skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, they have a valid point. This was an experiment on human subjects without their consent.

I think this observation raises a further discussion about the gatekeeping, chilling effect of ethics boards. Scott Alexander describes his kafkaesque experience with them here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
And you surely couldn't trust administrators at Portland State to not give a secret warning to a publication when they're all part of the same scam.
It is hard to describe what you are asking.

1-) You must solve a problem of a niche industry.
2-) You should do it very simply because you are one man operation. Don't add too many functions / options so you can maintain it until you grow your "one man" operation.
3-) Pick an industry which won't change very fast so you can actually market your product.

Other than these 3 common things, I can't think of anything until you describe your product a little.
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I had forgotten that one. Here's another that shows some of the complexity of his voice and melody-making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ow45kTJqhg
Mid 90's internet user here.

A lot of CD's in the mail from ISP's and AOL, we'd try a new one out periodically that offered free internet access. For a while we used Juno's free internet tier. It had a permanent pop-up you couldn't remove from your desktop, but it was free internet so we kept it for a long time.

There were also weird local ways of getting online. Our small town had a school supplied ISP type thing. It loaded up a local town bulletin board, and I don't think you could access other sites. Within a few years it was phased out.

The content was sparse, but always engaging. Before there were blogs, people just had sites and the sites had interesting content. As I recall it went far beyond nerd/sci-fi stuff. I remember finding a site that had images of scans of things people put up their rectum, it was wild. I remember going to my local gas station to get a money order to pay for a Japanese Sega Saturn game I bought on Ebay with a money order. I mailed the money order and got the game.

Nothing was openly monetized, but ads were ever present, and by the late 90's pretty hard to avoid. It was hard to imagine the ads would wind up as openly malevolent as they are now, but I guess young kids don't have that type of imagination. I'm sure many saw the writing on the wall.

I miss that internet. That internet immediately reminds me of home. It's an internet that is largely gone, but not because it's destroyed, but because we moved on. We could all still spin up sites in html/css, but we don't. That's ok, time changes and folks move on.
"The three authors, who describe themselves as leftists..."

Is that relevant to the case or just an aside from the story?
I know this isn't really adding anything of value but uhh...
It looks like a butt.
You will get the same mix of somewhat useful information mixed with horseshit from professionals especially in not so clear cut areas like mental health or nutrition. I went through five therapists without improvement to end up with picking up a meditation practice together with some behavior and attitude changes. All these suggestions came from online forums and made a huge difference.

As with everything else, gather as much as information as possible and make up your own mind. Don't believe anything blindly but try it out and see what works for you.

It's the same in tech. I get better information in online forums like this one than I get from most highly paid consultants my management likes to hire.
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I don't know how familiar you are with research in the social sciences, but as wgerard's comment observes, this isn't a trumped-up charge.

They could have done this without claiming that it was part of their university-affiliated research, and thus not fallen foul of ethical guidelines. But they published an official academic paper describing the stunt (afterwards) and claimed that it was a legitimate research project. They can't have it both ways: either it's a rogue hoax carried out outside of their day job, or it has to comply with the rules, which aren't onerous, but do require certain ethical standards to be met.
It can stay in the air for five days already.

Instead of beaming power a fast aircraft could overfly it and drop fuel onto it via a steerable parachute based drone.
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson, 1995) had many eerily prescient visions but I've always liked some of the more subtle ones: the "Neo-Victorians" who put extra value on handmade goods in a world where anything can be printed foreshadowed Etsy and the modern "artisanal" everything, the use of pictogram based language foreshadowed rising use of emojis, the Primer as a source of education accessible to anyone foreshadowed Khan Academy (and maybe YouTube's how-to-anything more generally).
I still have my personal page:

https://www.walterbright.com

It hasn't changed much for 20 years :-)
That seems like an ok solution, but I much prefer mine of just never sign it and trust that no one will realize I never signed it. Best to not put up a fuss but also provide an airtight defense should they ever come after me.
But the problem with actual data fabrication is that it is intended to permanently deceive, in this case the whole point was to publish the fact that these data were not correct.

This is a case where an initial false disclosure (which you seem to think should be taken exactly the same as deliberate, permanent misreporting) is used as a means to bring more verified facts into the world, and zero permanent misinformation; it is no more like false disclosure than pennies are like Moscow Mule mugs.
don't mind me asking. Are you saying that tor is mainly developed / advocated by left leaning groups? Isn't it a tool that can and should be used by all camps, regardless of ideology. e.g. everyone has a right to anonymity or not? Not trolling you or trying to be cheeky, just trying to understand your reasoning better. thx
I agree, shipping full audio tracks is somehow too "easy". Also really love C64 SID music and Amiga tracker music.
> At Eastern Washington, the CS professors admitted that they have to give, without exaggeration, roughly half of their degrees to people that have no idea what they're doing and have only demonstrated incompetence.

This is why we have such stringent interview processes in the software industry. Credentials don't mean anything when a large percentage of graduates aren't qualified to do the work.
The irony... Trump closes govt because of national security concerns (border wall/terrorism)... TSA agents are pretty high on the list of jobs that protect us from terrorism, and I guarantee more important than a damn border wall.
Can't believe it still exists. It is what? Thirty years old now?
"Your efforts to conduct human-subjects research at PSU without a submitted nor approved protocol is [sic] a clear violation of the policies of your employer," McLellan wrote [ungrammatically] in an email to Boghossian.

Maybe his efforts is a violation, maybe they isn't, but hey at least get the grammar right, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at a University.
It sounds like they're complaining about this blog post, where the Tor project disavows use of their software by neo-Nazis, child pornographers, and other assorted deplorable people: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-defends-human-rights...
> there was always something fun about the idea that music directors were practically composing symphonies to be played by individual orchestras on each user's machine

I like this way of looking at it. And with different sound fonts like the original vs the FatBoy sample posted on the site and ITT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMlnxlgpZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3uycgx8FiA

it’s kind of like we get to listen to new interpretations of the music, where the sheet music remains the same but the conductor has told the orchestra to perform it different in terms of instruments used. I think.

Someone who knows about orchestra music and performance correct me if you think what I said was off base. I don’t know whether it is actually the role of the conductor to pick instruments. Wikipedia says:

> The primary duties of the conductor are to interpret the score in a way which reflects the specific indications in that score, set the tempo, ensure correct entries by ensemble members, and "shape" the phrasing where appropriate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conducting

So I don’t know who actually picks the instruments that the orchestra will use.
seriously. this was the first thing i searched for when i came to the comment thread, so i could add it if (somehow) someone hadn't already done so.

best. alias. ever.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897109 (Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?)
IRB approval is a standard requirement for any research done when interacting with human test subjects. The researchers unquestionably didn't apply for IRB approval, and hence they're under scrutiny. No need to dream up conspiracy theories.
There was a $10m XPRIZE for a Tricorder[1] and they awarded a $2.6m prize to Final Frontier Medical Devices in 2017 [2]. We're getting closer.

[1] https://tricorder.xprize.org/prizes/tricorder
[2] https://tricorder.xprize.org/prizes/tricorder/articles/famil...
> which is corrupting academic research

Considering this paper was presumably hoping to bring about better standards in academia, how is this claim supported by the hoax AKA experiment?
I did find it amusing, as the first thing I did seeing the SQL was also run it through my head.
I downloaded Squeak last year, played with it for a while. It's extremely cool. I felt like I grokked OOP for the first time. (And it's much more OOPy than what is usually called OOP) It was the easiest thing I've ever tried to install and use, everything just worked. Most interesting were the design decisions just different (and better, cooler) to what is universal these days. (And a lot of the things that are familiar and universal these days, originated with Smalltalk!) A lot of stuff you can't do between windows or programs nowadays (the stuff Ted Nelson, Alan Kay etc complain about), is natural and easy in Squeak/Smalltalk. Or how it saves the whole state of the system and everything you had open, where you had it, and you can have many of those.. Too many things to mention, but it's a delight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak
I put a hard disk in my original IBM PC in the 1980s and ran it as an RBBS system supporting Datalight/Zortech C for many years.

I still have the disk drive, but no way to read it anymore.
Regarding solar power it's currently hard to fulfill all of the requirements:

- Monocrystalline solar panels would provide as much power as those engines when covering the craft's surface but they're too heavy to be put there.

- Modern thin-film solar cells could be light enough, but would probably provide only enough power for cruising at low speed.

I guess you could replace one of those engines with an electric motor, throw away 1/4 of the fuel tank and this way more or less break-even on weight saving a lot on fuel during the day.
The IRB should not be capable of learning about research conducted on them which amounts to a survey, before said research can commence. It produces an effective tyranny, where the only people who can validate the work of the affiliated institution are at the same time prohibited from doing so.

In my humble opinion, 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. Not approaching the IRB alone should not be an offense.
There seems to literally be a bottomless pit of content-free aphorisms that spew out of the content marketing departments of venture capitalists every year.

Like does anyone read this stuff?

“[The] business of seed investing, and frankly, early-stage entrepreneurship, is so much about getting good information. And almost all of that information, unfortunately, is not published.”

OK cool, thanks. By the way also that's also true of all investing, in anything, ever throughout history. By definition good investment information is unique information, that's the nature of competitive markets.

“Ideas …matter, just not in the narrow sense in which startup ideas are popularly defined. Good startup ideas are well developed, multi-year plans that contemplate many possible paths according to how the world changes.”

Ideas matter. More thoughtful, well developed ideas matter more. Who knew? Another thing that matters is warm clothing, it's really handy.

“What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.”

In ten years everybody will be spending time with their family, apparently.

This era of technology, it seems to be the core theme is about moving beyond bits to atoms.

Thank god, the whole sub-etha thing has been getting pretty tired.

And so on. This article is almost completely devoid of actual analysis or observation, it reads like a fugue on someone's stream of consciousness ramblings
This is pretty similar to what YADM does, except that the repo lives in ~/.yadm and the cli has some facilities for encrypting/decrypting sensitive files. It also has the capability of running a bootstrap script when you first pull down your dotfiles which is super nice if you need to install some software on your machine.
What do you see as the future ~20 years from now?
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One thing to be aware of is that you need a version of git that supports —-worktree.

That may or may not be an issue but the version of git that comes with Ubuntu 16.04LTS for example doesn’t support it.
Are university professors prohibited from submitting official academic papers outside of their university life? If so that sounds like a violation of the first amendment (when talking about state schools anyways).

If not, what made this part of their university life?
In the early 90s the internet wasn't very well known. But when I got on, you'd dial in to a shell with a terminal emulator and it was all Usenet, FTP, Telnet, Email, IRC, Gopher and this new WWW thing was being talked about. Usenet was probably the king of the net at that stage. When I first got on ( I actually did use usenet in the 80s at my dads work, but it wasn't till I could dial up from home did I engage with the internet), it was like discovering this secret world that virtually no one else knew about.

I used FTP, Usenet and Gopher a lot to get information, and while its nothing compared today, in those days it was magic. Instead on being entirely reliant on books and magazines to give you information, you suddenly could start consuming a whole bunch of info for free. It's hard to describe how amazing that felt, it unlocked information for the information starved.

The ability to download software was also amazing. I used to get magazines with disks on their covers with cool things to play with, but now, I could get LOTS of software. ( Also used BBS's for this )

IRC was in the early days when I first went on ( only a few hundred users at any given time on EFnet, the only network at the time) and I made friends all around the world ( including some of the very first IRC users ). At that stage, everyone was equally awed by how you could talk live with people all around the world. Also you got live updates on world events by people who were there. No waiting to hear about things on the news or in the newspaper. Amazing.

Then within a few years, people started making some big money from the internet, and things quickly started to change, peaking with the dot.com boom and bust.
The thing about Lem is that he was reading a lot (I mean, a lot) of scientific journals and later scientific papers (in an interview with him he mentions Soviet "Priroda", "Scientific American", some French and German journals of this type), plus books of Dawkins/Hawking/Penrose
/Shklovsky/Soviet scientists etc., and all of that in 60's-70's-80's

Therefore his predictions are not that much original research/predictions, but rather a good compilation and clever choice of ideas which had appeared earlier in various sci papers. I suspect his quite striking description of "Kindle reader" from 60s was based on some previously read paper/article. Still, it's a very very good prediction as for 60's.

To add to his "predictions": Golem XIV is a philosophical desciption of technological singularity (from 80's), and his Summa Technologiae (from 60's) tackles a ton of then veeery novel stuff, like Machine Learning (a precise description even for today's standards), SETI research, VR, AI, and all of that in a "scientific" way, i.e. concreete and directly based on then published papers, and not simply made as an effect of extrapolation of then current trends (sort-a what Asimov liked doing)
> funded source of journalism because he felt like it.

"motivated to sue Gawker after they published a 2007 article publicly outing him, headlined "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people". Thiel stated that Gawker articles about others, including his friends, had "ruined people's lives for no reason," "

They publically outed him. They've gone after people who had tried to sue them before. Read the book Conspiracy. (0783118457)
and be tried only after a report is received, or
an investigation is started

At that point it's too late to save the victims. Obviously unacceptable, right?

(edit: got two posts backwards, sorry, fixed.)
So the alien civilization has more or less our physics knowledge at some point in time last 600K years.
Well, you can rage against it. You'll be joined by all the people who never want tipping to end because they're intoxicated by the feeling of power they hold over waitstaff as they decide how much to tip.
>If you'd never accept a request from a random user, then you're not doing anonymous messaging.

as mentioned you can use other anonymous channels before you switch to another one such as ricochet. the point isn't to establish authenticity before moving to anonymity but to add a layer of protection that allows you to decide on the rendezvous point and further increase plausible deniability
The web app is a job board with paid postings. It's targetted towards web developers and people that employ/recruit web developers. The cost-per-post is $5. The interface is simple. Anyone could make this.

The questions I have...

1.) What steps are involved given the information I've given above, assuming nothing else?
2.) What kind of strategies would you use when launching?

I figured this would be a fun thought-experiment. Thanks!
iCEbreaker looks pretty great as a starter platform. I hope if it takes off that they offer a larger FPGA core module.

I need to spend some time looking this over.
This is very cool. I hope you get some cool uses out of this.

What's the max frame rate you can get out of the cameras (without tiling)? Are you able to control focus and camera gain?
As a former academic (I left to go back to my startup) the STEM academics need to step in and do something about the whole grievance study area and the related fields it has infected.

The STEM disciplines are the heavy artillery within the university system and when they act on mass over some issue the other side folds. The problem is that the STEM disciplines rarely act on mass over something like this, but the damage to the whole university reputation is now so great that STEM is at risk of losing public support and funding. It is time to act.
Wow I love Tor. It's a sort of technical poem to my faith in humanity.
I run everything on Linux using virtualbox, I don't recommend Wine though. All you need is a decent PC unless you're at school or something. The only problem you will face is USB support for some cases I don't think an average user can setup everything in a matter of minutes, you may need hours even days on researching but in the end you'll be rewarded.
Usenet was awesome back in '89-92.

Best place to find interesting new music and bands. Also miss some of the funny quirky spots like alt.religion.kibology
As someone who has been involved in academia and left-wing activism since the 00's, student politics has at least since then been an extremist cesspool, and looking back through history, it seems that plenty of vicious protests and movements seem to arise in universities. Increasingly, fields targeted by the hoax authors are shrinking, particularly since 2008, which seems to indicate they don't have as much influence in universities as the right-wing would enjoy thinking.
It could be a water bomber for forest fires with its load capacity but slow moving balloons and external flames are not a good combo.
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The rules are not being applied out of a sense of ethical obligation, but rather to punish Boghossian for his views and for causing offense to other academics.

If he had done this outside of his university-affiliated research I bet the university would be investigating him anyway.

I bet the university and the academics he offended would also claim that nothing he publishes happens "outside" his university affiliation because everybody knows he is a professor there, he represents the university, he published articles in academic journals whose editors believed he was doing academic stuff, and so on.
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It's not a satisfactory explanation for the layman, because it still assumes that you know that a package refers to something on npm, and that npx itself is a part of Node/npm.

All it would really need to say is that it requires a recent version of Node.
It's like citing contractor hourly as if it were employee hourly. The wages are feast-or-famine, but we're only counting feast!
That interview begins thus;

"There's many fields of study you can get legitimate degrees in that are absolutely preposterous. Literally filled with nonsense, taught by nonsense people who live in these nonsense bubbles. And then they give these degrees and these people go out in the real world and they infect things; their ridiculousness infects certain, particularly tech industry businesses."

I suspect this view will not be welcome among a large fraction of HN types.

Trumped up accusations that the perpetrators are guilty of unethical research involving human subjects are deeply disturbing. Lysenko would be proud.
Wikipedia has a nice article with pics on the bamboo trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norry
> The rules are not being applied out of a sense of ethical obligation, but rather to punish Boghossian for his views and for causing offense to other academics.

This seems like a bit of a leap. What evidence is there for this being the case?
Collaborate with a second lab at another institute. Get approval from one IRB to run the study against the other. Problem solved, everything aboveboard.
One useful alias I have not seen mentioned here is this:

alias myip='curl -s https://api.ipify.org'

Just prints out my current public IP address. I also have a bunch of others mentioned in this thread, and I've abbreviated a bunch of self-explanatory docker-compose commands, e.g. dcdown, dcup, dcrestart, dcpullup, etc
That is like saying The Onion fabricates reporting to fool your aunt on Facebook. These people are just embarrassed they got taken by an obvious work of satire.