skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, have you looked at the resources linked on the Twitter thread he links to in that post? To call it "damning" is an understatement.

It would be different if he came out now and said "here are the things I said then, here's why I said them, and here are the reasons those were problematic and wrong; I no longer align myself with those views." But instead, he dug in his heels saying that this comes down to suppressing scientific inquiry for ... not buying into eugenics.
I'm currently a student of Michigan State. While I don't like Dr. Hsu very much (and I see more merit to the criticisms of him than I suspect many here) I see this as grievous damage to my university. This will be proof that researchers should be scared what they say will incite a twitter mob against them and get them fired. Instead, they should be insulated from public backlash and not be afraid to say what they believe no matter how controversial. Lacking that, the entire purpose of research universities (and with it our ability to speak of a consensus among experts) is corrupted.
You may want to clarify that!
I have lost the ability to log in to my original gmail account, so I advise planning for that to happen some day.

What happened to me is that I went to reset my password one day, and they required I confirm my backup email which I no longer had access to.

Even though I had access to read messages sent to the gmail account itself, and I had access to the phone number connected to my gmail account, without my backup email as well, I could not get anywhere. The recovery procedure that asks you questions didn't get me anywhere either, because I couldn't possibly answer things like exactly when I started using gmail due to using it for too long. And I even had an archive of a few years of my email, that ought to have enabled me to answer the other questions, but it didn't work and there is no feedback nor escalation procedure.

I may well still be logged in due to a certain buggy/obsolete device I have; I think it's probably been five years, but I don't believe I will ever be able to log in or reset my password again.

It didn't have a great deal of impact on my life in the sense that I was able to simply switch to a new email account, but I feel a certain sense of loss at not being able to use the one and only address that was my full name. More significantly, it indelibly engraved in my mind, the kafkaesque, diabolical nature of Google, the ingrained lack of customer service, the way in which, while they may mostly be geniuses, when they screw up, they won't admit it and there's no appeal.

The thing that I object to on an emotional and logical level, is that adding a backup authentication method removed the ability to use the primary authentication methods. If I just never added the backup email I'd be fine! I can't accept that makes sense, that it adds security. Something the user does to make them safer should not make them less safe.
I Created a Book Club for Fifth Graders
> Honestly, this is more about philosophy than anything else, and a part of philosophy much more rooted in personal beliefs and preferences than actual facts.

> It is deeply subjective, and as such any notion of correctness is moot.

Eh, not so much. Maybe that would be the case if we were talking about some idealistic "how it should be," but the GP's scenario wasn't that. Practically, in modern American society, park rangers are going to assume an obligation to rescue you without you having to make an explicit pact with them. To claim that it's otherwise is false.
> I think if Apple measured developer satisfaction scores on the App Store, the results would be jarring.

I think their ARM Macbooks have the opportunity to be a real tipping point if they make macOS as restrictive as iOS. Who'd sign up for another decade of this? The only argument I've seen for them to not do that is a wide range of developer tooling won't work, but perhaps they're OK with developers exclusively using their own languages. They actually did ban apps made in Flash (the IDE), Unity3d and other cross-compiling technologies from iOS for a while even though they were producing native apps, and more recently they banned apps using Electron too.

https://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_fla...

https://venturebeat.com/2010/09/09/apple-loses-game-of-chick...

https://9to5mac.com/2019/11/04/electron-app-rejections/
Sometimes, when a cancer gets bad enough, all you can do is enjoy the time you have left
antitrust bundling is probably a better description.
Also:

- SSN is great and works well for everything.
And Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4859
Last week, effectively every iOS developer would have looked at their implementation and predicted App Store approval. It’s important to understand that because if you just read Apple’s rejection letter (you’ve read it as you repeated a talking point from it), you might think Apple was just clarifying a rule familiar to app developers.
I liked that, to his left, he had Fortress America, Shogun, and what I think is Conquest of the Empire, the three other games in the same series as Axis and Allies.
I bet we're all think, I wish I wouldn't have bought all those 99 cents ipod songs.
> EMP attacks...

For an EMP attack to be effective on modern electronics, you need to blow up a multimegaton nuclear bomb close enough for it to take out whomever is using that piece of electronics...
Notice the vast variety of files Wikileaks was publishing early on.

This practice was eradicated when Assange abandoned much of his peers to go full anti-west love-Putin. Now you know every single release is going to be agenda driven, with the leak timed to benefit the party that gave it to Assange.

About that selective bias, some news today:

“Stone claimed to the [Trump] Campaign as early as June 2016—before any announcement by Assange or Wikileaks—that he had learned that Wikileaks would release documents damaging to the Clinton Campaign.”

Corroborated by multiple witnesses, redacted by William Barr.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/mueller-repor...
That RFC is a work of art. Are there more like it?
No. Xcode is needed for a lot of things like CLI tools, it's free.
I'm surprised how one sided the conversation is here.

This isn't "mob rule," this is the reasoned opinions of skilled scientists saying that Hsu's political opinions are 1) not backed by the science, and 2) establish strong ground to believe that he will not use his position of power fairly.

People have a right to be judged fairly in their careers, and those in leadership positions should not be unfairly prejudiced by bad beliefs. It might be fine for a tenured physics professor, but it's not OK for somebody making hiring and promotion decisions.
Exact same playbook used to try to discredit Jordan Peterson, except he told them to shove it and fought back against the mob in public space with a megaphone, while the crowd was hurling insults and jeering at him.

I know HN has a bit of an issue with JBP, but look at the this here yet again and think for yourselves.
TiDB 4.0 GA Release
We're likely to see a certain reorientation of academia. The old business model was inherently unsustainable and even if it looks like it's under assault by the culture war it's probably a more systemic issue.

The Visigoths didn't bring down Rome. By the time they were on the scene Rome was a house of cards.
It's probably better, but don't forget that this is inherently a global problem. Scotland is running 100% renewable - so what, who cares? Not only it's not enough (the country is small), they also import a lot of goods with manufacturing energy footprints that released co2 elsewhere.

Even if the US switches to 100% renewable the problem is far from solved. Look at the population pyramid of Nigeria, for example. Those people will want homes (cement, steel) and cars and flights.
Anderson was killed a a 2A boogaloo nut, not a BLM protester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings
Don't forget you have to give Apple money for hardware too.
Doesn’t the sftp subsystem allow that in principle? You might have to configure the server fairly heavily to make it sftp only, though...
This is very informative presentation. Thanks for the link.
> This is only part of the complaint, right?

It's the part I'm interested in. I get that Apple's policy is a pain in the ass to a lot of developers, that Apple is inconsistent and arbitrary about how it applies that policy, and that all this greatly restricts developer access to users of Apple's hardware. What I don't get is how any of this is unethical. Bothersome and irritating, yes, but why unethical?
Electric bicycles (and other light electrics) are going to remake the world's cities in the next 30 years. The signs are already in place. The biggest transformational factor is the lack of exhaust allowing a lot of personal transport to be moved indoors.
France turned its whole grid nuclear in 15 years with 60s technology. The utter absurdity that has happened with nuclear energy is crazy. Its like the whole climate change disaster could have been avoided in the first place.

Nuclear is like anything else, if you build one bespoke reactor, its expensive. If you build 20 that are the same its gone end up cheap.

The problem is every country has its own government trying to build its own reactors and only have like one project going. Its like the rocket industry just 10x worse.

And the way regulation was managed after Three Mile Island was insane, and has utterly stopped nuclear innovation essentially impossible (specially new reactors) and makes nuclear building beyond expensive.

Its really a sad situation, humanity should be in the nuclear age right now. That we are still grappling with replacing coal power is beyond mind-blowing.
Beluga Whale Found in Arctic Norway Wearing Man-Made Harness
He’s doing research using newer high dimensional ML methods on the human genome to understand potential correlations with genetic information and other attributes, like general intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2264

It’s a valid research subject, and like all research subjects, it could be wrong.

If people think some questions are too dangerous to ask, just admit that and be honest. Instead of just calling it problematic because it’s a potentially uncomfortable subject.
One of the tweets:

> Hsu’s beliefs in innate biological differences between human populations, especially regarding intelligence --an unscientific position which makes him unsuited to direct a research institution’s funding or its graduate studies

I can see why this belief is controversial and in an ideal world I wish everyone was born exactly the same. However I don't think applying strong scientific research and methods to try and answer this hypothesis is necessarily wrong. Unless it has already been proven otherwise in which case I am unaware of the research.
For those who are unaware or operate under certain assumptions of how Universities work, they tend to be highly politically charged places, and the value of "the brand" is more important than any individual. Regardless of what you think of Steve Hsu's statement ( measured vs tone-deaf, informed vs ignorant/racist), the mistake he made was taking a position to begin with. I was a the University where Trump went to undergrad when he was running for election, Not a single faculty/staff made comment about it because there was a directive from top down to say nothing. This is just how it is.
With that logic would it not also be illegal for military jets and helicopters to fly on "US soil"
small world ;)
Agreed. They live in BitWarden right next to the passwords. I lose some security, since compromising my password manager now also compromises my 2FA, but the password manager is itself behind 2FA, a Yubikey, and its backup codes are on paper in my safe.
Your cited link does not seem to support your assertion that you must "melt coal with quartz". I do not believe that's correct.

The general idea you are referring to is the "life cycle greenhouse gas emissions" for an energy technology. This is a well studied field.

Information from the IPCC and the DOE seems to indicate that photovoltaics and wind have something like 20 times lower green house gas emissions than coal plants over the entire life cycle. [1][2]

And since the manufacture of PV and wind accounts for a majority of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the lifecycle, the emissions will improve for this tech as the blend of energy used to power the manufacturing becomes "greener".

If you think that renewables "aren't even replacing the amount of energy demand is growing by", then you should advocate for additional construction of renewable energy rather than suggesting that they are a dirty technology—since the science we have suggests they are not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...
[2] https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/life-cycle-assessment.html
This article is great because it puts into words the relationship I've had with Slack since the beginning of my career. I've been working professionally for 4 years and I cannot remember a single time where I thought "I'm so glad we have Slack". Don't get me wrong, I think the platform itself is a great interpretation of IM, but IM is the absolute last thing I want to use in a work environment.

One of the reasons I didn't work out on my first remote job is because I refused to treat Slacks red icon as my #1 priority in the world. Coworker needs my attention immediately? Call me. Is calling too much of a hassle? Then it's probably not as urgent as you think. I understand it's very arrogant of me but I cannot bear the thought of losing all of my focus to answer a question that was really not that immediate. It sure doesn't help that people think they need to greet me and wait for a response before they actually say what they want to say.

I'm working at a new place now and we've gotten so good at asynchronous collaboration that I haven't exchanged a single message on Slack with one of my coworkers since they joined the team. All of our talks are done through Github and our weekly meeting on Friday where we plan the next week and spend an hour or two chatting. This is nice because it gives me time to reason about discussions, and even makes me look forward to the next meeting to have some fun with them, while previously I got so sick of my coworkers that I had literal nightmare-induced panic attacks over constant meetings.

I'm really glad I managed to find a team that enjoys working on the same way I do.
Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass
Last week there was a post [1] that showed how to play YouTube without ads. I didn't want to upvote it because well, the more popular it got the more chances YouTube will figure it out and fix it. Now they fixed it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435
I have color-grapheme synesthesia. I was in a study once because of it and got frustrated by the colors on the screen being offered in the study, because they generally weren't quite right in capturing the colors correctly.

I had kind of a similar experience as what you're describing. I didn't even know there was a term for it, and just sort of assumed everyone experienced things that way, like phosphenes or things like that. Then I was reading an article about it, and realized they were talking about my experience.
To me there’s a difference between a Chris McCandless and an Alex Honnold. If Honnold wasn’t so devoted to preparation it would be irresponsible to let him climb mountains without harnesses.
You're contending the weakest part of my argument. I'm not making a comparison of the climbing skill of Honnold. The comparison is in that both climbing and wilderness exploration are individualistic events where the consequences are imposed almost entirely on the individual.
I know.

You're very lucky if your potential market isn't fond of the Apple ecosystem
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/89/materials/slides-89-...
comments first - for sites like this that link to the articles. gotta make sure it's worth it.

on the site itself i read the article first
It's also a huge plus for places that lock down their computers so you can't install software on them.

I used to use WebEx on a personal laptop for work conversations with other organisations because my work machine wouldn't allow it to run properly.
I suppose it is fair to say speech of those in leadership positions with executive power is chilled by this. I think that's how its supposed to be though. Part of being in leadership is managing relationships with stakeholders. Part of it is being beyond reproach. Undisclosed conflicts of interest on published papers is not a small thing for an Executive at a university. Being responsible in an academic honesty sense is important in that position I think.
Docker containers will work with the GPU?
Mayo Clinic finds convalescent plasma safe for diverse patients with Covid-19
Can you expand on the merit you see?
I am very glad this happened and this decision was very supported by the faculty of MSU. He is still a full professor at MSU making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. He’s just no longer in charge of the research agenda. His own research on quantitative genetics is terrible and widely ridiculed. It’s great that he’s tenured and is allowed to have his poor scholarship justify his racist and sexist conclusions; but it doesn’t mean he gets to automatically lead a research agenda for a whole university.
this is what they do at ski resorts, though only in an indirect way (putting up crosses for ski patrollers that have died there). i worry all the time about whether all the "fun skiing" in-bounds is going to be ultimately subject to a similar fate for similar reasons. so far that hasn't been the case, because i think most sufficiently dangerous skiing is so self-evidently dangerous that people mostly know what they're getting into, but it still feels like a tenuous compromise.

ultimately, though, i agree with this. a sign saying "5 people died here" (maybe with w/e relevant contextual info) is the exact nature, and extent, of information that i think needs to be made clear to people.
> If app store was a standalone offering that aimed to benefit the user, there shouldn't be any problem allowing multiple competing app stores people paid for the convenience of vetted and curated apps and letting the market forces decide the winner.

And if all that would benefit users more, users would be demanding it, or switching from iPhone to something else. But they're not. Users seem overall to be quite satisfied with what they are getting from their iPhones. So your claim here appears to be empirically false.

> strongarming the ecosystem and stifling market dynamics is the unethical move here

All this depends on your factual claim above being true, which, as I have noted, it appears not to be, based on actual user behavior.

But let's put that aside and assume that your factual claim is true. If that makes what Apple is doing unethical, then probably every single large corporation on the planet is unethical. Certainly every large corporation in the tech industry is. They all do these things; they just don't all do them with an app store.
1. The idea that someone’s political views are not backed by science is a pretty bold claim. Who decides what political views are acceptably scientific?
2. Strong grounds? Is it possible to quickly present strong grounds in a twitter thread? Up until today he has done well in his job, and no one seemed to have a problem with him for 8 years. His boss or colleagues. Now, suddenly, we have deep concerns about how he hires people... why exactly? Because his political views aren’t scientific?

This is tribal mob rule under the guise of a sophisticated intellectual rationalization.
Probably because nobody has gotten OS X running on that version of QEMU.
Relevant quote from him:

"I've always said that I'm agnostic on whether... so there are observed test score differences between groups, I think that's clear, you can't deny that.

The causality of that, whether it's partially due to genetics, I've always been agnostic on. Not because I think it's impossible, but because it's such a charged thing we should really make sure the science is solid before we speculate. We shouldn't randomly speculate on something that sensitive.

But even just not being willing to categorically rule out that God could have created us with average group differences has gotten me into trouble. And I think that's just absurd. So for someone to attack me for saying 'We don't know the answer to this question, let's do the science first and then talk about it.' Even that position is actually not tenable in the current social justice warrior political climate."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=XHUSl9FLAmE...

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/twitter-attacks-and-de...
My computer was built in March 2012, if it was an Apple product I couldn't code on it.

As a side note, I'm quite impressed that my 2012 doesn't feel like it aged at all. I'm still doing Max quality, non vr gaming on it.
> It sure doesn't help that people think they need to greet me and wait for a response before they actually say what they want to say.

This is indeed intensely frustrating. It is so ridiculous that when you just don’t respond, you’ll end up with a person just saying only ‘hello’ to you three days in a row...
pscp might be what you want https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.73/htmldoc/Chapter5.h...
Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'
I don’t know which point of view has more adherents today vs say in the 1950’s or the 1850’s.

The moral/philosophy question is this; Person expresses to you the intent to do something that will likely result in their own death and possibly the death of others, what is your responsibility to that person and the others they may intentionally or unintentionally cause to die?

As a diagnostic tool, the question illuminates a lot of constructs in the morality, empathy, and objectivity of a person.

You can play around with it in a number of ways, is there “intent”? Is there malice? Forethought?

The debate over seatbelts, helmet laws, and other traffic laws often falls into this debate.

Would it be different if you could say that insurance companies don’t have to pay the medical bills of people who become injured after not wearing a belt? Can you take vehicular homicide off the table if a DUI driver kills someone by hitting their car and they aren’t wearing seat belts? Especially if its provable that if they were wearing belts they would not have died?

Because the consequences of the choices the person makes impacts others, does the group have the authority to limit those choices to protect itself from harm?

I think my freshman philosophy class spent like 4 weeks on just this topic.
You can’t do scientific research on that! It’s unscientific!
Author here, that’s an excellent point, one I overlooked with that statement and that Apple seems to be overlooking in their letter to the Hey team as well, where they said

> “We understand that Basecamp has developed a number of apps and many subsequent versions for the App Store for many years, and that the App Store has distributed millions of these apps to iOS users. These apps do not offer in-app purchase — and, consequently, have not contributed any revenue to the App Store over the last eight years.”

Which shows how unlikely Apple is to back down here, unfortunately.
Moderators: Can we please have a different link which attempts to provide more context?

Maybe a news article like
https://www.wilx.com/content/news/MSU-Vice-President-of-rese... or https://statenews.com/article/2020/06/asmsu-advocates-call-t... or https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2020/06/15/mi...
So what determines how large the fee has to be for it to be unethical? I don't see any principled way to decide, which makes me doubt your argument here.