skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humidity is a major factor. We cool our body below ambient temperature through evaporation cooling (sweat), which works much better in dry air.

From experience I'd say a sauna with 45°C and 80% humidity is about comparable with one at 80°C and 10% humidity.
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Equalize the field, radically remove research hierarchies.
Liberate research funding from pointless bureaucracies and
4-year grants and instead pay scientists to work on whatever they like most. Let science be fun again

I always return to this article from David Hubel (of Hubel&Wiesel): https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(09)00733-8

I arrived at his lab around noon and found him working alone, recording from an anesthetized macaque monkey. I asked him when he had started the experiment, and he answered “in the morning”, which I finally realized was the morning of the day before. So he had worked, by himself, all the day before, all that night, and that day until noon. What was typical, in that era, was not only the long hours but the fact that the project was done by one person, single handedly. The major papers were either by Mountcastle alone or in partnership with one other person. The leader of the physiology department was Philip Bard, but the idea that Bard should have asked to have his name on any of Vernon's papers surely never occurred to anyone.
Help with how to find a conversation seen on HN in he last year, pls. =)
Hi, I made a comment to someone about a HN conversation concerning personal experiences working at Pornhub.com. I read the material ~ six to eight months ago. I've tried several searches & proceeded 6-8 pages into five of the queries without locating anything close to what I need. If someone would, find a bit a pity for a poor soul, please lend a hand by providing direction on effectively searching past material, it would be greatly appreciated. Right now I doubt whether I will find the conversation without using an effective HN search string format or other means I don't know about. I opened my gaping orifice & very much want to point the person to the content I mentioned to show I'm not a inexhaustible source of hot air.

Thanks for your time.

Phill
If you do work on a number of different machines, in production and in dev, knowing what host you're on, what directory you're in, etc. helps avoid errors like killing a process in prod when you thought you were in dev.

While writing code, it's helpful to know what branch you're on with git, so you don't accidentally commit code to the wrong branch, etc.

I typically have something like 30-40 terminals open at a time, grouped into windows in tmux, so having everything categorized and visible at a glance is kind of a necessity.
When I read The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, I found it really interesting to read the history of fossil fuels.

Basically whale oil and trees were replaced by coal mining - which saved whales and trees! And if I recall the coal mining saved 5x the landmass area in trees cut down (not that that helped the british isles). And then oil saved lots of coal mine deaths and strip mining.

We just gotta keep going forward. I think it's unfortunate that modern safe nuclear hasn't gotten a place. I like that solar is getting a chance at development (helped via greedy power companies.. PG&E@48c/kwh).

and yes, plant trees.
Do you really think people are going to vote for Biden?
Random comment - UCSF will now provide a billing estimate for procedures. They actually look up your coverage and figure out the out of pocket for you based on deductible, co-insurance, etc.

I did this and it was pretty close.

Of course, they don't make any guarantees that's it accurate. But hell, it's a start.
Oh, right. Conversatuon on the internet is sometimes hard.
I was not faced with such a shitty situation, and I probably would have done the same as well, but the right thing would have been to report it.
let's add

* Portion of faculty which must be tenured.
All three of those examples are missing a step of like 5-20 years in the middle. Nobody is running a venture fund as a 22 year old ivy grad (barring someone who's taking over for their family member, but in that case it has nothing to do with being an ivy grad), nobody is running the FED right out of a PhD, nobody is a director at a big corporation right out of a PhD.

Presumably once those people are in such high-power positions, they also have a track record of real accomplishments behind them; it's certainly possible they've lied and cheated their entire career but it's definitely less likely they'll make it that far that way.
Do you have any numbers? How many square kilometers of forests should we grow to compensate for all CO₂ emissions?

Here's some hypothetical numbers. Correct me, if they are way off.

1 tree = 0.5 m³ of wood = 250 kg of CO₂.

1 ha = 10 000 m² = 500 trees = 125000 kg of CO₂.

Humanity CO₂ emissions at 2018 year are 33 100 000 000 000 kg. So you would need 264.8 millions of hectares (2.6 millions of km²) of forests to compensate for those emissions.

There are 38 millions of km² of forests on Earth right now. So even if we would double our forests (and that would be a truly tremendous task), that would buy us 14 more years of emissions (and that would not get back all the produced CO₂, by far).

It's not even clear if we would be able to keep CO₂ emissions not increasing in the future.

And there are only so much of land to plant forests.

I have more trust in some kind of phytoplankton. Oceans are vast. Those organisms can capture CO₂. Some of them will be eaten and some of them will die and submerge to depths where they'll keep that carbon forever. If they won't work well enough, future bio-engineering might fix that.
I know, I know. Its not my fault they can't spell :P
Do we ever get full accounting of what the injuries sustained by police officers are? Seattle claimed 21. It seems like there is an incentive to be incredibly gracious with the descriptions of injuries to officers while holding a very high standard for saying the police caused injuries to protesters. I believe that under most descriptions, being hit with tear gas would qualify as an injury.
I narrowly avoided that issue when my kid was born late in the year. But yeah, you end up paying almost double for the same thing because of the deductible and out of pocket max resets in the new year.

That said, I was able to take advantage of it by making sure my surgery was scheduled before end of year. Ended up paying something like $200, rather than $1500 if it had happened in January.
I think his point is that practical experience and a track record of proven, successful, outcomes are more useful for predicting future outcome.
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Forth turns up on HackerNews surprisingly often if you're keeping an eye out for it.
Can't agree more. And it's getting worse. In certain fields people are almost untouchable. Couldn't count anymore the number of discussions I had about doctors and how absolutely incompetent some of them are: the usual reaction is like 'No, you don't say! But the selection process ensures only the smartest get selected,so what are you on about?'. The second one is PhDs, and in general all sorts of professors almost elevated to god like level. You almost get a free pass to spread whatever shit you want if the credentials are right.

The corporate world is exactly the same. Since my last promotion,I now have a nice title. People now listen to what I have to say. They even take me seriously. I can now go to some guy who's got 20 times more experience and start selling my consulting services(I'm not a consultant).
I've read that before 2003, the whole of humanity has published as many scientific papers as from 2003 to 2016.

So what happened around 2000? Who has turned the scientific mission into a blind competition for superficial metrics? So many people in science I meet (apart from the few who benefited from this system, and therefore were selected by it) are frustrated by publishing for the sake of publishing (not science) and the bad incentives this system creates.

Who has thought that these superficial metrics would improve anything about science and why?
Write being the important keyword

They could have altered the data and no one would have been the wiser
And the link now leads to a 404 not found page.
It sure was public...

This is not what people mean by open data
This edit is speculation.

> I'm running an elastic search for a personal project on google-cloud and I use as a search index for my application.

He very clearly says it’s a personal project. Trying to learn new topics outside of your direct responsibilities, while employed, is very common in the software industry. Not everyone that works at a company is involved in databases at that company.
Yes, that was actually passed as a part of ACA, which set requirements for maximum out of pocket for ACA-compliant plans.[1]

For 2020, it's ~$8k for an individual and ~$16k for a family. Most non-high deductible plans are a few thousand for an individual and high-deductible plans can be close to $10k.

[1]https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...
Issue is with AWS this setup instantaneously bumps the bill up from a few dollars a month to a few tens of dollars a month. Deal-breaker for personal projects. But, you can still secure the database with whitelisted IP addresses, which is what I do.
> Industry kinda already has. Products launched.

This suggestion is so detached from both the problem and the very nature of academia that it's straight-out laughable.

I mean, what do product launches have to do building knowledge on the state of the art, identifying a novel idea, doing the iterative work to refine the idea, and finally document it to the public? Product launches at best require you to manage people and expectations. Do you honestly believe that a guy who launched a product is more qualified to drive science forward than a PhD with an outstanding academic track record just because your PM had a knack to cut corners, descope requirements, and pass the buck to underlings? Because that's the bulk of the job of all PMs I ever met, including from FANGs.

Your suggestion is the poster child of the old mantra "if the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail".
> The latter is tricky, since you don't want to smear the researcher without proof, but you also don't want to trust results.

IMO it's the build-up of univestaged allegations which makes them so damning. If we actually had justice the upper classes, small allegations were frequent, and investigations were de rigueur, we could actually have functioning "innocence until proven guilty" in the culture.

Relatedly, we should probably all have minor criminal records and it should be no big deal.
Around 10% of people don’t have health insurance. I’d be surprised if there aren’t some crappy health insurance plans around for another portion of people that ends up not covering enough when things go bad.
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The lunar surface seems rich in silicon, iron, magnesium and aluminium, great materials to build spaceships from.
I was hoping this was about ternary computing...
And being hit with a tear gas canister should be attempted murder
GPT-3 can produce typos.
...wrong regardless...

That obviously isn't true. Some data shouldn't exist: CP. Some data can exist, but it's backed-up so well that deletion is never a problem. For example, I'm not going to forget my birth date any time soon! In fact, very little of the information that businesses have about me needs preservation. I remember it all, and if I decide the business still deserves it I can give it to them again.

It is of course possible that some of this data didn't need to be kept private, and therefore shouldn't have been deleted. Maybe some medical researchers had compiled the data they needed to formulate the ultimate cure to COVID-19? (I hope they had anonymized all the patient data!) Until those researchers come forward to lament humanity's loss, I'll just assume that all the "victims" who don't want to go into too much detail about the "lost" data were playing fast and loose with their customers' private information.
> “Program” can refer to executables if you’re talking in the context of old programming languages such as Pascal and COBOL as they’d literally have a “Program” statement.

When I was younger, I wrote my own programs in GW-BASIC (and later QBASIC). I definitely remember calling them "programs" at the time. I taught myself programming from books in the school library (neither of my parents knew how to do it), and they definitely used the word "program" for what I was learning to write.

But while Pascal has a "PROGRAM" statement, most BASIC dialects (including Microsoft's) don't. COBOL doesn't have a "PROGRAM" statement either, although it does have an "EXIT PROGRAM" statement.

So I don't think whether something is called a "program" or not has anything to do with what language it is written in.

> But I don’t recall anyone calling individual executables anything other than exes on Windows.

Here's a software manual from 1993 – https://books.google.com/books?id=jAqUEgrLBa8C&pg=PA14 – you can see on that page the application is divided into a number of executables – "the core TS.EXE program" and a number of "General support utilities", one of which ("PRINTPCX.EXE") is described as "A program to print graphs". Although the other executables are not explicitly called "programs", it seems clear to me that "program" and "executable" are synonymous in the usage of the manual's authors.

That is admittedly an application for MS-DOS, not Windows. But I don't believe there were any great differences in terminology in this area between MS-DOS and Windows.
Yeah. So when you don’t have insurance or your insurance plan has an issue and doesn’t cover the absurd bill you got that is incentivized to be high because of this system, you can be royally screwed. I think medical is the biggest reason for bankruptcy.
> It's widely accepted that TSMC 7FF "7nm" is the peer to Intel P1274 "10nm"

I think there's one huge difference there though. As I understand it TSMC 7nm is an EUV process while Intel's 10nm is not.

So it looks like the bottom line is TSMC has mastered the next major fab technology and Intel has not.
If you report it then the grant money is gone and everybody in the lab loses their job and all the PhD students are derailed.
This.

And also actually fund researchers who do reproducibility work. May be even fund specialized teams that do only reproducibility work.
Regarding elasticsearch, that’s actually fine.

Just block access to it on your firewall to the public ports and require people SSH or VPN for access if needed.

It’s not
Honestly, super secrete compromised hardware probably exfiltrates less bandwidth than Google's not-even-secret stuff.

Do you want Google to know your soul by 2025 or the CPP by 2040? :D
Dynamic typing is really just passing around variables using an enumerated type. You don't need anything resembling an interpreter to do this and it's how the C extension APIs for many dynamic languages like Ruby and Lua work.
CO2 binds with coal 3:1 vs methane, so you can pump carbon dioxide down an injection well and produce more natural gas from a nearby well than you otherwise would.
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according to who? that's a massive unwarranted assumption.
I can see some utility in writing about it. his blog post is quite literally "heart palpitations", "shock" "panic" - his words - and tweets, over a $2,000 bill.

I'm not in my ideal financial circumstances, I just wouldn't have freaked out over that. I just would have handled it. And then blown them up in public forums if things didn't go my way. Customer support in the 21st century.
Popular collections tend to stay in print in softback for a while. The late Gardner Dozois edited "Years Best Science Fiction" every year which is a hefty collection of good short SF from that year, usually takes me a few months to consume one of those, and it's nice to have a mix even if not all the stories are to my taste. The collection is paying the authors for their work to appear, so if your concern is whether authors get paid that's covered.

Even really old stuff is not infrequently still in print. Somebody else mentioned Lem, the English translations of Lem's short fiction are generally in print, though it can be a struggle to find things like Hospital of the Transfiguration that are a bit niche (and not Science Fiction) or his literary criticism (Lem thought most SF in his day was crap, I am tempted to agree)

You will struggle to buy individual stories because that's not really a thing. Some professional writers only write shorts to introduce an idea or setting before novel-length publication e.g. Egan gives away shorts about the Amalgam, the setting for his novel Incandescence, and the intro to some of his novels works as a short (e.g. "Orphanogensis" is actually the start of a novel, but it's also a perfectly functional short story about "orphans", people created randomly in a society where people are just software...). So for those the author believes they are essentially advertising the larger product with a free story.
Talking about afraid of misinterpreted communication, it's more challenging in textual communication.
Estimating from my own reading, 1% of research is fraud and 80% is worthless for other reasons. Numbers vary between fields.

If that's the case, what's the argument for why we should spend time doing something about the 1%? Solving 100% of the 1% wouldn't change the overall situation much.

Possible arguments include:

- Fixing the 80% is hard, but fixing the 1% is satisfying (to the aggressively conventional-minded, at least.)

- The 1% is wrong in a more harmful way than the 80%. Perhaps falsifying data is worse than hand-waving conclusions.

So if the maximum upside is 1% of wrong research removed, and the downside is quenching some fraction of the good 19%, it's probably better to leave it alone.
The maturity aspect is knowing how to navigate a situation, not a reference to merely sharing. "heart palpitations", "shock" "panic" - his words - and tweets are not part about not knowing how to navigate a situation.

I'm not in my ideal financial circumstances, I just wouldn't have freaked out over a surprise $2000 AWS bill or a $190,000 AWS bill, fully intending not to pay it if I felt my activity did not warrant that.

There are no absolutes in guidances of behavior, only consequences. And the consequence here is potentially having your AWS account deleted in a month or two, with several remedies in between.

> Besides, some of us want to read tech drama :)

So maybe I should write a blog post about it.
I started working from home around 2006. My torturous commute was around 4 hours, assuming the train was on time, so working from home was a godsend. Also my kids were young and with my commute, time with them and time for fitness activities was truly compressed. Problem was, managers always acted like they were doing you a favor. My work day would go from 8-10 hours to 12 hours, easy, working from home. But it felt like there was always the suspicion by management I was quaffing down brewskis while watching Oprah.

Fast-forward to 2020 and finally, after 15 or so years, WFH is going mainstream. At least for the duration of the pandemic. The savings in air pollutants, gasoline burned and exhaust emitted, and most of all, time, is huge.
Yup, I think there is no one-size-fits-all with remote work. For some jobs, it's great. Like management consulting - if you're traveling anyways, who care if you work from home.

Other jobs? Not so much. I'm thinking the more creative work like advertising agencies where brainstorming over Zoom makes you want to gouge your eyes out.
Btw, another baffling trait of the Android ecosystem is how many well-known and widely-used hackish tools are closed-source: those from XDA and such.

It's closer to the Windows cracking scene and such, where the expectation is that if you don't trust something, you either don't use it or disassemble and analyse it yourself. After all, a lot of app modding is done using decompilers.
Physical alteration of your finger prints instead of tattoos.
Could be used for commercial gain?
I beg to differ. Publications are impressive because they are, in the very least, an indicator of the volume of work that a research group does in a domain. Writing a paper requires time and effort and, more importantly, focused work. As anyone who works and ever worked on academia is able to tell you, finding time to do anything of value, whether is exploring a new idea or continue working on any of the ideas you might have floating around, is the biggest challenge.
>> Remote enables you to be forgotten

This reminds me of one of the most incredible stories I've ever read on the internet:

https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/American-Dream

It's pretty long but well worth the read!
I disagree.

The big email players are accepting mail from universities and large companies with misconfigured email servers. If you use the same rules that Google and Microsoft use to refuse emails, you will be bouncing emails from valid domains. If you don't apply them, you end up accepting spam. The big players are able to deal with the spam using specialised teams and I suspect advanced algos including machine learning.

IF the big players applied their famous rules to everybody equally, everybody, including universities, big companies etc... Would quickly configure thier mail servers properly, which WOULD reduce spam, possibly eliminate it.

Being able to keep inboxes fairly free of spam in a world full of spammers is what distinguis big email providers and enable them to sell their services.
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They over charge.

Their cost is less than .01 cents per gb and look at their published pricing for customers.

And I’m including networking equipment as well as head count in my cost, not just the cost of pipes.
Carbon tax paired with a tax refund to every person would both save us from the worst consequences of global warming and stimulate the economy. It's hard to find a rational excuse for not doing it.

Planet Money did a great episode on this idea over 7 years ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/12/201502003/epis...

They did a followup 5 years later: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/18/630267782/epis...

It seems like there are too many entrenched players to make this a reality unfortunately.
Make sure you add yourself to dnswl.org if you're running a mailsever. Lots of people who use Spamassassian will check it (by default, it's part of the base install) and if you put yourself in there you will score yourself a few negative figures to help get your mail delivered.
Of course DMARC, DKIM and SPF are key as well.
I've run my own mailserver for the last 20 years and properly signing messages and being sure not to accept/forward spam (i use rspamd) has helped me be able to have a stable personal server all those years.
The only places I have trouble with are Microsoft, because it seems if you don't send a mail every 24 hours your reputation gets "reset" and it can be hard to deliver into them.