skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Cambridge Analytica had access to far more data than was available on the public API which is what made it so controversial?
If programming languages were musical instruments
Then why mark the documents as deprecated?
I don't want to sound too triumphant, but over here in fundamental physics we have decades-old safeguards in place against all these problems.

The big experiments don't have publication bias: they proudly say exactly what they did, even if 90% of the time there are only negative results, because exclusions are important too. Experiments are inherently replicated, with multiple independent simultaneous experiments (LHC) or multiple independent analyses (EHT), data blinding throughout, and even occasionally a further layer of blinding using decoy signals (LIGO). The statistical standards for discovery are, in terms of p-values, about 10,000 times more stringent, and even still people are moving away from p-values entirely.

The resulting publications are put out for free, publicly, on the ArXiv. Later they are submitted to a relatively small family of low-cost journals, which everybody knows the reputations of.

Hopefully some of these lessons can be adapted to other fields.
Another alternative, for AWS nodes:

https://github.com/carlsborg/dust#parallel-ssh-operations
As the article states, Western Union is used frequently for transactions with assets that may have been gained through illegal activity (as judged per various government measurements/perspective).

And the USD is likely the greatest instrument by volume of the same types of transactions.

The transaction business will continue, as humans continue to trade for benefit. The cat and mouse game seems mostly about "authorities" overseeing and/or obtaining their share.

Again, an opportunity for p2p distributed, anonymous, and encrypted technology to allow humans to continue to trade that which they value.

Currency/money is based on trust/faith, so that would be the logical focal point.

Hypothetically, such development work would likely need to be conducted in jurisdictions that owe no allegiance to those authorities that do not wish for it to occur. Flavors of Cryptonomicon...

Fascinating.
10 years on after that Jobs letter, the market for WYSIWIG web animation is nearly non-existent. All I want is a tool that lets me draw animations, allow tweening controls and exports to HTML/JS, without needing to open a code editor.

The only tool that does this to my knowledge is Tumult's Hype: https://tumult.com/hype/. I'm glad it's using an old-school pricing model of one-time payment and not the subscription model that Adobe and everyone else switched to.

Adobe Animate used to be a thing, but that got sunset years ago. There is Adobe After Effects + Lottie, but that assumes you are a front-end developer and know how to integrate those tools together and use the resulting JSON.

No wonder then that the only visually interactive websites out there these days are things like "Spotify Year in Music" stuff that probably takes an entire team multiple sprints to build.
I don't know that they do process content inside .zip files, but there's no reason they can't, the format is transparent enough.
Ok, fine, ill go there, eventho you will hate me for it... hah....

Everyone should be able to publish and it should enjoy readership depending on its quality alone.

Platforms like HN and all the others offer guaranteed readership.

For example: If you are to write something about the current subject it would be a terrible write up if it talked about the Hindi vs Hindu typo. Horses vs cars would only be slightly less terrible.

My hand picked collection of "articles you should read" about the topic should not include such works. It just cant.

The difference is like that between getting on stage and sharing some insights or blabbering some raw thoughts over drinks with friends. We all have both qualities, which one should we use to write for the world?
You can turn off Windows telemetry.

Forced updates is a good thing. We want fast updates when a vulnerability is found. We see so many unpatched servers online getting pwnd and enslaved into botnets, and this is the only solution.
I think both you and @lucideer are right at a certain level. I did mean in the absence of cellphones altogether, since I'm referring to the fact that the non-homeless population almost all have cell-phones now, so that's really just "table-stakes" in the job hunt market.

That said, your experience provides an important data point too. I would be curious to know whether it's the phone access or the "among other things" that you refer to, which I assume means other kinds of aid, training, and support, that provides most of the value in them finding a job.
Mostly because they aren't good enough yet. The manipulators struggle to balance small size, light weight, good grip, adequate cooling, and high strength. Getting the force feedback on the control solution correct is also difficult. And then you have to deal with communication delay as your bird is whipping around the world in LEO, constantly handing off between different ground stations, or worse, jumping through a sequence of Geo birds.

On the other hand, sometimes the government is willing to go to extreme lengths for intel purposes. The Glomar Explorer was outrageously ambitious, although ultimately only partially successful.
At the time, I remember being pretty OK with taking the terrible with the good - it all felt like experimenting to me, and I gravitated towards more of the designer-y/artsy sites, rather than the games and cartoons.

This was back when David Carson was highly influential designer (for good or ill), and I was coming from skateboarding/snowboarding culture, which (and I sound so old) was a lot different, 20 years ago. Like it was COOL to be really into Typography, and the messier, the better. Because, "The 90's" I guess.
I was not even aware this was possible.

My loss from the LR takedown was ~$600 and this is the first time I ever heard that any such recourse that was available.

In my personal experience, LR was easier to use and more widely accepted at the time than competing services. (namely PayPal)

This article focused a lot on the carding scene, which no doubt was heavily reliant on LR, but to paint all 1MM+ users of LR as carders is simply incorrect. As the article mentions, it was trivial to open an account (as easy as signing up for HN really) and many would do so to make a one-off payment.
Holbrook/Twain Documentary
Huh?

Books, sports, art, music, are all way cheaper forms of entertaining oneself.

Most hobbies or entertainment don't have a charge per hour.
So Google is basically denying that the Web's '80s era ever existed.
Implementing a Fine-Grained Permissions System with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
But they solved a problem, gaining a massive userbase, and only then became a great company because they were able to make money alongside the problem they were solving.
Something about the lack of margins between sections on that article makes it very hard for me to read.
An Informal Introduction into Sparrow6 – Raku Automation Framework
>But I don't know how I'm going to get off my iPhone - the CPU is just too fast.

You what? Basically every flagship Android phone has a better CPU (clock speed / cores).
Market demands Bad Science, market supplies Bad Science. I do not see a problem here.
How to make a black hole in the lab
If the zip files not password protected I dont see why they cant crawl the filenames inside zip files. They probably keep all crawl info cause you are able to do Google searches for specific file extensions and I wouldnt be surprised if you could for specific file mime types too.
>It was so frequently in Chemistry research that my compounds were useless or the methods to synthesize them did not work, and it would be helpful to document that.

This mirrors my experience where a lot of the post-docs carried war stories of things like lab/country-specific humidity playing a role in synthetic methods succeeding (or failing). There were a lot of dark arts/tricks of the trade that people carried around with them: stuff like going that extra mile to dry things of water super thoroughly (even if it was not mentioned in the paper we were referencing).
We'd be in a very different world of Adobe and Macromedia never merged. Adobe really killed flash, but maybe it was inevitable. From what I read, Flash's test suite was subpar to non-existent and people were afraid to touch anything in the codebase.

It's so sad too because Flash is still amazing when it comes to animating vector graphics in a crossplatform way. Nothing in the HTML5 world remotely comes close.

You can upscale Homestar Runner to 4k and it renders beautifully. Now that it's all YouTube videos, whatever resolution they rendered it at, there it will stay for forever (plus you lose all the clickable eastereggs in the Strong Bad e-mails!)
> Sure, but wouldn't be better for most people in this situation to simply default on their current debt

You say that, but, in a year or two when your rent has gone up so far that you have to move, you're looking at awful credit. Then how do you get into an apartment where they do credit checks and they see you've got awful credit. Those apartments will either charge an arm and a leg in security deposits, or deny you.
It's worth distinguishing between different types of bad science.

1. The first and most egregious type is outright fraud. This is when you intentionally manipulate or fake data. Everyone agrees this is bad, and honest actors are enough to prevent it. In some cases, other honest actors are sufficient to determine if the claims are fishy.

2. The second more subtle type is not paying attention to adaptivity. For example, maybe an investigator wants to look at the data before coming up with a hypothesis to test. This is dangerous because the investigator is already overfitting, so any p-values the investigator computes afterward do not mean what they're supposed to mean. This is less egregious because it's easy to do this just by not being careful or not knowing your statistics very well. A scientist can be honest, but imperfect, and do this. It's also not easy to sniff this out as a reviewer -- the scientist might just omit all the stuff that didn't work. But there appears to be growing awareness of this kind of problem.

3. The third, and hardest to solve, problem is not factoring in the whole population of experiments. This is where 100 labs independently try an idea and one of them gets a genuine (from their limited view) result with a genuine p-value. It's novel and that lab has (in the limited view) been careful about adaptivity and keeping their hypotheses carefully generated. Maybe they've even used carefully generated noise to ensure their conclusions generalize [1] (which would definitely cut down on this problem). So it's pretty much impossible for a reviewer to tell there's a problem, because they don't know about the 100 other people that tried this and failed because the randomness didn't go their way. Short of a public experiment registry, this one is hard to fix, especially because it may be that nobody's being malicious or ignorant.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2664
You can. Just not American suburbs, apparently.
I think it's sort of a feedback loop. Restrictive housing policies kicked off housing inflation which transformed housing into a speculation vehicle and a financial instrument which in turn incentivized more zoning restriction.
<list_of_hosts xargs -I {} -P 0 -n 1 ssh {} hostname
Firefox Reader Mode is now one of my favorite features (Chrome probably has somethign similar?)
> Is there evidence of American scientists who have greatly benefited in reputation and prestige, despite doing very shoddy work?

This is the exact point of the replication crisis. Within social science, the answer is an absolute yes. That's why we have been having this conversation more and more over the past decade.

> Meanwhile in China, there are numerous article-factory-journals that are pay to publish, you can put your shoddy work in those and amp up your publication count easily. Surely, these exist in the USA, but are career scientists at major institutions utilizing these shady Chinese journals?

In China, people know about scientific reputation perfectly well, which is why publication in Nature/Science/Cell ensures great financial reward.

There are shoddy journals everywhere, of course. Yes, top scientists at top institutions and rigorous fields in the US don't use them. The same is true for top scientists at top institutions in China. The average quality is probably lower (due to the inherent difficulties of doing cutting-edge science only two generations removed from mass starvation) but the principle is the same.
>year round fire season

I'm not sure if this is referencing the current predicament in California (which Gavin Newsom is attempting to blame on climate change [0]), but if so the reality is closer to...

-failure to carry out proper controlled burns [1]

-corrupt California legislature being heavily backed by PG&E lobbying [2]

-those same California politicians not reigning in PG&E [3]

-and a couple other more minor things.. maybe including people living in risky areas [4]

The sea level change of 3 inches over the last 25 years, while ultimately an issue, is a cop-out for political failings in California right now.

[0] https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/10/28/...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/11/16/californ...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politic...

[3] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-plans-near...

[4] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-28/kincade-...
I’m not a sysadmin type at all, and I haven’t used the competitors really. But it’s so easy to use! You don’t need to install anything on the servers. It’s basically just a way to run ssh scripts on remote servers in a way that makes complete sense.

My impression of other tools, like Chef, is that they try to abstract away configuration and setup where ansible just feels what I would try to build if I had a bunch of ssh shell scripts. You’re always pretty close to the actual commands being run.
I was hoping for more insight than "my employer doesnt pay enough" ... while true its not really a root cause of the situation IMO

You can always start your own business or simply work for a different company. No one owes you employment.
cought 750 GeV cough... ahem. Let me sing you an OPERA about a how Andrei Linde was astonished by the biggest BICEP you've ever seen! It belonged to a LIBRA* that was faster than light and could fly trough walls!

* Couldn't get DAMA to work :(
This reduces the amount of total eyeballs though... potentially by a significant amount. For ex anyone sharing a picture on Twitter or FB will only be able to show it to their followers with Instagram accounts.
this is why i boycott it, i don't understand why journalists are so obsessed by this goose game, do they want to have sexual relation with a goose? are they gay?
It is just one persons take. I would take it with a grain of salt. Arpa wanted a mobile network that would be operational in all countries prior to invasion. At it's inception, the internet was everything SRI ever meant it to be. Everything the internet has become is just a side effect of what was created. It follows the principal of "a person will do what a person can do".

It is the same as the DoD making interstate highways to allow troops to move across the country quickly. Everything else that sprung up along those routes was just a byproduct of the interstate highways. The good, the bad and everything in between.
Depends on the density and transit available. There are some American suburbs of big cities where you can live with no car, but not many.
Flash was fine for specific purposes .. animations and games mostly. Doing your whole site in Flash was dumb, but Homestar Runner and Newgrounds used it in really good ways.
Without populated rural areas to support them, people in cities would start cannibalizing each other within weeks. You seem to have a lot of disdain for people that make your urban lifestyle possible.
Speed. They usually launch fast and are responsive, because there are no graphical resources that need to load or complex widget hierarchies that need to be constructed. There's no need to switch windows, because the TUI launches in the same window you typed the command into. You don't have to take your fingers off the keyboard because having a mouse is not expected in a TUI.

In principle, all of these things could be done with a GUI, but in practice, they're not, and with the phoneification of software, the keyboard is an afterthought, not the main input mechanism.
The ones that die from medical conditions because they can't afford treatment you don't "notice" at all, since they are dead and gone.
Just a heads up: you can get literally weeks out of garmin watches, depending on model and usage patterns. Your concern is exactly why I sold my moto360 and never looked back.
I was surprised that I can't share a HD image on flickr with someone on mobile and have them be able to see the full image. If I remember correctly, it shows them a bulky UI with a scaled down version of the image.
> everyone knows that some forms of autism give much more disadvantages than advantages and therefore are defects

No, not everyone knows that. I feel quite humbled by my experience meeting people with "defects", who are proud of their "defects", would not choose to remove their "defects", actively seek out relationships with other "defective" people, and have formed a cultural identity around their "defect", to the extent that they hope their own kids are also "defective", maybe not to the strength that other people hope their kids aren't defective, but at least express a preference.

I hold it as a fundamental, nowadays, that I cannot decide what is and is not defective for other people, especially strangers, and especially people who themselves actively say "I'm not defective!". I rather focus on concrete harm to figure out how to exist in the world, for myself and for others.

I think it does harm to the world to approach all disabilities from a mindset that is focused on "defectiveness". I will take my lead from other people with the relevant disabilities. "Nothing about us without us" is a powerful slogan that guides me to do so.

I don't know whether you identify with any "defective" or defect-adjacent subgroup (since you talk about all the different things that grouped under autism), but I know for sure not everyone is. And so not "everyone knows that some forms of autism give much more disadvantages than advantages". When I try to drill down on what that really means (how would you even determine how to weigh the advantages and disadvantages?), the whole endeavor seems divorced from individual realities and pointless.
They have an offline player as mentioned but also a community member was working on a WebAssembly based player.
https://www.openfl.org/
This hits hard based on my experience in academia.

In graduate school I was strongly advised to set aside "big" problems and focus on safe low-hanging fruit--derivative projects or incremental improvements to existing work--that will result in a steady stream of (mediocre) publications. The situation is the same for postdocs and even tenure track faculty at research-focused institutions. Only after you get ~15 years into your research career (and receive tenure) are you really free to focus on original work, which tends to be high risk and high reward.

(Of course you can do that earlier, but there's a high chance your career won't advance on schedule, which is very bad.)
Just by the padding in the buttons it's obvious that twitter's current site was built for mobile. Sure, it's responsive, and i bet flash could become responsive if it was still alive. HTML games however are also non-responsive most of the time just due to the nature of their use case.
Depends on what you're looking for. Often you don't want 'guaranteed uniformly distributed numbers', you want random numbers. The reason for using hardware is that some processors can now provide greater (at least theoretically) entropy and/or greater performance in doing so than a software-only PRNG.
So little is really being preserved today. I'm glad we at least have archive.org.
>Because those jobs don't disappear when that minimum wage is raised.

Yeah, input costs have no effect on whether a business can operate at the margin...

>This has been tested...

If we suddenly care about what the economic research says, you should do a search for papers that don't confirm your biases.

How the fact that raising labour costs will reduce the demand for labour is controversial is beyond belief, truly. We have social programs here in Canada that do exactly this: subsidize wages of employees in certain industries because the value that the labour of some people doesn't cover the costs. But hey, what do we know up here...

I guess this mentality comes from the new wave of socialism or comes from people who have never run a business in their lives.
After being a subscriber to hn for the last decade, a post I'm affected enough by to create an account.

After wanting to contribute to open source projects for my entire career (I've previously worked at FAANGs and am a technical lead now), I've had 0% success in attaining this goal. Here's been my experience:

-reached out to the Apache Tomcat team -> silence

-joined Linux Kernel Newbies -> code is such terrible quality I might unlearn somethings

-joined LLVM's mailing list -> lack of issues for beginners

I'm now looking to contributing to Spring Boot, Apache Cassandra, or Hadoop, but I didn't imagine it would be difficult to contribute to open source.
Folks are acting like the only use case for this is sending commands for deploying software or something. Even in fully automated environments at scale I used Cluster SSH extensively in my past life for things like grepping local logs on all members of a cluster at the same time, or querying local status. It's immensely helpful when troubleshooting issues in large environments.

Of course you shouldn't be redneck deploying stuff with Cluster SSH when you could write an Ansible Playbook or deploy Chef/Puppet/Salt. But to troubleshoot issues and manage host/OS level functionality on multiple identical systems at the same time, it's invaluable.
Should you work in product or services?
It hasn't died, the logic holds, and Tesla is still promising self-driving is actually imminent.

In addition to the most data, Tesla also has the best self-driving computing hardware you can buy today. (See autonomy day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE ) They also have top software people. I think Tesla may very well release full self-driving in the next couple of years.
Well, the Lakefield design is fully 3D, and Intel has not announced any chiplet based designs, so either they made it all up, or they're convinced they can make it work in the next few years.
Cascade Lake-X has a new set of hardware mitigations for side-channel attacks (including some which are not hardware-mitigated on AMD architectures, specifically Spectre v2 - AMD claims they are "difficult to exploit" but still enables software mitigations).

Regardless, Firestrike Physics is not a benchmark that is substantially affected by mitigations. End-user tasks in general are not affected very strongly, generally ~1-3%, up to 5% in some cases.

Phoronix tested across a spectrum of workstation tasks (not gaming) and found a geomean of about 12% performance impact for Intel and 4.5% for AMD. Linked earlier, here again:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-99...

Generally, server tasks are hit hardest because they involve lots of context switching. Gaming is typically not affected much at all. Workstation tasks fall somewhere in the middle.
On c64 the text is mono-spaced and empty areas are filled with spaces. I didn't appreciate the genius of that until now.