skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-citation or clique-citation is only problematic if it doesn't fulfil its main purpose of providing relevant references. This should not be a surprising statement. But we just read an article where that property of citations is a sideshow. We got to the point where citation scores are bandied about without even asking the main question: "Well are the papers any good?" And now I worry that papers could get worse simply because of a citation-inflation.

I'm currently reading "The Systems Model of Creativity;
The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi" and was really surprised at the rate of self-citation in the included papers. Now it does seem to me that the cited studies are relevant. And I can't judge whether there would have been papers from other authors even better suited for citing.

And why am I even reading that book? Well because of the persistence with which Csikszentmihalyi gets cited in other writings I read. How do I know these writers weren't shills for Csikszentmihalyi? I don't care all that much when the material is good.

So in the end should I care about backwater publications that cite themselves excessively? Because I don't have to read them. As a consumer I don't seem to get hurt by the practice.
So are you saying they staged seven fires, or that after 7 of 240 installations caught fire they only sued because of their conflicting interests?

Tesla installed 29 MW of solar last quarter, compared to a peak of 253 MW at Solar City before the acquisition. First Solar, which isn't an apples to apples competitor since it specializes in utility scale, is on track to produce 1375 MW per quarter of panels this year.

Tesla's solar business is dead. They might turn it around with the solar roof product, but if that succeeds it will make Tesla Energy even less of a competitor to First Solar, since it has zero relevance to utility scale solar.

Even if Walmart had evil intent, why give Solar City the PR boost of hundreds of installations in the hope that they'll fail and they can later sue?

It's easy to make a nice conspiratorial quip, but there's nothing of substance here. Jumping at every shadow just numbs you for when you really should be angry.
That's ok, those ones aren't real.
My guess is it would be much slower, because GPU processor would wait for data. Compare bandwidth - system RAM to GPU memory (PCIe): 16GBps vs GPU memory to GPU processor: 900GBps.
I dont know anyone who knows dan who thinks hes an asshole.
I guess we will have to learn how to live without a competitor that brings people together. Otherwise where can we get a replacement for the Soviet Union that scares people enough? China?
I still avoid SourceForge links because of that annoying 'Your download will start shortly...' interstitial.
I look at the university radio station playlists: https://www.earshot-online.com/charts/citr.cfm some schools still have these.

All of those bands will be on bandcamp or youtube, like Devours: https://youtu.be/6klgNfSsmoM or Orville Peck: https://youtu.be/q3esGD6lcMM
The possibilities for those with disabilities is remarkable. You wouldn't have to map everything to be useful, just common routes.
>totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket losses, Walmart said in the lawsuit.

This amount is immaterial for each party involved.
The economic impact of closing the racial wealth gap
Except that most items are basically horseshit. I am appalled by the FSF's standards.
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> But you're right chronic tick-borne illnesses don't exist.

Why the snarky sarcasm? My comment is hidden now, but I thought I said they do exist, and that the pseudoscience is in the chronic, longterm antibiotic treatments.

But your reaction is exactly what parents of kids with autism said: I saw my child get autism after a vaccination. I am it. It happened to me.

Tick diseases do exist, and they have great (conventional) treatments. It can be very difficult to get the right diagnosis, and for your doctor to make the diagnosis.

There are a lot of people out there selling very expensive and completely inappropriate treatments, and it has created endless confusion on the part of the patients who are suffering. It's unconscionable, and when the patients/victims are so convinced that they campaign for it, it's downright tragic.

Just consider how exhalted Andrew Wakefield was by his patients in the day.

Regardless: I'm sincerely happy that you're getting much better.
> I wonder how many of these papers are where the first author has cited other papers where they are the first author.

Also, it's worth mentioning that countries which support PhD via publication essentially require you to conduct self-citing research. This is to show you've had a common thread between your research, and that the PhD can be defended as to have all the papers be considered to be on the same subject.
>And guess what, you even need complex numbers.

Complex analysis was definitely interesting. I hope there was an award for whomever figured out the easiest way to integrate some real-to-real functions was by side-stepping into imaginary numbers
Actually not the UK government nationalised most of the Uk's private telecom businesses before WW1
I think Animats' argument is that capitalism isn't getting those tweaks because there's no competition. Capitalism as a system has a near-monopoly. Back when it had serious competition from the Soviet Union, people tried much harder to make it work better.

Exactly. This led to much government regulation to keep big business from getting too heavy-handed. See the previous price discussion on insulin pricing for a modern example. Although drug prices have not been regulated, until recently there was an assumption that blatant overcharging would lead to government action. It didn't.

Unions used to have much more power in the US. They had money and votes. Business only had money, and couldn't use it directly without being accused of bribery.

Many little, and not so little, restrictions that used to keep businesses from getting too greedy have been removed in recent decades. Glass-Stegall, which kept banks and brokerages separate. Far fewer restrictions on banks. The removal of the restriction on "gambling" in stock markets, which limited derivatives. Allowing interstate branch banking. Repeal of the Utility Company Holding Act. The NYSE allowing multiple classes of stock (like Facebook, Google, etc.). Weakened telecom regulation. Weakened labor law enforcement. Unregistered hedge funds. Pension funds being allowed to invest in hedge funds. The Interstate Commerce Commission. The Civil Aeronautics Board. The list goes on.
You jest, but someone's been vandalizing stop signs in my area with bumper stickers that read something about "they're putting fluoride in the water!"

It amuses me somewhat, because most of the people here are either on wells or the water coop, and AFAIK the latter only chlorinates. But, education never stopped a good conspiracy from roping in true believers...
Why use a system where you have to check if you put garbage in?
I remember reading books a lot. I have two brothers, so playing with them and with toys. We also went out to play in the snow a lot.
Are you working on a Linux system? I have the opposite experience with Sourcetree and Gitkraken on Windows -- git is the least responsive tool I use.
14% of chronic Lyme patients report being initially misdiagnosed with MS and roughly 2% are misdiagnosed with other neurologic diseases, like ALS, Parkinson’s and Multiple systems atrophy.

I think it's worth it to check it out.

https://www.lymedisease.org/lymepolicywonk-lyme-neurologic-m...
I haven't used Qmail since 1999 maybe, I don't miss it at all but its kinda nice that some people have modernized DJB's code.
Louise Elizabeth Maher-Johnson is a retired English teacher and current regenerative farmer, who raises heritage chickens at Skyhill Farm
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This is basically how Texas sells electricity.[1] I'm not an expert on it but it makes a ton of sense.

Of course, it may be easier to do this for electricity, where the fundamental technology doesn't change quickly anymore (as far as I know), than for internet connectivity, where we are still undergoing fairly rapid technological change, relatively speaking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_elec...
...until summer rolls around...

Having worked from home when only a partner OR 2 kids were present, I can only imagine the additional pressure faced by that situation.

But speaking as a single parent of school-aged kids, summer vacation is... a challenge.
> If the assertion is that if Apple has to pay $10B/year more in taxes, than they will raise the price of their products $10B/year and keep a fixed profit, that assumes there is complete price elasticity.

No, I'm not assuming that. The quantity sold will decrease, of course, if the price increases. That is a hidden cost paid by prospective buyers who must now do without the good, complementing the more visible cost paid by those who continue to purchase the good at the higher price. A company's profitability (ROI), on the other hand, is relatively fixed—in the end all investments tend toward zero economic profit, or equivalently a level of accounting profit equal to the opportunity cost of the investment, assuming even a moderately competitive market. Higher-than-average profitability invites competition, while on the opposite side if profitability is low then investors put their money elsewhere and the business closes. There is some variation due to factors like brand recognition, other natural or artificial monopolies, and risk, but generally speaking a corporate tax won't be paid from the company's bottom line as most people imagine. There just isn't much flexibility in that area to begin with.

> Exxon not paying much/anything in taxes, and $B spent every year globally to keep the supply of oil flowing.

This is not a subsidy to Exxon, it's a subsidy to the people consuming oil-based products. If you want to stop subsidizing oil, fine; but that is a completely separate policy decision from where to levy the tax. Anyway it's not like you're proposing to tax Exxon specifically for the cost of keeping the oil flowing, which would defeat the point of the subsidy. A corporate income tax would spread that cost across all products, even ones that have nothing to do with oil, and be paid primarily by people who spend most of their earnings on corporate-produced goods (i.e. not the rich, who tend to spend a larger share on investments).
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Copying is fast if the access pattern is a good fit for the CPU architecture.

If you need to copy only every N-th byte from a AoS it might be as inefficient as random access. So, copying could be expensive.

The article suggests striping your data in blocks but then you end up with the worst of both worlds in terms of program code complexity.
Kind of, there are a bunch of transformers that might perform better than BERT (Ernie 2.0 being stronger than xlnet, for example), but often this is a function of training size (xlnet trained on 10x more data than original BERT). Realistically there are now BERTs released finetuned for special corpa (biobert, clinical bert, etc) so if you want to work on those kind of texts you are better off starting with a BERT that was previously fine tuned to something close to your task (and then fine tune it more yourself).
Flask-migrate for SQLAlchemy (using Alembic) I find every bit as good as the Django migration scheme.

I'm not familiar with frameworks other than these two, but I bet Alembic works well in most cases if they don't have something already.
> An individual today would need to consume twice as much meat, three times as much fruit, and four to five times as many vegetables to obtain the same amount of minerals and trace elements available in those same foods in 1940.

Wait, really?
How do you think it could be used there? A separate model just for providing tags, or the same model but trained to predict tags as well?
Will chime in and mention aiohttp[1]. It's lightweight, fun, and the API is very user-friendly for those willing to work on a slightly lower level. I use it to build speedy APIs, and coupled with a good ORM (peewee? [2]) it's pretty dope.

1. https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

2. http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/
We’re mainly a C# shop with some JavaScript, but I’ve done my time with php, ror and java, and, Django is still my favourite web-framework. Don’t get me wrong I actually like .Net Core, but DB migrations, authentication, testing and productivity is just better in Django (I do have an unnatural hatred for entity framework). Django even had the best learning resource I’ve ever seen with the testing goat book.

That being said, the job market for Django is non-existent in my area, and most of my country, and that’s a rather vital issue.
It’s a giant political dodge that has nothing to do with the underlying issues. You want to know what’s the real cancer, the real drug these dealers don’t want you regulating? The NOTIFICATIONS. That’s something everyone on the inside knows. The average person treats validating push notifications like a mouse getting cheese and will act out and continue to generate content to get it.

Look at the emails and push notifications these companies send out to regular people on a constant, daily basis, and you will find the cancer you’re looking for. Eliminating like counts and follower numbers is a nice idea that excites teenage activists but is pointless now that these companies have already built accounts with zillions of followers.
Regrettable that the article begins by outing a prof from an unheard of university in India, who probably publishes in low repute journals and conference. Ideally the citing malfeasance score should be weighted based on journal and conference reputation.
I remember a ycombinator "ba, tched" startup doing about the same. https://sendreality.com/

The time to sniff the place was a bit more but the quality looked better.
Let's not get fooled by speed : without a good 3D copy of the place you are... screwed.
Because our eyes can't stand gross mistakes.
Does Scientific American usually put out badly overgeneralized, sparsely detailed editorials like this?
There are many, it's a very old, very well thought-out tradition. Try reading Kropotkin, or from a more modern perspective, Richard Wolff.

However, it doesn't align with the current vision of orthodox Western capitalism, so it isn't particularly popular in mainstream media or culture.
Spec or manual? The ARM Spec I've seen is also 1200ish pages whereas the programmers manual is indeed thousands of pages
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If you work on a programming language or platform that is not officially supported, then there is a simple API where you can create your own SDK/library to submit crashes but I do aim to add more officially supported libraries but ideally want to find out what programming languages/platforms users want so I can focus development on where it is required.

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An overly simplistic 101 of autism is: It is one who struggles with or does not pay attention to another's body language. Most notably, autistic people rarely pay attention to another's eyes and facial expressions.

This one aspect then ripples out into most autistic symptoms, but not all autistic symptoms. For example, one might be wired in an unusual way where they're overloaded all the time and can't pay attention to small body language cues because of it, showing even if they go out of their way to pay attention to body language their autism is still there. Some are unfortunately even worse than that.

When kids avoid eye contact and social interaction their brain develops in a certain way. Different parts of the brain are more liquid than others. Most high functioning autistic people can be taught, even later in life, how and when to pay attention to another's face. This, with some exercise and learning some social skills, will make them seem normal to everyone else. However, some parts do not get rewired. They will still be different in certain ways, like noticing patterns often in detailed ways beyond the average person. However, these semi-permanent side effects can vary from person to person.

All in all, you're not wrong, but are a bit overly simplistic. The brain does physically change to our environment, but not everyone is willing to learn and grow in certain ways, and even then some aspects of the brain change very slowly over years, or so slow it might as well be static.

And as someone who has mastered many different kinds of meditation and qualifies as arhat (You did say, "Please enlighten me." :P) if you're looking to gain full self programming of the brain, including ending dukkha, it's very much worth pursuing mastering the subject, if not for fun, because it benefits yourself and the rest of the world. ^_^
Are you trying to start an argument? Comes across that way if not.
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Yes I do agree.
The issue is your choice of expression. You're confusing the map for the territory.

You don't have to express sqrt(2) as an infinite string of digits. All the algebraic numbers can be expressed by a finite number of symbols.
Absolutely. Anything you measure and show the measure as a sign of progression will skew things towards behaviors that lean towards an increased occurrence of that metric.

To quote Worf: "If victory doesn't matter, why keep score?".
This relates to a lot of the ideas in “Why Nations Fail”.

Strategies that are value or performance focused tend to lose out as power centralizes. If running a business is treated as a right and subject to little interference, the key thing to do is run a good business; if running a business is gated by bribes and arbitrary rulings from various officials, the key thing to do is manage those relationships.
And they didn't lose whatever was in the freezers.
First, population is leveling off, not booming.

Second, yes, by definition regenerative agriculture is scalable.

It might require as much as double the labor requirements (so 3% of the population rather than 1.5%) but it's likely that automation will amortize that.

See "How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537409 which describes some aspects of China's agriculture that are regenerative.

Also, I recommend Toby Hemenway's "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture" talk for background and future directions.
http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/redesigning-civilization-with...

Geoff Lawton's "Greening the Desert" project converted salty desert to producing figs and other food in just two years.
https://permaculturenews.org/2007/03/01/greening-the-desert-...

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Just to mention one (gross) example: It's a little-known fact that Eisenia fetida worms will devour "night soil" (#2's) and produce clean-smelling castings, while doubling in biomass in approximately 40-50 days. This could easily be scaled to handle urban sewage densities, returning that matter directly to the ecosystem without expensive treatment/chemicals etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenia_fetida
Why not Postfix? I trust Wietse V. and Viktor D. a great deal, and I trust their coding abilities at least as much as if not more than DJB's for anything that isn't a cryptographic algorithm.

FYI, "I’ve learned more C, reduced build-time complexity, ..." probably isn't confidence-inspiring. I work with C a great deal and have for a very long time, and I though I'm very comfortable with C, I treat it with fear and respect -- I have found far too many security vulnerabilities just from staring at C source code to do anything else. Now, I too have "learned more C" over the years, but I wouldn't write a sentence like that as part of justification for some project written in C -- I would fear that others would wonder if I don't just know enough C to be dangerous. Perhaps one should not write "I've learned more C" as part of anything other than justification for moving to Rust.
Yeah, I don't like it. I opened both old edge and this side by side with only this HN thread open. Scrolling on old feels way quicker... no white, un-rendered areas as in the chrome version when quickly jumping through the document. Memory usage went up 50ish percent (initially had committed a lot more, but it seems to by now have freed that half gig it used earlier). "Read aloud" TTS seems to read significantly slower on 2x speed than old edge (same voice). All of this before adding adblock to beta, but I'd expect this only makes it worse with nothing but HN open.

At least they kept some of the most garbage parts the same... like the addon store not even having a search function. Apparently not even sort beyond alphabetically. But that fits MS apparent mantra of dumbing down stuff so much as to make more advanced use-cases near impossible. And doesn't seems to have uBlock anyway, so who cares... I just hope I don't have to search a new trustworthy one once current edge is gone :(

Yeah, still a long way off from what I'd wish for...
> Who can afford such prices?

Not sure about $20/lb - I guess this means most don't eat chicken often - but...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/02/389578089/yo...

It may well be that we just have to spend more on food and less on rent (for example). In aggregate it wouldn't be much of an issue if over a period of 10-20 years food prices increased and something else (due to limited individual budgets) decreased.
Scientific American should be embarrassed to have published this. This is textbook pseudoscience: cherry-picking evidence to support a position that you're already predisposed to believe.

This doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong, just that it is not even remotely a scientific perspective on the situation. Its
"USDA citation" is to what amounts to a marketing-focused whitepaper.