skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people submitted nonsense papers (for example: rape culture at dog parks, and an excerpt from Mein Kampf), and they were accepted for publication.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/duped-academic-journal-publish...
I am not entirely sure if you are referring to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...

I just switched after using vs vim and got much better performance.

I had neovim installed anyway for the EX commands
Most important communication at the company I work for is done through written documents instead of presentations. It's worth giving a try.
Latency is also a factor in a tree based algo.
I guess it really depends on what you think the purpose of college is. To me, that's exactly what college and high school should be for -- learning things that don't have a direct economic impact but that make you a more educated/well-rounded person. They shouldn't just be about job training, which should be focused in technical schools, and it actually saddens me that so many think the purpose of university/high school should be job training (really, that should be the companies themselves, but of course they don't want to pay the money to invest in their hires).
Perhaps the currency of social sciences should be anecdotes with full context (of which you can obviously get only a limited number unless you have unlimited budget) rather than collecting extensive data points on a limited number of variables. While physical systems can be approximated (or some independent variables dropped) without affecting the aspect being studied (think perfectly spherical objects), when it comes to humans, there are no independent variables. Approximation or simplified models are much harder.

I think looking for statistical patterns (e.g. in literature) is perfectly good science as long as you are cognizant that patterns merely invite more study an should not be used to reach conclusions, also being aware that patterns might disappear when you expand your data set.

Finally, as someone trained in the physical sciences, I used to look down on social scientists. I no longer do this. At least they're brave enough to tackle a complex monster with the limited tools at their disposal, stumbling and even enduring ridicule from the hard sciences. We ignore the human mind and collections thereof, because it's too complex and prefer the relative comfort of simple, predictable systems. I don't believe that's good.
The reproducibility crisis extends far beyond psychology. Psychologists are the messengers, just like they were with meta-analysis in the 60s and 70s.

Similar problems have been demonstrated in a host of fields, mostly the biomedical sciences. To take one prominent example, HN has been plastered with articles about COVID studies of dubious quality.
That's true EBC is quite the metropolitan hike. I ended up traveling solo in the Indian Himalayas, through Uttarakhand, Himachal, and Ladakh. It's far less developed. I spent a few days without seeing a single human. This was also back in 2013, so it may have changed by now.

But more generally, I'm often out of the service area when I'm backpacking here in the US, so no internet for a week or more. I suppose by backpacking I strictly mean multi-day wilderness camping on remote trails, and not well-established treks between huts or campgrounds.
It's a utopian gamble contradicting every lesson of human history and culture - namely that evil cannot be eradicated. The idea that social workers will eradicate crime is so foolish, that I'm absolutely bewildered this is being offered. By (what I can only assume) humanities majors! The irony!
The difficulty in our current culture with abstraction mostly derives from taking "don't repeat yourself" too far and using that to mean "apply any compression strategy you can find to this code" which could range from enterprise generalization and configuration to APL-style code-golfing.

A gentler, more helpful admonition would be "find the theme, reuse the theme". If you only set out to compress the code you obscure the theme of the code, but if you set out to elevate the theme as you find it, you are likely to let more code rest in a form that is duplicated but a reasonable reflection of the themes currently present.
Twitter has intentionally and repeatedly ignored their own conduct policies to make sure Trump stays on the platform. Just this week, a user created an account that did nothing but copy the president’s tweets and the account was banned after three days.

He’s worth millions of dollars to them in terms of traffic, and they’ve repeatedly bent over backwards to accommodate his racist, violent, and hateful speech.
NuFHE can do a binary operations in 0.1ms/bit, and mux operations in 0.2ms/bit using FFT, which is hyperoptimized on GPUs. I think the issue is that the keys tend to be rather large.. NuFHE's decryption keys are 110MB! So memory/FFT problem size may be the bottleneck now.
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I write Go and a bit Rust. I don't think compile time could be a huge problem, because:

1. There are ways to reduce it. For example incremental compiling, only recompile what's needed.

2. Many programmers already using CI when they're test/deploy/release their projects. And CI itself takes a long time to initialize and execute, basically throws away almost all the benefits of a fast compiler.

3. Let's don't forget the compiler could have different compile mode (Debug/Release mode), if Go wants to introduce it of course.
Why would anyone allow spam in a website? It's nonsensical to assume I meant that.
Whoops!

So was the April report, with the exact same error.
desperate times call for desperate measures. Nobody likes to give up sugar/wheat/etc, but if the choice is that or chronic disease symptom flare-ups, well, as Blind Melon sang, "when life is hard you have to change".
It boils but it takes many hours to boil off completely. Here's a study of the time taken to evaporate water in a near vacuum at 20C: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2060.pdf

25ml of liquid water takes 3 hours to completely boil off under vacuum. Less if the water is mixed in with other substances (eg. soil). The inner structure of the plant itself is capable of trapping water to an even greater extent. To the point where water directly boiling off the plant directly isn't significant.

Note that this was simulating asteroid conditions. Mars is slightly better at retaining water since it has slightly more pressure. This is why it's pretty likely that we're seeing flowing water on Mars each summer: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-th...
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I find it ridiculous that the left idealizes them as these vital emancipatory organizations when they (obviously) all seem to suffer from the same drawbacks, corruption and abuse found in any other sufficiently large and long-lived human organization.
> Do you have anything to back this up?

Sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_social_sciences

"The term "social science" first appeared in the 1824 book An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness; applied to the Newly Proposed System of Voluntary Equality of Wealth by William Thompson (1775–1833). Auguste Comte (1797–1857) argued that ideas pass through three rising stages, theological, philosophical and scientific."

What do you think rising through theological, philosophical and scientific implies? The lowest being theological, the highest being scientific?

1824 was around the time of the scientific revolution and enlightenment. Everyone wanted to latch onto the good name of science.

"Karl Marx was one of the first writers to claim that his methods of research represented a scientific view of history in this model."

"One of the most persuasive advocates for the view of scientific treatment of philosophy would be John Dewey (1859–1952)."

From history to philosophy to politics, everyone wanted to associate itself with "science" because of the credibility it brought.

Even religion got into the act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science
frilliant. Never thought I'd say that about anything to do with M$, but these are strange days, indeed.
> Diversity hiring is done by filling the front of the pipeline with a diverse set of candidates (i.e. getting the interview) but hiring decisions are made independently.

I don't think people realize how important this is. I certainly didn't until I had a random meeting with the recruiting team at $OLDJOB.

It's basic statistics, when you think about it. By the definition of "under-represented group", you know that there is a much higher likelihood that the over-represented group will make up the majority of the first X resumes you receive. This means that even if you're completely unbiased and will hire based on merit (whatever that means), simply choosing the best of the first X applications will lead you to fail at diversity hiring anyway.

Companies say they want to hire the best person but this is subject to reality and part of reality is wanting to hire this person as quick as possible. So it really is paramount that the pipeline is front-loaded, or you'll be thwarted by the reality of statistical majority.
Then stop calling everyone else bootlickers when the left doesn't seem to be able to stand up to unions. There's people's lives on the line. Teacher's unions protect pedofiles.
Witch burning pre-dates the printing press. Might want to look up the 13th century some time. Didn't know there were any anti-printing press advocates left out there. I thought y'all died off during the Enlightenment? As far as sectarianism goes, the Catholic hegemony was never going to last forever. And Europe was plagued with sectarian violence for thousands of years. Free exchange of information is the one thing that eventually got them to come together.
“I’ve heard that there have been complaints about my interpersonal skills”.

Looks like this worker needs some training!
I'm not sure why originally it was set, independent. But, it helped me to play around munging SDP.
Vim is a well-sharpened pocket knife, a precision tool that excels at editing text interactively.

It’s interesting to me the different models for tools that address similar problems. I used to use vim, and the chords of keystrokes are still fresh in my mind, even though I switched to emacs years ago.

And now I use vanilla emacs —but that model is totally different, it’s an okay text editor but an excellent customizable user shell. It’s not a matter of better//worse, but of different philosophical approaches
>Too bad none of the immigration numbers bear this out.

They do. The only country in Europe I can think of where the US is the favored destination is Germany.

Note that by « most people » I was implicitly referring to my people, and in a larger sense Europeans. Not humanity at large.
Teachers can and do abuse children from time to time.
Yep. Microphone works (in the T42, T440p, and X1E gen2).

I never tried the fingerprint reader, so I do not know whether that works or not.
It says "Open source product analytics" front and center, and then it goes on to elaborate. I grant you that there are features in the screenshot which are not clearly described in the homepage, but it's hyperbole to say it's impossible to figure out what this does from reading the homepage.
Or use something that you (or someone you trust) can self-host, so then even the company/CEO/TLA-with-subpoenas are out of the picture.

Not only do I get to get Moxie out of the picture, I also get my phone and the phone companies out of it.
I guess I need to learn Lisp to understand the distinction. My only reference is XLST which is also valid XML.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
Thanks, I hate it :>
You are wrong that all encryption is broken with a quantum cracker. But as far as I know Signal is not quantum resistant. It's certainly something to keep in mind - that whatever you say might resurface later.
Would make sense for Russia/US to take out all follow up competition as quickly as possible and leave only a few minimally radiated zones for post nuclear war survival.
I think most, if not all self-respecting social science scholars would resent being lumped in with economists
Stanfords cryptography 1 course is fantastic, highly recommend. Apparently a more advanced one (crypto 2) is coming out October-ish too.
Huh?

I really did not do anything special (after it was installed I installed the NVidia drivers from RPMFusion, but that was after the base install was done).

Perhaps you need to enable hybrid graphics in the BIOS.
Lately I've been wishing Signal had a bridgefy type mesh mode that enabled operation peer to peer over wifi direct or bluetooth, either directly or via a mesh of such devices.

First I think it would be useful at protests, to preserve privacy (and whatever side of the political divide you are on, I hope we agree that covert government surveillance and tracking of people at a protest is wrong, here, in HK, or wherever).

But it would also be nice to have when outside the reach of cellular or wifi internet. Think camping, traveling, people living with intermittent power, or those who lost power in some sort of disaster or emergency.

I'm honestly not sure if this would be feasible, as I don't grok the signal protocol fully, but the signal protocol does support async messaging.
I agree. Let me reproduce the last paragraph of the top level comment I submitted above:

Finally, as someone trained in the physical sciences, I used to look down on social scientists. I no longer do this. At least they're brave enough to tackle a complex monster with the limited tools at their disposal, stumbling and even enduring ridicule from the hard sciences. We ignore the human mind and collections thereof, because it's too complex and prefer the relative comfort of simple, predictable systems. I don't believe that's good.
pass phrases, where each word is relatively low entropy, but its a lot easier for humans to memorize a long phrase than a long series of random characters
Also a privacy issue. If your app reveals the IP of other users, it will lead to "interesting" effects like someone DoSing the home internet connection of a presenter whose stream they want to disrupt.
It's very featureful and very easy to pick up. So I speculate that most of its popularity is with people that unfortunately have not yet been enlightened by vim/emacs.
A lot of folks don't know that ffmpeg isn't just a command line utility (which is pretty powerful in its own right) but also a set of super powerful and reasonably well designed media libraries that can be used to do all kinds of stuff with media. I remember finding this tutorial years ago and it opened up a whole range of possibilities eventually leading to my startup Vidmaker[0] which, while not successful itself, got my cofounders and I acquihired into YouTube. Thank you, dranger, whoever you are.

[0] https://www.vidmaker.com/
I call these hard science vs soft science. Please do not get me wrong, I shuffle from math and art quite a bit these days and get to take a look at various approaches in both areas. There is a trend of applying hard science approach to soft science. This is good thing until it results in research that is quite wishy washy. When you see "study" where experiment is mainly surveying people, its soft science. Unfortunately such soft science gets a lot of press. When you see articles like "Coffee found to reduce cancer by researchers in a study", you are reading soft science. A huge problem is that people doing hard as well as soft science are referred to as "researchers" or "scientists" and both of their works referred to as "science". But its quite not. Science demands not only evidence but understanding. If coffee was found to reduce cancer, can you elaborate exact mechanism? If you can't then science requires not to make such claims. Doing survey of graduate students is not sufficient. That's the nature of hard science which soft science (including economics) violets too often. Media needs to be more aware otherwise the trust in science that has been developed over centuries will no longer be there.
This seems really uncompelling. So what, we pass on potentially saving lives because some people are getting mail that makes them sad? Because a trans person might get mail that targets their sex? None of the potential harm seems as bad as dying or even physical (unlike dying).
That's such a flaw in the Internet's architecture. IP was never designed for such a hostile environment.
I respect Vim, I've seen it used with impressive speed, BUT I am so used to command-s to save, that I don't feel ready to :w enter all the time. VS Code is powerful, and learning the keyboard shortcuts for that are getting better every day (command-shift-p format-selection enter).
Non-paywalled version here: http://archive.is/VceLj

Excerpting some key paragraphs:

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When the U.S. government’s official jobs report for May came out on Friday, it included a note at the bottom saying there had been a major “error” indicating that the unemployment rate likely should be higher than the widely reported 13.3 percent rate.

The special note said that if this “misclassification error” had not occurred, the “overall unemployment rate would have been about 3 percentage points higher than reported,” meaning the unemployment rate would be about 16.3 percent for May.

...

Some took this as a sign that President Trump or one of his staffers may have tinkered with the data to make it look better, especially since most forecasters predicted the unemployment rate would be close to 20 percent in May, up from 14.7 percent in April. But economists and former BLS leaders from across the political strongly dismissed that idea.

...

Economists say the BLS was trying to be as transparent as possible about how hard it is to collect real-time data during a pandemic. The BLS admitted that some people who should have been classified as “temporarily unemployed” during the shutdown were instead misclassified as employed but “absent” from work for “other reasons.”

...

This problem started in March when there was a big jump in people claiming they were temporarily “absent” from work for “other reasons.” The BLS noticed this and flagged it right away. In March, the BLS said the unemployment rate likely should have been 5.4 percent, instead of the official 4.4 percent rate. In April, the BLS said the real unemployment rate was likely about 19.7 percent, not 14.7 percent.

Economists said the big takeaway is that it’s hard to collect real-time data during a pandemic and that while the unemployment rate remains high — likely more than 16 percent — it has declined a little from April.

...

Instead of focusing on possible Trump interference, many economists wish people would focus on the fact that 21 million Americans are currently unemployed and over 2 million have permanently lost their jobs.

The situation remains dire, they say, even after a few jobs returned in May as the economy reopened.

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Given that the NASDAQ hit an all-time high today (!) based largely on the unemployment number being better than expected, one wonders how the market will react to the correction on Monday.
I’m so used to vim as a code editor that I assumed, after the introduction, this article was going to be castigating me for trying to write prose in vim (which I indeed try to do on a regular basis, with what feels like a lot of friction.)

Perhaps, as they imply, I should dust off a copy of Microsoft Word and switch back to that!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23427232

People are coalescing into groups more so for non cognitive behaviors than for deliberate premeditated concerns but when confronted by that reasoning deflect. When confronted they don’t deny it or excuse it but instead argue defense of positions that were never in question.
It was often described as a mock turtleneck. Real turtleneck sweaters are... ridiculous.
As someone in the behavioral/population sciences, I think there's an underlying, interesting question of "when, if ever, should quantitative methods not be applied to an area of empirical inquiry?" The article doesn't seem to address this though.

As for the social and behavioral sciences, another way of approaching it is: if you have a phenomenon, is it better to try to be scientific in explaining it or not? If not, you cede that realm to the nonscientific, with all that implies. If you do approach it scientifically, how do you do that? If your explanation or theory involves some quantity of some sort, shouldn't you then attempt to specify a model of it, and test it against observations?
Manjaro with Xmonad is a nice desktop.
Lovely adaptation... See also http://www.terrybisson.com/
There's one paragraph of that. Then a paragraph talking about the lab being in an apartment building, so that there are bedrooms nearby. Then a paragraph grad students describing their work as "thrilling" to the point of not wanting to graduate. (As an ex-grad student, I have to say "Really?")
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Science implies the use of the scientific method. Scientific method implies falsifiable hypotheses. Anything that is not falsifiable isn't a science.
According to the article it was removed due to a copyright claim, it has nothing to do if it is "offensive to you" or not.
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I suppose for a meeting where you want to foster discussion this rule tells you to start with a bunch of numbers.
Thats awesome! Ive actually been working on my own iOS/ MacOS port to Swift for Microsoft Seal here https://github.com/mmroz/SEAL. Would love some feedback :)
It's too late. The intent has been signaled. PostHog is leveraging the goodwill of the "opensource" meme for personal profit-seeking. Their intention is literally to sell this analytics product to a Google/Amazon/Microsoft.

If you're going to raise VC with the intent to sell, why even bother going opensource other than to manipulate a percentage of developers who will convert on the basis of "opensource = good".
A clean Google breakup seems to look like :

1 - Search,

2 - Youtube,

3 - Gmail

The rest can go anywhere, as they don't seem to be powerful enough to control a market (although that may change in the future).

For Amazon, it seems clean to do it like this:

1 - AWS,

2 - Amazon (shopping website + logistics)

Audible & IMDB are nice, but to me not big enough to be trouble. Audible might be, but I don't know enough about that market.

Facebook seems straightforward:

1 - Facebook,

2 - Instagram,

3 - Whatsapp

Apple would be hard to break up, but allowing other stores on their devices might be all that's needed.

Microsoft seems to be under the radar compared to 20 years ago. Splitting Office and Windows seems less important to me now than it did back then.
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I feel about Vim the way RMS seems to feel about Linux. Even though, (presumably) everyone knows the relationship of vim to vi, I don’t feel there is enough explicit acknowledgement of that fact. Vim is evidently a wonderful tool, (I say this as a confirmed 20 year emacs user for whom emacs is only usable due to excellent vi emulation possibilities) but it clearly wouldn’t exist without the basic foundation provided by canonical vi which is in my estimation a work of genius.
I'm a non-native speak and I too find myself writing like this on occasion. Would love to know what about it rubs readers the wrong way.
Plenty of data is shared internally with rank and file. Netflix for example openly shares (internally) subscriber numbers, which is a critical piece looked at during the earnings report.
Neither are social sciences. Economics, finance, sociology, political science, psychology.
Wish we could get some of that here--I'm freezing.
The article said 1.4 million people have installed the Vim plugin for VSCode. That's a sizeable chunk. Presumably a bunch of those people really like the editor.
Does it deliberately not work on Safari?
I'm not selling that book either. Am I censoring it too?