skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're the POTUS you can make any idea happen. Ever hear about going to the moon or universal healthcare. Oversimplified or can't admit to it, Hillary didn't even have a concession speech, talk about feeling entitled.
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It's cool and all but what's wrong with Latex?

Doesn't answer the "why" question at all.
Using a washing machine benefits the corporate scumbags of the household appliance company. Benefits are not mutually exclusive.

I'd also argue that the only nefarious benefit is possibly keeping you stuck in the office. The employee being happy, healthy and with more time on their hands is a benefit to both the employee and company, and a much larger boon to the employee.
All the problems on Mars are resolved through engineering.

The problems on Earth are the result of humans thinking their egoes are more important than the life support system of the spaceship they live on.

Eventually the people problems will ruin civilisation on Mars, but that will come after the “common foe” of simply surviving on Mars has been sufficiently cowed.
Given that "unsecured" means "data are accessible and modifiable by anyone", creating tremendous externalities for all referenced in the data, , I'm happy with deletion.

FTA:

One of the first publicly known examples of a Meow attack is an Elasticsearch database belonging to a VPN provider that claimed not to keep any logs.
Agreed! I've been trying to learn haskell for a long time, and this guy writes a json parser live, giving his intuition along the way. It's helped me immensely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RUqGYuGfw
Behind the Fall of Ebony
it's cool but why not just Latex? Genuine question.

I am interested in learning more abt your rationale for creating MathLingua? What drove u? What existing faults do you see in existing system that made you do it.
I was not aware that HN had a search feature. Link?
Creating a Functional Wrapper in F#
Asking users to pay for something they've been getting free for 22 years is a poor business model. Look at news websites.
Can civilians buy this tech? It would be so nice for carrying all my kid's stuff
That’s neat. But is this useful at all? Does this have any practical purpose in minecraft other than play minecraft inside the game?
See the footer.
The search box is at the bottom of this very page.
As the article notes, it's not recognized in US, and there has been a court case about that.
Only for their infoboxes. The organic results are just Bing.
Only if the router is configured that way - and you don't need NAT to configure it like that. If the router is open then you just set the destination address to the address of the server you want it to go to. (As for getting it to the router you either find a way onto the same segment, explicitly specify it as a routing hop, use ip-in-ip...).

So if someone purposefully for some reason goes in and configures their router to map a port to a specific internal IP address to allow internet traffic to their ES cluster it isn’t secure? Isn’t that kind of stretch? If I posted the root credentials to my AWS account and turned off MFA that would be insecure also. Does that also mean I’m depending on “security through obscurity”?

It's exactly like that!

So am I also “obscuring” my IP address when I am testing an API locally and I configure it to only listen on 127.0.0.1:3000? Oh no, I just told you my IP address!

Everything you mentioned could only be done if an inside malicious actor purposefully made it insecure.
Facebook to investigate claims its algorithms are discriminatory
Full-time WFH makes it much easier to rear kids though. You get to help them with homework, have a dinner with them, and just in general be available. IMO it's fucked up that this isn't even a consideration in all these discussions. It's as if work is all there is to life.
People aren't the problem. The problem is people who have negative value.

A person can grow more food, build more homes, improve the environment, improve energy usage, staff schools and hospitals. Every negative issue with overpopulation can be countered with a person.

But there aren't enough useful people. And I think this is an issue with the system. We do not need more people whose life goal is "financial freedom/FU money", minimizing taxes paid, and becoming parasites to society. We need more people creating wealth, but most people are obsessed with trying to get a larger slice of wealth while contributing as little as possible.

We need to stop trapping people in poverty, where they're useful only for minimum wage labor, but become a burden on the welfare system. Nobody wants to live like this, but poverty means they have no choice.

A hack might be only letting people who want children and want to take care of children have kids, and have multiple kids. While those who don't like kids get improved access to birth control.
That's good to hear :) I had numbers from a good while ago in my head then.
> As far as I know, nobody ever verifies the signatures in a systematic way.

I systematically check the signatures on the jars of my dependencies. See e.g. https://github.com/m50d/tierney/blob/master/free/keys.proper... . If these artifacts were signed with different keys, I would notice (my CI builds would fail). There are still points of failure (e.g. if you could subvert the maven-pgpverify-plugin itself), but security is about increasing the cost of attacks.

> It’s hard to find the public keys for the library maintainers. Sometimes they upload them on the keyservers, sometimes not.

> There’s no established way of communicating that which public keys should be trusted. If there’s a new release and it has been made with a new key, your best bet is to e-mail the maintainer and ask what is up.

> It’s hard to get any security benefits from the signatures in practice.

This is making perfect the enemy of good. Any solution to this problem would have to start with a signature mechanism. The signatures that currently exist make it a little bit harder to fake a library. If you want to make it harder, check signatures on jars you depend on, ask maintainers to publish their keys to keyservers and communicate which keys should be trusted, demand explanations when keys change.

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. "x is incomplete, therefore it should be replaced by a completely new thing" is a total fallacy - and, strangely, seems to be used only when attacking PGP.
> The big players are able to deal with the spam using specialised teams and I suspect advanced algos including machine learning.

I remember when I imagined big companies might use their considerable resources to put together something like that. Then I found out it's just a handful of random engineers cobbling together crap and hiding it behind a fancy domain name.

It is probable that Office365's entire spam filtering system is a very large and ugly spreadsheet that gets passed around between a few teams using a ticketing system.
Ha. My parents actually do google.com just to type in something like facebook.com which searches and they find facebook.

I doubt getting them to switch would be very easy unless you did some deal with browsers. But they like most others else uses Chrome, doubt Google would do that.
Covid-19 Impact on Supply Chain
COVID-19 Impact on Supply Chain
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has drastically affected the global supply chain. This is because the worst-hit countries are in the G7 category which plays an essential role in the production and distribution of products to countries across the globe. China, United States, Japan, Britain, France, Italy, and Germany are the hardest hit by the pandemic. These countries account for 60% of the global supply and demand and 65% of manufacturing takes place in the regions. Also, 41% of world exports are shipped from these nations thus influencing the global economic growth (Fernandes, 2020). The Economics in the Time of COVID-19 article states that the manufacturing sector has been disrupted by the pandemic. For instance, China’s economy relies on a direct supply of products to global markets but the lockdowns in various countries have disrupted its exports. This means that demand disruptions will emerge as various countries seek to contain the virus. Purchase delays by consumers will cause manufacturers to withhold their production which is likely to result in a decrease in supply for essential commodities in various nations.

References
Carson, J. A. (2020). Innovation in Food Access Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Fernandes, N. (2020). Economic effects of coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) on the world economy. Available at SSRN 3557504.
Yu, K. D. S., & Aviso, K. B. (2020). Modelling the economic impact and ripple effects of disease outbreaks. Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, 1-4.
I just went on 2 12+ hour flights and every few minutes my phone had a "These aren't your airpods" or similar message. I had no airpods, they were someone elses on the flights, but they still interacted with my phone often.
It is already difficult to have a formalized math language with a level of formality that matches that found in papers.

The goal of MathLingua, at this time, is to match such a level of formality that is in math books and papers.

However, the syntax was designed to allow support for transpiling to a theorem proving language to be added at a later time. It is something, in the future, that I would like to do, if possible, but I don't have a time estimate if/when it will be available.
That padlock below the neck is killing me.
This entire thread is really frustrating for me to read. A lot of these ideas are one-liners from people who have had very little experience with different parts of academia, except maybe being a student. Every single idea here are debated to death by academics already (not just university academics, but funding agencies, academic societies, award panels, journal editors and conference organizers), with changes happening all the time.

If it was this simple that a random person here could come up with how to "solve" academia, we'd have already done it decades ago. The ideas also lack nuance and when you get into the definitions of things (for example, p-hacking), then things become a lot more grey; are you allowed to look at a dataset that you spent 2 years collecting if your first hypothesis does not pan out? The clear cut cases are obvious to everyone, it's the grey area that takes 99% of the time to figure out.

Imagine reading a thread where everyone is proposing "solutions" to software development. It'd go something like "software development is a cesspool and 80% of it fails (see voting systems, MySpace, electronic health records, Theranos. Here's what software companies need to do:" [yes I'm being intentionally stupid to demonstrate how annoying this is]

1) stop releasing before the bugs are fixed. Software and games are rushed out. Companies need to take their time to fix the bugs so the users don't have to encounter them.

2) no more technical debt. Programmers are sloppy and introduce technical debt because they are not incentivized to do high quality programs. [yes, see how triggering that is]

3) cap team sizes. Everyone knows that large teams fail more spectacularly. Gmail and Napster and the original version of Google were made by a group of 4 people. Software teams need to be 4-5 people max.

4) programmers must use a transparency scorecard. Software companies like Oracle and IBM charge ridiculous amounts for their work. They hide costs and cut corners. Programmers should be transparent about the work they are doing each day, what data they access, and which functions they are writing.

These changes need to happen. derp derp
I feel like this might not be the next big thing, but it might happen in the next generation.
More to the point, that $399 original iPhone SE is starting it's sixth year of OS and security updates.

Less than $70 per supported year.
Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely do that.
Nuclear missiles are normally hypersonic, so it seems like the difference is that these are cruise missiles and not ballistic missiles?
Surely because aluminum is extremely energy-intensive to extract from ore, not because its recycling process uses significantly less energy than paper recycling?
The comparison with startups isn’t valid - they seek an explicit profit outcome where good or bad ideas are judged by success in markets. Research is meant to be a public good, that furthers society’s at large repository of knowledge and culture.

> “ It can be argued that part of being a good researcher is developing an intuition and taste for interesting and promising research questions.”

I don’t think this can be argued actually. This is mythology, usually applied to creditmongers who run labs and accumulate accolades that are actually due to a wide array of students and post-docs who are made to get reduced credit as a type of dues paying laced with rampant discrimination and sexism.

I’d say mythologizing the idea of a crack sleuth who has a special knack for research intuition is extremely harmful on all fronts: depriving value to society because it’s false and depriving value to the wide network of lower level staff who are actually responsible for progress.
The irony is that Google search does a much better job searching products on Amazon.com than Amazon does.
When you buy food there's a label on the package that tells you what's in it.

When you buy cigarettes there's a big warning label about the risk to your health.

I think consumer devices need something like that. Imagine browsing an aisle and seeing a label on the package like "WARNING: These earbuds phone home with the track names you play, your GPS location and menstruation cycle history." How many people do you think will buy that box vs. the cheap $20 pair with the analog plug?
I'm no literary critic, but I really liked Omelas. She makes this huge push to make it very clear that she is setting up a moral allegory, and in the end, she leaves the actual point completely vague. It feels like a windup to "this society is bad," but then she just weakens the condemnation down to a mild suggestion. It was neat.
The ACCC makes me proud to be Australian.
Here's a snippet from my bash_aliases ...

### PROMPT ###

function user_host_pwd() {
printf "%c " '-'
user -n
printf "%c" '@'
violet
printf "%s" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}"
normal
printf "%c" ':'
path "${PWD}"
}
-() { user_host_pwd ; }
prompt_command() {
local current="$USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD"
local last_cmd
if [ "$current" == "$USER_HOSTNAME_PWD" ]; then
last_cmd="#$(history | tail -n 1 | sed -e 's/.*[0-9] //' | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
for cmd in $COMMANDS_USER_HOST_PWD_PROMPT
do
if [ "#${cmd}" == "$last_cmd" ]; then
USER_HOSTNAME_PWD=""
break
fi
done
fi
if [ "$current" != "$USER_HOSTNAME_PWD" ]; then
export USER_HOSTNAME_PWD="$current"
user_host_pwd
fi
}
COMMANDS_USER_HOST_PWD_PROMPT="cd ssh sudo su login $(sed -e '/^#.*$/d' -e '/^$/d' -e 's@^.*/@@' /etc/shells | uniq | xargs)"
PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command
PS1='$ '
[ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ] && PS1='# '
I completely agree with this. In undergrad, I majored in non-profit management. Every single course in major had a field work requirement. Grant writing class required us to work with an area charity and write them a grant application, which our professor graded as one of our assignments. Same thing for program evaluation class and the rest. In addition to learning the topics, I learned so much about how to work with real world teams.
Why don't you move your bed to the office then if you like it so much?
That’s not true.

DDG has their own crawler and their results are a composite of many different sources of which Bing is one.

It’s easy enough to check. I searched my name on both DDG and Bing, the results are completely different.
Humans release closer to 35 metric gigatons of carbon per year. The increased thawing of the permafrost is releasing massive amounts of CO2, methane which is 80 times more impactful than CO2, and nitrous oxide which is 300 times more impactful than CO2. The oceans are warming and they are releasing increasing amounts of CO2.

Humans haven't been able to even slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, and now with the melting glaciers, thawing permafrost and warming oceans, which are all locked into positive feedback loops, it won't be long until the earth it's self will sustain the global warming pattern with no help from humans.

Between the oceans, the glaciers and the permafrost they sequester almost 2.5 times the CO2 that is currently in the atmosphere.

All we need is a technology that will capture and sequester greenhouse gases on a global scale to the tune of about 60 gigatons per year, this way we'll capture all the human released greenhouse gases, plus the emissions from the melting glaciers, thawing permafrost and warming oceans, and capture enough more so that we can eventually reverse the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations back to the early 1700's. Oh, one last thing we need to invent this technology in about the next 10 years.
Office jobs do weed out these types.
I myself have experienced those challenges. And IMO it is an opportunity to help with kids more and without becoming all consuming: on break, during would-be-commuting time, and during emergencies.

Spouses and kids--even young ones--can adapt if healthy boundaries and expectations are established. Office life is a modern phenomenon. Before that most families lived and worked together.
The actual statistics are not available, because the police unions are fighting tooth and nail to prevent release of any and all data that could be used to compile it. This case is a typical example.

This, in and of itself, tells volumes about what that statistics would show if it were available.

But even anecdotes are telling. The ones that are most telling are the anecdotes of whistleblower cops, and specifically how their colleagues treat them after. You'll quickly notice a pattern - as soon as they interfere with one "bad apple", pretty much the entire PD/SD starts actively obstructing them, and it can get pretty extreme. To see just how extreme, and just how many people can get involved in such a witch hunt, look up Adrian Schoolcraft.
This seems totally unacceptable. We should stop having this sport in the Olympics (implicitly supporting this madness) -- of course athletes are free to do as they chose, but we cannot encourage such pointless self-destruction and misery.

An alternative to save the sport is completely redesign it to limit maximum accelerations. Usually injuries follow power laws so I doubt even that much reduction would be necessary (shed maximum accel to 1/3 current and I bet lifetime injuries could become acceptable). Mandatory equipment changes would probably help as well.
There are some good points here but I think it's partly because we are too used to how it was and have a hard time letting that go. We can't assess working from home in isolation as if everything else stays the same and only this changes. It'll have to be brought about alongside a mindset change.

While it might put one at risk of getting replaced due to outsourcing, it also opens up opportunities for them to get things outsourced to them which they couldn't due to the previous setup.

While not being in the office may hamper one's career progress may be true, we also over look the possibility of having to put up with socialising and other corporate bullshit to progress at work over actually doing your job. With this kind of setup, values and skills may get more focus over charisma and just good looks.

For me it's hard to say how this will turn out. I think it'll be as boring as most other changes that happen in life where the actual impact is not nearly as severe as it looks from where we are now. Either way, I think the prospect of having the option to work from home for those who are willing and able is a positive outcome. After all, life is about having options :)
Maybe in dystopian China you can get around VPN in a fool proof way?

Virtual world seems like a good place to organize any kind of rebellion too.
Biotech (gene therapy).
>1. Actually return the results matching the words that people typed in your search box. The more they match, the more they go up.

As virtually all early search engine developers have found out the hard way, it's extremely easy for website owners to cheat such a basic algorithm by spamming keywords.
This leak happened exactly 24 years and 01 month since SM64 was first released :)
Let’s be honest though, “liberal” workplaces are the most likely to be cancelling. A public school fired a teacher for simply tweeting that “Trump is our president.” Tweeting in support of Obama would rarely, if ever, result in any notice in most schools.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/education/2020/07/21/...

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/02/texas-education-agen...

https://stream.org/this-catholic-school-teacher-was-fired-fo...

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/2/20751822/google-employee...

However, the be fair, some people have been fired by conservative companies as well:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/lifelong-conservative-re...

However, you are far more likely to be “cancelled” if you don’t toe the left or far left party line. Especially at tech companies.
W. H. Auden – The Unknown Citizen
But to be fair I first never thought it was entirely Bernie but rather Hillary's lack of attention in the Rust Belt and Coal States. She also did not appeal to women as some may think she should. There are a lot of reasons, but coming back to the Bernie thing, that really split the Democratic party in two, which you can see now with defund police movements.
> Nuclear missiles are normally hypersonic,

Ballistic missiles usually are, cruise missiles usually are not; both can be nuclear (or not).

> so it seems like the difference is that these are cruise missiles and not ballistic missiles?

The combination of nuclear, hypersonic, and cruise is what is significant, yes.
No it doesn't, it prevents your skull from slamming into the steering wheel, lowering the forces inside your skull due to the longer time for deceleration is simply a side effect. Brain buckets are awesome for keeping your skull in one piece. Always have been.
> objectively bad

What? “Bad” is an opinion. Pretty hard to argue objectively bad.
It makes utterly no sense to become a radiologist in the USA.

Of all the specialties, it's one of the easiest to "offshore". Just send the data to Elbonia and have someone there examine it.

There was a company hyped on Wall Street doing this a number of years ago, but my Google skills are lacking and I can't seem to find it any more. IIRC they were sending the data to civilized countries such as New Zealand (great for time shifting if for nothing else). So maybe they just weren't competitive with Elbonia.

Here's a similar comment someone made on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23882138

Here's the first Google hit on "remote radiology": https://argusrad.com/8-remote-radiology-benefits/

8 Benefits of Remote Radiology

includes:

REDUCES COST
NO SHORTAGE OF RADIOLIGISTS

Why waste years specializing when some "scab" can undercut you?

Welcome to the global race to the bottom!
This is a fucking joke. Legal your ass.
I read farewell to the master in a Hugo winners collection. I then saw "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and felt the movie was much better. The ending of the short story was IMO the weakest part, but ymmv.
Appreciate you giving your well-expressed differing take.
NYPD Files: Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against NYC Police Officers
One of my favorite scifi short stories is Manna by Michael Brain (creator of howstuffworks.com)

It two futures based around easy industrial production/ai and feels closer to reality then it did a few years ago.

Here is the link for anyone interested: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
In some cases, I might be tempted to agree with you, but this is blindly being applied by an automated attack. What if some of that deleted data is volunteer-canvassed anonymized survey data of homeless people, and its loss sets back a homeless relief program by months, resulting in several people freezing to death this winter?