to upgrade their infrastructure to make it more reliable.
Ask HN: Anyone else constantly improving their configuration files (dotfiles)?
Lately I catch myself updating my config too often and it starts to feel counter productive. Does constant fiddling with the dotfiles pay off? Is it viable to have no personalised configuration at all? Or is "middle way" the best approach? Looking to hear wisdom from all perspectives.
It's there.

Here's a copy that's in the Wayback Machine (aka archive.org).

https://web.archive.org/web/20190113223131/https://cacm.acm....
Many of the events depicted in Dilbert aren't based on real research data either. Should Scott Adams be charged with fabricating data?
Thanks for spending the time but can you give me the 3rd grade explanation?
Your comment should not have been downvoted.
>Taking one side means having to make empty statements and then being (for the most) left in peace.

This is very similar to Soviet science. Mathematicians and physicists were obligated, unofficially of course, to put Marx or Lenin quote somewhere at the start of their article, and if they did, they were left in peace.

>Taking the other side means having career-ending events happening to you.

Yes, exactly the same.
The hell are you talking about, none of the cliamed in any way that this was an academic research affiliated with any university, only one of them is affiliated with one. In their quillete article they even talk about how this is not an academic study, but rather a hoax like the Sokal hoax before it
What anonymous messaging system would you recommend?
So if he had actually collected data on rape culture among Portland-area dogs, it would have been legitimate research ("One of their papers, about canine rape culture in dog parks in Portland, Ore., was initially recognized for excellence by the journal 'Gender, Place, and Culture', the authors reported")?
Why not just go used? I got mine on eBay for under $240 shipped. It was 'B' grade according to the seller, which from what I could determine meant it had literally two scratches on it instead of zero, otherwise the device was flawless. Battery health was 98%.
You can send logs to influx no problem. telegraf (The collecting agent from the Influx team) has a logparser input plugin which can parse logs via patterns, it understands Apache logs by default. The catch is that there is no full text search. It's still useful as you can quickly find logs to view by searching fields that have been parsed.
War to Sell You a Mattress Is an Internet Nightmare
Ricochet isn't a "service". It's a peer-to-peer protocol.

There is nobody to send abuse complaints to, by design, and therefore no requirement to be able to respond to them.
That’s ridicilous. The system has clearly been setup to fraud the majority who needs welfare and is a political virtue signaling. I bet the mean salary was right in the Middle of the ”cliff” (around 55k$) when this was decided to ensure very few would get the benifit and cost on government would be minimal.

The logical policy would perhaps be to equalize income to a certain treshold depending on available funds and budget on a particular year. This would also make investments in transits and housing more stable for everyone involved, simplyfing business decisions and quite possibly increase long term profitability.
These fields do and they don't. The graduates from these areas tend to infect the university administration and wear down the other areas with guerrilla tactics of increasing wokeness.

I do agree the students are far smarter than the professors and have been increasingly staying away from these fields. They know a degree in some grievance study is not going to help them pay off their massive student loans.
Oh give me a break. If you need to charge the money, then you need to be like every other business and charge the money. In fact, they are charging the money, they are just throwing it on at the end as a fee. Businesses who do that are dishonest.
> I think the IRB process is backwards: researchers should determine whether their methodology is ethical (or within whatever other institutional regulations), and be tried only after a report is received, or an investigation is started

Err, I don't think that would work as well as you think. Plenty of studies fall into gray areas, especially in behavioral research, and it's not necessarily easy to reverse the damage once it's done.

The "Little Albert" study could very easily be argued as "ethical" or at least not harmful (almost certainly the behavior became extinct over time) by the researcher, but nonetheless the potential for lifelong harm is there and it would likely never be approved today.

Sometimes once you've done the damage, it's done. Research institutions would rather be safe than sorry with studies involving people, both for basic ethical considerations and reputation interests. Especially after the spat of very questionable studies done in the latter half of the 20th century.
> high on the list of jobs that protect us from terrorism

I'm not certain your statement is accurate. The TSA has itself demonstrated, time and time again, that their accuracy and precision leave much to be desired. If anything, they've been lucky. Terrorism, thankfully, is quite rare.

If anything, I hope the shutdown helps push airports and airlines to seek control of their infrastructure (and, with luck, this administration will help diminish the power of the executive branch in the future).
Niven and Pournelle predicted unrepairability in The Mote in God's Eye -

Renner [said] "I remembered something. Have you got your pocket
computer?"

"Certainly." She took it out to show him.

"Please test it for me."

Her face a puzzled mask, Sally drew letters on the face of the
flat box, wiped them, scrawled a simple problem, then a complex
one that would require the ship's computer to help. Then she
called up an arbitrary personal data file from ship's memory. "It
works all right."

Renner's voice was thick with sleep. "Am I crazy, or did we watch
the Motie take that thing apart and put it back together again?
You know that's impossible, don't you?"

She thought it was a joke. "No, I didn't."

"Well, it is. Ask Dr. Horvath." Renner hung up and went back to
sleep.

Sally caught up with Dr. Horvath as he was turning into his cabin.
She told him about the computer.

"But those things are one big integrated circuit. We don't even
try to repair them."
Because one line of attack on the authors is that their exposure of flaws in the often left-leaning humanities is politically motivated. Stating their politics helps shut that down and support the idea that they are just champions of integrity.
What's your point? Dilbert is a comics strip. Not a research journal where you're making an attempt to further the understanding of an area.

If you coded up a networking algorithm and fabricated data showing massive speed improvements and then got a lot of play in the media and networking community before you were found out, would you say that's evidence of the system being broken?
> For medical research, sure.

Behavioral research too (which this certainly is). Anything involving humans, pretty much.
"A lot of C/C++ (native library) validation tools just work with Rust artifacts,"

Tools like RV-Match and Astree Analyzer can prove absence of entire classes of errors using static analysis. Frama-C and SPARK Ada can do that with annotations with high amount of proof automated. There's optional, runtime checks for stuff not proven if you don't want to or can't do it by hand. C also has lots of open-source tools for static/dynamic analysis, test generation in many forms, and so on. In my Brute-Force Assurance concept, you convert a program into C and/or Java to throw all the automated tooling you can at them, fixing whatever real issues are found. Then, the last benefit is C has a formally-verified compiler should someone want to eliminate compilers as an error source. Rust-to-C is still valuable for all these reasons.

So, is the Rust tooling at the level that you can do all that without converting it to C?

"What things are you thinking about beyond the Send/Sync traits? I've found those to be very expressive, and appropriately restrictive. "

I don't use Rust yet. I just know what I learn from folks like you who do. When I studied it, the docs said their type system blocked some but not all concurrency problems. I don't know where it's at currently on various types of races, deadlocks, and livelocks. Those are the main problems improved models or analyzers should try to solve.
You may take a look at https://blevesearch.com/ written in Go.
So instead of "one side of the political spectrum" more like, "a few standard deviations away from the center of the political spectrum".
Is ember still used? I always only hear that ppl nowadays use react, vue or angular. What does ember differently/better?
I'm a freelance fullstack dev (laravel + vue), probably intermediate-senior level. That's more than I've ever made. I live in utah and Rent is $1000 for a 4-5 bed house, and I under-price my services cause I suck at marketing. ($40-60/hour, when most freelancers get $100+).
That is a fascinating little circuit.

It would be really interesting to set up a little weak transmitter as a kind of geocache like find somewhere. You could have a super small microprocessor (ATTINY85) playing an audio loop, and also managing power to only transmit at certain times.
Take the iPod Shuffle then. It came out 2 years before the Zen Stone and defined the tiny, no-screen market. Even today you can buy knockoffs at Primark for cheap.
What about journalists? Should they go through IRB approval before publishing a story?
WhatsApp sure, WeChat no way no how. Its' routinely and openly used to spy on citizens.
It also showcases the fundamental problem with MIDI/SoundFonts - it makes your music sound orchestry/jazzy. I know there are electronic/modern sounding SoundFonts out there, but unless they were specifically made for your song, they only partially mitigate the problem.

I've also found it hilarious to listen to the MIDI version of popular songs. They always sound like kids music.
It indeed is a tool that can be used by all camps, but the organisation that controls it has made it clear that only people in the "libertarian" part of the political spectrum can use it.
I was recommended that paper by someone else. Just need to get around to reading it :)

The main roadblock I'm having right now is typechecking. I've implemented Hindley Milner in Haskell and played around with Turnstile, but I still don't know enough theory to invent my own type rules for an imperative language. Something like "Type Theory for the Working Programmer" would be excellent. I just got a copy of TaPL, so maybe I'll just use that.
It's going to be increasingly difficult to compete with the big players' economies of scale though. There's a reason we don't buy cars from the neighbor's factory or generate our own electricity these days.
Yep. AFAIK you have to get IRB approval to do literally anything with humans involved. Zero discretion is permitted because any amount of discretion degrades trust in the system (and if you thought anti-intellectualism was bad these days, boy do I have a dystopia for you to imagine) and allows unacceptable failures to creep in purely due to human error.

How many times have you submitted a small PR that obviously can't break anything, complaining about the annoyance all the time, only to find out that your "obviously right" PR was in fact badly wrong? How many times have you seen some bit of code and thought "this is weird, but it had to have been approved to get merged, so I probably don't have to worry too much about it"? Now multiply that by research with human subjects.
Edit: the site I meant to link to is https://www.oversec.io
Brilliant. Thanks for compiling this information.
Lessons from BitTorrent for the Blockchain/Crypto community
Ideally for a web midi player if you are able to generate all the general midi sounds using fm synthesis like the old 80s midi boxes you could have a really tiny download size but it would still sound really cool.
This is a four part series of posts by former BitTorrent Inc employee Simon Morris. He makes a well reasoned analogy between the P2P revolution and the current Blockchain/Crypto craze, and provides insight into the powers and pitfalls of decentralized technologies and communities. There is a pretty decent TLDR summary at the end of the final post[1]

Key snippets:

> And this is the main conclusion — decentralization may be great for disruption, but if the experience of Bittorrent is anything to go by it is not at all clear that it has a role in whatever comes next. Blockchain architectures are great for unleashing unstoppable rule-breaking mobs, but we shouldn’t mistake the rule-breakers for the winners.

> Perhaps one of the most far-sighted winners here was Daniel Ek — CEO and Founder of Spotify — who preceded his Spotify success with the sale of the uTorrent client to BitTorrent Inc. Although early versions of Spotify used a Bittorrent-like P2P protocol to try to save money on bandwidth, they quickly realized that the main point of Bittorrent had little to do with saving money, and decentralization of their architecture was actually counter-productive to their aim. Perhaps it was apparent to them way back then that leading a revolution is exciting, but it’s far better to build the thing to save incumbents from the unleashed mob.

1. https://medium.com/@simonhmorris/decentralized-disruption-wh...
Worked at a university in the 90s. Staff (above a certain level) had access to dial back system, for which we would configure their modem to dial our system and then drop the call and we would call them back and provide network/internet access. This was in the uk where free local calls weren't the norm and dial up isps such as freeserve hadn't appeared yet.
There was also a noticeable drop in the speed of the universities internet connection around lunchtime which was generally put down to "America logging on".

When I got my first cable modem around 2000 you could scan local network segment for open smb ports and map other users drives, usually rw. Saw some interesting stuff doing that. Was pretty cool to access the many open ftp servers too. I think the original version of the audiogalaxy music finder app was just a front end to search those.
Edit: the site I meant to link to is
https://www.oversec.io
In my 10+ years in academia, i‘ve seen only a few STEM people in university politics. From what I have read over the years, it’s the same in ‘real’ politics. That needs to change. We can not complain about politics when we do not take part in it. I assumed for a long time that people in universities have scientific, enlightenment, world-views. A lot of them do not. I know people in Phd programs who belive in angels and astrology. I know some who ‘do not belive in truth’. This leads to different values and different politics.
Hi, do you still have any openings for Software Developer/interns in DC area?
Nobody Is Moving Our Cheese: American Surplus Reaches Record High
As they say on PBS SpaceTime "It's never aliens."
Complaints about Apple Store service have been mounting in recent years. They've gone from friendly to wanting to upsell you a new iPhone or Macbook as much as possible. If you returned a used laptop battery to Apple, I'd wager that was a long time ago. In recent times they've worked with customs to prevent independent repair shops from getting spare parts.
I really don't find the evidence agreeing with such a broad statement.

At most you could claim: "A worker in food service with family will not be able to afford living in SF, as a restaurant will not be able to pay the needed salary without raising prices above what the market will bear"
I was thinking of making a product like that. Essentially it'd be like a typing program such as Mavis Beacon in that you'd have a snippet of code that you'd have to type out in its entirety, after which, you'd be asked to tweak it in some fashion. Not sure if it'd be effective, but worth a shot.
I was recently re-reading The Diamond Age and was dumbstruck by the prescience of this quote:
“One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning.”
Inside The World's Most Beautiful Bookstore In Argentina
In the U.K. all the ones I’ve been to so far have a “game” lock or code or something to “escape”, and a big, non-game safety exit button that ends the timer and gets you out. It’s all electronic/magnetic locks, no physical locks (except for cabinets/subrooms/etc that you open).
2019: The Year of Decentralized Money
How exactly have they made that clear?

I thought it was pretty clear that Tor is for everyone.
Are they performing research that receives support, directly or indirectly, from the United States federal government?

If not, the answer is no, though you can read the federal regulations yourself to prove me wrong:

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=83cd09e1c0...
Challenges of Decentralisation
I know I'm probably on the wrong website, but I am so incredibly tired of reading and hearing about startups.
I am really torn on this.

On one hand, there is an immense amount of vacuity in the social sciences, which is a tragedy; not only is it a waste of money and effort but it obscures and even crowds out actual, valuable work (yes, there is very good, useful, meaningful work in deconstructionism, not to mention often-impugned fields like women's studies...but it could be 1%). Pointing at the emperor is quite important. I liked Sokal's paper at the time too.

Yet at the same time I do agree that setups like this are exploitative.
Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
Only some of the papers fabricated data, most didn't.

You can browse the papers here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTx...
Well, assuming the plan is to run the program on something that is a server, the same basically holds true for swift as well. There simply isn't enough people using it for server stuff yet for it to have become battle proofed.

But yes, if the plan is to run it locally on a mac, then your objection certainly hold.
Your quote is unreadable on mobile due to your abuse of the code tag for quoting.
> I’ve created a set of three simple statements (with supporting references) that represent the fundamental arguments that brought me to veganism:

>It’s unnecessary for humans to consume animal products, i.e. we can thrive on a vegan diet [1, 2, 3].

> Consuming animal products is one of the largest individual contributions to climate change [4, 5, 6].

> Consuming animal products results in slaughtering ~75 billion sentient farm animals each year — animals that want to live [7, 8].

> Logically, from the above three points, it follows that consuming animal products is unnecessary and causes destruction to the environment as well as billions of sentient animals.

Logically, this is textbook circular reasoning or a tautological fallacy. The author's three points are that consuming animal products is unnecessary and causes destruction to the environment as well as billions of sentient animals. To then say that the _exact same three things as the three points_ follow from those same three points is circular reasoning.
Three standard deviations from center leaves you with just the 0.15% on either end.

If Tor is to remain as an acceptable thing to run and use, the Tor Project can't outwardly espouse ideology that drives away the normal users that allow Tor users to blend together. Those browsing Tumblr over Tor, shitposting on Reddit, watching YouTube, etc are key to retain so as to normalize the use of the Tor Browser Bundle.
The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
These are totally invalid analogies. Scientific claims are never judged by the ridiculousness of the claim but by the strength of the evidence. Every scientific journal would be fairly judged on its assessment of the data and methodology. Every scientific journal is fair game for a “grievance study” and every one that accepts satirically ridiculous methodologies or conclusions would be very fairly judged fraudulent.

Your other example confuses popular points of view with academic studies. If there is a better example of the problem here I can’t think of it.