skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the research in this area is misleading, I'd even maybe say poorly conducted, and I worry it will be taken too much at face value by policy-makers and administrators.

The conclusion that institutition doesn't matter, for example, seems ridiculous and flies in the face of a lot of IO research. People move for reasons, for example; the question isn't whether productivity changes after a move on average, it's what would have happened to an individual researcher if they had stayed in a given situation relative to what would have happened after a move to another situation. There's a lot of cliques, the moves aren't random, etc.

It's a bit like concluding that you can determine the importance of a paper solely by looking at the impact factor of a journal.
Many ads have in tiny print "for illustration purposes only, do not attempt", ie. when showcasing some fantasy use-case of the product.

That copy should really be "for deception purposes only".
Ford GT Mk II Supercar Worth $1.2M Is Banned from the Streets
When I'm writing the book (www.anotherbookondatascience.com) I always try to avoid the usage of tidyverse and got some criticism. But now I feel supported.
we haven't seen the last device from Microsoft that are capable of making phone calls.
Coloring appears to have worked for distinguishing between USB 2 and USB 3, at least in my experience.
New addition to every EULA: "XYZ Corp is a member of the Rand-Turing coalition, an industry cooperative dedicated to the philosophical belief that all human beings are robots. Based on this, every interaction you have with us will be an interaction with a robot. By signing this license agreement you agree that all members of our corporation from the lowest janitor up to the CEO, are all robots."
> how can we make this person love the shit out of this thing for as long as possible

"I know! Let's add every feature and bullet point under the sun!"
Except:

1. No one does that, or has the ability to do that except the Russians [0]
2. Much less hazardous is still tons of extremely dangerous stuff that will last 100 k years. [1]

[0] fast breeders. I know you can re-process fuel for normal nuclear reactors. But that doesn’t give you: “less hazardous and only needs to be stored for a much shorter time” waste

[1] to a first approximation linger lived isotopes are less dangerous. But the conclusion that they’re not a problem is not correct:

- An isotope that lives 100k years is incredibly radioactive!
- these isotopes can produce children that are very short lived, and therefore nasty (think short lived radon, produced from geologically decaying isotopes)

Edit: spelling of “extremely”
This highlights why golf is such a great sport. Four hours of emotional rollercoaster spent in nature your friends (or other members at your club you just happen to go the round with).
While I agree there are plenty of issues in academia among which too much emphasis on IF is certainly a thing, it does provide a helpful filter (or prior, if you will) to quickly assess whether some material is worth your time. In this case, stuff in low-IF journals that are virtually unknown in the community (e.g. there are a few journals like Bioinformatics that are also fairly low-IF but very well respected), whose conclusions can't help but provide ammunition for a political point, all accompanied with commenters hinting that there's some grand omerta in the community (lol, as if we didn't already have problems pushing the obvious stuff like climate change first), all of that adds up to something rather suspicious.

Please don't regurgitate common talking points about academia issues if you're just trying to score points in support of a fringe political position, that's not at all the direction we (as scientists that are critical of academia) want to go.
> Black olives are totally not a "California invention" either, and they're totally fine (except perhaps just those sold in California).

There's a particular kind of processed olive sold in the US as "black olives" which I think this is referring to. If you haven't had one, imagine... imagine that you need to eat an olive, but you hate olives and everything about them, so you invent something that's the shape of an olive but not.
You are not wrong but he's not either. The science of science, or metascience, is a field of epistemology, is a philosophy of science. They are all part of the same thing.
Venezuela is giving petro to its youth, inadvertently pushing them to Bitcoin
I get it that this guy needs to sell books, but the reason why Benjamin Rush isn't as well known as other founding fathers, is that he wasn't terribly important.

As Surgeon General to the Continental Army, he undermined Washington and was dismissed. (And after the war recanted.)

As a physician, he went to his grave favoring bloodletting and mercury tablets as treatments.
Ask them to reverse all transactions from 12-15 years ago.
That would fall under OP's “otherwise render harmless” clause: there are proposals for managing this but currently at least the United States has a problem with waste being stored in places which weren't designed for it. Storage and reprocessing really needs to be demonstrated as a reliable working system before many people are going to be comfortable expanding capacity.
If one believes the rumors the 2019 Air that will ship this fall will be first macbook with new keyboard type.
Instead of throwing away your Pi4, could you please send it to me?
Decent critiques in my opinion. I was trained on/learned base-R myself ~10 years ago and love the "tidyverse" (although the author is correct, data.table is superior for big data and its not particularly close). Can't imagine people that only know tidyr/dplyr/etc without knowing base-R, seems like those people would get exposed quickly.

I enjoy base-R solutions where I can. I use data.table when my data sets are medium-ism. But like most people, my data is small and people just call it big and thus the attraction to dplyr in particular. Those chained pipes are addicting.

Always love seeing R discussion on HN, seems to be taboo though (not a 'real' language and all that).
setup a pi-hole. page loads super quick then...
The situation has been slowly been getting worse and worse (it has a boiling frog aspect to it). And I think that's why I put up with it for a long time. But if I compare what I had in mind (startup mode in which we spending the vast majority of our time working) when we started working and the current situation, it's night and day.
Unfortunately that isn't ideal because the domains do resolve from the outside. I want my laptop to resolve to my router away from home, but to the actual computer inside the NAT when I'm home.

Maybe I just need IPv6.
Highly recommend Jekyll/GitHub pages for static sites.

Many people recommend Jekyll/Hugo/Vue-press + Netlify as well.
"Asian" is too broad to be a useful descriptor of ethnicity or culture.
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Disposable Firefox
Sometimes they pay other companies not to make the unpatented drug: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/mergers-comp...

More tricks here:
https://hbr.org/2017/04/how-pharma-companies-game-the-system...
Maybe you could say a little bit more about what you plan to do?
That's dangerous advice in many areas of the United States. In NYC if a police officer finds any kind of folding knife, regardless of how harmless, if he wants to arrest you he probably can under NYPD's absurd perversion of the law by considering it possession of a drop knife. If the officer can open the knife by holding it and flicking it open via inertia then he can arrest the victim for possession of a drop knife. They usually don't hold the handle to try and flick it open either, they'll hold it from the tip of the blade as that makes it very easy to just arrest anyone with a pocket knife.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372404

The first man mentioned in that article was convicted and sentenced to 6 years in prison on the sole charge of possession of this knife.

https://www.amazon.com/Sheffield-12113-One-Hand-Opening-Lock...
I would have just ignored them. Let them sue a non-existent company, let them win, who cares? You can't collect from a defunct company.
I worked PayPal Trust & Safety in my rebellious youth, and I wouldn't use PayPal now if you paid me to do so.
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If the UK disapproves I'll be sure to use it! Only gotcha is screw this per-application stuff, will want the whole computer doing it. But that shouldn't be too hard to rig up on Linux.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-huitema-quic-dnsoquic-05 oooo.

https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy does a few good protocols.
I'll be holding on to my 2012 MacBook Pro until they switch to a different kind of keyboard. If they don't, then I'm getting a Surface instead.
define "from scratch".

As the saying goes, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
In Helm you can go back and forth as much as you want. Sometimes you end up in a dark alley, and you are just key press away from stepping back out and trying somewhere else.
It's interesting that people would like Elixir without understanding OTP.
You're welcome heymijo :)
Why do only the Russians have the ability to reprocess these fuels?
> Is EMV contactless not a thing in Japan?

Not really, at least as we know it. Contactless in Japan is very popular, but doesn't use EMV. Most terminals in Japan use a Sony-derived standard called Felica (also known as NFC Type F), which is different to EMV (Type A and Type B). Felica is used both for transit systems (Pasmo, Suica, etc) and payments.

EMV readers do exist, but are typically used solely by international travelers and thus are commonly found at airports or restaurants. Square readers are quite popular for this purpose.
Easy to say.

I can't imagine doing signaling and having to build a spec.
How do you think the average enthusiast is going to figure out that their Pi4 no longer works because of the USB-C cable they're using?

Presumably they're going to search for pi 4 does not power on and get their answer as the first search result[1]. You know, the same way the average enthusiast figures out the other twenty seven roadblocks they stumble on during their RPi project.

Not to minimize that it'll be an issue for those people who don't happen to have a compatible charger laying around.

[1] For me, at the time of posting: https://hackaday.com/2019/06/28/power-to-the-pi-4-some-charg...
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner describes (extremely well, it´s a great book to read btw.) the evolution of Finch beaks on the Galapagos Islands. There was one particular Finch/beak size that had relatively small families and population growth, and was clearly being outcompeted by other, better adapted Finches.

Until there was a severe drought, when that type of beak was able to take advantage of a neglected source of foods, which wasn´t accessible to the other Finches - who were more sucessful, but only when there was abundant easy food. After the resultant die-off this particular Finch subtype dominated of course.

A lot of the discussion of evolutionary traits implicitly assumes an adaption to an unchanging environment, but that is very unlikely to be the actual situation, especially as in adapting, the adaption itself can change the larger environment.
Sheesh, 20 years ago I had a static IP, along with my own server running web, mail, and DNS servers, in my apartment.

Either things are more complicated these days, or I just got tired of running it. Probably the latter. Then again, doing something like putting a downloadable file on Wordpress is difficult. It was easy on my own server.

At least I still have a static IP and my old domain name.
As if millions of Facebook accounts cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
I second this. I had a friend asking me to join his business and I said: "I'm sorry but I don't feel comfortable working (seriously) with friends because I don't want to ruin the relationship and also I don't want to feel bad if I want to leave". Plus you wouldn't feel comfortable asking for raises etc.
There is also ongoing work on LFTR reactors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reac... which are much simpler and safer than reactors using solid uranium, because they have only fraction of fuel of solid reactors, do not have any pressurised containers, and have stable rate of reaction.

Two experimental reactors of this type have worked in 60s, but technology was abandoned because it didn't produce the isotope of plutonium used in nuclear weapons.
If it’s confusing, just don’t use it. They could have stuck with a micro-B charger, or a custom charger, and no one would have questioned it. Instead, they decided they were confident enough in their understanding of USB-C to implement it on their device. And they were wrong.
wrt your edit - we can all be assholes, not-so-benevolent dictators of this and that. recognizing it as such is not toxic.
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The other guy has his own project and he is kicking ass (good coder, works a lot, interested in roughly the same topics as I am). So I doubt he would switch from his project to mine, although I thought he may when we started flatsharing. I think this is a possibility if my project takes off and his flattens out, but I'm not counting on that. The most likely scenario is that I continue on my own for a while.
Yup, login is a no-go for me, especially since they want to tie to a Google login. That's an absolutely no-go.

But I do appreciate them telling me about the competition, so that I can use them.
Gatekeeping is the only way communities can keep themselves healthy. There is no such thing as a universal 'community'.

From day one, life has been about letting in certain elements, and keeping out others. Without this selection, development and differentiation are impossible. Similarly we don't (and shouldn't) let every person into our homes, or our countries, or our servers. Why is it seen as an obvious truth that we should allow every single person onto the Internet, without ever being able to remove them?
Science of science is metascience aka meta-research. Applying scientific method to science.

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

http://metrics.stanford.edu/

Epistemology is philosophy of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Epistemologists don't use methods that would make it science.
The Bering straight is not very wide.
Lol, at least the casinos I’ve been to in the US are nothing like this at all. Like basically the polar opposite.
A brief history–and future–of credit scores
>Unless you are super rich, good luck buying Lamborghini

where in the world is this otherwise?
I like Dokuwiki.

Not static, but easy to backup (plain text instead of database), many plugins, article versioning, easy editing (even on the mobile phone), a servicable, if unexciting, design that's mobile friendly.

If you want to be productive, and "productive" does not mean building web software (which is fine!), worry less about the software and write more.
Plus now you can overclock it to do it even faster... A bit meta ;)
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This is cool. Seems odd that it starts with the X230/T430 generation though.

The 220's are still very popular especially with the crowd that would find this interesting or useful.
The fix is to not pass the law in the first place. Regulation generally favors incumbents.
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I'm guessing at least part of it is different smart tab behavior, but I've opened files to find chunks that were indented with double tabs (as in one indent level was done as two tabs) in the middle files that were otherwise single tab indented and even weirder stuff that I suspect is because of somebody indenting wrapped text.

(Yes, poor QC and Dev ops went along with it.)
As a $50, $60, $70 computer, it's still an incredibly cheap computer.
> you can't always trust the specs promised on Amazon either.

didn't realize amazon is the arbiter of all knowledge hardware..
Paradox CEO defends studio's continuous DLC model as 'fair and balanced'
With USB 3 isn’t the other end of the cable usually different as well?
Not that much. You don't have to maintain a lower temperature in the entire house, just a single room. Get a room air conditioner.
Idle curiosity: what are some of the "films that are public domain in Australia, that won't reach public domain in America for another fifty-seventy years, and vice versa"?
Your source agrees with my source: gimp is a word used to refer to a person with a disability.
Tidyverse was nearly the only thing I really liked about R. The syntax is quirky, it's full of cruft, and unpleasant to make full programs out of. But if I used a new package, I knew instantly how to use it.
This is a problem with big cities. There are no public spaces. Even less private spaces for free.

Recently, I was in Barcelona and was surprised to see a bunch of teenagers cramped together sitting on the pavement in a shopping mall. At first, as an old person that I am, I thought that they were up to something. But, they were having fun, laughing and having a good time. The only park had no trees and few banks anyway. So, it was better to sit on the floor somewhere in the shadow that to sit on the floor under the sun.

Even more interesting was the fact that the place had a lot of empty chairs. But, those ones were for paying customers.

If it is so hard to find a place to sit with friends much more difficult is to find a place where to sit alone. Some libraries are ditching the focus on books to just offer a space to study together or alone.

If I have criticised USA cities for being designed for cars European (and Japanese also) cities are designed for businesses.

Stockholm is one of the few cities where I have seen a focus on parks and outdoor pastimes. Ironically, it is only available two or three months a year as usually is too cold to be confortably sitting outsite.
Ever since the very first model, sub-par, underrated power supplies have been responsible for a good slice of tech support issues with the Pi. It wouldn't be a real Pi launch without power issues.

IIRC the Pi 3B+ was butting up against (if not exceeding) the maximum rated current for the microUSB port, so I believe the switch to USB Type-C is more about picking a port that can handle a 3A@5V supply than a conscious effort to support the dozens and dozens of terrible and near arbitrary USB Type-C supplies on the market (some output 12V with zero negotiation. You know- for giggles). I'd be surprised if they tested with more than a couple of staff phone chargers and their own-brand chargers. I can't imagine the idea of anyone using an expensive power-delivery enabled dock with a thick, 40cm Thunderbolt 3 cable really entered their minds.

My advice to anyone buying a Pi 4 would be "Just buy a Pi-branded power-supply. They're inexpensive and guaranteed to work." Granted you might want to save a few bucks and use your phone charger... but then what are you going to use to charge your phone?
If you're in the US, you don't need to worry about landlords to install AC; as long as the room has a window, you just buy a window AC unit and stick it in.
I don't know if it's possible with third party software (I use a hardware programmable keyboard running QMK), but I map it to tap for escape, hold for ctrl. If you use vim keybindings for your editor it's glorious.
A long time ago, as part of a "Industry Study Visits"-course at university, we went to visit Asea-Atom and were told about the "PIUS" reactor ("Process Inherent Ultimate Safety"). Supposedly the construction was "passively safe" (i.e., breakdown of cooling pumps etc would not matter.) The idea was to have the reactor encased in an open pipe contained in a larger (closed) tank with borated water. Using stable stratification, the non-borated water was more or less
kept contained in the inner pipe using density locks; if something would go wrong the borated water would get sucked in and and shut the reactor down.

The engineers were very optimistic about selling this even as small municipal thermal power plants (for heating water) very close to city centers. The idea of passive safety is quite beatiful, but it seems
no PIUS reactors were produced. Rosatom seems to have had some success.

More info about PIUS can be found at

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...

https://www.euronuclear.org/e-news/e-news-17/nps-kth.htm
I think it's fair to say that changing requirements coupled with a limited amount of time results in non-incidental complexity.

It's a systemic problem that results when the entire leadership stack isn't aware of how good software is created. Because of the limited amount of time and resources given, quite often it's a business/management problem.

And that's not to say that it isn't also a software dev problem. We've all seen some horrific things. But I've also seen horrific things because there was no one senior there because they wouldn't pay enough for it.

it's all intertwined, there's not a simple explanation. But changing requirements is definitely a source of complexity.
“Bots are not people” - ok, but if they’re written by people for a specific intent meant as speech, is that no longer protected speech? If I program a bot to chant slogans on Twitter, isn’t that something I’d have the right to do?

I’d argue yes, but where they may have an argument is where I respond “no I am human” if people ask me about being a bot - intentionally misleading.

They may have more luck here in the commercial space where they can better regulate and enforce these ruleS like advertising and other sales practices. Not sure where this goes in politics or other domains at all in terms of enforeceability.
It's hard at this point to feel any more anger about the way my government behaves.

We crossed the Rubicon for so many reasons.
The CUE Data Constraint Language
That is a good number of trees in a backyard. But it's hardly a microclimate. I imagine that I get more cooling from the (considerably larger) trees in my backyard. And it's nothing like the several degrees of cooling you get in a forest.

Further, I don't see what those trees have to do with the article's advice about native plants.

Surburbia might well be wonderful if that sort of backyard were the norm -- if we ditched the whole 19th and 20th century flight from urban agriculture -- I wouldn't mind being able to have a pig or a goat in the backyard, myself. But this article doesn't seem to have anything to do with that topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362479
You seem to have taken this to mean that only weak or 'lesser' people go into therapy, but I think it's pretty clear what the OP meant: That this sort of institutional treatment is a sort of gaslighting. They convince you that because of a simple personality difference that there must be something deeply wrong with you and that you need therapy. The thing that makes someone 'lesser' in this instance is that they fail to recognize the gaslighting and stand up for their own rights.