skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that there is a misunderstanding regarding the role of academic publishing. Before the Internet era, the only way to make your work known to other scientists was to publish it in a journal—prestigious if possible. Journals were a medium to spread scientific information and make it available.

Nowadays the situation is very much different. For example, there are preprint repositories such as arXiv where researchers can publish papers with very little oversight[1]. The journals don't serve the role of making information available anymore. Their main role is to act as a filter for scientific information, and the reputation of a journal signals whether it's a high-pass or a low-pass filter. Researchers want to publish in prestigious journals since it signals that their work is high quality, and it gives greater exposure to their work—prestigious journals have a broader reader base than unknown journals.

This considered, the author got a point. In experimental domains of science such as Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology (and sometimes even Math! [2]), reproducibility is of paramount importance and publishing negative results helps both researchers save time by not doing repeated work and avoid statistical bias in meta studies.

In fact, what the author of this article implicitly looks for already exists![3] But they usually fail to gain traction, and this for a precise reason: writing and publishing a paper takes a great amount of time. Publishing a paper in favor of the null hypothesis usually does not bring much recognition, and the time could instead be used to research or write the next paper.

What can be done then? A solution could be to create a platform where scientific results can be made available without the whole publishing overload. No literature review, no verbose explanations, only "what we did" and "what we got". And if possible, in a machine-readable format. Any fellow HNers?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv#Controversy

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0749

[3] http://www.jasnh.com/
How does that actually work ? It takes only one thief to steal the entire box of payments.

Do they have hidden camera to dissuade people of stealing the box ?
Or alternatively they didn't want to join the dots.
That sucks. Did you open source it, at least?
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You can support FF with your wallet now! ;)

https://donate.mozilla.org/
Sure, every generation has had its own challenges, there are cracks where new ideas can grow
It is! At least on the version I played from Steam :)
I've tried this software and it is super practical, it outputs a nice h264 encoded mp4 file. Configuring video FPS (currently defaults to 15) and having an option 'correspond to device pixel ratio' would be nice though.
Rentals are cheaper. I can get a nice 1br in mid-levels for ~20k HKD (i.e. $2.5k). In SF these days, I'm not getting a decent 1br in a desirable location under $4k. My $3.5k rent was considered way under market.
> perhaps performing computations is to studying computation as observing the universe through a telescope is to studying it.

This is an interesting thought, but the two seem fundamentally different in nature (active vs passive).
That's it. You can get to a terminal and play Maniac Mansion pretty early on in Day of the Tentacle.
The Troubles certainly got pretty close and are the best rebuttal to the idea of British stability, yes. And that unfortunate partition of India thing.
For Many Germans, Cash Is Still King
I predict almost no sales. Imagine trying to make a dent in $500M selling a browser you can also largely download for free, with arguably better (to the average consumer) competing browsers, which are also free.

Mozilla keeps building stuff nobody wants and employing a thousand or more people to affect that pointless effort.

What Mozilla needs is not a new, paid product; what Mozilla needs is new management that understands what the point of Mozilla is.
As a former engineer building LTE base stations - the title is extremely misleading.
Oh. I entirely misunderstood, then. I stand corrected.
> Now the problem is that Google web apps are tuned for Chrome, so users will complain their gmail is slow on FF.

I've heard this argument often, but it does not really resonate with me well. I've always used Gmail in Firefox and never noticed it being especially slow. I just tried it now and emails open seemingly instantly when I click on them. It feels quicker than ~100ms on average and certainly not slower than 200ms even for the occasional large email or hiccup. I just don't see how this can be used as a reasonable metric for choosing a browser.
Remastered has it too. Steam version even has achievements for doing things that require you to get a small way through the original.

Agree on not needing to play Maniac Mansion first, too. I came to the original having no idea that MM even existed. The characters and story are great even if you don't know the references.
I am really amazed that each video call app doesn't have an option that adjusts look of the eyes of the person you are talking to so they seem to be directed at you.

There's no magic in how people look when they look at you. All the magic of feeling when someone is looking at you happens in the recipient's brain.
Machines battling to death in hopes of evolving to become more human somewhat reminds me of Nier: Automata, just without the cute robot girls and boys. Instead, we've got adversarial networks generating ads. As always, science fiction sets overly romantic standards.
Such levels of incompetence in such a industry, suggests another kind of malice.
Blender addons are written in Python and routinely break between Blender versions (2.8 broke basically every existing addon because of API churn). If there is not even compatibility between Blender versions, there is no chance compatibility will be maintained with random proprietary programs.

Also many of the features are quite different than their equivalent elsewhere (armatures for instance).
I submitted this for discussion because of the "Opinion about bug bounties" section at the bottom of the post. It was interesting to read about the wide variety in quality of responses to an open source bug bounty.
One potential remedy: turn the camera on, with consent of course. Audio optional.

It puts a damper on trust, but at least it helps reduce risk for both parties if there are genuine concerns.
I'd say it's somewhere in between.

It can't incompetence because there will absolutely be engineers and designers who knew of the risks inherent to moving the CG and CoL and the deeper concerns of replacing these risks with a software solution (MCAS) which can relieve a human pilot of control. There is no way any self-respecting engineer with enough design influence would have been ignorant of the potential risks with this design.

It's probably not malice either because people generally aren't evil - especially those building planes which carry humans.

In saying that tho, there was almost certainly a "trade off" decision which was made, and thoroughly justified which traded safety for something else: most likely project delivery schedule. Was this motivated by economic reasons? Who knows. But the trade-off decision which sacrificed safety (even if in largely unknown, distant terms) would have definitely been there and was certainly a conscious decision. IMHO.
If they don't like it, why are they doing it? For every rational labeller, it must be better than every other option available to them. Perhaps you're saying the workers are irrational and need some outside for to stop them doing this job? Like it's an unhealthy addiction or is limiting their future opportunities?
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More to the point, nuclear power generates when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing.
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Any comment of the form, "Yes, I am aware that you can do stupid thing X, but I was talking about intelligent thing Y" is rude and a flame.
Never risk your own money. But wasting time doesn't cost anything though. So make sure your expenses are covered, then go at it. And if you are having fun and learning stuff, then it's not a waste of time even if it fails.

But you probably don't want to do it alone. It's better to own 10% of something, then 100% of nothing. Also validate your ideas before doing actual work. For example do a kick-starter, or a signup-page, pitch the idea to possible customers.
So destroy the company, put at least 165k people out of a job as punishment? Can we sell off Airbus for their numerous bribery scandals?[1] Should we destroy Tesla because of their autopilot crashes, battery fires and other mishaps?

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/suspicions-of-...
> If you have a circuit that implements an algorithm, it can beat a program that implements the algorithm for a machine that lacks such a circuit. This is clear.

You can't have all the algorithms implemented in hardware. How well would your CPU work for any algorithm unknown in advance? Would it beat a generic RISC CPU in some generic task, a video codec, for example?

>The Lisp machine processors are far simpler than anything Intel, ARM, or MIPS have been putting out

Do you have any benchmarks comparing Lisp processors to ARMs and MIPS in day-to-day tasks like compression algorithms, codecs, 3d rendering?

> It's my understanding there were implementations of hardware, or at least descriptions thereof, explaining how such a bound could easily be cached and compared in tandem with other operations

Do you have any resources on that? Would it work for complex convolutions (e.g. arrays of arrays of complex nums convoluted with arbitrary kernels)? In my statically typed programming language I know the matrix sizes in advance and could easily omit the runtime checks. Letting the CPU do so, I'm not sure if it would be as efficient as in compile time.

>Why not? It's not unreasonable to expect the machine to have canonical and supported representations for commonly used forms of data and operations on such.

Lists are not the main data structure anywhere beyond Lisp. And lists are frequently used in Lisp because of how Lisp is inexpressive in terms of data structures.

Even in functional languages like ML or Haskell we use other data structures a lot: tuples, maps, hash tables, arrays, some ad-hoc inductive data structures. All of these are more effective when are not implemented in terms of lists. Architecture supporting at least tuples (arbitrary cons cells) would be bloated beyond any reason already. At least if you want them be as effective as cons cells on lisp machines.
The basics of Service Workers: how should our application behave when offline?
Especially with California fires getting to be the new normal, this is worth exploring.
> which means giving up macOS, which I find a more productive environment

Get Ubuntu, install Docky and Macbuntu theme if you want to keep familiar desktop around before you fully convert to Linux.
I do this as well for the moment, but I find it slightly annoying, because it doesn't play nicely with Magit or zsh autocomplete.
> failure mode is discovered and eliminated

Maybe. But it won't be. That's not how corporate engineering works. And there's no appropriate pressure to change this. Boeing have far too much influence over the governing devices that are supposed to apply the healthy pressure which would result in the outcome you describe.
> It's currently heavily focused towards The Netherlands, where citizens can obtain attributes from the Dutch civil registry, such as name, home address and age. These attributes can then be selectively disclosed directly to a relying party, without the identity provider being able to see the transaction [4]. Multiple disclosures are also unlinkable as long as the attributes themselves are not identifying.

The fact that the government is involved in this is utterly amazing to me. Are you aware of the conditions which brought about this situation in The Netherlands? I'm wondering why other governments are not following this example, given the issues we've seen with identifiers like Social Security in the US.
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Competition drives people to push themselves, and can therefore play a useful role in education.
iPadOS Isn't Just a Name. It's a New Direction for Apple
I had a 17" CRT monitor on a 286, with a Trident 8900 SVGA card driving it. Hard to credit in these days, where even using a non SSD equipped computer is painful, I used to happily wait several seconds for Program Manager to repaint itself.
I agree that #MeToo has gone too far and in fact has been weaponized. One example from my own recent experience:

I was a manager of a software development and innovation team at a well-known nonprofit research institute. I hired a fairly junior developer who happened to be female. As it turns out, she took the job just as a stepping stone to another, arguably more prestigious team in my institute. She basically punted on her responsibilities, ignored specific requests and tasks, lied constantly about her progress, demanded that we pay for her art education out of our project budget, and generally did little but get coffee and chat with people on the team she wanted to jump to. Meanwhile I frequently had to clean up her messes and fix what little code she managed to write, at significant personal cost.

After doing all the things a supportive manager should - praising her publicly, coming up with plans to improve performance, being quite encouraging and supportive in our 1-on-1s, and giving her specific warnings about her behavior and performance - it finally came time to fire her. She went literally crying to my boss, who then told me we couldn’t fire her, because we might get sued for sexism, or something. Despite the fact that I treated her with utmost respect and superhuman patience. But since my workplace was raging with #MeToo consciousness (as evidenced on our Slack channels daily, and elsewhere), she got away with it and in fact got exactly what she wanted all along.

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” - Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
Now, when can I get 8-core 15" MacBook Pro without touch bar or 13" MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM? I'd pay premium for non-touch bar option...
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I remember speaking to a guy at a bar. He said he worked at IBM, and wanted me to write the software for an "unhackable" phone, that "never needs to be updated". I think I left shortly after.
The only question that matter is net yield of energy per energy expended vs cost.
And then they end up with vapid, shallow, self-obsessed life philosophies - see, every self-help guru peddling individualistic nonsense.

Part of the purpose of teaching philosophy is you get rigour from actually testing those ideas out in a place where people are going to scrutinise the ideas. That’s why philosophy exists, and history, and a whole load of other humanities subjects.
Yes but not in an absolute way. I think we can only assume that MCAS uses this as one of it's many inputs in order to determine it's flight control logic.
I believe the OP assumed, as a company, Scale means well and that the team is potentially bringing better wages to people who don't traditionally have it.

The outright dismissal of OP's criticisms/comments doesn't allow for a discussion in that data entry is a very tedious job along with maybe there are people who are unhappy with the work but very happy with the pay (which I think is perfectly okay).

The comment reads as "I'm going to tell you off" with the `- and guess what -`.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't do this again, regardless of whether you peaked in high school.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An Assessment of the Connection Machine (1990) [pdf]
Having played with all of this before I have some opinions on a few of these things.

I have half a dozen of those TP-Link routers in a drawer, they're fun to play with and ok for on the go. For traveling I'd stick with one off those over a Raspberry Pi, or better yet, for a nice little upgrade I'd go with one of the GL.INet routers, I have a few of those too and they all support OpenWRT/LEDE. They come with it out of the box (albeit with their GUI on top).

RPi is sensitive to power fluctuations and note great for travelling because pulling the plug a couple of times will likely destroy your micro SD. If you were to use one for travel I'd suggest mounting your microSD read-only for maximum safety. I've been through a dozen or so cards in a static Pi before I switched to ramdisks and read-only root.

Currently I only use my mobile as a hotspot because it's inconvenient and extra cost to have additional SIM/data when my mobile contract offers plenty.
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Isn't the problem there a MITM attack?

In my experience Firefox does detect MITM attacks though.
I've seem the first but what's Blind's url?
If it's that important or urgent, why not use the phone?
Moreover, the C implementation quoted in the article will give a negative -1323752223 after the 46th number (1836311903). So while I understand the author's point, I think this particular example is not a really good choice.
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I tend to agree.

And if this can be traced to someone with influence, how was it possible for the company to be structured so that a single point of failure was possible - that speaks to a larger problem and then puts the senior exec on the chopping block too.
I was extremely frugal with my college decisions and effectively optimized for cheapest option. This is what I did.

1. In high school I took as many AP courses as I could possibly take and realistically pass. I ended up passing 6 of these exams. These exams cost $80 and get you the equivalent of "one course" worth 3 credits. My US history exam gave me 6 credits for 2 full courses! So in total I got 21 units. In effect, I paid $480 to complete 17.5% of my college education!

2. After graduation, I did not go directly into college. Instead, I skipped one semester and then used CLEP exams to knock out an additional 5 exams. These are exactly the same as AP exams but you basically self-study for the subject. The subjects you study are basically general education subjects like sociology or psychology. I got an additional 15 units from these exams for a total cost of about $500. At this point. I have completed 30% of college education for a cost of $980.

3. I apply to a community college and am subsequently accepted. All of my AP + CLEP exam credits are accepted. I then complete another 24 units at the community for a total cost of about $2,400. I don't fully recall what the cost was but this was on the high end estimate. At this point, I am basically 50% done with my college for a total cost of $3,380.

4. I apply to a state university which I am accepted to and then complete the last 60 units for my BA degree. I don't recall fully what the cost is completely but I would estimate it to be about $3,000 per semester. So estimated total cost for my BA degree was $15,380.

These numbers are just for the tuition and books. I lived at home the entire time, commuting to school. I also was working full time the entire time and paid cash for everything. Never had any student loans. When I graduated it took me about 4 months to find a job paying 52k per year. Major was accounting and I live in Southern California.

Most important thing is to make sure to use the resources that are available to you. AP and CLEP are EXTREMELY value resources to you. It just boggles my mind when I talk to people who complain about their student loans then I ask them if they took AP or CLEP exams. Some of them say they never even heard of these programs....are you kidding me?
That’s correct... but I ran away screaming the second I realized how deep they could dig into my financial logs.

Luckily for the German merchant, they also provided an IBAN I could copy-paste into the transfer form.
> You need decentralized apps for centralized identity to work I think. Ironic I guess.

Can you expand on this? I don't see how that conclusion follows.
Is recursion really that good? It seems calculating those once and storing results in array and then only accessing the array would be best.
That's not close to an accurate description of HN's front page. Please don't use HN for nationalistic flamewar.
Ahem! Born in 2001.
I would be sceptical that anyone wouldn't want to join the dots if it meant that their most popular product stayed popular and they didnt end up with blood on their hands after many many people died because those dots remained unjoined.

At worst it might be plausible that in a very specific scenario some people knew about enough of those dots that they knew it would be a PITA to go back and make everything right, but they almost certainly didn't know about enough of those dots to actually understand the scale of their fuck up there.

In which case I would say it's still a matter of someone not joining the dots, it's just makes them moderately more culpible, then steeply more incompetent the more of those dots they knew about but still didn't flag as problems.
They do make airplanes that don’t kill people. More people die per mile in cars than have ever died in airplanes. The train fatality rate in the United States is higher than that of airplanes — the majority of those airplanes being Boeing. More people died in cars yesterday than in all of 2018 for Boeing. And given fatalities per mile, air travel on Boeing airplanes is safer than any other form of transportation. Suggesting that Boeing makes planes that “kill people,” is about as ridiculous as saying that Specialized makes bikes that kill people. The safety record of American aviation is unmatched — and most of those planes are Boeing. Let’s tamp down on the hyperbole.
Upgrade your drive with a dedicated mSATA adaptor (you can still get Samsung 1TB mSATA drives). That could boost your performance.
> My thought is not to restrict anyone from doing anything. Rather that, for example, any profit-seeking entity can use any code, but that that profit-seeking entity must pay a standard and proportional fee to the license-holder of that code, generally its author(s) and/or maintainer(s).

Well, so you are effectively restricting the field of endeavor. People who want to do business with the code licensed this way can no longer do so without having to pay while all others still can use the code freely. I don't think there's much room for interpretation as to whether this fulfills the term "discrimination".

What you can do instead is dual-license your code, offering more "favorable" terms in a second proprietary/commercial license to businesses. However, this usually comes with the caveat that licensees of the commercial license can now do proprietary changes without having to give them back to the community.

> the GNU/GPL don't qualify as "open source" software.

> It is to laugh.

What? I am afraid you are misinterpreting the text and/or confusing the terms of the General Public License. This says you should not place restrictions on the licenses of other software contained on the same medium. It doesn't say anything about derivative work. Why would this mean the GPL doesn't qualify as an open source license?

Here's a list of all OSI approved licenses: https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical